Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-10
To Decide Fate Of Chancellor.

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Copenhagen, July 10.-Altho it Is
difficult to gain clear impression OF
the political crisis dn Germany from
German papers and dispatches sent
abroad, reichstag leaders were expect
ed to sit this evening in council ON a
declaration Of policy. This, according
to some, would decide the fate Of
Chancellor Won Bethmann-Holweg,
while others declared It would end the
crisis. Il 4,
4 should IN agreement be reached the
4 decisions viii be presented. according
kto the VossiscAe Zeitung. in form
Sallowfng the chancellor to accept them
spr face opposition in the reichstag,
which will vote to adjourn.
krupps Buying Newspapers.
The Hamburg Fremdenblatt, which
kesterday said the entire clerical Party
the relchStag. with the exception Of
rao members, had voted to support
Is stand of HaEr Erxberger, now cor
reefs tho Statemenk saving the clerical
! rarfy ha0- taken no decision.
Bi3 buSlnsss interests under Krupp
lAadership have purchased the Wesser
Zeffnn1 one Of the oldest Bremen
newspaper4 and win make II, like the
recently purchased Lokal Anzeiger, OF
Berlin. an out-and-out pan-German
!. and annexation paper. The same COM
1 pany Is, said to be negotiating for
number Of other radical provincial
newspapers.
Angry At Erzbsrssr.
Altho the German censor has Kept
out Of the newspapers the speech be-
fore the reichstag main committee OF
Matthias Erzberger, leader OF the Cath
olic center party, In which he attacked
the German admiralty and the pan
Germans, an idea Of the nature Of his
references to the German submarine
campaign may be gained from the an
CRY comment Of Count Won ReventloW,
naval expert Of the Tages Zeitung, OF
Berlin.
The count declares that in attempt
ing to end the submarine campaign.
Herr Erzberger and his supporters are
aiming at destruction Of the nations
confidence IN victory which depends so
largely on the submarine, and Of the
prospect Q. . German peace.
Herr ErxbergeTs criticism, in which
Count Won Reventlowt tntimates the
foreign Office sympathizes, has hit
3 tender point in the German sub1na-
rine policy, namely, the failure to pro-
5uca the promised results in hxed time
limits. for, the count says ut would be
grotesque to say to the government
IA committee something as follows:
You Axed the submarine program
for q definite number Of months. This
period has expired You therefore erred
where no error was permissible.
Tl,e count insists that the sole ques-
ton to be answered in weighing de-
cision In the submarine war was
whether Il would have decisive sue
cess within q specified period. That
Herr Erzbergers criticism took this
cpurse Of attack Is shown in statistics
cited to prove that the submarine Is
/ wearing Great Britain down and the
war minister's attempt to show how
tho scampaign was helping the land
campaign.
strong Movement For Peace.
German arriving here last night
frnm Berlin makes the statement that
the purpose of Herr Erzberger, the
Cstholic center party leader, in making
his Sensational speech before the main
committee OF the reichstag on Satur-
day was to secure an abandonment OF
the Notwithstanding &C .cpaisn- as we'll as
the proclamation OF peace program
without annexations or indemnities.
The maj ajority of the reichstag has
! heer, practically formed on the basis of
these demands which It was thought
would align. America and Russia for
peace ana powerfully influence France
! and England. It was said the same ma
jority has been secured for a demand
for the institution or parliamentary
ministry with DR.. Gustav Stresemann,
nationalist, and Philip scheidemann as
candidates for portfolios.
Theodore Wolff, OF the Berliner Tage-
blatt. doubts whether Chancellor Won
Bethman -Hollweg viii fall and wheth-
4 = anything beyond the usual compro-
!. wsH emerge from the present po-
i11co1 crisis IN Germany.
II VIeNssa ksyyto situatisn.
Y I i saly Il Six influential rep-s
ars ~ q che csntrist party Y
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