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Show SOCIALISTS MAKE APPEAL ON THE DEPORTATIONS TUB HAftrK, Pec. 9, via London. 10:3? r. til The German Socialist leaders. Thilipp Scheideniann and FYlodrteh Kvert, attended a meeting here of the Kxecutive ' Inrernatlonale, which was called In re-fponso re-fponso to President Knitl Vandervelde's world-wide appeal to the affiliated groups regarding the deportations In RelgUmi. President Vanrlervelde is the Belgian minister of munitions. The German Socialist leaders associated associ-ated themselves with the executives' indorsement in-dorsement of the appeal and told their Putch comrades that both the majority and minority In the German Socialist party opposed the deportations. They discussed the form In which measures of protest will be taken In Germany. Trey declared they would continue to protest to the utmost of their powers, although public meetings are impossible under present conditions, and expressed cordial approval of President Vander-velde's Vander-velde's appeal. Informed by the members1 of the evutivc Internationale that unemployment unemploy-ment in Pelcium xras due to the policy of the German government, the German Pocnllist leaders replied that they won Id inquire Into the matter and at the proper prop-er time would bring the matte- before the government If it was possible to raise the question in the relchstasr. The conference then discussed the unnecessary un-necessary hardships imposed by the bel-licerents bel-licerents generally, such as reprisals, bad treatment of war prisoners and Interned civilians. The conference concluded that such v practices should be stopped, and resolved, re-solved, with the concurrence of the Gorman Gor-man representatives, to establish a.t The Haue a non-political subcommittee, in which all the belligerent nations would each have one representative. The committee com-mittee would keep the various proups Informed In-formed of such abuses so that they might take action to abolish them. The conference Indorsed the appeal of M. Vanderveldo and added that they rejected re-jected the "sophisms" with which the German government endeavors to defend the deportations. Cam 111 Huysmans, secretary of the Internationale, told the Associated Press that the deportations are being discontinued discon-tinued in the different provinces, presumably pre-sumably in consequence of strong neutral neu-tral action. M. Huysmans said that Governor General von Blsslns: personally was opposed to the deportations, but that Field Marshal von Hlndenburs had urged them. |