SENTENCES ON SOCIALISTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11367, 13 October 1917, Page 5

SENTENCES ON SOCIALISTS.

DEPUTIES VOICE PROTESTS. SOiE PLAIN SPEAKING. Amsterdam, Oct. 11. In the course of the debate in the Reichstag Dr. Michael is admitted a Socialist statement that sontesuces aggregating two hundred years’ hard labour had been passed on sailors for Socialist propaganda in the navy. The Socialist, Yogtherr, -warned the Chancelor that a of thousands of men and women, inclluding men at the front, were behind the Socialist party and the ■f’hanccllor’s policy was hound to fail.

Horr Haase said the Government was at the end of its tether and ■>,vas trying to unite other parties iu its support hy waving the red The Rhnisch Wcstfaelische Zoitruig urges t!io criminal prosecution of Socialist deputies.

TOO MUCH OPTIMISM DEPRECATED.

MUTINY MOVEMENT UNDER CONTROL.

Received Oct. 13, 10 a. in. New York, Oct. 12. The Times and Sun warn the public against attaching undue importance to the German -mutiny movement. It must he well under control or otherwise the censors would not havo permitted a word to go out. The Tribune opines that the time is not ripe for a proletarian revolt in Germany. RUSSIAN MINISTERS’ DECLARATION. A PROPHECY OF SPRING. RUSSIAN TRIUMPH ESSENTIAL. OR ITS S,OUL DIES. Received Oct. 13, 10 a.m. New York, Oct. 12. The New York World’s Petrograd correspondent had an interview with Verbovsky, the new War Minister. He said: “By the spring 3 r ou will see a new Russian army based the principals of initiative. We are travelling the right road and must succeed. We_ must triumph or our soul dies. ” The basic idea of reorganisation is to gain the confidence of the rank and file, oust the old commanders and. their methods, and profitably utilise Soldiers’ Councils.