PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM CONDEMNED.
BY THE CENTRE PARTY. GERMANY MUST HAVE INDEMNITIES (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received May 21, 10.5 a.m. BERNE, May 20. Herr Erzeberger, speaking at Dusseldorf, said the Centre Party would never agree to introducing the Parliamentary system in Germany. It was not desirable that the Reichstag should control the Chancellor and Ministers, make treaties or alliances, and control the declaration of war. These must be left in the hands of the Emperor and his counsellors. There no need for Germany to ape democratic Countries. Count Reventlow, in an article, says that unless Germany obtained indemnities all her war guarantees are illusory. It will be impossible for Germany to pay the enormous costs of the war. GRAVE STRIKES REPORTED. IN WAR FACTORIES AND DOCK- ( YARDS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received May 21, 1.5 p.m. ZURICH, May 20. The Arbeiter Zeitung reports grave strikes in the war factories and naval dockyards at Elbing, Stettin and Konigsberg. s
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13489, 21 May 1917, Page 5
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