GERMAN SOCIALIST M.P. CAUSES SCENE IN REICHSTAG.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14590, 27 April 1918, Page 8

GERMAN SOCIALIST M.P. CAUSES SCENE IN REICHSTAG.

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 23,

In the Ukraine debate m the Reich' stag m the Cologne ■ " Voikazcituhg, the Independent Socialist Herr Cohn said :-<-

s 'lt is not correct that the people, of the - Baltic Provinces are longing .for Germany. This treaty is not the first step to a general peace. »■■ ■■ • "I see. tho day coming when the Revolution will i*ea,cli Germany, and the peoples, confronting princes, -will take their fate into their. owitlxaVKlfi;" : ■

Uproar ensued m. the House, and there were cries of "Uiiheard-of traitor," but <?heers- from : fhe-Ihdependfent Socialists. According' •to ■' import of thei debate, Hetfr Oohh ihtorrupted Count Westarp (Cpnservatire)' by exclaiming, •■'WJiere vas tli©; Tvar hatched ?" , : Count Wfest&rp.: -'Herr Gbhn apparently itares impudently; to' agsert that the war >was hatched, m Germany:" = . - Herr Cohn : r "Yes, I dare:" (Stormy cvupg of indignation? fromt the taitid'o House. Shouts of ilie fellow!" "Ij»--that a.' German?"). . : . -, ;