THE PEACE ISSUES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 20, 18 October 1917, Page 5

THE PEACE ISSUES

GERMAN SOCIALIST LEADER DEFIANT

INSISTS ON TERRITORIAL INVIOLABILITY

Copenhagen, October i 6. Herr Schiedemann, ths Socialist leader, speaking at tho Wurzburg Conference, declared: "The enemy's demands aro steadily growing, more insane. Wβ will not relinquish a single loot of German territory. Wβ will only give .up what belongs to others. Our peace terms are the territorial inviolability of Germany, the freedom of the seas, and economic free-dom."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

PEACE A VITAL NECESSITY TO THE WORKERS. Amsterdam, October IG. Herr Bbert, President of the Socialist Party in the Reichstag, presiding at the Socialist meeting at Wurzburg (Bavaria), said that the speedy conclusion of peaoo was a vital necessity to the workmen bi ! all countries. The . policy of the mailed fist, after the frightful sorrows of the war, would disappear. If a ballot were taken, nine-tenths of the people would approve of peace. He declared that the regime o£ Dr. Michaelis spelt tho collapse of the present Govornmont system iu Germ any ,j Another report states that Herr Ebert said that the Socialists favoured AlsaceLorraine having complete republican autonomy and a Constitution on an equality with that of other Federal States.— Reuter.