Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-26 | Page 3 | Would Put off German Yoke

WOULD PUT IFF am yoke Non-Teuton Nationalities Are Loud in Demands for Independence. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.r. Emboldened by the German government's acceptance j of the prlncip'es of self-detex minatlon laid j down by President Wilson, the delegates I In the reichstag from non-German nationalities na-tionalities now have begun to clamor for independence. Sensational scenes in the reichstag Wednesday, with the Separatists asserting themselves defiantly, were described de-scribed in dispatches received here today, to-day, based on advices from Berlin. Representing the Poles of Prussia. Deputy Stychel cla Imed the right of Independence, In-dependence, declaring the time had come to put aside the favorite German formula, for-mula, "every ground where the German stake is struck is German ground." President Wilson, he said, was humanity's human-ity's benefactor and was moved by the strongest feeling of justice which lies in men's hearts. German Poland, be added, had been brutally administered and the Poles had not been permitted to become the equal of other citizens. This unusual language in the or.ee subservient sub-servient German reichstag was immediately immedi-ately followed by indications of a Danish Separatist movement. T 'eleg.'ite Hansen, in the name of tht: Danish population and of right and juatice. demanded the execution exe-cution of the Pri'Rue treaty, which promised prom-ised the people cf S'-hleswig a plebiscite to permit them to decide whether they would remain with Germany or return to their former Danish allegiance. Then Delegate Rlcklin. representing Alsace-Lorraine, created the greatest sensation sen-sation by pointing out that acceptance by the German government of President Wilson's fourteen terms made the future of Alsace-IoYraine an international question. ques-tion. He gave warning that the proposed autonomy was now insufficient, meaning that nothing short of independence or return to the province of France would meet the approval oi the people.