SCENES IN THE REICHSTAG.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14546, 26 October 1917, Page 2

SCENES IN THE REICHSTAG.

ATTACK ON PAN-GERMANS

I ■ . ■. ■ London, Oct. s. ■the Amsterdam correspondent of the "Times*' states that the" German Sunday papers published columns of the .Reichstag .proceedings, indicating that the political feeling is more.acute than at any period since the war began. The "Ithenische Westfaelische" says that the scenes beggared description. The Socialist Herr Landsberg denounced the Fatherland Party and the panGerman propaganda in a. speech that was punctuated with applause, and contained such pv,ngent passages as: "Their love for the Fatherland is such that we refuse to pursue it. In their desire for the annexation of Courland, Longwy, and Eriey they risk the. deI stvuction of Germany. However great |is her strength, Germany without her allies cannot dictate to the v.l-oie i-world. The date when our hope will be realised is continually postponed, as a debtor prolongs the bill he Is'unable to pay." A great disturbance followed. Herr Landsberg urged thr> Fatherlanders to consider what they would do with the conquered territories, as Germany did not possess the talent for moral conquests. The. Social made- a- demonstration, against General yon Stein, the Minis-, ter- for War, crowding the. Speaker's tribune, interrupting" him, and crying him down.

Dr. Helfferich was similarly treated, and he sat down disgusted. The "Westfaelische" states that when the sitting broke up the feeling was that such unpleasant scenes would arouse respect for the Reichstag neither in Germany nor abroad. The attitude of the Minister for Finance, Dr. Helfferich, in the Reichstag has evoked bitter press attacks. The Government'is accused of evading the real issue.