IN GERMANY.
HOW DEMOCRACY WAS DECEITED. o'Titc_." and "Sydney Sun" Services.) V - LONDON April 5. Chasaiiowiteb," a British subject raturalised in Canada, has arrived in London, haying escaped from Vienna. Ho spent .three days in Berlin in tho middle" of March amoncst Socialist comrades,, and heard the real sentiments of the Social Democrats ancf Trades Union loaders on tho war. They t-tatcd that they-had been tricked by r, Government agents into a belief that II "' the war wa_ purely »nd exclusively dcjll tensive against Ruflßia, and that hostiliJlr- tie* wero not intended Against France, Britain.- and Belgium.- Thoy' thus voted the war credit in : tho Reichstag. Hnndiod_ of thousands of Socialists.regard the -.var •as tho greatest infamy in human history, but they dare not utter such sentiments in public or theyivould '. be mercilessly punished. Tho -working classes ardently dcsir« peace. Chasa- [ ' nowitch does not believe that there wijl he a revolution, but that Germany is losing, and' there will be a strong movement in'a"democratic direction.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15246, 7 April 1915, Page 7
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