GERMAN SOCIALISTS' MANIFESTO CALCULATED TO CREATE AN UNDESIRABLE IMPRESSION ONLY ONE WATCHWORD FOR GERMANY—"HOLD OUT!"

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 151, 28 June 1915, Page 7

GERMAN SOCIALISTS' MANIFESTO CALCULATED TO CREATE AN UNDESIRABLE IMPRESSION ONLY ONE WATCHWORD FOR GERMANY— "HOLD OUT ! "

(Received June 28, 9.5 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, 27th June. The North German Gazette, in announcing the suppression of the Vorwarts for publishing the Socialist leaders' manifesto, says v"The manifesto shows how the German Socialists have done their duty in the fight for Germany's national independence, and how the great masses of Socialists in Eng- • land and France, belonging to the International Union, decided to continue the war hand in hand with their Governments, and united to complete the conquest of Germany. Notwithstanding this statement, (the Socialist leaders invite the •Government, thereby making known their own. war aims, to announce, on the ground of a favourable Avar situation which our compatriots' bravery has created, a willingness to enter into peace negotiations in order to terminate the sanguinary, fighting. The manifesto, appearing despite the censorship forbidding discussion on the war, aims at and is calculated to create a highly undesirable impression abroad; and also, probably^on a- majority of German Socialists. It will possibly be interpreted abroad as war -weariness, which does not exist." The Gazette adds : "If the progress of military events and the political situation offer prospects of successful peace deliberations, the German Government on its own accord will do what is necessary. Till then there can only be one w_atchword for Germany, namely — 'Hold out.'"