The evening world., 1917-05-08
WE MUST FIGHT
FOR PEACE" " SAYS
RE|CHSTAG LEADER
Vice Chancellor's Statement as
Talk Against Autocracy
Grows In Germany.

CoPENHAGEN, May s.-"we are
unable yet to obtain the peace neces-
sary TO the German people: we must
fight for IT," declared Vice Chancellor
Karl Helfferlch in Reichstag speech
to-day. scoring the radical peace
movement.
THE peace desired by the extreme
liberals would not mean bread-but
hunger: not liberty-but suppress
sion," he declared. according to Bor-
lin dispatches.
The German Government started
peace talk for its own ends. but now
it Is confronted with a decidedly
growing movement among It's people
for peace which 1t is taking measures
I TO repress.
Private advlces received from Ger
many to-day showed this new de-
velopment In the German Govern
ment's peace plotting" They de-
tailed an empire-wide hunt for
peace spies" The hunt has been
transferred from the civil authori-
! ties and placed in the hands OF the
! military Government, with rewards
offered for arrests OF peace prOpa-
gandlsts.
The German Government appears
determined II there is any peace talk
it must be the government and not
the German people who do the talk
ing. In tho meanwhile the people OF
the German provinces especially are
puzzled to understand why IL Eng
land is as nearly broken and defeated
as the Government claims she is
still making war and not hearkening
to peace feelers.
The result has been, according TO
advices here, that a formidable wave
OF dissatisfaction against the Ger
man autocracy is sweeping over Ger
many.
AMSTERDAM, May e.-German
imperial Chancellor Won Bethmann
Hollweg has postponed his adver-
tised peace address 'in anticipation
OF events soon which will facilitate
his task" according to an explana-
ton printed to-day in the Berlin
Lokal Anzeigcr. The newspaper In
this connection reports ''rumors OF m
agreeable political event as being
imminent which II Is hoped will not
mlscarry"
COPENHAGEN. May 8. (via
LondOn). The Conservatives and
Pan Germans have now brought VI
their heavy artillery In tho BATH,
against Won Bethmann Hollweg and
boldly lay the blame for the Ions
duration OF the war at his door. Tn,
conservative Deutscho Tages ZeitunL
explains that three or four days delay
in German mobilization at the outse
OF the war, due TO the Chancellor
, hcsitant policy. caused the loss o
, the battle OF the Marne.
The paper holds that the troop,
that were detached to stem the Rus
sian invasion of East Prussia woult
have been sufficient TO change tn
defeat OF Gen. Won Kluck's army int,
victory and that In that case tn
war would have ended In a speed
and decisive German triumph.
The Tages Zeitung goes on TO de
= clare that the Chancellor threw ava
y a second chance of terminating tn
i war by opposing ruthless submarin
warfare. II cites Field Marshal Con
= rad Won Hoetzendorf. Austrian Com
y mander In Chief, as saying recently
j. "The war would have been over lon
ago If the submarine campaign ha
begun a year earlier"
The agitation FOR the downfall
Won Bethmann Hollweg is uncor
J. cealed In press and parliament and
\ reinforced by mass meetings ol
q. gauized by imperialist leagues an
}. the Independent committee for
, German peace.
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