Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20

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and still their fighting had shattered or weakcs mo
which the military party had the people and the
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the rngleaders Of Germanys organized might L
the armed foes the battlefield but befor.
nation with President whose only was puh,.
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and Government after thirteen months Of n.s o
hope right to believe that after all public on;, m
weapon which effective than or . va
Wilson and the State Department justified IN tsI ~
their policy toward Germany after successful ~
because it had solved the vexng submarine ISSUE but %
it had aided the forces Of democracy in Germany
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recognized authority in Germany That was the %
the Foreign Office supported almost unanimously by the
and by the Liberty forces which work to rst
German Government ~ m
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the Kaiser changed his mind again decided 10 Ous
people who camorng for ruthless murderous dss m
against the whole world IL the world foolish" enough
The Period of Nelo Orientation
DR.. Karl Liebknecht, after he had challenged III.
the fourth Of April became the object OF a.L y.
military authorities. The Chancellor although he is the %
lister Of Foreign Affairs is also a major general in the n
for private like Lebknecht to talk to major general - %
did in the Rechstag contrary to all rules and
in the Prussian The army ready to send iSa
the firing squad, and it only short time until h %
an opportunity to arrest him. Lebkncht started riots soma
the ammunition factories, and night Potsdamer Plat S
in civilian Clothes shouted Down with Governrnen,s ~
started address passerby He seized Immediately bv
ment detectives, who always following him and 49,
the police station His was searched and vhsn Az ~
began the found there placed the %
tribunal evidence that he plotting against the oyern
The trial secret and police bokaded all streets c,
Of mile from the court whore he tried
the proceedings which lasted week. the newspapers war. ~
mitted to print only the information distributed by the Wolf IL
graph Bureau But public sympathy Lebnecht was 40 M
that mounted police kept in city & M
night to break crowds which might assemble Behind %
doors, without opportunity his friends with nl
attorney appointed by the Government defend him. sbEs
sentenced to two years hard labor His only crime was M
he had dared to speak in the Rechst"g the opinions
the radical Socialists.
Liebknechs imprisonment lesson to other SOd.ua
agitators The day after his sentencing es wars
strikes in nearly ammunition factory and around Berlin
Even at Spandau next to Essen the largest ammunition mann
featuring city in Germany several thousand left M
benches protest. but the German people such te
fear of the police and of their military organization that &
strike only day and return the forget about ps
events
If there other instances in Germany to indicate th
there the nucleus for democracy this to be m
One might too that such leaders Lbknecht could
assisted the movement for freedom might
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