Evening star., 1917-10-18
PRINCE Won BUE[0W
MAY GET OLD POST
Believed He Will Succeed Mi
chaeIis-ChanceIIor Strives
to Save Self.
WOULD GUST HELFFERICH

AMSTERDAM, October 1s.-Prince
Won Buelow, the former imperial chan
cellor, has returned to Berlin, according
to the Lokal Anzeiger. 1t is generally
believed, the newspaper adds, that he
will be offered his old post as successor
to DR.. Michaeis.
With a view to saving what the news
paper calls his sinking chancellorship."
DR.. Michaelis, the imperial German
chancellor, according to the Boersen
Zeitung of Berlin. offered Friedrich Won
Payer the post OF vice chancellor held
by Dr. Karl Helfferich. The newspaper
adds that Won Payer. who is progress
sive member of the reichstag, declined
to accept the portfolio.
Offer Is Confirmed.
COPENHAGEN. October 1s.-The re-
port that DIR. Michaelis. the imperial
German chancellor, has offered Fried
rich Won Payer the post of vice chan
cellor held by DR.. Karl Helfferich. is
confirmed by the clerical Germania and
the radical Tageblatt. The offer would
throw overheard Helfferich as well as
Admiral Won Capelle. the minister OF
marine, in order to save the situation.
1t was made after the disclosures OF
mutiny in the German navy and after
Dr. Michaelis had succeeded in coaxin&
from the reichstag the salary for the
post which the unpopular Helferich was
then expected to MI.
News of these overtures to the radi-
tNHo n1y
in his parliamentary troubles. Ger
mania, speaking for the powerful cleri-
cal party says that the naval ana1rs
have convinced parliamentary circles
that Michaelis lacks the requisite po-
litical Judgment and must be replaced
by an adroit politician and diplomat.
Change Deemed Inevitable.
A solution of the crisis is expected
soon after the return of Emperor Will
liam from Constantinople. The rage
blatt says opinion is virtually nhahl-
nous in political circles that a quick
change of chancellors is inevitable. The
Vorwaerts. organ of the German So
cialists, declares that even the sacrl-
fee of a second subordinate in Dr.
Helnerich, following the displacement
of Admiral Won Capelle, cannot anect
its views that DR.. Michaelis Is an I'M
possibility as chancellor.
The conservative organs manifest DIS
pleasure at this appeal to the radicals:
The Tages Zeitung says 1t cannot fall
to impair the prestige of the govern
ment.
Socialist Union Unlikely.
The proceedings of the convention of
German socialists at Wurzburg reveal
light prospects that the two branches 8
of the party will be united. Professions
of desire to establish party unity are
profuse, but almost always are accom-
panied by scolding OF the opposite side
and are based on the assumption that
onciliation would be possible only
by the submission Of one wing to the
dictates of the other.
At Yesterdays session Hermann Muel-
ler of the executive committee said
Alsace-Lorraine under no circumstances
could be made a subject Of discussion
in the peace negotiations. and that
these provinces could be wrested only
from a completely defeated Germany.
DR.. Eduard David. reichstag member,
declared the war could not be ended
by submarines. Germany had not been
spared a fourth war winter through
the operation of the Uboat, he said
and would not be able to force peace
upon England in a few months. as the
pan Germans claimed, or even In one
or two years.
Franchise Reform Delayed.
The Prussian diet reassembled yes
terday to be met by the news that
the franchise reform bill. which the
emperor ordered submitted In time SO
that new elections could be held under
the new system. probably would not
be ready before December. At best
only the formal first reading is expect
ed before Christmas. and there is little
chance that the debates can be con-
cluded before the terms of the present
members of the diet expire.
The Germania says that the delay is
due to the complicated studies con-
nected with the reforms Of the upper
house and the reshaping of election
districts. The actual change in the
franchise rights has presented few diff
iculties
The majority parties in the diet.
which are opposed to the idea Of sui
cidal" reform. are delighted at the de-
Law Herr Free of the conservative
party declared yesterday that there
was opposition in Prussia to the reichs-
tag franchise.