The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-07-13
''NAR UNTIL We
VIM = HOLLWEC
Spurns mo Indemnity, No An
nexati0ns" Policy.
ZIMMERMAN REPORTED OUT

Berlin Settling Turmoil of Conflict
ing PoIicies-LittIe of ChanceIlor's
Speech Given out-centrists De-
mand His Resignation - Prussia
Moves for Electoral Reform-WouId
Enlarge Franchise.
ZURICH DR.. Won Bethmann-
Hollweg, German imperial chancellor
regards the formula of peace without
annexations or indemnities as ''impos-
sible and dangerous" He stands pat
upon his refusal to state Germany's
peace terms He backs it with the as
sertion:
Germany must fight to the last
gasp!"
Brief Berlin official statements and
dispatches quoting leading German
newspapers furnished the first insight
into the political turmoil raging in the
empire. They contained brief but sig
nificant resumes of the preliminary
battles fought in the meetings of the
reichstag's main committee Saturday
and Monday. They showed that these
battles were indecisive. Nothing re-
sembling even provisional agree
ment was reached. When the reichstag
met in full session Tuesday the big
parties seemed hopelessly divided and
unequivocally opposed to compromise.
U-Boats and Pan Germanism Attacked
Aside from fragmentary quotations
the chancellor's speech before the
main committee which is being sup
pressed by the German censor, the
most important bit of news revolved
around DR.. Matthias Erzberger, the
centrist leader, who Embossed the
whole storm by his violent attack on
the pro-annexationists and on U-boat
warfare in Saturdays secret session
of the main committee.
The Catholic leader Monday and
Tuesday repeated his utterances. He
asserted the situation demanded inn
mediate and decided action by the
reichstag.
eff the government does not sep
arate itself from the pan-Germanists,"
he threatened, just before the full
reichstag session, "the entire Social
list party and others will rally behind
the opposition
Slowly, bit by bit, more detailed re
ports of what happened in the main
committees star chamber sessions are
filtering through. Herr Won Batocki
the German food controller, was call
ed upon to reply to bitterly pessimis-
tic speech by Socialist deputy
81 admit" said Batocki, that we
were deceived in our hopes in the
spring crops"
The food controller added, however,
that the crop outlook for fall was lex
cellent."
Prussia to Reform Electorate.
Late in the evening the surrender
by the Prussian government to the re
form movement was foreshadowed in
an official bulletin issued from the
Teuton capital. This bulletin an
nounced that the Prussian govern
ment will submit to the Prussian diet
a proposed law granting electoral re-
forms instead of waiting until after
the war. The bill also provides for
universal suffrage and for limited
extension of the rights of the voters.
Zimmerman to Go, Report.
LONDON, ENG. = 1t is reported in
Amsterdam, says the correspondent OF
the Exchange Telegraph company
that the designations of DR.. Karl Helf-
ferich, the German vice chancellor and
secretary of the interior, and DR.. Al
fred Zimmerman, the German secre
tary for foreign affairs, have been de-
cided upon by Emperor William.
Demand HoIlweg's Resignation.
ZURICH Late dispatches
from Berlin state that the German
national liberal party, formerly the
staunchest supporter of the govern
ment, held an executive conference
Monday evening at which it was de
cided unanimously to demand the res
ignation of Chancellor Won Bethmann
Hollweg.
The Berlin bourse was considerably
distressed all day Tuesday on &C
count of the political crisis.
K.;sar HaIle NATURAL Nations