Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-20
GERMANY Is READY TOQUIT
WHEN AN ''HONORABLE' PEACE
COMES, SAYS new CHANCELLOR

says Georg Michaelis
Subs and Kaisers Fleet to
( Bring German Victory
!, The Reichstag Passes
Peace Resolutions.
Copenhagen, July 20, - The new
5ernan chancellor, Georg Michaelis
s his speech in the reichstag yester-
lay said Germany would not continue
var a day longer fit could obtain an
peace.
Americas intervention, he said, was
lot regarded with serious concern.
The German fleet, particularly the
would master the sttua.
ion he said. u
The reichstag adopted the majority
,eace resolution by vote of 214 to 116
DR.. Michaelis opened his reich
8 stag speech with a hearty tribute
to DR.. vOn Bethmann Hol1weg, tho
retiring imperial chancellor,
whose work, he said, history
e,'N-' A1',As. -,
He, declared his adhesion 10
t9ermany's submarine campaign
I. asserting At to be lawful meas
Ire, jnstiflably adopted and adapt
!, ed for shortening the war. s
ts The chancellor declared that
the war was forced upon unwill-
ing Germany by the Russian mo-
q biiizatiOn and that the submarine
war was also forced upon Ger
+ many by Great Britain's Illegal
4 blockade starvation war.
y The faint hope that America at
4 the head Of the neutrals would
4 check Great Britain's illegality
1 was vain: Germany's final at
tempt to avoid the extremity by o
! peace offer failed and the sub
marine campaign was adopted,
'SS said the chancellO s4sS 4 .5 s,s5 eg -
{ The submarines, stlles speaker
4 continued, had done all that had
{ been expected and that false pro-
phets VINO tnah prelcteu tne emu
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Central Powrs Must Fight On.
HI Copenhagen, July 20.-On the oc
casion Of his acceptance OF the Ger
man chancellorship, says a Wienn
dispatch, Dr.. Michaelis sent a messag
to Count Czernin, the Austro- Hungar
ian foreign minister, declaring that h
regarded it as his chief and inviolabl
duty to preserve the previous inherit
ance Of the closest and most loyal con
that Austria Hungary and German
would be victorious and that the wa
would secure for the heroic peoples
happy and bright future.
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Amsterdam, July 20.-The Berli
Tageb1att says the committee Of tn
majority parties in the German reich
stag have unanim ously decided
move the peace resolution. Previous
" the committee was divided, tw
mem bers Of the Center and one Lii
ieral disagreeing with the 1majorit.
The resolution which was adopte,
214 to 116, is as follows.
Y Y q u II. M III. 81 . 81 .s J s
AS on Aug. 1914, SO on the
39S threshold Of the gfourth year OF
the war. the German people stand
upon the assurance OF the speech
from the throneWea are driven
& by no lust of conquest si
Germany took up arms In de-
Tense Of its diberty and yindepend-
ence and for the integrity oI IT'S
territories. The reichstag iapors
for peace and a. mutual under
standing and lasting iliatton
among the nations. Forced ac-
quisitions Of territory and politi-;;