MILITARY WILL RUIN GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 40, 15 August 1918, Page 2

MILITARY WILL RUIN GERMANY

OUTSPOKEN SPEECH IN THE

REICHSTAG.

AMSTERDAM, 28th June. The notable speech delivered in the Gorman Roichstag this week by Deputy Hugo Haase, the Independent Socialist, in wliich he vigorously attacked the Government's foreign policy, is given considerable space by the semi-official Norddeutschs Allgemeine Zeitung. _ Hcrr Haase, says tho semi-official version of the speech, went on with a bitter attack on the German military rulers for their method of conducting the war, which was alienating- the friendship of the whole world. He declared their methods were making a decent peace impossible, and that the German people must take matters into their own hands.

"The Armenians," the speaker declared, "are sending U3 affecting calls for help against tho bruta-T violence of the Turks, who are aiming anew at their completo extermination. These calls go unheard, although the victims of tlie Turks are numbered by the hundreds of thousands; o,nd we have the audacity to permit the handing over to the Turks again of the districts of Batum, Kars, and Ardahan.

"In Livonia and Esthonia the German police force is treating the people with an. arbitrariness of the worst sort, as if the district were a conquered country. Conditions in tho Riga district cry to heaven. Ten-year-old boys have been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for distributing'proclamations. In the prisons people are tortured in a way resembling that of the worst days of Tsarism.

"Tho German military power everywhere in Russia, has been active as the strangler of democracy and the oppressor of freedom. In Finland .an nqua-1 ■terrorism reigns among, the working classes. "If things so on according to the will of our military, autocracy Germany will be ruined, unless the people take the cause of peace in their own hands."