Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-07-20
NEW PEACE OFFER
EERMANY'S NEW CHANCELLOR
/ TO MAKE CONFESSION OF
FAITH" TO PARTY LEADERS.
REICHSTAG NAMES ITS TERMS
Proposed Resolution Advocates Peace
Without Annexation and lndemni-
ties and the Freedom
of Seas.

Copenhagen, July 17.-Count Ulrich
*. Won Bontzau, one of the great aris-
ftocrats Of the empire, and cousin of
Count Won Bernstorff, has been select
ed to succeed DR.. Alfred Zimmerman
las the German foreign secretary. His
selection is tactful offset to the APP
Ipointment of a commOner to the cham
icelorship.
The reichstag, according to Berlin
dispatch, has adjourned, the president,
DIR. johannes Kaempf, being author
lied to summon the body 'as soon as
circumstances allow"
The reichstag's proposed peace reso-
luton, which, according to the Berlin
Tageblatt, a majority Of the bloc of
the center radicals and socialists, de-
cided to introduce unchanged upon the
ireassembling of the reichstag, reads as
follows:
"As on August 4, 1914, soon the
threshold of the fourth year of the war,
the German people stand upon the as
surance Of the speech from the throne,
we are driven by no lust of conquest
Germany took up arms in defense
of the liberty and independence and
for the integrity of its territories. The
reichstag labors for peace and mu-
tual understanding and lasting recon
ciliation among the nations. Forced ac-
quisitions of territory and political,
economic and financial Violations are
incompatible with such peace.
"The reichstag rejects all plans AIM
ing at an economic blockade and the
stirring up of enmity among the peO-
pies after. the war. The freedom OF the
seas must be assured. Only an eco
nomic peace can prepare the ground
for the friendly associations OF the
peoples.
"The reichstag will energetically
promote the creation of international
judicial organization. So long, how
ever, as the enemy governments do
not accept such a peace; so long as
they threaten Germany and her allies
with conquest and violation, the Ger
man people will stand together as one
man, hold out mistaken and fight until
the rights of itself and it's allies to life
and development are secured. The
German QHI1Ou uullou Is uHSOlIquCAo-
Bile.
1.-THE reichstag knows that In this
announcement 1T is at one with the
men who are defending the fatherland
in the heroic struggles they are sure
of the undying thanks Of the whole
people"
Germany's first commoner chancellor,
DR.. George Michaelis, q bureaucrat
without even a noble "Von" before his
name, has as yet given no indication
of his policy regarding reform and
peace. Neither the conservatives nor
the liberals have as yet ventured to
call him their own.
The chancellor's first step, which
might be interpreted as an indication
of an open mind. was to receive repre-
sentatives Of the two divergent groups
in the reichstag and permit them to
explain their respective standpoints,
the chancellor playing the role Of lis
tener.
The German papers unite in charac.
terizations of his energy and fair
mindedness. but are most reserved In
their predictions OF his probable pol
Icy.
The papers aligned for the so-called
German peace are perhaps shade
more enthusiastic about the political
possibilities under the new regime than
the radical and socialist organs.