The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-30
SAYS ALLIES FIGHT
VAR or CONQUEST
Chancellor Michaelis Declares Great Brit
ain Does Not Want Peace By
Agreement-H Also Ma
ligns the French.

ligns the French.
Berlin, July 80 tyia Copenhagen DR.
Georg Michaelis, the German imperial
chancellor, on Saturday summoned a
large number Of newspaper men TO whom
he declared;
The speech Of David Lloyd George,
the British premier, at Queens hall, Lon
don, and the recent debate in the British
House of Commons again have proved
with indisputable cearness that Great
Britain does not desire peace by agree,
ment and understanding, but only con-
clusion OF the war which means the en-
slavement of Germany TO the arbitrary
violence of our enemies.
Proof of this may be seen in the fact
that Sir Edward Carson member of the
British war cabinetl recently declared in
| Dublin that negotiations with Germany
could begin only after the retirement of
German troops beyond the Rhine. In re-
Spouse to question put by Commoner
Joseph King, A. Bonar Law, the spokes
man of the British government in the
House of Commons, modified this dec
laration by fixing the standpoint of the
British government as being that If Ger
many wanted peace she first of all must
declare herself willing TO evacuate the
occupied territories.
I'VE possess clear proofs that the en-
envy gives assent to declaration going
even further than that impudently made
by Sir Edward Carson. You all know
that detailed information regarding the
French plans of conquest, approved by
Great Britain and Russia, has been cir
culated for weeks past in the neutral
press and that II has not been denied up
to the present.
at would be Of the greatest impor |
lance for the enlightenment of the whole
world regarding the true reasons for the
continuation of the sanguinary massacre
of nations for it to be known that writ
ten proof of our enemies greed for con- /
quest have since fallen into our hands
refer 10 reports of the secret debate on
June in the French Chamber OF Depu-
ties
IL ask the French government this
questions Does il deny that ex.Premier
BRAND and Premier Ribot in the course
of that secret sitting at which present
Deputies Moutet and Cochin, who bad
Just returned from Petrograd, were
forced to admit that France shortly be-
fore the Russian revolution had come to
an agreement having in view vain plans
Of conquest with a government which
pvayatar I =
last speech as corrupt and narrow
Il ask if it is true that the French am
bassador at Petrograd in response to
request sent by him to Paris received in
to sign a treaty prepared in
advance by NJ. Doumergue Tex premier
md foreign ministerl after negotiations
With the Russian emperorf
lis it true or not that the French
president at the instance Of General c
3erthelot, head Of the French military
mission to Rumania, formally entrusted
lim with a mandate and that M. BRAND
afterwards sanctioned this stepy :
"This treaty assured to France her !
rontiers, but amended on lines of pre- :, !,
'ious wars the conquest of 1870 to in =
lude besides Alsace- Lorraine, Saar-
'rencken and vast territory modifica =
ions on the left bank of the Rhine.
As desired by France when NJ Teres :.
henko 1.-THE Russian foreign minister) :,
ook office the Russian government pro-
ested against the French aims of con I
uest, which also included that of Syria,
nd declared that new Russia no longer
yould be willing TO take part in the !,
truggle if it learned of these French
rar aims.
Wasn't it the principal object Of Al
ert Thomas (member of the French war U
on his journey to Russia to
yercome this remorse of NJ. Tereschen
o? The French government will not be
BILE to deny all this and it will be u
bliged to confess, although it may do "
} only tacitly, that Mr. BRAND was the
bieet of stormy attacks during the Sc IN
.et session; that Premier Ribot was =
bliged TO produce the secret treaty in
,sponse to the demand of NJ. Renaude '
eader of the majority Socialists in the
rench Chamber and also that NJ !,
riand in the course Of the excited de- u
tte which ensued declared that reyo- A
tionary Russia was obliged to carry
1T what imperial Russia had promised s