Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-30
M|CHAE:L|S HOLDS
ALLIES TO BLAME
Imperial Chancellor Says Their
Lust of Conquest" Is Pro-
longing War.
THINKS PROOFS ARE CLEAR
Points to "Conspicuousness of
Justice" of Germany's De-
fensive Conflict.
tBy Associated Press. J


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 understand
Ing. but only a conclusion of the
war which means the enslavement of
Germany to the arbitrary violence OF
our enemies.
SEES PROOF IN SPEECH
OF SIR EDWARD CARSON
Proof Of this may be seen in the
TACT 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
question put by Commoner Joseph
King, A. Bonar Law. spokesman Of the
British government in the House Of
Commons. modified this declaration by
hxing the standpoint of the British
government as being that If Germany
declare herself willing to evacuate the
occupied territories
we possess clear proofs that the
enemy gives assent TO a declaration
going ever further than that. impu-
IDENTIFY made by Sir Edward Carson.
You all know that detailed informa-
tion regarding the French plans of
conquest. approved by Great Britain
and Russia, has been circulated for
weeks past In the neutral press, and
that 1t has not been denied up to III.
present
1t would be of the greatest i'm
portance for the enightment Of the
whole world regarding the true rea-
sons for the continuation of the san
culinary massacre of nations for It TO
be known that written proofs of our
enemies greed for conquest have since
fallen into our hands. l refer TO re-
ports OF the secret debate on June .
In the French Chamber of Deputies.
DECLARES EXISTENCE
OF SECRET TREATY
Il ask the French government this
question: Does II deny that ex-
Premier BRAND and Premier Ribot
in the course of that secret Sit
Moutet and Cochin. who had just re-
turned from Petrograd. were forced to
admit that France. shortly before the
Russian revolution. had como to an
agreement having In view vain plans
/ of conquest with u government which
i Premier Lloyd George described In his
\ last speech corrupt and narrow
4 autocracy'?
III i nrS
l. ambassador at Petrograd. In response
h 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?
as 1t true or not that the French
President. at the instance Of General
Berthelot head OF the French military
mission to Roumania, formally in
! trusted him with a mandate. and that
NJ BRAND afterward sanctioned this
step?
This treaty assured France her
! frontiers but amended on lines of pre-
vious wars the conquest of 1870 to in
clude. besides Alsace Lorraine. Saar-
II. bruecken and vast territorial modifi-
cations on the eft bank of the Rhine.
"As desired by France when NJ.
Tereschenko Uhe Russian Foreign Min
ister) took Office, the Russian govern
ment 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.
NJ. BRAND OBJECT
OF STORMY Alta CKs
Wasn't 1t the principal object of
Albert Thomas lmember of the French
! War CounciD on his journey to Rus
sia, to overcome this remorse of NJ.
Tereschenko? The French government
will not be able to deny all this, and
It will be obliged to confess. although
1t may do so only tacitly. that NJ.
BRAND was the object of stormy at
tacks during the secret session: that
Premier Ribot was Obliged to produce
the secret treaty in response to the
demand of NJ Renaudel Oeader of the
majority Socialists in the French
Chamber), and also that II. BRAND.
in the course Of 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.
"It 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 could
not answer the question in that form.
and that Russia ought to take into
consideration the fact that the Rus
( sian revolution had been purchased by
r.. French blood,
"The admission OF Deputies Cochin
and Moutet that the Russian represen-
tatives had declared in the course of
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