The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-26
Criticism of Michaelis Grows

Georges s Skeptic1Sm regarding the good faith of Chancellor Michaelis. his 1 doubts whether the latter's reply to the. refchstag resolution really means. what I it pretends to mean. and his belief that the reference of peace professing ! statesmen to the security of frontiers is capable of being extended at will to l cover the absorption of Belgium and any other desired annexations, has re- cedved unexpected Justification and 1 corroboratiom from German sources in 1 the growing frankness of criticism which the defunct Zukunft might envy
 It was declared Tuesday that the chanceilor's speech was ambiguous and i open to the two Interpretations which {. Lloyd Geerse mentioned. It was add ed that the policy of silence as to po- s11itical aims, initiated by ex-Chancellor sven Bethmann Hollweg and continued by r. fAf fch4eiis had laid the German s3361{cy open to the British premier s nftl&srars tfTNds remafkEds that his spfcture of German parliamentarism tzuhder, the Michaelis formula might be distorted, but it contained enSugh :3ruth to serve as warning to the Herman people.
 N The Berlin Tageb1att reprints the full text of Lloyd Georges reply to the ! German chancellor, explaining that this fst Advisable because remarkable er- TOTS of distortion and omission in the sense desired by the German govern 4 sF1ent crept into summaries of earlier 8erlarations from the enemy camp ,<Ehich were supplied by the. semi-of- &ctal Woln News Bureau. The Kreuz- iseitnng, under fire of the radical pa iPerz, slightly modified but did not re- rfa& k x1-- nent's war policy. No official decla- ration was made.
 Replying to greetings from a Pan- German meeting, Admiral Scheer, ', oommander of the fleet, said he hoped the German people, on the thresh old
 of victory, would not disgracefullv trenounce it's future
 f>. A remarkable frank article by the Berlin correspondent of the National Tdende, passed by the Foreign Oface censorship, discusses the seamy side 0f the submarine campaign and the i enect 1t has upon neutrals It is tRenerally. recognized, he says, that the longer the campaign continues the fewer friends Germany will have ffer the war.
 This consfderation, together with Etf1es thought of the many billions which another six months war would cost were the two principal factors which contribute to bringing a ma- Fjority Of the reichstag into line upon bid for immediate peace5 The cor reapondent says now that it is gener. ally admitted that the effect of the B-boat campaign has been. miscal- .Sp1ated, not regarding the amount oi I4Pnnages destroyed, but as to the .-nrfIfreH1 f<1 {, 1xn of foI Tn England The German people are ,sBtill convinced that it will succeed ul-
 timately if enough time is given and they themselvee are able to hold out
 Disregarding the events in Galicia as accidental, the correspondent says
 there can be no question of a big of-
 fensive, owing to a. lack of men, aS
 Field Marshal won Hindenburg has
 frankly admitted. but there is nc
 doubt the front can hold out.
 The correspondent gives as two o1 2, the most striking impressions upor
 his return to BerIin-the disappear. z anGe of children who, have been sent ito the country in thousands, and the ai appea<6nce of a new type of Berltner
 @ lank individual with skin hanging < in folds. who has supplanted the cor.
 puiert German. A few have los less than Is pounds in weight, man,
 more than 30. but they are health,
 and usually improved.
 Another feature is the disappear ance of vegetables owing to tht
 drought Greengrocers display onl! lemons and onions.
 The Politiken reports that a Ger man cattle buyer here has reduced
 byo1 per gent. the prices he. will pa! next. week for cattle to be sent tt
 Germany. A corresponding decline in meat prices here is expected.