The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-07-11
GERMANY TOWAR
TO THE FINISH.
SAYS HOLLWEG
Chancellor Declares That KaiS-
er's Plan Is to Fight Until
Victory.
NO PEACE WITHOUT LAND
Declares 1--WE VIII Win il We Hold
Out"-Refuses to Announce Peace
Terms-Zimmermann and Hell
ferich Must Quit Cabinet.

Berne, July 11.-Peace without an
neXation is not acceptable to Germany.
Germany can win if she holds out.
Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg
so declared in a speech before the
main committee of the reichstag, ac-
cOrding to the LOkal AIzeiger.
Il consider it my duty to remain as
chancellor for the protection of the
fatherland.
Il cannot give Germany's peace
terms now."
The chancellOr'S appearance before
the main committee was called forth
by demands of the clericals that he
outline in more detail exactly how the
German government stood on the So
cialists' platform of mo annexations
and no indemnities."
The Lokal Anzeiger did not specify
how the imperial channcellOr's speech
was received.
Nothing was further from my in
tention.' declared Hollweg than to
cling to my post, but now it is Ques-
tiOn of protecting the fatherland from
injury, and for this reason / consider
1t necessary to retain my post"
Speech Dictated by Kaiser.
London, July 11.-Autocratic Ger
many does not propose to announce
to her people nor to the other nations
of the world the terms on which she
is willing to make peace.
That was the point which British
officials saw in reports of the imperial
chancellor's speech.
That Bethmann-Hollweg's rejection
of the centrist and demands for free
and detailed outline of the German
peace aims was dictated by the kaiser
himself, was indicated in other dis
paches received through other German
channels. The kaiser undoubtedly
determined upon continuance of his
divine right policy at various confer
enceS which have been held during
the last few days in Berlin, notably
with Field Marshal Hindenburg, and
with the crown council, comprising
the autOcratic ring of officials con-
trolling Germany.
The chancellor bitterly assailed the
patriotism of Herr Erzberger, the
centrist leader, who on Saturday pre-
cipitated the whole political crisis in
Germany by suddenly announcing his
determination not to support the gov
ernment further until HOllWeg de-
tailed the empire policy and immedi-
ate fuihllment of electoral reform
pledges.
May Also Gust Admiral.
Copenhagen, July 11.-Reports on
the crisis in Germany are that For
eign Secretary zimmerman retires
with Admiral Won Capelle, who suc-
ceeded Admiral Won Tirpitz as head
of the ministry of marine and that
DR.. Won BethmannHollweg and Lieu
tenant General Won Stein, Prussian
minister of war and state, opposed
vigorously the idea of peace without
anneXations and that General Won
Stein read a letter from Field Mar
shal Won Hindenburg to bolster up the
submarine policy.
VIII Let Aids Resign.
Amsterdam, July Herman I'm
perial Chancellor Won Bethmann-Holl-
veg, says the Koelnische Volks Zei-
tung, promised the reichstag that he
would consent to the resignation from
the cabinet of Foreign Minister Zim-
mermann and DIR. Karl Helfferich, sec
retary of the interior and vice chan
cellOr. In addition five members of
the Prussian cabinet will be asked to
resign.
Radicals Back Hollweg.
Copenhagen, July 11.-According to
the Tageblatt, the crown council held
In Berlin showed that the imperial
chancellor, DIR. Won Bethmann-Holl-
veg, possesses the emperOr'S complete
confidence The emperor. after the ad-
journment of the council, conferred
with the chancellor until midnight.
DR.. Won Bethmann-Hollwegs posi-
ton, the paper adds. seems also to be
more secure with the political parties.
The Radicals are said to be standing
by the chancellor, while the Center
Socialists attach no importance to q
mere change of person and not of sys-
TEN.
Political circles believe that the mat-
4nRs nvld in