THE KAISER DENOUNCED BY GERMAN WOMEN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3014, 27 February 1917, Page 3

THE KAISER DENOUNCED BY GERMAN WOMEN

• '. ■'—T- 9 "SELFISH VILLAINS IN BERLIN." The following translation of the New ■Year message issued by the German "Women's Socialist Union has been received by 'the Exchange Telegraph Company:— "Sisters and Mourners, —We thank you for all the labours of the past .twelve ".months to spread the propaganda of enlightenment throughout Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemberg, : Baden, and Westphalia. On tho eve of a new year we ask you to consider for what purpose the voices of Rosa Luxemburg and Clara Zetkin have been raised in the hope of mitigating your ufferings. It is to save your homes from grief and your sons and brothers from the cruel sacrifice and continued scourge of this needloss war. For what purpose have Dr. Liebknecht and Herreu Haase and Ledebour dragged the masks from the selfish villains in Berlin, who, manipulating Austria, Turkey, and Bulgaria by corrupt methods, have steeped the Fatherland in blood? It is because the lbyo of truth and honour of a small minority in the Reichstag and their hatred of hypocrisy knows, no limit and cannot be bought by gold or material gain. "For what purpose aro the wageearners and their children reduced to want in raiment and suffering. privation, in food It is because the Kaiser and his Ministers from the first days of the war have purposely deceived the nation with falsehoods and continue. to witkhhold the documents (already published in tho Press of neutral States) which stamp the Potsdam conspirators with indelible infamny. . . .

"Believing that the Allied Powers have no enmity against the German peoples nor desire to violate the territory of our States, we appeal to you, in the name of the hrave men who have flung themselves to death at the bidding of , miscreants to redouble your efforts in the coming -year to bring about the cessation of this devastating and unnecessary struggle. .... We are persuaded that when the German armies have evacuated Belgian, Russian, and Trench territory, it •will he possible to terminate the ruin and suffering of the present conflict." '