Connecticut western news., 1917-07-19

Boom For Bernstorff as Foreign Secre-
 Urging His Appointment Upon Dr.
 MichaeIis-Four Parties Unite Against
 War to Finish Party.
 Dr. Georg Michaelis, Germany's new chancellor. will face a difficult situa- ton when he makes his first appear ance before the reichstag and an nounces his program. Thus far he has been reticent on his policy and on the names of the men he has selected for secretary of foreign affairs and other important posts.
 Dispatches from Berlin say the ma jority bloc. or combination of four par ties, including the ,Centrists or Catho- lies, plans to present peace terms in resolution to the reichstag and to de- mand from Dr. Mi2haelis statement that he accepts it in principle; other wise cooperation is impossible. Mean while the execution of this plan de- pends upon the extent to which the bloc holds together.
 The Tageblatt, the Mittags Zeitung and the Socialist organ Vorwaerts, all of Berlin, unite in declaring that the candidacy of Admiral von HintZe for foreign minister is 9 move of the su- perannexationists.
 The Tageblatt and Vorwaerts warn Dr. Michaelis that he cannot accept Von HintZe without compromising the administration with a pan-German taint. The Deutsche Tages-Zeitung supports Von Hintze's candidacy.
 Pan- Germans Want Rantzau.
 The selection, of a successor to For eign Secretary Zimmerman is still un- settled. Pressure was being brought from two directions to block, first, the proposed nomination of Count Brock dorff- -Rantzau, the German minister at Copenhagen, and to substitute Admiral von Hintze, minister to Norway, or Count von Bernstorff, former ambas- sador to Washington. -
 The present minister to Christiania is greatly desired by pan-Germans and advocates of superyigorous policy not only on account of his high diplomatic qualifications, but chiefly on account of his antecedents.
 Apparently 1t is felt that a former naval officer particularly one who played such prominent role at Manila in the events of 1898, will offer the necessary guarantee that the German foreign policy in regard to peace nego- tiations will be afterward conducted along desired energetic lines. The em- peror is said to favor Won Hintze.
 Boom For Bernstorff.
 The Bernstorff party, which sprang up since the return of the eX-ambassa- dor, is endeavoring to organize a boom for him. Georg Bernhard, the political writer, enthusiastically recommends Bernstorff to Chancellor Michaelis not only as a capable and experienced dip- lomat, but as person of the necessary caliber and qualifications whom the chancellor will need as coadjutor and adviser in the coming peace negotia- tions.
 In lengthy apology published by the Catholic Center party of Germany for the action of Deputy Matthias Erzber- ger in attacking the pan-Germans and the submarine campaign the following occurs:
 "Certainly our fronts stand unshak- able Our strongest offensive force, the U-boats, injures England immeas- urably. Nevertheless no end is to be foreseen at this moment. Hope had arisen that the end of the war might be brought about by midsummer through the U-boats.
 lions vuara opo,,coJ x.yb;oh were not realized. This statement, however. implies no doubt in the eff ciency of the U-boats. It has occurred to no one to suggest the stoppage of submarine warfare"