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Show PEACE DEBATE IN REICHSTAG Alsace-Lorraine Only Bar to Negotiations Germany Would Give Up Belgium. WILL NOT DISARM Great Damage Done German Cause by Von Luxburg Activities Ac-tivities in Argentina. AMSTERDAM, OcL 11. During the debate in the reichstag yesterday, Deputy Dep-uty Conrad Hausmann said that the declaration of Dr. von Kuehlraann, the foreign secretary that apart from Alsace-Lorraine there is no absolute bar to peace was tantamount to a definite understanding that Belgium should bo given up. "That should be heralded forth to all the nations," the deputy added. Gustav Stresemann, a National Liberal, Lib-eral, said he would not oppose a reduction re-duction of armaments, but he thought that disarmament hardly was practical practi-cal politics. Count von Westarp, a Conservative, thought that Germany's answer to the pope ought to have made clear that Germany would not undertake to disarm, dis-arm, and hoped that von Kuehlmann had not tied himself to yielding up Belgium. Georg Ledebour, Social Democrat leader, dwelt on the damage done to the Gorman cause by the revelations concerning von Luxburg, the German minister to Argentina. Ho considered that the populations of occupied territory ter-ritory should be permitted to decide their own fate. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 11. Tho relchstag relchs-tag probably will take a decisive step forward in regard to the question of Alsace-Lorraine within aJ few days, the Vossische Zeitung says. The reichstag reichs-tag majority supports the idea of the .formation of a monarchical federal state with democratic and parliamentary parliamen-tary guarantees. The newspaper believes be-lieves that this plan is favored yb tho imperial government, which has abandoned aban-doned the scheme of diving Alsace-Lorraine Alsace-Lorraine between Prussia and Bavaria. |