Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-19
KA|SER|SPLAY|NG
AMBIGUOUS GAME
Possible Reasons for Indefinite
Peace Declarations Are
Cited by Socialist.
REvnI IlTInM Is FnRESEEN
REVOLUTION IS FoREsEEN

By the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, October 19.-The key
to the policy of the German government
in refusing, to make any definite state
ment of peace terms is furnished by
Herr Hoch, a socialist member OF the
reichstag. German newspapers report
that the deputy told yesterday how Dr.
Won Bethmann Hollweg. before his re-
tirement as imperial chancellor, de-
clared to the socialist members OF
the reichstag that as chancellor ne
could not commit himself. but must
pull out in the peace negotiations
whatever could be obtained for Ger
many.
Herr Hoch cited this as proof of the
ambiguous game the government Is
playing with its various indefinite
peace declarations.
Uprising Is Predicted.
AMSTERDAM, October 19.-After the
socialist conference at Wurzburg had
adopted the resolution rejecting mo-
tion. to bind the party to vote against
war credits in the reichstag. Herr Hoch.
member Of the reichstag. declared on
behalf Of the Independent %socMiists
that they were in favor of the coun-
try's defense and would only refnse-t
vote for credits as long as the inapeffa1
government failed to promise = the
adoption of the peace demands OF Inc
socialist democrats and to make
changes in the constitution
Herr Hook added that the patience and
strength Of the peoples in all countries
were coming to an end ana mat tne
government ought to understand tnat IN
less peace came within Few weeks rev
olutionary COMMISSIONS Wouu diiSe aohi
the masses.
The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin asserts
that last week Deputies Gustave Strese-
mann. national liberal; Karl Trimborn.
centrist: Friedrich Won Payer. progress
sive, and Friedrich Ebert. socialist, were
charged by their respective parties to
acuuaint Chancellor Michaelis with their
lack of confidence. Herren Stresemann
Trimborn and Ebert were unable to do
this because the chancellor had already
departed for court, and but Herr Won
Payer executed the commission before the
chancellor left. 1t probably was due to
his visit to the chancellor that the re-
port became current that Won Payer might
become vice chancellor.
Sees Attempt to Sow Discord.
A dispatch received here from Berlin
saws that the Prussan herrenhaus
(house Of lords) opened yesterday with
a speech by the president of the cham
her. Count Won Arnim- Boitzenburg, who
referred to President Wilson's reply to
the peace proposal of Pope Benedict as
an attempt to sow discord between the
German emperor and his people. be-
cause, he said. otherwise the entente
would be unable ito fell the German
oak"
The president of the chamber added
that the German people never would
allow Bismarck's gigantic work to be
undone and that it was again the en-
emy who had refused peace except at
the cost of Germany's existence.
The Rheinische Westphalische Zei-
tung, a copy of which has been received
here reveals the simple and practical
solution of Germany's peace terms as
advanced by Matthias ErZberger. mem
Der of the clerical center in the reichs-
tag, namely. that Great Britain and
Germany mutually participate in the
enterprises of the other, each supplying
an equal amount of capital.