GERMANY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 27 March 1915, Page 5

GERMANY.

THREADBARE GERMAN FICTIONS

AGAIN VOICED BY A

DIPLOMATIST

SOCIALIST LEADER ORDERED TO

REJOIN ARMY.

PARIS, March 26

Von Richthofen, a German diplomatist, conversing with a neutral journalist in January, stated: "We are fighting against England. We offered France and Russia peace on the basis of the cession of German Flanders to Germany, the return of ten fhousand Alsatian and French people ,'to the French, we keeping Metz. We offered Russia, a status quo ante bellum. Russia and France were wrong to refuse, and we must now impose our will by force. It will be necessary for Germany to attack Servia, in order to seize the Sofia-Constantinople railway, and thus enable Germany to establish •communication with Turkey. Germany promised that Italy would obtain advantages without fighting." ...

AMSTERDAM, March 26

Dr. Liebknecht, the Socialist, has been ordered to join the Landsturm in Lorraine. His friends do not expect Ihim to return alive.