SCENES IN REICHSTAG.
'ASSAULTS ON SOCIALIST.
PROCEEDINGS SUSPENDED,
London, April 12. Despite severe censoring the facts ' of tho debate in the Reichstag on Saturday are leaking out. It tran- ,■ spires that when' Dr. Liebknecht was tpeaking a number of Deputies became greatly excited and demanded his expulsion. They ap- . proached Dr. Liebknecht menac- . ingly, and one deputy mounted the ' tribune and tore documents out of ";. Liebknecht' bands.
«... . A Socialist recovered and restored -the papers to Dr. Liebknecht, but .the President indignantly refused to fi- ':- - hear Dr. Liebknecht further. kj[ Dr. Liebknecht refused to quit %:l ■ the chamber. Several of the ProW' gressives tried to drag him outside, the scene lasting for several |*V minutes, until the President closed £}'• the sitting. tvj •-• The sequel occurred on Monday, It -."■when, according •■ to ■'■ the -Vorwaerts, M "'iJElorr Ledebour, /thej Social Demo- • .. iiiaSXftt leader, denounced the brutal . r(i treatment meted out to Liebknecht, "--and also the censoring *of the ses!v V "'-"'eion'B minutes. Great uprdar followed with shouts of "traitor." Tho 4 . President refused to permit the.re-, of the- debate, and &d» ' \ f lourncd the flitting,- *" '' l -"' : %^r
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16204, 14 April 1916, Page 6
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184SCENES IN REICHSTAG. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16204, 14 April 1916, Page 6
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