Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-10
Peace Without Annexations
Unacceptable, Claims Ger
man Imperial Chancellor.
EMPEROR IS BACKING
Won BETHMANN HOLLWEG
Erzberger Said to Have Conferred
With Austrian Ruler Before Pre-
cipitating Latest Ber-
lin Crisis.

BY the Associated Press
BERN, Switzerland, July 10
According to Berlin newspapers
the German chancellor. DR.. Won
Bethmann Hollweg, said to mem
bers of the reichstag: 4 re-
peat that the formula of peace
without annexations is unaccept-
able to us. We cannot declare
our terms of peace. We must
fight and conquer"
LONDON, July 10.-It is reported in
Amsterdam, says one correspondent of
the Exchange Telegraph Company, that
the resignation of DR.. Karl Helfferich,
the German vice chancellor and secre-
tary or the interior, and DIR. Alfred Zim-
mermann, the German secretary for
foreign affairs, have been decided upon
by Emperor William.
Sitting in Judgment. :
COPENHAGEN, July 1o.-Althoueh ~
is difficult to gain clear impression of
conflicting accounts in German papers
and dispatches seat abroad. reichstag
leaders were expected to be. sitting this
afternoon or evening in council upon a
declaration of policy. This. according to
some. would decide the fate of Cham
cellor Won Bethmann Hollweg and the
present governmental system, while
others declare it would end the whole
crisis. The party leaders were con-
cerned chiefly with the question of the
chancellor's position. Those for or
against new blood in the ministry and
change in the political system ard
questions of submarine policy and peace
conditions were given only secondary
consideration.
Should the party leaders in conferences
wherein only radical socialists andreo
servatfvess were not represented, reach
an agreement the decisions will be
presented, according to the Vossische
Zeitung, in the form of leaving the
chancellor the alternative of accepting
them or facing rebellion in the reich
stag, which will vote to adjourn If it
finds cooperation with the chancellor
impossible.
Radical Party Wavering.
The radical party, according to tho
Vossische Zeitung, is wavering on the
question of forcing change. fearing
that DR.. Won Bethmann Hollweg's sue
cessor. If one were chosen, might be
worse than the present chancellor.
The Hamburg Fremdenblatt, which
yesterday said that the entire cleri-
cal party in the reicnstag with the
exception ofNthree members, had voted
to support the stand of Herr Erzberger,
now corrects its previous announce
ment regarding the clericals' vote, say.
Ing the party has taken no decision.
Doubts Chancellor's Fall.
Theodor Wolff of the Berliner Taee.
blatt doubts whether Chancellor Won
Bethmann Hollweg will fall and wheth-
er anything beyond the usual COM
promise will emerge from the crisis. He
says it would be curious. though not
surprising diSpensation, IL the chan
cellor should be toppled by attacks
directed against submarine warfare
and policy which forced America into
the war after repeatedly risking his
position by persisting in an opposite
course.
Reports on the crisis are that For
eign Secretary Zimmerman retired
with Admiral Won Capelle, who sue
ceeded Admiral Won Tirpitz as head
of the ministry of marine. and that
DIR. Won Bethmann Hollweg and Lieut..
Gen. Won Stein, Prussian minister of
war and state. opposed vigorously the
idea of peace without annexations. and
that Gen. Won Stein read a letter from
ster up the submarine policy.
Discussion before the reichstag main
committee, in the course of which the
chancellor again spoke, adjourned to
Tuesday morning.
Kaiser Upholds Chancellor.
A sharply censored Berlin special dis
patch says that the emperor expressed
confidence in the imperial chancellor
and approved DIR. Won Bethmann Holl-
weg's course in opposing the reichstag
demand to commit Germany to peace
without annexations or indemnities.
The Berlin Tageblatt says that the
all-day conferences of the reichstag
middle parties and moderate socialists
brought the parties near to an agree
ment regarding the questions of peace
terms and internal reforms.
The German imperial chancellor, DIR.
Won Bethmann Hollweg, had another
with Emperor William yes
terday. 4
Would End U-Boat War.
A German arriving here last night
from Berlin makes the statement that
the purpose of Herr Erzberger, the
Catholic 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 submarine campaign as well as the
proclamation of a peace program with
out annexations or indemnities
The majority in the reichstag has been
practically formed on the basis of these
demands which 1t was thought would
align America and Russia for peace and
powerfully influence France and England.
It was said the same majority has been
secured for demand for the institution
If a parliamentary ministry with Dr.
Gustav Stresemann, nationalist and
9hilipp Scheidemann as candidates for
portfolios.
Sees Blow at Confidence.
Angry comment by Count Ernst Won
3eventlow, naval expert of the Tages
Leitung, on the attacks of Matthies Err
berger on pan-Germanism and the Ger
nan admiralty, throws some light upon
he nature of Herr Erzbergers references
O the submarine campaign which the
censorship attempted to keep out Of the
,apers. Count Won Reventlow declared
Herr Erzberger and his supporters in the
Catholic center party Of the reichstag
we're aiming to destroy with the subma-
inc war also the nations confidence in
ictory and the prospect of German peace
Herr ErzberRer's criticisms in which 4