The Yale expositor., 1917-08-02
TEUTONIC ALLIES
READY FOR PEACE
PREMlERS OF GERMANY AND
AUSTRIA DECLARE END OF
STRIFE is DESIRED.
LANSING SOUNDS WAR NOTE
In Speech to Officers Reserve Corps
Secretary Says Military Rule
Must Be Destroyed.

HOhNOh <ASSOiulAb W d DculSI ulS-
patch from Zurich. Matthias Erzberger,
leader of the clerical Catholic in the
German reichstag, declared, IF l could
talk with Lloyd-George, the British
prime minister, or Mr. Balfour, British
foreign secretary, we could in a few
hours reach an understanding which
would enable peace negotiations to
commence"
Herr Erzberger asserts that Mr.
Michaelis is a peace chancellor.
Vienna Ready for Peace.
Vienna, via Copenhagen-Reiter
ing that Austria-Hungary was ready to
accept an honorable peace, but that
the dual monarchy in conjunction with
tremity if the Entente powers declined
to enter negotiations on the basis of
peace by understanding, as recently
outlined by the German imperial chan
cellor and the reichstag, Count OF
tokar Czernin Won Chudenitz, the Aus
tria-Hungarian foreign minister, in an
interview discussed at length peace
possibilities.
The Austrian statesman took occa
sion to reply to the speeach made by
David Lloyd-George in London, July
81, when the British premier charac-
terized the address delivered in the
reichstag by DR.. Michaelis, the Ger
man chancellor, as a sham. The count
said Mr.. Lloyd-George was mistaken
when he represented the reichstag
peace resolution to be "a piece of
bluff"
Asks Entente's Intentions.
1.-THE chancellor and the reichstag,"
the foreign minister said, declared
that Germany was conducting a defeD-
sive war and that the German people
only asked for an honorable peace
by means of an understanding and an
agreement offering the basis for last
ing reconciliation of the nations. The
chancellor and the reichstag solemnly
replied that the German people desired
no forced conquest and abhorred
economic isolation and Indictment to
enmity between nations after the war.
George with the question: What are
we finally to expect from the En-
tente?"
Lansing Says Fight.
Madison Barracks, N. YIN a speech
here before 100 members of the Off
GERS reserve corps, Secretary of State
Robert Lansing. emphasizing the peril
of German Imperialism to the United
States and the world, declared his be-
lief that the German people would not
cast off the yoke of autocracy until
the physical might of the united de-
mocracies of the world had destroyed
forever the evil ambitions of the mill
tary rulers of Germany" That, he
added, is the only way to restore the
peace of the world.
Were every people on earth able
to express their will, there would be
no wars of aggression" he said, "and,
il there were no wars of aggression,
there would be no wars, and lasting
peace would come to this earth. The
only way that people can express
their will is through democratic insti-
tuition. Therefore, when the world is
made safe for democracy, when that
great principle prevails, universal
peace will be an accomplished fact.
Mr.. Lansing sought to drive home
TO the student officers the righteous
ness of the cause for which they had
volunteered to go to France and fight,
asserting that America would win be
cause our cause is the cause of JUS
tice and of right and of humanity"