INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST CONFERENCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11748, 7 February 1919, Page 8

INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST CONFERENCE.

GERMAN SOCIALISTS ON THEIR DEFENCE. ATTEMPT AT WHITE WASHING United Press Association—By Eletric Telegraph— Copyright. Received Feb 7, noon. Lend Du, Feb 5. At the Berne Conference, Herr Weis, on behalf of the Majority Socialists of Germany, in a vigorous speech, protested that M. Albert Thomas ignored the tact that Russia constituted a grave menace to German civilisation. Socialists did their doty in self defence He protested that Austria’s ultmatum to Serbia endeavoured to prevent the extension of the war and also pro tested that Von Bethmann-Hollweg had admitted that Prussian methods regarding Belgium were an offence against international law. The Socialists had decided to (Support repartiation. Herr Weis condemned air raids and submarine warfare, bnt pointed out the “terrible effects of the blockade, which had “caused three-quarters of a million to die of starvation. Regarding the BrestLitovsk Treaty, he said the , German Socialists were too weak to prevent Imperialistic tendencies, as French Socialists were too weak to ameliorate the hardest armistice terms ever imposed.,