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Show REICHSTAG FIRS GREAT WAR CREDIT 7" Amount Requested Is Ten Billion Marks, Nineteen Socialists Vote ' No " BERLIN Dec '1 via London 10 47 m The relchstag today passed the sec ond and th rd read n0s of the war cred t of 10 000 000 000 marks which the govern ment had requested On y n neteen So c a s s o ed In the negative Before the vo e was aken Frledrlch Augubt Kar Gejer read a b ief state ment on behalf of the Soc a st m no ty exp a n ng the r negat e vo e wh e Fr ed ch Dbert, the oc a st eader spoke In beha f of t e Soc a st ma or y and announced am d oud ap p a se t at h s w ng of the par y wou d ote yes Answe ng a ques on of Major E nst Bassermann Nat ona L bera Dr So f he co on al sec e ary derued that Ger many ever Intended to at ack Cape Co ony f om uthwest Africa as had been as erted by the Cape govern nent Dr So f sa d th s was proved by t e fact that Ger many had reduced her m ary forces in Southwest Africa from 10 000 In 1903 to 000 Dr Solf added that when he saw Gen era! Botha pres dent of the Union of South Africa In London in 191 General Botha hlmse f adv sed strong y aga nst the fur her reduct on of the forces ow ng to danger f om the natives The co on a m n ster a d that the f gh Ing in Sout Afr ca was begun by the Br t sh and not the Germans He sad it was proved in the Cape par ament that the Brl sh government had fa s f ed t e map n or der to make it appear t at the f rst f ght was on Br sh tern o y whe eas t vas on German ho Sp a Cab e by A angomen b London Da 7 Te graph and n em a ona Nes So ce LONDON Dec 1 T e Da ly Te e g ap publ shes the fo ow ng d spatch from Ro te darn Accord ng to a Be in sou ce Herr Haase cha man of the German oc a Democrat party ree gned imn ed ate y after yes e day s meet ng of the re chstag when the new war c ed t of ten bl on n a ks was passed w th the approval of a majority of t e Socialists Haase and the other ext em sts opposed to the re chstag majo ty now represent the rea views of the great mass of Socla sts in the couh ry The spokesman of the Socla st major ity Herr Ebert denounced the govern ment on the ground that It was pursu Ing a pol cy of conquest and h nted that un ess someth ng were done to improve the econom c condlt on of the people the gove nment would find he whoe pa ty n oppos t on when it next asked for money to cont nue the war |