DEMAND FOR PEACE.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15746, 13 November 1916, Page 8

DEMAND FOR PEACE.

PROCESSION IX DRESDEN. (Received November 12th. 5.5 p.m.) ZURICH, November 11. Socialist leaders headed a procession of 80,000 people through the streets of Dresden, when they marched to the office of the Ministry of the Interior. A deputation demanded food and an immediate peace, and desired that the Government of Saxony should make representations to Berlin. i The Minister admitted the justice of the complaints made as to the dearness of food, but said that he could not act in Berlin in favour of peace. The procession then proceeded to the Town Hall. I» was orderly throughout. THE WAR DISCLAIMED. GERMAN READINESS FOB PEACE. TWISTINGS BY HOLLWEG. (Australian and 2J.Z. Cable Association.) AMSTERDAM. November 11. Dr. von IJethniann-Hollweg, Chancellor. in replying to Viscount' Grey's statement, said that Russia's mobilisation bewail the war. Viscount Grey's statement was based on an edition of the ''Lokal Anzeiger" of July 30th, l f Jl4. which falsely announced German mobilisation. Tho Government had immediately stopped tho sale of the paper, and denied the report. The Chancellor proceeded to detail what he described as the annexation proposals of Germany's enemies, alleging, Russian designs on Constantinople, which Britain and France guaranteed, and French designs on Alsace and Lorraine. He had never proclaimed that Germany intended to annex Belgium. England joined in the war because Germany's peaceful enterprises would become over great. It was Europe's unlucky fate that Britain favoured the French and Russian schemes of conquest. *Ifc was not Prussian militarism, but the hemming-in policy of Germany's adversaries which caused the war. When the war was concluded the immensity of the catastrophe would be realised, and there would be an outcry for peaceful settlements of future quarrels. Germany would assist in that direction. DECLARATION WELCOMED. AMSTERDAM. November 10. In tho Reichstag, all parties -welcomed Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg's declaration that Germany was willing to join an International Peace Union. In reply to a Conservative spokesman, a representative of the Socialist minority pointed out that Viscount Grey never advocated the boycott or destruction of Germany. Ho also declared that peace would be impossible if Belgium was' reduced to the position of a vassal State. Tho "Freisemuize Zeitung" says: — "Now is the time for the Entente, especially England, to produce a peace programme." The "Vorwaerts" hopes that the Chancellor's soeech will help to dissipate the clouds of hostile distrust. ABUSING BELGIUM. SLAVE RAIDS I>* ANTWERP. AMSTERDAM. November 10. A later message states that 22,000 citizens of Antwerp of from 18 to «a) rears of age have been deported to Germany. Without luggage they were hustled into cattle trucks, seventy :n each, irrespective of whether they were married, unmarried, well-to-do, or labourers. clerics, or lawyers. Practically every family in Antwerp is affected, and women were to be seen in tho streets weeping like children, and reriling . any German soldier they met. The wives and children of the men deported are in many cases without means. . . There were similar. scenes in Ghent, where, when tho men were thrust into the cattle waggons, the women stormed the central station and-attacked the German guards with kitchen knives, sticks, stones, and-pieces of iron, toixty soldiers were wounded. Hundreds of Belgians tried to escape over the border into Holland, but many were shot by the German frontier guards or killed in endearouring foo get through the electric fence. Thirty corpses were found electrocuted in the fence near Putt©. RIOTS AND FIGHTS. BELGIANS AND GERMANS KILLED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received November 12tli, 5.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, November 11. Those who were being rounded up for deportation at Ghent rose up against the soldiers, who charged repeatedly, killing sixty and wounding hundreds beforo the deportees were rounded ud and inarched like prisoners under a guard fixed with bayonets. There was a serious revolt in Brussels on Thursday, when tho authorities commenced deporting men to Germany. When the first batch was assembled at the station a soldier insulted a Belgian General, and a fight ensued, the Germans firing into the mob. Thirty Germans were killed or wounded, and many Belgians shot. The military have closed Brussels. CARPATHIAN GRAVES. AN IMPRESSIVE REPORT. LONDON, November 10. The "Morning Post's" Budapest correspondent states that tho Hungarian Nutional Committee, entrusted with the caro of the graves of soldiers, reports that its researches in the Northern Carpathians resulted in the discovery of 200,000 grave s of Austrian, Hungarian and German soldiers. The s e figures prove that over 250,000 of enemy troops were killed in tho Carpathians during the jj-inter of 191415- The men who fell were largely Hungarians, and the new 6 has caused the greatest depression. The report says:—"The Carpathians are a vast cemetery, from Orsova to Uzsck Pass. Seven thousand men are employed in identifying the graves, and the work must be completed before the snows have obliterated all traces of their identity." GERMAN CASUALTIES. The High. Commissioner reports: — LONDON, November 10 (2.20 p.m.). "Tho German official casualty list, published for October contains 191,675 names, including 24,321 dead, and 42,837 missing. The total casualties of the war are given at 3,754,693, including:—Dead, 910,234; missing, 275,532. LOSSES HUSHED UP. Frederick William Wile, late Berlin ■ ' correspondent of the "'Daily Mail,"

writing at the end of September, SR *An astounding unrensored pamphlet has iust reached me from Germany. It is called "German People.Wake Up! The sub-title is "'An Open Letter to the Citizens and Working Men of Oermanv." It begins with a chapter called "What is the War Costing?"— significant indication that the question Germans are now asking is. "Is the game worth the candle?" Dr. Rosemeiers disclosure of the long-sus-pected fraud which the German Government is practisinc; in _under-esti-mating losses is crushing in the extreme. If his figures are correct, Germanv's total casualties up to the end of last "spring (when his pamphlet was published) were 5,000.000. According to the Germans 1 own official tabulations they were onlv 3.370,000 up to the erjd of last month. This is Dr. Rosemeier's "blood indictment" of tho Kaiser and Hindenburs:— "Do vou know how colossal are the bloody losses which the German nation lias liad to suffer thus far during the war? Thev are carefully concealed. Dire punishment awaits anybody who would dare to add up and Publish the totals of the 14.000 or 15.000 Pages or casualty lists alroadv published. For many months past the casualtr lists have contained no dates or places describing when and where such and such losses occurred. The losses in various battles are distributed throughout dozens of lists in order to deceive even those persons who have time and in-c-linatioj. to pore through the gicantic pile to which our awful death-roll has now swollen. While the militarv authorities swank about with fantastic figures of 'captured prisoners.' they are damnably careful to see that tlrt* number of our own men taken prisoners by the enemy is not allowed to assume too large proportions in the German official casualtv lists.

"But all those tricks are unavailing. In well-irt'ormoil circles tho truth i<; known, and tlio Gorman people should leam it. One and a quarter million soldiers, at least, have been killed. Wo hare lost about 750.000 in prisoners, deserters, and 'missing' men. There are about 3.000.000 wounded, of whom about 1,000,000 arc condemned to permanent and incurable incapacity. That is tho bloody balance of the war to date. Of the sick wc say nothing. Their number is entirely incalculable. But it is certainly enormous. Serious people (medical men of repute among them) estimate the number of soldiers suffering from synhilis at 1,500.000 alone. It may bo that this terrible figure is exaggerated. But that syphilis an,l other disagreeable, infections maladies are causing awful havoc in the trenches is beyond all doubt.''

THE POLISH FRAUD. AMSTERDAM, Xbvombor ,10. A correspondent of the "Danish Free Press" fears that tho Polish Proclamation will merely create a new AlsaceLorraine. Austrian dissatisfaction is general. AMBASSADOR TO WASHINGTON. AMSTERDAM, November 10. Count von Arn.owski, who was Austrian Minister of Sofia, has been appointed Ambassador to Washington.