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Show BENEFICIARIES OF WAR PROFITS ARE SUBJECT OF ATTACK AMSTERDAM, Dec. 0, via London, 1:50 p. m. In the course of a discussion in the Prussian diet qn the question of an increase in the salaries of minor officials, offi-cials, the Socialist Deputy Stroebel, according ac-cording to the Vorwaerts, attacked those who were receiving war profits while the mass of the people were starving. The deputy quoted the cases of minor railway officials who were not only on short commons, but were suffering from hunger, their Income not being sufficient to buy their allotted amount of food. The speaker concluded : "We long for and hope for any peace mediation in the Interest of the official state workers, whose sufferings are increasing in-creasing the longer the war lasts." |