Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-09
BLAME HOLLWEG
FOR FAILURE OF
Big CAMPAIGNS
Pan. Germans Boldly Lay Re.
sponsibility for Loss of
Battle of Marne at
Door of Chancellor.
CHANCES THROWN AWAY
Tages Zeitung Says His 0ppo-
sition Delayed the subsea
Campaign a Year.
MOT LIKE BISMARCK

Copenhagen, May S.-(Via London.)
The conservatives and Pan-Ger-
mans have now brought up their
heavy artillery in the battle against
Chan :ellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg
and boldly lay the blame for the long
duration Of the war at his door.
The conservative Deutsche Tages
Zeitung explains that three or four
days delay in German mobilization at
the outset of the war. due to the
chancellor's hesitant policy, caused
the loss OF the battle of tae Marne.
The, paper holds that the troops
that were detached to stem the Rus
sian invasion of East Prussia would
have been sufficient to change the de-
feat of General Won Kluck's army into
a victory, and that in that case the
war would have ended n speedy and
decisive German triumph.
'y Second Chance Lost.
The Tages Zeitung goes on to de-
clare that the chancellor threw away
second chance of terminating the
war by opposing ruthless submarine
warfare. It cites Field Marshal Con-
rad Won Hoetzendorf. Austrian COM
mander-in-chief, as saying recently:
"The war would have been over
long ago if the submarine campaign
had begun year earlier."'
The Pa. Germans and annexation
lists are also .omparing the chancel-
lor to Bismarck and demanding his
retirement because he does not meas
ure up to Germany's "iron man."
The agitation for the downfall of
Won Bethmann-Hollwes is uncon-
cealed in press and parliament and is
reinforced by mass meetings or
ganized by>imperialist leagues and the
independent committee for German
peace. 7. bitterness increa.es as
the chances grow for reform OF
political conditions in Germany. i
The chancellor's opponents couple
their attacks with far from fattering
remarks aboLt II. ro-Hungarian
government for its declarations in
favor of moderate peace.
Hungariaps Fight TIA.
The Hungarian opposition leaders
have announced their intention to
wage sharp war against Count Tisza
and will not desist until the premier's
retirement is forced, accordin to a
dispatch from Vienna. They will
e. entually resort to a parliamentary
strike it necessary. O..
Emperor Charles, accompanied by
the Austrian premier, has ,mbarked
on tour of Galicia, to which consid-
cradle political importance is attrib-
uted. The plan to give Galicia spe-
cial autonomot ~osition in the en-
pire, incidentally killing the Polish
strength in the Austria parliament and
giving the German parties working
control, has been dropped and the
emperor and premier are endeavoring
TO find some other solution.
Must Fight for Peace.
London, May S.-A Copenhagen
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company, says that in the Reichstag
yesterday DR.. Karl Helfferich, the
German wise chancellor, spoke of the
peace necessary for the German peo-
pie, adding;
1--WE are not yet able to obtain it.
We must still fight for it"
Time to State Terms.
Amsterdam, May 8.-(Via London)
In referring to the Russian govern
nent's explanation of its war aims,
the Berlin socialist newspaper. Vor-
waerts, insists that Chancellor Won
Bethmann-Hollweg has no reason to
postpone a definite statement of Ger
many's aims in the war and asks what
the chancellor is waiting for.
"If frank. bold statement is made
in the sense OF the Russian peace for
muIa II saws "Russia Germanv and