POLITICAL EXCITEMENT RUNNING HIGH IN GERMANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16760, 29 January 1918, Page 5

POLITICAL EXCITEMENT RUNNING HIGH IN GERMANY.

AUTHORITIES PROHIBIT HOLDING OF MEETINGSAustralian and N.Z. (Received 8.35 p.m.) BERNE, Jan. 27. Owing to political excitement, all meetings have been prohibited in Germany. ZURICH, Jan. 27. Two hundred invalided soldiers who interrupted the Fatherland party's meeting at Berlin were arrested. The news of tie arrest caused indignation in the garrison, culminating in a meeting at Friedrichsdorf, near Berlin. The result was that 8000 soldiers were confined to barracks, and the ringleaders imprisoned. Herr Haase, the Independent Socialist, speaking in the German Reichstag on November 29, revealed the fact that the German Government will permit no public discussion of the question of peace without annexations. The announcement by the Independent Socialists summoning a public meeting for the discussion of the Russian proposal was, he said, confiscated, and its further circulation forbidden, while the Loipsic Volkszeitung, the organ of the Independent Socialists, which had printed the announcement before the authorities had forbidden it, was threatened with suppression until the end of the war. Herr Haase also, in view of the publication by the Leninists of the secret treaties between Russia and the Entente Powers, suggested that the time had arrived when the negotiations between Germany and Austria before the outbreak Of war might be laid before the Reichstag in the form of a White Book.