Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-05-03
Movement Denounced as Sham"
and Intended for the Disseminated
Teuton Populace.

V Copenhagen, May s. The speech
which was to have been made in the
reichstag by Or. Won Bethmann
Hollweg, the German imperial chan
cellor, on peace and internal rela-
tons, has been postponed to a more
fitting occasion, according to word
received here.
The situation, as reported in dis
y patch from Berlin, appears to be as
! follows:
At caucus of the majority So
cialists in the reichstag, the group
that supports the policy Of not en-
barrassing the chancellor and the
government, it was decided to defer
an Interpolation that had been pro-
posed regarding Germany's peace
plans until a more suitable occasion.
The Interpolation was to have been
made today.
1t is now expected that debate upon
the political situation, together with
the chancellor's speech, will prob
ably be postponed until the third
reading of the finance measures.
(Authentic news from Germany
has been so meager of late that it is
difficult to Judge what developments
either internal or external, may have
induced the chancellor to alter his re-
ported decision to make another an
nouncement regarding Germany's in
ternational relations and possibly
her definite war aims).
London, May 3.-According to Am
sterdam dispatches considerable i'm
portance is attached to the visits that
Talaat Pasha, the Turkish grand
vizier, is paying the central powers.
Correspondents say that after seeing
Emperor William and Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg at German headquar-
ters he went to Munich and confer
red with King Ludwig and the Bavar-
ian ministers. Later he went to Vien-
ma where he is said to have discussed
the prospects of peace and conces-
sions regarding the Dardanelles with
| Count Czernin, the Austro- Hungarian
foreign minister.
The Turkish premier's visit to Wen
ma at the moment when Count Won
Zeitling, the Bavarian prime minis
ter. was there is considered to be
especially significant.
Washington, May 8. = British,
French and American officials here
Yesterday denounced as "sham" the
reported move for peace by Germany
It was made plain that should such
movement be made along the lines
! followed by. the imperial government
during it's initial request for peace
convention, it would receive scant
consideration by the entente allies
and the United States.
That such movement will be
made within the near future was con-
sidered uncertain here last night. IN
face of the denials by certain Ger
man newspapers of the earlier ber-
lin story that Chancellor Won Beth
ann-Hollweg would reveal Germany's
peace terms in an address in the
Reichstag today, officials here be-
lieved that the Chancellor had chang
ed his plans after learning that no
Imperfect peace" would be consid-
cred by his enemies.
Any expression of desire 1or
peace by Germany at this time would
be insincere, and meant for nome
consumption only, officials belleVeo
yesterday.
"The purpose of the German gov
ernment is to keep the German people
in the belief that the war will last
only little while longer" one Amerl-
can official stated, and continued:
Inc ISIIlltll - A~s>>>
ing the people along by false hopes
of an early ending of the war in much
the same manner that mule might
no coaxed along by walking along in
front of him with straw"
The real reason Germany has new
er publicly recognized that a state
Of war exists with the United State:
IS that the German people would
then recognize that an early peace i;
impossible without the downfall Of
the German autocracy, State Depart
ment officials said yesterday thus d'
officials account for the reported or
der of the German government tina
American citizens still in German
be removed from the list Of enem
aliens.
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