The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-14
AJSTRIt'S HAND RSISE.D
ON tHANCEiLOR'S BEHALF

Amsterdam July 13--The fine hand
BIZ Austria was seen IN the German
Frisis today It's index finger pointed
10 Chancellor Won Bethmann Hollweg
Is the man o. the hour. voice
ron, Vienna. Anonymous but ~unmts-
akably official. sounded warning that
4 Hoilweg be dropped. disaster would
<nifow
Promptly all Europe was thrown
VITO state of puzzled speculation.
For here was the queerest political
paradox Of the whole war; Only a
week age tha- aes+A-pSa-- telA tfaa+ DR.
Matthias Erzherger. the Centrist lead
Pc IN unlooslnE the storm OF revolt in
he reichstag with HolfweK as the
thief object OF his bitter attacks was
Inspired ny the counsel Of the Aus
brian emperor. whom be had just
Visited, The report went unchalleng
ef until yesterday. Ry that time the
tide had turned And today werf
ZONES from Berlin that Erzherger
himself has changed front, that tho
-entrists arc satisfied TO have Holl-
veg continue as chancellor. under
PERTAIN conditions" but want him dis
Earded before the peace conference
begins.
A Shrcwd Stroke Somewhere.
A deep-iaid intrigue. sprung some
s4ApEe pFtNetfi lFEiI6 rAitt iFtf lAttf
kuccessfull executed in the shrewdest
manner in It's minutest details Is be-
teved 10 hold the answer TO the pug
kle.
Meanwhile today's news from the
3erman capital brought these chief
ievelopmen in the crisis
L. A semi official nessag &c said the
xaiser Is about to issue proclama
ion favoring immediate vote reform
Tor Prussia and for parliamentary gov
ernment for Germany.
2. Apparently authoritative reports
had It the emperor would invite Erz
berger and Philip Scheidemann una
orify Socialist leader) to take minis
erial Offices.
.. The three big partie=--Centr!sts
5ocialists and National Liherals--com-
3ieted their plans for a concerted
arive In tomorrow's full rechstag
bession for immediate electoral reform
Ind declaration of purely defensive
whelming majority.
I. Failing In this drive, the MAJOR
~ IL determined to drive out the pres
Rnt ministry. A coalition government
you'd be the inevitable result
Between the lines of the mass of
contradictory dispatches from the two
reutonic capitals one fact is creep
Ink steauIastIS 10 the lore.
That beneath the whole upheavaI
les the signal effect which President
Wilson'S arraignment of the German
kNtocracy has had upon the German
masses, as reflected by their repre-
kentatives in the reichstag
To Count Czernitz, the Austrian for
kign minister. is attributed the in
spired communication from Vienna In
HE Lokal Anzeiger, saying the dis
nissal of the chancellor would be a
Fatal mistake
II was this same Count Czernitz who
ks the first statesman in the central
EMPIRES adopted President Wilson's
Hogan, peace without victory" modi-
lying 1t later into peace without an
hexation and indemnity.
It has long been an open secret that
khe widest circles In Austria includ-
ing influential personages at the Haps-
burg court-some say, including En-
p{ror Charles--regard the Prussian
Iystem as the sole obstacle to peace.
To this view Vienna has gradually
vwung the Centrist party in Germany.
Dr. Erzberger's bombshell was the re-
built.
America Has Won Great Victory.
To close students OF the situation it
D. therefore, apparent that America
hlready has won the greatest victory
|b{ the war without being al yet actual
" in the fighting.
Not until today did the major part
n. Continued on Second Page.)
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