Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-30
BERLIN AND VIENNA REVIVE
TALK OF HONORABLE" PEACE
Statements Are Issued Simultaneously by
German Imperial Chancellor and Aus
tro-Hungarian Foreign Minister.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 20, via Copenhagen
July 3O.-Dr. Georg Michaelis. the Ger
man imperial chancellor. on Saturday
summoned a large number of newspaper
men to whom he declared:
the British premier. at Queens Hail
London. and the recent debate in the
British house Of commons again have
proved with indisputable clearness that
Great Britain does not desire peace by
agreement and understanding. but only a
conclusion Of the war. which means the
enslavement of Germany to the arbitrary
violence of our enemies.
proof OF this may be seen in the
fact that Sir Edward Carson (member
Of the British war cabinet) recently de-
clared in Dublin that negotiations with
Germany could begin only after the re-
tirement Of German troops beyond the
Rhine. In response to question put
by Comnloner Joseph King. An Bonar Law.
the spokesman of the British government
in the house OF commons. modified this
declaration by fixing the standpoint of
the British government as being that II
must declare herself willing to evacuate
the occupied territories.
French Plans of Conquest"
We possess clear proofs that the
enemy gives assent to a declaration GO
ing even further than that impudently
made by Sir Edward Carson, You ali
know that detailed Information re-
gardinS the French plans of conquest
approved by Great Britain and Russia
has been circulated for weeks past in
the neutral press and that it mas no,
been denied up to the present
ut would be Of the greatest impor-
To-
whole world regarding the true reasons
for the continuation of the sanguinary
massacre of nations for it to be known
that written proofs of our enemies
greed for conquest have since fallen
into our hands. refer to reports of
French chamber Of deputies.
Il ask the French government this
question: Does 1t deny that ex-Premier
BRAND and Premier Ribot. in the course
of that Secret sitting, at which were
present Deputies Moutet and Cochin.
who had just returned from Petrograd.
were forced to admit that France,
shortly before the Russian revolution,
had come to an agreement having in
view vain plans of conquest with a
government, which Premier Lloyd
George described in his last speech as a
corrupt and narrow autocracy?"
Instructed to Sign Treaty.
Il ask If it is true that the French
ambassador at Petrograd. in response
to request sent by him to Paris. re-
ceived instructions to sign a treaty
prepared in advance by II. Dournergue
(ex-premier and foreign minister) after
negotiations with the Russian emperor.
rs 1t true or not that the French
president, at the instance of Gen. Ber-
thelot, head of the French military mis-
sion to Rumania. formally intrusted
him with mandate and that NJ. BRAND
afterward sanctioned this step?
This treaty assured to France her
frontiers. but amended on lines Of
previous wars the conquest of 1870 to
include besides Alsace-Lorraine Saar-
bruecken and vast territorial rnodifica-
tiors on the left bank Of the Rhine.
LAS desired by France. when NJ Tere-
schenko (the Russian foreign minister)
took office. the Russian government
protested against the French aims Of
conquest. which also included that of
Syria, and declared that new Russia no
longer would be willing to take part in
the struggle If it learned of these
French war aims.
wasn't 1t the principal object Of AL
bert Thomas (rnember Of the French
war counciD. an his journey to Russia,
to overcome this remorse of M 1ere-
schenko? The French government will
not be able to deny this. and it will
be obliged to confess. although 1t may
do SO only tacitly. that NJ. BRAND was
the object of stormy attacks during the
secret session: that Premier Ribot was
obliged to produce the secret treaty in
response to the demand of NJ. Renau-
del 1eader OF the majority socialists in
the French chamber). and also that
NJ BRAND. in the course Of the excited
debate which ensued. declared that
revolutionary Russia was obliged to
carry out what imperial Russia had
promised. and that 1t did not matter to
France what was said by the lowest
classes in Russia.
Says Question Was Evaded.
1T is characteristic that Deputy
Moutet. according to his own. state
ment. replied in Russia to the question
whether -Alsace Lorraine was the only
obstacle to peace by saying he would
not answer the question in that form,
and that Russia ought to take into con-
sideration the fact that the Russian
revolution had been purchased by
French blood.
The admission of Deputies Cochin
and Moutet that the Russian repre-
sentatives had declared in the course
of the negotiations that they at
tached no Importance to Constantinople
throws clear light on Russian santi-
ment The delegates from the Rus
san al hi'eS oioo 49, III aSieeiHeHt with
this.
Regardless of this manifest proof
of the revulsion of the Russian people
against a policy Of ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Premier Rfbot refused In the secret
session of the French chamber to UNI
dertake any revision Of the French
war aims, and announced the fact that
Italy also had received guarantees OF
great territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I'm order to divest their ambitions or
the left bank Of the Rhine Of a char.
acter of greed and conquest. he resort
ed to a lawyers trick by arguing the
necessity Of creating buffer state