The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-10
Berlin Deputy Says Germany
Is Willing to Join
In Negotiations if Initiated by
Entente Powers.
MUST Be HONORABLE PEACE"
Repeats That AlSace-LOrraine
VIII Be Retained.
Attempted Destruction Will Re-
new TeutOn War Spirit.

Berlin. Dec 1O.-Deputy Otto
Iandsberg, a social democrat, in his
speech in the reichstag today after the
imperial chancellor had answered the
socialist Interpolation on peace ex-
pressed approval of the chancellor
address as a reasonable invitation to
the entente allies to initiate peace ne
eotiations in which Germany was
willing to join.
Herr Landsberg declared the So
cialist appeal for peace was based on
mo anxiety about the outcome of the
war He said he shared DR.. Won
-Hollweg's opinion that the
war had been forced upon Germany,
prevent a repetition. No true Ger
man, he asserted. was DESTROYS of end
ing the war on any other terms
Don't Want Territory.
He repeated the declaration made
earlier in the day by DR.. Philip
Scheidemann, socialist, that the So
cialists would never consider a peace
involving the retrocession of Alsace-
Lorraine Deputy Landsberg said
that with Premier Asquith of Great
Britain and Premier Brand of France.
both demanding the destruction of
equivalent to the destruction of a
strong Germany, he could understand
the chancelIor's attitude in his speech,
and was pleased that Dr. Won Beth
mann-Hollweg had IN return not ae-
manded the destruction of Russian
and French militarism or BRUSH
s.r11arinisTrl' which could render peace
irnpossibIe Regarding the acqu1s1-
ton of territory, the deputy expressed
high satisfaction that the chancellor
had made no mention OF annexation
Not Destroy German Arms.
1.-THE chancellor repeatedly had
designated the occupied territories as
exemption pledges he said ana
has said that the statesmen VINO must
hold ont hopes to their countrymen
~ a better future speak of the de-
str1Iction of German militar1Sm ana
the taking away of German territory,
lint the statesman whose weapons
fortunately are crowned with success
declares himself in principle ready Tor
peace. naturally for honorable peace.
No German man would wish to con-
clude any other peace"
Prevent Future Wars.
Deputy Landsberg said the chan
cellor had demanded securities against
repetitions of wanton attacks me
socialists too, wish TO preserve future
generations from the Dattle fields and
trenches, continued the speaker, but
there was no security against future
wars in conducting this war to the
exhaustion or subjugatiOn of another
nation. This however, he said, was
not the intention of the chancellor
who had expressed readiness to con-
cl,f1e an honorable peace and in
whose words Herr Landsberg found
no mention of unreasonable condi-
lions for Germany's opponents
If Germany's opponents did not de-
sire peace because they insisted upon
the destruction of Germany's de-
fensive force and the annexation of
German territory. said Deputy Lands
berg they must learn that the social
list appeal for peace was based on no
anxiety about the outcome of the war.
He declared that nothing could in
crease the courage and resolution of
the German troops more than the
consciousness that the responsibility
for a further continuance of the war
rested with their opponents.