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THE 1917 REVELATIONS.“

GERMAN PLANS

REGARDING BELGIUM.

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Copenhagen. July 28--To- day's sitting of the German National Assembly was one of the most interesting and exciting that has yet been held.

Herr Muller (the Foreign Min ister), in the course of his speech. read the telegram from the British Government which followed the letter of the Papai Nuncio iu, which an attempt was made to begin peace negotiations. The telegram, which was undated, read as follows:

We have not yet had an opport- unity to consult our Allies regard- ing the Note received from your Eminence, and are unable to answer the proposal made by your Eminence regarding terms for a lasting peace.

"In our opinion there is no probability of reaching this aim as long as the Central Powers and their allies have not officially expressed their war aims. and settled what indemnity they are ready to pay, and what guarantees they will give for the future pro- tection of the world against the terror from which it is now suffering. As regards Belgium they make no definite declaration regarding their intentions; nor do they say whether they intend to restore to Belgium full independ- ence, and make good the damage which she has suffered.

"Your Eminence. no doubt, knows the declarations made by the Allies in reply to President Wilson's Note. Neither Austria nor Germany has ever made any. such declaration. Any attempt to bring the belligerents to ant agreement seems rain as long as we do not know the points where their opinions differ."

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After Herr Muller had spoken, Herr Bauer, the Prime Minister. made a fresh attack on the Con- servatives. He said that the ex-Kaiser would certainly be brought before a tribunal and that he would be proved to be guilty of a great deal. I will read you (he added the contents of two declarations made at the time in question, one from Herr Michaelis to Hindenburg on Sep- tember. 12. 1917, the day after the sitting of the Imperial Coun. cil, and the other on September 15, 1917. containing the reply of Marshal von Hindenburg and accompanied by a memorandum from Ludendoro. "You will then understand why no decisive reply could be given regarding the reinstatement of Belgium.jon. Herr Michaelis writes to Hinden- burg:

"In accordance with the wishes of the High Command. I draw our basis for peace negotiations as follow: For the protection of our commerce we demand the city of Liege and adjacent terri- tory. Belgiunt must intimately and economically be united to

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Dr. Addison, Minister of Health, annexationists and who drove him at the National Liberal Club Fatherland party who supported speaking at the dinner given to the German people into destruct-on July 28. asked if there was any man looking out on the state The Premier was at this point of Europe to-day who did not uproar, all the members rising utmost efforts to obtain the aid of tremendous realise the need for using our interrupted by and shouting "Murderers, trai-all citizens in striving to secure tors, political rascals." It was and consolidate the results of

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termined to get rid of it for our costly laad. was expected to selves and to support the League average out at £170 per acre. Herr Erzberger followed the We see around us, he said. of Nations or any other means That figure, with an average of Premier. He considered that a old institutions in a state of dis-for abolishing it and its attendant ten houses to the acre, represent- Germany and when Belgium amore favourable situation for solution, old ties broken, and dangers in the world.

ed, at 5 per cent, only 4d per week fulfilled all our demands for the peace was hardly conceivable than people reshaping their groupings That issue, with another like in rent. security of the economic connec- that of 1917. which was permitted on a basis of nationality, shaking it British action in Russia-was Two facts stood out in connec- tion, which will of course, take to go by unutilised by a weak off old tyrannies and groping. put forward as an excuse for tion with Ireland: First, that several years after the first peace Government which, with no will with many struggles, after a new threatening to supersede the with the Home Rule Act on the negotiations, we consider that of its own, was the tool of soldiers order which will give them a work of Parliament by industrial Stature Book proposals must be military measures can then be mixing themselves up in politics. fuller freedom and a better op action. The declaration of policy made to Parliament; and, second, abolished. Consequently we only The fact that he himself did portunity in life.

häve by the Prime Minister in the that if we waited until Irishmen ask to hold Liege provisionally. not at the time urge greater before us, associated with the House of Commons some time were agreed upon them. we and as a factor on security.

clearness he endeavoured to ex-greatest organisation of labour, & ago was surely clear enough, and should never make them. The "We will obtain raw materials word of honour he did not know up the whole life of the nation, not to

plain by declaring that on his threat of astrike calculated to hold the action that was being taken pledges that were given at the from the occupied territory, secure the contents of Mgr. Pacelli's for industrial-purposes, but on removal

arrange for the complete General Election were, of course, transport facilities, letter or what the Government purely political issues with which Archangel before

forces from given after specific proposals had especially in the case of Antwerp replied. Nevertheless, the over- Parliament and our self-govern- months came on was in fulfilment be expected that Irishmen would the winter been worked upon. It could not obtain an ascendancy over the throw of Dr. Michaelis was, being institutions are charged to of it. It was for the Russian say they were "satisfied, but the Flemish population-putting an said, above all bis work. “ end to British influence on the

deal. We cannot grapple with people to decide their own form provision of a workable basis for these events by methods of of Government, as in time they! Irish self-government with the Flanders coast and will demand

Herr Erzberger's attacks on the Right parties evoked noisy scenes. which immediately, as any man anarchy into freedom. sporadic industrial the restoration of our colonies.

anarchy doubtless would, and emerge from safeguards to which they were His speech evoked great applause can see, spreads the desolation

pledged, as soon as possible, was, on the part of the Majority parties.

The great task of the Prime he believed, both possible, and i Marshal Hindenburg made the Sharp personal exchanges follow wider. But we can do so by an Ministar in the Peace Conference, national, if not an international following reply: "I don't concealed, and the the House finally orderly, industrious, determined amid a conflict of interests and necessity. that the navy and patriotic circles adjourned.

use of our representative institu- perplexities passing description. Apart from the unrest which will feel it a hard blow if we give

tions firmly based on the popular bad rightly earned the thanks of arose from a legitimate desire to up the Flanders coast. Economic

will, by means of a courageousmen of all parties; and pone the improve the conditions of life and connection with, Belgium cannot

development of the measures less he was an alert and exacting labour, there was the ever-present be realised without 'pressure on

and methods that the times captain in keeping his lieutenants factor of discontent arising from Belgium even after peace has directors of the Palace Theatre, may meet and provide for the measures at home up their mark. inevitable, but the rampant dis By these means we who had charge of progressive high prices. Much of these were been declared, and for that pur- died recently at the age of 76. needs of the people and the better Whatever might be said as to play of greed which followed the pose several years occupation For no less than 40 years Mr. opportunities that they seek for details, the Government's pro- relaxation of control. in some will be necessary, which for Graydon was manager of the under a secure and peaceable pasals as to health, housing, trades and which were compelling military reasons is possible only Middlesex Music Hall, favourably order of things-the only con-power, transport, land settlement, its reimposition, was proof enough when England and Americe known desert France. There can be no which

the "Old Mo" dition under which they can be and acquisition, not to mention that some of it was profiteering talk of indemnities, neither can producing

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