OUTSPOKEN COMMENT ON INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 250, 17 October 1918, Page 5

OUTSPOKEN COMMENT ON INTERNAL AFFAIRS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

BERNE, Oct. 16.

The German newspapers are cx.tra.oi'dinarily outspoken in discussing internal affairs.

The Schwabeische Tagewacht states: "We in the future will speak with, much less respect concerning Wilhelm, for the spirit of .the German people is daily becoming more anti-monarch-ist."

Many journals which were formerly Pan-German with annexationist sympathies are now demanding that,the authors of submarin°i warfare be mad© publicly responsible for the crimes and blunders which caused. America's entry into the war.

A meeting of the Bavarian Socialist Party passed a. resolution urging the Reichstag ito appoint a State court to try all, even the highest, . who have been guilty of frustrating peace efforts, and also demanding self-government for .the German States. Advices- from Vienna state that the Emperor has accepted Hussarck'si resignation and charged' Count Tarouka with the duty of forming a Ministry.

DESPAIR IN GERMANY.

(Published in The Times.) '

THE HAGUE, Oct. 15

Blank despair describes the workers' outlook and the prospects of the country. The workers were widely aware three months ago that the game was up, and they are now irresistibly inclined to peace and ready to overwhelm all obstacles. Pessimism broods over Germany like a thunder cloud. *Phe people on the Western frontier are angrily asking why the Government does not conclude peace as the only way to stop the raids, which are making life unendurable.

THE SEAMEN'S BOYCOTT'.

fAustralian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

LONDON Oct. 15. , tA mass meeting of Liverpool seamen demanded full German reparation for the Leinster outrage, and the overthrow of the Kaiser and. militarism. It decided to extend the boycott of Germany for another year until this is secured.