GERMAN SOCIALISTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8305, 25 November 1915, Page 5

GERMAN SOCIALISTS.

TALK OF PEACE

SUGGESTED TERMS

(Received Novembor 25, 8.45 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, November 24.

Berlin messages state as a fact that tho Radical Socialists are to make a determined effort to force a discussion on peace terms when the Reichstag reassembles.

This is indicated in the " Vorwaorts," which summarises the speeches in the British Parliament and says that without direct contradiction by the British Government the British politicians set up "as positive peace conditions that Germany shall: yield .Belgium, the north of France, Alsace and Lorraine, and'there sJia 11 be no indemnity from England. Though wholly unofficial those speeches are worthy of serious attention, and should head the diseusskai in the place where, in Germany, free speech still has a home. If the British speeches are not to remain as the .voices, of men crying in the wilderness, must: use its prerogative to; speak in open discussion^ as the best m«ane to destroy certain illusions which Germany's enemies harbour as to the possibilities and prospects of war attrition. When once clarity is brought to these questions a great forward step mil have been taken. Let the Reichstag ■.have the floor.