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Show I , TEE KEXHSTC ' Delegates From Non-German Nationalities Clamor for Their Independence. H SEPARATISTS DEFIANT Polish Deputy Declares Time Has Come for German : Rule to End. ' WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 Embold- j cned by the German government's ac- I ccptance of the principles of self-de j termination laid down by President j Wilson, the delegates in the reichstag from non-German nationalities have i begun to clamor for independence. i Sensational scenes in the reichstag j Wednesday, with the Separatists as-. as-. serting themselves defiantly, were de- ', clared in dispatches received here to- ; day based on advices from Berlin. Representing tho Poles of Prussia. I Deputy Stychel claimed the right of ; independence, declaring the time had . (; come to put aside tho favorite Ger-man Ger-man formula "every ground where the German stake was struck is German J ground." H President Wilson, he said, -was hu- inanity's benefactor and was moved H ; by the strongest feeling of justice which lies in men's hearts. German H O Poland ho added, had been brutally ad- I I ministered and the Poles had not'been permitted to become the equal of oth- H er citizens. . This unusual language In the once H subservient German reichstag was im- H j, mediately followed by indications of a H i Danish Separatist movement. Dele- Hl gate Hansen in the name of the Dan- Hj ish population in the name of right H and justice demanded the execution H l of the Prague treaty which promised 1 the people of Schleswig a policy to H ' permit them to decide whether they H -would remain with Germany or return "'j to their former Danish allegiance. H i Then Delegate Rlcklln, representing H j Alsace-Lorraine, created the greatest H 4 sensation by pointing out that accep- H ; tance of the German government of H e Prosident Wilson's fourteen terms H mado tho futuro of Alsace-Lorraine H ' " an international question. He gave H , 1 -warning that the proposed autonomy H was now insufficient, meaning that H "i nothing short of independence or re- H turn to the provinces of France would i meet the case, |