THE CENTRAL POWERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17430, 26 September 1918, Page 5

THE CENTRAL POWERS

APOTHEOSIS OF THE KAISER. APOSTLE OF PEACE AND KULTUR. STATEMENT BY GRAND VIZIER. Renter'* Telegram* AMSTERDAM, September 24. (Received Sept. 25, at 7.25 p.m.) Tlie Grand Vizier, addressing the TurkoGerman League at Constantinople, declared that all the rulers and peoples of the Central Powers, including that august friend of humanity and civilisation, the Kaiser, wanted peace. He claimed that the Central Powers were fighting for the small nations and the world's liberty, and appealed for fortitude in the face of temporary military failures. AN AMERICAN NIGHTMARE. PERSISTENT SOCIALISTIC PROPAGANDA. OFFER BY SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. < Reuter's Telegrams. \ LONDON, September 24. (Received Sept. 25, at 7.25 p.m.) ■ A Swiss telegram reports that a. wave of intense nervous depression is sweeping over Germany. The whole population is suffering from an American nightmare. Despite police precautions, anonymou* pamphlets are in circulation throughout Germany with such phrases as: "Two million Americans attacking lis; four million will attack to-morrow; twenty millions are preparing to annihilate us." The Social' Democratic Party in the Reichstag met on Monday, and decided to enter the Government if the Government would definitely acknowledge the Reichstag resolution of July, 1917, and make an unequivocal declaration that Belgium, Serbia, and Montenegro would be restored, and autonomy granted to Alsace- | Lorraine. They also demand direct suff- j rage for the federal States, the .restora- j tion of the rights of public meetings, and the liberty of the press.