The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-30
Regulation of Food Supply and Conduct of War Are
 Topics for Consideration
TO LAUNCH CRITICISM
 OF FOOD MEASURES
Additional Credit to Be Voted Ex- pected to Reach $2,500, 100000. Pension Age May Be Reduced
 to Sixty-Five Years

Berlin, November 2s.-(via London, | November 9O,)-The Reichstag will as- semble tomorrow for it's sixth war ses- 1 sion-a session which will take place
 under the influence of the two absorb I ing topics of the present moment, | namely, the regulation of the food sup war. It will also, it is understood, be marked by the introduction of a new vote of credit for the war, pre- | sumably for the accustomed amount of s2,500, 000,0o0. although no definite announcement in this respect has been made.
 | The actual items already announced | for the working programme of the 1 session include a bill for the modifi-
 cation of punishments for minor of lenses under martial law, discussion 1 of the governmental report against the reduction of the age limit for old age pensions from 70 to 65 years and minor legislative projects that are of no great general importance
 It is generally anticipated, on the other hand, that the members of Par | liament will take this occasion to | launch a great criticism of the meas ures for the regulation of the food supply, on which the government has promised to submit memorandum to the Reichstag, and that certain eIe- | ments, notably the radical wing of the socialists, will insist on bringing into the discussion the ultimate aims of the war and the terms on which Germany could profitably make peace
 MAY DISCUSS WARS AIMS Whether Chancellor Von Bethmann- liollweg will be drawn by this discus 1 slon into statement more or less defi- nlte on the subject is uncertain. The Associated Press is informed from circles in the closest touch with the chancellor that the decision whether the chancellor will speak on this sub 1 Ject has not been taken.
 | On the other hand, newspaper statement coming from Mai Ernest Bassermann, one of the parliamentary leaders, who has been in preliminary conferences with the chancellor asserts that the chancellor will deliver an im- l portant speech on the foreign and in- | ternal policies, expressing himself par ticularly upon the question of the food l supply
 | The correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung. who has exceptional opportu- | mites for gathering information on such subjects, expresses himself more cautiously than Major Bassermann and merely says that the chancellor will 1 have an opportunity to make a state | ment upon the military and political | situations.
 The Associated Press anticipates | that the chancellor probably will make speech-and if one, probably two but it seems uncertain whether he will touch at all on the delicate subject of the German peace programme. His de- cision whether speech will be deliv- cred need not be taken immediately, since, according to. the probable pro- gramme. the Reichstag will gather to- morrow only for a brief session at which Dr. Karl Helfferich, secretary of the imperial treasury, perhaps will 1 speak regarding new credits and then adjourn for about eight days, in which | time all possible questions will be dis cussed by committees. The members generally are agreed as to the advisa- 1 bility of handling many subjects, par l ticularly controversial ones, in the l semi-privacy of committee rooms. The general meetings of the Reich | stag will be resumed about December l1, dt WHICH pupilC ulSCuSSlOnS or the food supply and regulations, censor ship, hardships in the administration of 1 Germany under the exceptional regula- l tions of the military law during the war and the general military and po- | litical situation will take place. l The socialists are reported as not I having agreed upon a programme for f the session. The radical and moderate 1 wings of the party are endeavoring in party caucuses to get together to pre- sent a united front in the Reichstag.
 It is possible that some of the extreme
 radicals may indulge in individual at
 ! tacks on the government, but, it is
 asserted if Deputy Karl Iiebknecht,
 l one of the leaders of the radicals, is
 unable to attend the sittings, much of
 the force will be drawn from such at
 | tacks.
 | Dr. Liebknecht, who has been serv-
 1 ing in the pioneer corps, is reported Tn
 a sanitarium suffering from a nervous
 l breakdown.
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