The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-07-16
kAISER'S PEACE
TERMS GIVEN TO
THE REICHSTAG
Leaders of Three Parties Fiqht
Seizure of Land and
Trade War.
RONTzAu foreign MINISTER
One of Great Aristocrats of the En-
pre, and Cousin of Count Won
Bernstorff, Named to Sue
ceed DR.. Zimmerman.

Zurich, July 16.-Leading members
OF the Greek colony in Berlin, who ar
| rived here, say the crisis is extreme.
1.-The cause of the crisis" one said,
lies in the exasperation of the masses,
who are hungry. On Tuesday the gov
erning classes lost their mental bal
ance. Talk of the dynasty being in
danger was current
Copenhagen, July 16.-Count Ulrich
X. Won Brockdorff-R one of the
great aristocrats of the empire, and a
cousin of Count Won Bernstorff, has
been selected to succeed DIR. Alfred
Zimmerman as the German foreign
secretary. His selection is tactful off
set to the appointment of commoner
to the chancellorship.
The reichstag, according to a Berlin
dispatch, has adjourned, the president,
DR.. Johannes Kaempf, being author
lied to summon the body "as soon as
circumstances allow"
Favors Peace Program.
The reichstag's proposed peace res
olution, which, according to the Berlin
Tageblatt, majority of the bloc Of the
centerS, radicals and socialists, decided
Friday evening to introduce unchanged
upon the reassembling of the reichstag,
reads as follows:
"As on August 4, 1914, so on 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 its liberty and independence and
for the integrity Of it's territories. The
reichstag labors for peace and a mu-
tual understanding and lasting recon-
cfl1atiOn among the nations. Forced
acquisitions Of territory and political,
economic and financial violations are
incompatible with such a peace
1.-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
economic peace can prepare the ground
for the friendly association of the peo-
pies.
All Germans to Stand Firm.
1.-THE reichstag will energetically
promote the creation of international
juridicial 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
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 nation united is unconquera-
BILE.
"The reichstag knows that in this
announcement it is at one with the
men who are defending the father
land in the heroic struggle they are
sure of the undying thanks Of the
whole people"
When the reichstag meets in plen-
pied Bethmann-Hollweg will challenge
his successor, Doctor Michaelis, to
make a confession of faith in the
name of the empire, which will en-
brace the objects named in the resolu-
ton.
1t is believed that the new chan
cellor already has placed himself on
record as indorsing this platform. In
fact, the theory prevails that he
would not have been named to the
leading post of the empire did he hold
the same views on peace as his prede-
ceSSOr.
Gerniany's first commoner, Chancel-
lOr DIR. George MichaeliS, bureaucrat
without even ''Von" before his name,
has as yet given no indication of his
policy regarding reform and peace.
Neither the conservatives nor the lib
erals have as yet ventured to call him
their own.
Good Listener.
The chancellors first step, which
might be interpreted as an indication
resentatives of the two divergent
groups in the reichstag and permit
them to explain their respective stand
points, the chancellor playing the role
of listener.
The German papers unite in charac-
terization of his energy and fairmind-
edness, but are most reserved in their
predictions of his probable policy.
Russ Seek information.
Mexico City, July 16.-Vladimir