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POLICE RULE IN GERMANY, girls of 18 whose offence was that, on June 27th they had distributed invitations to working women to attend a meeting of
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of Herr Liebknecht. He observed that they owed it entirely to themselves and to thoir Socialist training if they had not been ruined physically and morally in An article has been contributed by their royal Prussian prison. When Lord Sydenham, G.C.S.I., to a pamphlet they were at last released they were in which will shortly be issued by the formed that they would be imprisoned
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MILITARY TERRODISM.
There is no reason to suppose that the for the rest of the war if they attended Channel Tunnel Co., dealing with this the tunnel would have saved England recent debates in the Reichstag on the any public meeting. Herr Dittmann question, in which he points out what police tyranny, the Press censorship, the proceeded:
and "Here we have police brutality in all and hor Alliea. He says that the oppo- suppression of public opinion,
political grounds-economic objections cognate subjects will lead to any result its purity. This is how a working-class sit to the tunnel on military and other than the familiar expressions of child who is trying to make her way up
All can understand what the nation has raild indigation such as that which camo to knowledge and Kultur is. treated in were never tenable-has now vanished. from the National Liberal and Pan- the country of promised new arientalos: by the failure to construct this in- Gorman leader, Dr. Paasche-and portion, in which (according to the Im baps & little innocent legislation. But perial Chancellor) the road is to be dispensable line of communications before The tremendous losses which we have the reports which have now reached us opened for all who are efficient. These the great cataclysm of the world-war. (N.E.wind froh of the detailed charges against the Govare the methods by which the spirit of theurred by the want of tailway commu ernment constitute, even as passed by independence is systematically to bo nieations to France are clearly revealed, the German censorship for publication, & killed. That is the rens, for the arresta remarkable revelation. It should be of members of the Soulist party who and but for some fortunate circumstances remembered in reading them that the stand on the side of determined oppositite must have been grave danger. Tho whole subject had been discussed in the tion. You imagine that by isolating the admirable skill, energy, and organising Navy to hold the Channel crossing almost. secrecy of the Reichstag Committee, and leading elements of the opposition you power which have enabled the Royal inviolate throughout the later periods of that what is now disclosed is in the main can crush the head of the snake,
the war should not blind us to the real only what the Government has been un
danger which might have presented itself able to hush up or to hide.
Et pre- In bis introductory speech on
Herr Dittmana's next case was that of a the most critical phase of the opern- In circumstances ventive arrests the Socialist deputy Dr. Meyer, one of the editors of the tions of the Allies.
Vorwärts, who was Drrested many which no action on our part could have Herr Dittmanu ssid
"Last May I remarked that the system months ago. He is suffering from tuber-averted, the want of the Channel of preventive arrest was producing a culosis, but is not allowed to go to Tunnel might have disastrously affected real reign of terror, and since then things sanatorium Another Socialist journalist the whole course of the war. have got steadily worse. The law as it named Regge, father of six childres, has was before 1848 and the Socialist Law, been under arrest since August, his only of scandalous memory, are celebrating offence being that he has agitated against their resurrection. The system of denunthe Socialist majority Herr Dittmann ciation and of agents-provocateure is in then dealt at length with the Socialist full bloom, and it is all being done under journalist named Klühs, who has been the mask of patriotism and the saving of in prison for eight months, also for his behalf of the Socialist the country. Anybody who for personal activity on or other reasons is regarded--by the pro- minority against the majority, and was fessional agenti-provocateurs as unsatis prevented from communicating with his factory or inconvenient is put under dying wife or attending her funeral.
Herr Dittmann gave the details of three suspicion of espionage, or treason, or other crime. And such vague denuncia-cases at Düsseldorf and one at Brunswick, tions are then sufficient to deprive the and then explained how the military victim of his freedom, without any pos- authorities in many parts of Germany transhipments, and the military gain of sibility of defence being given him. In are deliberately offering Socialists the being able to send troops from our great many cases such arrest has been main-choice between silence and military camps and material of war from our tained by the year without any lawful vice. A well-known trade union official factories direct to pres, on the Somme, foundation for it. Treachery and low at Elberfeld, named Sauerbrey, who had defy all calculation. What we have lost cunning are now enjoying real orgies. been declared totally unfit for military owing to impolicy may almost be re- A criminal is duly convicted and knows service because he had lost several fingers gurued as a national calamity, involving
The man under preventive on his left hand, was arrested and charged the interests of all the Allied Powers, his fate. arrest is overburdened by the uncertainty with treason. He was acquitted, but in- of despair, and is simply buried alive. stead of obtaining his freedom he was The members of the Government do not immediately called up and is now in seem to have a spark of understanding training for the front. Herr Dittmann effects of which are equally terrible."
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS. Friday, 15th Dec.
Non-Ursen Island Cement Co., Ltd., Extraordinary General Meeting at the Office of Messrs. Shows, Tomos & Co. Entries close for Ladies' Championship,
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When the war is over statistics may be available of the total number of men and horses and the weight of artillery, munitions, and stories transported across the Channel, A rough comparison of cost will then be practicable, and the pecuniary loss entailed by the refusal of the Government to permit the construc- tion of the tunnel will be shown to reach Such a comparison vast dimensions. must, however fail to bring out the real facts. The suring of transport urgently needed for other purposes, the hugo economy of labour expended upon two
CUTLER PALMER & ('0's. for this situation, the mental and material said that this case had caused intense practicable to put all the principal cities
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THE CARS OF DI. MEHRING. "Dr. Helferich said in the Budget Com mistes in the case of Dr. Franz Mehring that it is better that he should be under detention than that he should be at large and do something for which he would have to be punished. According to this reasoning, the best thing would be to lock up everybody and keep them from break ing the law. The ideal of Dr. Helfferich seems to be the German National Prison of which Heine spoke. The case of Mehring is classical proof of the fact tant we are no longer far removed from the Helfferich ideal."
bitterness, and added:-D
Professor J. A. Fleming, ...8., has shown the great improvement of tele- phonic service which the tunnel would provide. "It would," he writes, "bo in Great Britain in telephonic communi- The Military Command at Münstercation with those in France," and for is surprised that the feeling in the whole business purposes this would, of course, Wupper Valley is becoming more and be of the greatest value.
Whether the estimated £8,000,000 of more discontented, and the military are now hatching new measures of violence capital can be raised in this country in order to be able to master this dis shortly after the end of the war. I can content. One would think that such not tell," he concludes. But much will things came from the mand house. In dapend upon the attitude of the British reality they represent conditions under Government, which can make or mar a martial law, and this case is only one project of national importante, fraught of very many."
MILITARY SERVICE FOR THE UNFIT.
Herr Dittmann gave several instances of men declared unfit for service who had been called up for political reasons, and he ended his speech as follows:
with great economic advantages, ensur- ing a large employment of labour, and entailing only expenditure within the country.
"Even if everything in England is as "In regard to all this persecution of peaceful citizens there is a regular Herr Helfferich described it, the state of apparatus of agents provocateurs, pro- things is much better there than in Ger-
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Because they do not want to go to the trenches other people must go to prison. Put an end to the state of martial law, root up a state of things and help us which disgraces the German name"
The Alsatian deputy Herr Hans said that Aleace-Lorraine is suffering more than any other part of the country, and that more than 1,000 persons have been arrested without any charge being brought against them. Herr Seyda, for the Poles, said that the Polish population of Germany suffers especially from the system of preventive arrest.
HELFÉERICK ON DICTATORSHIPS,
In his contemptuous reply, which showed that the Government was con- fident that it had nothing to fear from the majority in the Reichstag, Herr Helferich said:---
Herr Dittmann went on to say that Herr Mehring's only offence was that in a letter seized by the police he wrote to a Reichstag deputy named Hersfeld in Berlin, and offered to write a fly-ebeet apparatus is growing every day. If in which arrest and search of dwellings Inviting attendance at such a meeting. these persecutions were stopped a great may take place, but those are cases in be taken in Mehring, who is over 70 years of age, number of these agents and officials could which similar action can was then locked up. Herr Dittmann. be released for military service. In most Germany in time of peace under the continued:-
cases they are mere shirkers, and that ordinary criminal law. The Englishman "How much longer will it be before is why they cling to their posts and seek has quite other rights. He has the right thoughts become criminal in Germany every day to prove themselves indispen- to his personality, and, above all, the Mehring is one of the most brilliant hissable by discovering all sorts of crimes officials in England, unlike Germany, are torians and writers, and one of the first
personally responsible. When we make a representatives of German intellectual
law, that is repealed by the Administra life-known as such far beyond the
tion. That is the whole point, but Horr Helferich does not see it, and he does German frontiers. When it is my known
not see that we live in a Police State and abroad that such a man has been put under a sort of preventive arrest merely
under a police system. Did it ever occur in order to cut him off from the public
to anybody in England to dispute the for political reasons one really cannot be
right of immunity of members of Parlia astonished at the low reputation enjoyed
ment? Did it ever occur to anybody in by the German Government both at home
England to go to members of the Op- and abroad. How evil must be the state
position in Parliament and demand that of a Government which has to lock up
they should resign their seats on pain of the first minds of the country in order
arrest? Or has anybody in England been threatened with arrest if he does not to choke their opposition ! "
withdraw a declaration against the com- mittee of his party? Two newspapers have lien suppressed in England be canse they opposed munitions work. I regret this check upon free criticism in England, but what would have happened in Germany In Germany there would un- doubtedly have been a prosecution for high treason. In England, moreover, the newspapers are allowed to reappear, and that without giving any guarantees. In Germany we are required to give guarantees that the papers shall be con ducted by a person approved of by the political police Borr Helfferich em- ploys inappropriate comparisons. I will give him one which applies. The proceeds by way of compromise between political police in Germany is precisely the needs of the State and the needs of what the State Inquisition was in protection to the particular level of Venice." civilization reached by the particular
An interesting point in the censorship State. (Socialist cries of Very true.") We are not at the lowest level. When debate was the disclosure of the fact that one considers the state of things in Ger-the local censors do what they please, many in peace time we can be proud and that especially in Alaace-Lorraine (Socialist interruptions) I am proud of even the proceedings in the Reichstag are I think that our constitu- not allowed to be published. Herr Seyla Germany, tional system before the outbreak of war protested against the peculiar per- He remarked and our level of Kultur mere such that secution of the Poles every German would be proud of ("No, that at Gnesen no Polish paper has been for the past two 20.) I hope that we shall soon be able allowed to to revert to those conditions."
But as significant as anything was Herr Stadthagen's account of the recruit- ing for the political police. He said that the police freely offer both money and exemption frum military service to boys who are about to become liable for ser- vice He gave a typical ease of a boy af
IT'S A BAD SIGN. When you have that obetinate, linger
FRAU ROSA LUXEMMING. ing cough which will not be shaken off.
There is no cough at any stage, whether Herr Dittmann's second case was that old or young, but what needs attention. of Frau Rosa Luxemburg. He said that the dainty little gentle-a-nature laxatives A cough soon wrecks & strong coustite she was put under arrest many months daily regularity, oure tion, so makes ones belpless, in fact ago, without charge being made against bilionsness, torpid liver, sick headaches, cough is a very dangerous silment other, and merely out of fear of her intel-
Thor lectual, influence upon the working class. "The institution of the dictator comes foul-smelling breath. Of all chemists, or many hardly notice a cough.. from Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 96, to cure chronic coughs, bronchitis, All the Socialist women of Germany were from ancient Rome, from the classical Brochuen Road, Shanghai, 50 cents the about code is to apply LITTLE'S deeply indignant, and he invited the Republic of antiquity. (Laughter.) When
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Bub it well into the chest and back. It Government to consider that such things the State was fighting for its existence penetrates immediately to the inflared must make it the positive duty of it was found necessary to place supreme parts. It stops the pain and drives out Socialists in France, England, Italy, and power in the hands of a single and the inflammation. The cough, the hoarse Russia" to fight against a Government and to give this Roman dictator anthority ness, the tightness across the chest go which imprisone without any reason the which was much greater than the autho feverish flushes, and best-known champions of the Inter-rity belonging to preventive arrest and Shivering, difficult breathing all cease. Expectoranational proletariat. The treatment of martial law, The whole development tion of mucous matter is stopped
both Mehring and Frau Luxemburg had It cures every case where a cure is been terrible. The former, old and ill, possible. It often cures when nothing had had the greatest difficulty in getting else will Can anybody afford to be admission to a prison infirmary. Frau without it in the house all the time 1
Luxemburg a month ago was taken from Bold at 15, 4d. per bottle.
her prison bed in the middle of the night, removed to the police headquarters, and put in a cell which was reserved for pro- stitutes. She had not been allowed a doctor, and had been given food which she could not eat. Just before the Reichstag debate she had been taken away from Berlin to Wronke, in the Province of Posen.
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The third case was that of the well known Socialist Frau Kate Duncker. Her husband was in the field, she had three children, and ber Socialist activities
Herr Helfferich went on to argue that among the young were concerned with repression in Germany is really much scientific and economic questions.
milder than in France, England, or working woman in Berlin named Spaanship, which followed the debate on 17. The police called at his home and
The fourth case was that of a married Italy; and for the debate on the ceasor who had been under arrest for three ventive arrest, be came armed with an months without having committed any account of the Defence of the Resins inquired whether he belonged to any offence, and was prevented from keeping Acts. When be enlarged upon the power Colialist organization and whether he had her two children while her husband was of the British Government he was inter- been, medically examined for the Army. in the field.
rupted by cries of "It is a question not A police official then waylaid the boy a
PRISON LIFE AND "KULTUR” › Herr Dittman then gave a terrible necount, some of it unfit for reproduc 64f- tion, of the treatment in prison of twoy
of theory but of practice, and Socialist leader Herr Stadthagen made a scathing reply. Herr Stadthagen said: (Continued at fout of next Golumn)
he was leaving work, and promised him that, if he would give information of The could earn from £4 to 4 0 a month what went on in his Socialist Rociation, (nd be exempt from military service.