ANTI-MILITARISM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 22, 21 October 1907, Page 7

ANTI-MILITARISM.

..-. PROSECUTIONS FOR SIGNING'A' . PLACARD. :■'..'■. BT TEI/EOBArH—PBESS . ASSOCIATION—COrYEIGJIT. ; Paris, Octobor 18.' The trial is proceeding at : Lyons of twontyoiie' persons who signed an anti-militarist placard. ~ . ■ .'.'';'■ 11. Hervo is 'ono of tho npostlos of antimilitarism in Franco, and his extremist attitude at. the Socialist Congress produced a ' florae'pasengo. with tho German Socialist, llorr Babel, who, as a subject of tho Kaieor, was not prepared to go so far as tho citizen of tho Kcpublic. According to latest cablegrams,' this moderation is endangering Uprr Bobel's longestablished ascendancy oven among- Gorman Socialists, for we read tho: other day ; that the imprisonment in' d fortross of Dr. Karl Lioblvnfibht, for .'fomenting ; anti-militarism, is likely to secure for Lioblcneclit tho futuro leadership of. tho Socialists. Tho state of things in Franco is indicated by It. Clomencoau's recent appeal to Frenchmen :to stand , firm against "parricidal antiniilitarists: .■ Tho. French ". anti-mili-tarist propoganda lays down that the soldiers, in the event of war, should refuse to fight, or in tho event of strikes should at any rate refuse 'to firo on thnir fellow-subjects.' Tlio mutiny of somo soldiers during tho winp district riots is fresh in memory.