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Show GREAT POLITICAL PERTURBATION IN THE REICHSTAG LONDON, Jan. 6. A belated dispatch dis-patch from the correspondent of the Associated Press ' in Berlin, which is dajed Friday, shows that there was great political perturbation following the ineeting of the main committee of tha reichstag that day. The meeting lasted barely forty-five minutes, when a motion for adjournment was supported sup-ported by all factions except the independent inde-pendent Socialists. Immediately on adjournment all the parties entered into caucus sessions, which continued throughout the day and until late at night. The indications pointed, the correspondent says, to an indorsement of tho government's attir tude against moving the peace negotiations nego-tiations from Brest-Litovsk to Stockholm Stock-holm by the Right, Center and Progressive Pro-gressive parties, including the pacifists, the democratic wings of the Nationals, Liberals and Clericals, and the Scheide-mann Scheide-mann wing of the Socialists, but the attitude in general of the Socialists was problematical. The liberal Tageblatt reflects the general attitude of the press in declaring declar-ing that negotiations at Stockholm would be impossible. The newspaper says that British, French and American Ameri-can diplomats and their numerous agents are buzzing about Stockholm, and would promptly weave a net of intrigue in-trigue around the conference and that espionage would flourish, making successful suc-cessful negotiations, impossible. A Renter dispatch from Amsterdam, dated today, says the hitch over Brest-Litovsk Brest-Litovsk is considered to endanger the cohesion of the reichstag majority, but that great efforts are being made to prevent the falling away of the Socialist So-cialist majority. The dispatch refers to the possibility of a new constitution of reichstag parties. The Berlin Vorwaerts, the Socialist organ, refers to the declaration by the chancellor on the endangering of the peace negotiations as having fallen on the spirit of the nation like a black cloud. The newspaper says the situation situa-tion is extraordinarily serious. |