Evening star., 1918-01-07
|RE|CHSThG TO BACK
BOCHE GOVERNMENT
Socialist Members, However,
to Fight Annexationist Aims
Shown at Brest-Lit0vsk.
WARN Won KUEHLMANN
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM, January There was
a more calm feeling in German parlia-
mentary circles yesterday afternoon
according to the Tageblatt. and the
reichstag majority parties firmly intend
to support the government. On the
other hand. the socialists held meetings
yesterday. which Vorwaerts calls per
gust, 1914. The socialist organ says
that the socialist party will make it's
attitude dependent on whether the gov
ernment returns to the declarations
made December 25.
In the meantime. the TagebIatt says
the annexationists are making every
effort to overthrow Foreign Secretary
Won Kuehlmann, certain serious conse-
duences being threatened openly II he
stays in Office.
DR.. Wekerle. the Hungarian premier
and DR.. Won WINNER, the Austrian
minister of finance, arrived in Berlin.
Condemn Hun Plans.
The vorwaerts publishes speeches by
Phtlipp Schefdemann, leader of the ma
jority socialist party in the reichstag, and
Hugo Haase, the minority socialist leader.
condemning what they termed the annex
ationist projects OF the German govern
ment. as disclosed at Brest-Litovsk. The
speeches were delivered before the reichs-
tag main committee.
Herr Scheidemann said there was nc
doubt the reichStag majority adhered to
its declaration Of last summer against
forced annexations and contributions and
that the socialists and other large circles
in Germany saw a contradiction between
the statements of the German negotiators
at Brest-Litovsk on December Is, declar-
ing for peace without annexations and in
IDENTITIES, and on December 28, when the
German proposals regarding occupied
Russian territory were made.
He asserted the position Of the chan
cellor would be untenable II he departed
from the standpoint of the right Of SELF
determination of peoples
Position Of Socialists Defined.
Herr Scheidemann declared the social
lists stand for unrestricted self-determi-
nation Of peoples" adding:
'Just as resolutely as we oppose the
annexationist politicians Of the entente,
we combat the annexationist politicians
Of our own country"
Herr Haase said the German proposals
OF December % constituted a veiled claim
to annexations.
Praised by Won Tirpitz.
Admiral Won Tirpitz. voicing the de-
mands Of the fatherland party and the
pan-Germans regarding the negotiations
with Russia. has telegraphed to Chan
cellor Won Hertling, formally commendins
the firm stand taken by the chancellor
toward the Russian demands. In the
position taken by Russia, says the ad-
miral Is seen '<the fruit Of ten days work
OF the entente. He claims the transfer
OF the negotiations to Stockholm would
constitute a decisive step on the path to
a general peace which would have no
regard for Germany's vital needs.
The Rheinische Westfalische Zeitung
violently attacks DR.. Won Kuehlmann's
conduct at the Brest-Litovsk negotia-
tions. which it considers responsible, it
says. for the intention of Gen Won
Ludendorn. right-hand man of Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg, to resign. Gan
official Berlin dispatch last night de-
MED a report published in several Ger
man newspapers that Gen. Won Luden-
dorff had rendered his resignation }
The newspaper regards any further CO.
operation between the army command
and DR.. Won Kuehlmann as impossible.