Germany.

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Germany.

DEITY OF THE KAISER. I TAKING HIS NAME IN VAIN ! SCENES IN THE REICHSTAG. HOLLWECS CLIQUE. VIOLENT ATTACKS ON AMERICA. WILSON AN ANGEL OF PEACE. CENSORSHIP AND THE WAR. fUNiTEn Pkess ASSOCIATION. I (Received 9.45 a.m.) Amsterdam, June 1. A stormy debate took place in the Reichstag. The Conservatives accused Herr von Bethmann Hollweg (Chanceller) with surrounding the Kaiser with a cl : que of advisers, thus preventing him from learning the people's true wishes.

Herr Helfronch, new Vice-Chancel-lor, vehemently retorted : The Kaiser's name must not be introduced. The Conservatives and National Liberals next bitterly attacked HolL weg and Yon Jago for supinely yielding to America on the submarine question. Most of the speeches were accompanied by violent attacks on America and President Wilson. The idea of the hitter's mediatorshjp was strongly denounced.

The Centre Party applauded the Niij tional Liberals' description of Presi* dent Wilson as "the protector of, America's ammunition supply and England's starvation of Germany." Herr von Graefe, Conservative, suggested that Hollweg's speeches and interview's should be censored, as the enemy press were interpreting them as a veiled retreat, the result of which was that President Wilson, after stifling Germany, is posing as an "Angel of Peace." Herr Helfferich replied that abolition of the censorship concerning war aims was impossible? i The Reichstag resolved that the freedom of the press should only be restricted in the interests of a victorious termination of :the war.