PEACE DEBATE IN THE REICHSTAG.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10106, 13 October 1917, Page 5

PEACE DEBATE IN THE REICHSTAG.

MR ASQUITH’S OPINION OF THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 12. German. papers, commenting on the Reichstag' peace debate, contend that the nation is unanimous that Von Kuhlmann is the only possible Chancellor. The Cologne papers consider that Michael is should take the hint and retire. The [tapers add; “Everything at the present moment depends on the way:, foreign affairs are handled. Von Kuhlmann is therein a master.'’ AMSTERDAM, Oct. 12. The Reichstag, after a stormy sitting, voted the supplementary budget, both Socialist groups voting against it. This means that HcHferich remains in office. Tito Socialists throughout hotly attacked Michaclis. LONDON, Oct. 11. Mr Asquith, speaking at Liverpool, stated that the dominant factor wo have to deal with Ls not German public opinion or Parliament, but the German Government. IVc should never find our way to peace through the morass of German equivocation and ambiguities. Plain questions had been asked, but studiously evaded. It bad never been our policy to annihilate or mutilate Germany. Mr Lloyd George, replying to a deputation. said lie could not think of any statement more calculated to prolong the war than that of Herr Kuhlmann regarding Alsace-Lorraine. However long the struggle lasted, Britain intended to stand by France until she redeemed her oppressed children from the degradation of a foreign yoke.