The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-07-20
J.BOAT FAILURE
BRINGS CRISIS
New Party Claims Submarines Cannot
Bring England to Her Knees and
Wrest Victory From Defeat

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DEVELOPMENTS in the German political
crisis today strikingly bore the theory,
toiG exclusively in these dispatches
Yesterday, that the dominating parrle es
; il the empire want peace this year
before America has thrown the full
pcwer of her strength and resources
| irtc the conflict.
Their two developments were:
l The new party bloc in the reich
stag, Indifferent as to the views and
proposed policies of the new chancel-
lol DIR. Michaelis, proposes to chal-
leDge him upon the conclusion of his
maiden speech Thursday afternoon
to subscribe to the principle OF
! , .'peace without annexations and in
IDENTITIES
9. The centrist party, the predoml'
na ting factor in the whole crisis and
the driving power behind the bloc,
. took occasion today to apologize in its
party organ, Germania, for the recent
attack of it's leader, Dr. Matthias Err
berger, on the submarine campaign.
There is one significant sentence IN
Il is apology which shows beyond all
doubt that one of the main things that
precipitated the whole crisis was the
failure of the U-boats to force Eng
land to her knees" by a specified date
That date is believed to have been
July l. At the time unrestricted
L boat warafre was inausurated It
had the full support of the centrlsts
and of Ezrgerger personally in psIrti-
cular. Nor has there been any marked
decrease of confidence as to the ett1-
cacy of the weapon. The one grie-
vous mistake the naval and military
leaders made, however, was to set
definite period in which they claimed
the submarines would turn the trick.
They asserted the 'U-boatS would
get in their deadly work before Amer
ica could throw her full weight into
the fray. On that claim alone the
advocates of unrestricted subseas
warfare were able to swing their
opponents-including Bethmann-Holl-
weg-into line. 80.
A Failure.
"Our strongest ocensive forces, the
T. boats" says Germania in its a,pol-
cgy, injuries England immeasurably
Nevertheless, no end is to be foreseen
at this moment
That is the grievance at the root OF
the whole opposition. For IN secret
sessions of the reichstag's main CON-
nittee during those fateful ending days
Of January, the party leaders were as
sued that the beginning of England's
end was within measurable, predeter-
mirdable distance once the u-boays
1nleashed.
That promise-and that alone-hnal-
" brushed aside the last vestig;e OF
opposition to war with America.
Hellweg's Fall.
Was the awakening to the fact that
Bethmann-Hollweg allowed himself to
be deceived by this promise-was this
the underlying cause of his fall? More
than one sign points to an affirmative
reply to this uestion. q
Propaganda.
Meanwhile the pan-Germans are
brewing new trouble: They are carry
ing politics into the army. Pamphlets
urging a peace with annexation are
circulated on the fronts. The Social
lists and radicals incensed over this,
hu, determined not to let their oppon-
pelts steal base on them, are planning
to go the junkers one better. the
Rheinische Zeitung goes so far as TO
suggest the formation of a work
mems and soldiers council after Rus
san model" saying if it comes to
rass it will be the conservatives fault
Tremendous danger to the unity and
dis cipline of the army turks behind this
new propaganda.
1t developed today. that the post of
foreign minister, relinquished by Dr.
Zimmerman, is still open. The chief
rivals for the Office are Count Bern
storf-Rentzau and Admirable Won
Hintze. The former, cousin of Count
Bernstorff, is minister at Copenhagen;
the latter was ofrmerly minister at
Peking, later in Mexico and now 10
Christina. The movement in behaif