New-York tribune., 1917-07-30
Chancellor Declares Secret
Treaty Was Negotiated
With Ex-Czar
Replies to Speech
Of Lloyd George
Says Deputies Denounced
BRAND for Disgrace
full" Attempt

DR.. Georg Michaelis, the German In
perial Chancellor, on Saturday sum-
moned large number of newspaper
men, to whom he declared:
"The speech of David Lloyd George,
the British Premier, at Queens Hall,
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 enslsvement 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
declared in Dublin that negotiations
with Germany could begin only after
the retirement of German troops be-
yond the Rhine. In response to a ques-
tion put by Commoner Joseph King, A.
Bonar Law, the spokesman Of the Brit
ish government in the House of Com
mons, modified this declaration by Az
ing the standpoint Of the British gov
ernment as being that IL Germany
wanted peace she first Of all must de.
clare herself willing to evacuate the
occupied territories.
Has proofs of Allies Greed"
"We possess clear proofs that the
enemy gives assent to declaration
going even further than that impu-
IDENTIFY made by Sir Edward Carson.
You all know that detailed informa-
zion regarding the French plans Of con.
quest, approved by Great Britain and
Russia, has been circulated for weeks
past in the neutral press, and that IL
has not been denied up to the present.
att would be Of the greatest impor-
tance for the enlightenment Of the
whole world regarding the true rea-
sons for the continuation of the SAN
culinary massacre of nations for IL to
be known that written proofs of our
enemies greed for conquest have since
fallen into our hands. | refer TO re-
ports Of the secret debate on June 2
in the French Chamber Of Deputies.
81 ask the French government this
question: Does IL deny that EXPIRE
mier 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
eh In ha d.
olution had come 20 an agreement hav-
ing in view vain plans of conquest with
a government which Premier Lloyd
George described in his last speech as
a corrupt and narrow autocracy'?
81 ask IL it is true that the French
Ambassador at Petrograd, in response
to a request sent by him to Paris. re-
ceived instructions TO sign a treaty
prepared in advance by NJ. Doumergue
(ex-Premier and Foreign Minister)
after negotiations with the Russian
Emperor?
Sanctioned by BRAND
"Is it true or not that the French
President, at the instance of General
Berthelot, head Of the French military
mission to Rumanis. formally intrust>
ed him with q mandate and that NJ.
BRAND afterward sanctioned this step7
"This' treaty assured 10 France her
frontiers, but amended on lines Of pre-.
vious wars the conquest of 1870 10 in.
clude, besides Alsace-Lorraine. Ssar-
bruecken and vast territorial modif-
cations on the left bank of the Rhine.
"When NJ. Terestehenko (the Russian
Foreign Minister) took Office the Rus
sian 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 IL
it learned of these French war aims.
Wasn't it the principal object Of
Albert Thomas (member of the French
War Council) on his journey 70 Russia
to overcome this remorse of N. Terest-
chenko? The French government will
not be able to deny all this, and il viii
be obliged 70 confess, although IL may
do so only tacitly. that NJ. BRAND was
the object Of stormy attacks during the
secret session; that Premier Ribot was
obliged 20 produce the secret treaty in
response to the demand Of NJ. Renaudel
(leader of tho majority Socialists in
the French Chamber), and also that ".
BRAND, in the course OF an excited de-
OaLe Wh.cn ensuen, CeCldTeu LnhL rtVO-
lutionary Russia was obliged TO carry
out what imperial Russia had promised
and that it did not matter TO France
what was said by the lowest classes in
Russia.
Evaded Reply to Russia
"It is characteristics that Deputy
Moutet, according to his own state
ment, replied in Russia 10 the question
whether Alsace-Lorraine was the only
obstacle to peace by saying he could
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 attached
no Importance TO Constsntinopls
throws clear light on Russian senti-
ment The delegates from the Russian
armies also are in agreement with his.
Regardless OF this manifest proof,
of the revulsion Of the Russian peoples
against a policy Of aggrandizement,
Premier Ribot refused In. the secret
session Of the French Chamber TO an
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