GERMANY WITHIN

Grey River Argus, 14 September 1918, Page 3

GERMANY WITHIN

WHERE IS THE CAPITAL? AT BERLIN OR AT WAR HEADQUARTERS. REMARKABLE POLITICAL QUERY (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Ree. September 13, 7 p.m.) BERNE, September 12 Kerr Haase, on behalf of the Independent German Socialist Party, is raising a remarkable question in the Reichstag. He is asking: "Why has -the* seat of the Government of the German Empire been transferred from Berlin to. Spa, where General Ludendorff exercises his powers as Military Dictator. Haase also is asking why the Great General Staff has jis political, diplomatic, economic, financial, and commercial sections, exercising supreme authority over Count Hertling' (the Imperial Chancellor), who holds only a subordinate position in the political department of the General Staff, with only ihe rank of Major, and therefore takes orders from Ludendorff and Ludendorff' s staff.