Evening journal., 1916-07-18
TALK OF TRUCE IS
HEARD IN GERMANY
"Frankfurter Zeitung" Says
Soldiers Must Go Home
for Elections
FIVE GENERALS
ARE OUT OF ARMY


1S-The Frankfurter zeitung re-
minds the German Government that
since the present term Of the Reich
stag expires in January, elections
must take place before the final con-
clusion of peace. In view of this the
newspaper suggests that a truce
should be arranged to permit half Of
the German army to return home for
the elections in order that the real
feeling of the nation under the
changed conditions may be ascer-
tanned
While the Frankfort paper is
talking Of a possible truce, the Tae-
gllche Rundschau says the Saxon
Manufacturers Association of Dres-
den, has adopted resolutions TO the
effect that owing to changed condi-.
tions resulting from the war, it will
be necessary to introduce a new in
dependent tariff as a basis for nego-
tiations with the belligerent and neu-
trail countries regarding the renewal
Of the commercial treaties which eS-
pire in 1917.
The Socialist paper Vorwaerts, COM
menting on the Saxon manufacturers
proposals, says that such a step
would be certain to provoke an econ
omic struggle after the war, and that
a mutual concession Of the most ia
vored nation clauses will be one of
the most important features Of the
peace terms.
Emperor William has decided to
pension seven prominent generals
holding important commands in the
Prussian army, according to the Ber-
liner Tageblatt. All the generals
have rendered their designations.
Five of them, Gems. Won Bredow. Won
Wienstkowski, Golkke, Gramer and
Won Buer, will leave the army, and the
other two. Gems. Won Kliest and Krah-
mer, have been assigned to home
commands. The newspapers says no
reason for the retirement Of the Off
GERS has been given.
There has been a steady increase
recently in the peace talk in the Ger
man press This discussion has cen
tered about DR.. Won Bethmann-Holl-
veg the Imperial Chancellor. with an
insistence on the part of the Socialists
and a section of the Liberals that the
Government announce the German
goal in the war and the conditions
under which she would be willing TO
enter peace negotiations.
On this question the German ma
tion is divided into two camps. one of
which headed by the agrarians and
the Conservatives favors a policy OF
annexation which they urge under the
slogans Of "rectifcation Of the east
ern frontier" and safeguarding the
independence of Germany" the form
er having to do with Poland and per
haps Courland and the latter with
Belgium and northern France and
their coal and iron ironlands.
This section Of German opinion
which is antagonistic to the Chan
cellor on the ground that he has not
adopted a sufficiently aggressive pol
icy, is oppose by at least a part OF
the Socialists and radical Liberals,
who condemn the continuance Of the
war for purposes of conquest.
DR.. Stresemann. one of the leaders
of the National Liberal party. writing
recently in the Illustrirte Zeitung
said that after two years of war il
was only natural that the German
people. like other nations. should long
for peace, and added that Germans
military position. with large tracts OF
Russian territory. most of Belgium
and a considerable area of northern
France IN her possession, made II
possible for Germany to speak OF
peace without being suspected OF
weakness.
But It would be childish to suppose
he says, that present trenches were
to be the new frontiers. Nor is this
the wish of the German people. who
he says, are not possessed with
Square kilometer madness." What
the German people want, he says. i:
an honorable and lasting peace New
ertheless, he adds. if. in the opinion
of the military leaders, this can be
achieved only by pushing back ole
frontiers to the. present line Of trench
es, let 1t be so. He also says that the
Russian Baltic province cannot be
returned to Russian and that the
Flemish in Belgium must be defend
ed from French influences, and re-
peats the demand for freedom of the
seas.
The party of which DR.. Stresemanr
is a leader is said to be closely affil.
lated with the Imperial Chancellor.
The English press explains the in
crease in talk of peace terms in Ger
many as due to economic conditions
The Daily Nail. in a recent article
says that the economic collapse o.
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