New Britain herald., 1917-10-13
M|CHAELIS TO to.
 IS TALK IN BERLIN Chancellor Expected to Step From
 Office Within a Month BOOM FOR YoN BUELoW
Bethmann- Hollweg's Successor Soon Gets Into Hot Water by Numerous port in Reichstag.

Copenhagen, Oct. 13.-The German Reichstag adjourned leaving behind it a latent crisis which political observ- CTS believe will lead, sooner or later, to the retirement of Dr. Michaelis- the chancellor without 8 following. Although other parties are less &C., lively in opposition to Dr. Michaelis than the socialists, not a voice has been raised against Vorwaerts' slogan, "Michaelis must go.'
 Recent arrivals from Berlin report that current gossip there is that Dr.. Michaelis can scarcely last a month. The chancellor's blunder in spring ing the disclosures of the alleged naval plot against which, according to the National Zeitung, he was strongly advised, and his failure io make headway against the Reichstag majority appear to have lost him the conservative and pan-German sup port. Other parties including even the nationalists are united in open condemnation of his actions concern = ing the naval plot. It is charged that the chancellor showed not only a lamentable lack of political acumen, but his act also resulted in the re- mobilization of the radical socialists to a considerable degree.
 The hindsight of the government regarding the effect of the naval plot disclosures is shown by Vorwaerts in an interesting revelation that the tele- graph was barred to newspaper de- spatches while the authorities were considering in what form the speech es of Michaelis and Admiral von Ca belle could be telegraphed abroad.
 The speeches at the concluding ses- sion of the Reichstag must be read in a light of the expectation that days of Michaelis are numbered. The speech of the radical deputy Hauss- mann contained passages intended to launch the candidacy of Prince von Buelow. which is still being pressed as vigorously as possible.
 Gustav Stresemann of the national liberal party; Count von Westarp of the conservative party and Seigfrid Hecksher of the radical party, all fol- lowers of von Buelow, imm mediate1y rose to defend the former imperial chancellor, whom they had endeav- ored unsuccessfully to have chosen as the successor of von Bethmann- H oll- veg. The candidacy of von Buelov was killed at that time by opposition
 
 then regarded as government party whose support was necessary. Deputy Cries Against Government. Amsterdam, Oct. 13.-During the debate on the censorship in the Reichstag Thursday, says Berlin de- spatch, Deputy Heinrich Mueller, o1 Meiningen, said:
 'The chancellor wants to lead, but we are reminded of the worst times of the old Roman empire of Ger many. We are suffocated under. a heap of official paper prescriptions o1 mock justice, injustice and arbitrari- ness. People sigh: Who will free us 1 from this deluge of evil paper?' Con- fidence is ruined by the manner ir 1 which the state of siege is exercised "Homogenity is lacking in the i'm 1 perial leadership and the higher mili- r tary leadership. The relations be. | tween the general command and the trade unions is becoming worse anG | worse. It is scandal how the pacif. ist leaders are deprived of all theil 1 rights at a time when great conces 1 sions are being made to the govern | ment's pacifism.'
 After a strong criticism of the | methods of the press bureau, tht l speaker continued:
 "It was not lack of men, but O l equipment that was responsible fo
 the outcome of the battle of Marne
 Tt looks as if there were element | in Germany working for an open con | f1ict between the government ant
 parliament"