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Show JCiSIS ASSAIL Herr Hoffman Declares the People Are Starving; Upholds Liebknecht. ' AMSTEBDAM. via London, Feb. 17, 9:25 p. m. A dispatch to the Koel-nischo Koel-nischo Volks Zeitung from Berlin says that yesterday's session of the Prussian Prus-sian diet was featured by attacks on the government by Adolf Hoffman, a Socialist; Herr Lippmann, a Progressive, Progress-ive, and Herr Korfanty, a Polish member. mem-ber. Herr Hoffman, the newspaper says, after attacking the manner in which he alleged the police were repressing the people, said: "The opposition press is defenseless and the people, consequently, cannot learn the truth. What crime has Liebknecht committed that such a brutal bru-tal and infamous judgment should be pronounced against him? (Hoffman was J; ore called to order by the presiding "officer). The working class believes that Liebknecht remains a man of honor. "The people are starving and freezing. freez-ing. Would you deprive them of the last of their rights? Peace is possible if the government will only publish its war aims, which, of course, must humiliate hu-miliate no nation." Referring to the government's promises prom-ises of franchise reforms, Herr Hoffman Hoff-man is quoted as saying: "We do not trust the government's promises. The object in making them is merely to keep the people in hand. For us the old fight must continue against the enemies in our midst.'1 Herr Lippmanrr also complained of the treatment of the common people by the police. Ho declared the existing food regulations were a failure ana that the relations between President von Botocki of the food regulation board and Baron von Schorlemer, the Prussian minister of agriculture, were not good. Herr Korfanty touched on the government's gov-ernment's promises to the Poles, saying, say-ing, the newspaper adds: "The Poles have been deceived many times and now are very cautious. I and the other Polish members are pressed by our constituents to express their disapproval dis-approval of the government." |