MORE NEWS FROM MESOPOTAMIA

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2856, 29 January 1916, Page 2

MORE NEWS FROM MESOPOTAMIA

America's Notice to Armed Merchantmen

King George's Message of Confidence

BY EIjECTIUC TEJiKGRArH COPYH

HGIIT PER Plll-fIS ASSOCIATION

THE SOCIALIST.

A DESPONDENT GEH MAN LEADER. New York, .January '27. The Outlook, one of America's leadinn; and most influential weekly reviews, interviewed Or Liebknecht, the ex-leader of the Social-Democratic Party in the German .Parliament, who was 'dejjosed last week because of his j plain-speaking in the Reichstag. He I was despondent. lie said: "There are now two Ho- I oialist parties in Germany. The split j has come." He blamed the censorship and the helplessness of the So- I c.ialisU in lieiup; unable, to resist the outbreak of war, and added: "Americans cannot imagine the awful power oi the military in this hour. We are cut. oil' from everyone. We have be- I come ii separate cell in the body politic. Every thinker i.s :i mental prisoner. It is a war of conquest. Tlu'o are rich mines iv Fiance anil Belgium. They will never lie relinquished by Germany. The Socialists, deprived ot their press, are unable to undi-rs:an(l the situation. Dr Liebknecht admitted the truth of the interviewer's remark that the German Socialists bad been cow ir fly. but said in response: "You must ionieiuber they owned property w nth millions of pounds sterling, inclining presses, theatres, ami halls."