from Soc.-Dem.), and that they will demand a struggle for a free Prussia and a struggle for the ending of the mass murder of the people. ("Bravo!" from the Soc.-Dem.) LIEBKNECHT CALLED TO ARMY SERVICE On March 23, 1915, Liebknecht was ordered to place himself at the disposal of the German military authorities. From this day on he was under military law as a member of a Landsturm regiment. LIEBKNECHT QUESTIONS THE GOVERNMENT Beginning with August 20, 1915, Liebknecht began putting his questions in the Reichstag which so much embarrassed the German Government. In England this form of parliamentary control of the Government is very common. In Germany this form is very seldom used. The possibility of putting supplementary questions gives this method a particularly great usefulness where there is so little parliamentary criticism as in Germany. REICHSTAG MEETING, AUG. 20, 1915, 2 P. M. At the table of the Federal Government are present: Ministers Delbrueck, Helfferich, and Lisco. The first order of business is a question by Dr. Karl Liebknecht. DR. KARL LIEBKNECHT: (reads his question amid great commotion in the House) "Is the Government, in case of corresponding readiness of the other belligerents, ready, on the basis of the renunciation of annexations of every kind, to enter into immediate peace negotiations?" SECRETARY OF STATE V. JAGOW: "I believe I shall meet the wishes of the great majority of the House if I decline to answer the question of the member, Dr. Liebknecht, at the present time as inopportune." (Great applause, especially at the right side of the House.) DR. K. LIEBKNECHT: "That is concealing the capitalistic policy of conquest (great uproar). The answer of the Secretary of State is a confession of a policy of annexation (repeated great uproar). The people want peace" (continual uproar and laughter). REICHSTAG MEETING, DEC. 15, 1915 The energy which Liebknecht displayed at this meeting was remarkable considering that he had not completely recovered from the injury which he had received in October, 1915, at the front. Twenty-third meeting of the Reichstag, Dec. 14, 1915, 2 P. M. Present at the Federal Council table: Ministers v. Jagow and Helfferich. The first point on the order of the day--Questions by Dr. K. Liebknecht (Soc.-Dem.). DR. K. LIEBKNECHT: FIRST QUESTION (I-a) Is the Government prepared, if the other belligerents are also ready and prepared, to enter peace negotiations on the basis of the renunciation of annexations? This question I withdraw since on Thursday, Dec. 9, 1915 (Liebknecht refers here to Bethman-Hollweg's speech in the Reichstag on Dec. 9, 1915, in which the Imperial Chancellor answered the majority Socialist's peace interpellation. _S. Z._), the Imperial Chancellor answered this question in the negative. The Government wants a war of conquest, not peace! (I-b) On what other basis is the Government ready to enter immediately upon peace negotiations?