The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-07-12
KAISER To FIGHT
UNTIL VICTORY
PEACE WITHOUT ANNEXATION
NOT ACCEPTABLE TO GERMANY.
REFUSES TO RESIGN HIS POST
Chancellor Tells Reichstag That ave
Will Win II We Fight on"-says
He Cannot Give Peace
Terms.

Berne, July l1.-Peace without an
nexation is not acceptable to Germany.
Germany can win If she holds out.
Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg
main committee of the reichstag, ac-
cording to the Lokal Anzeiger.
Il consider 1t my duty to remain as
chancellor for the protection of the
fatherland. sr..-
Il cannot give Germany's peace
terms now"
The chancellor's appearance before
the main committee was called forth
by demands of the clericals that he
outline in more detail exactly how the
German government stood on the So
cialists' platform of mo annexations
and no indemnities."
The Lokal Anzeiger did not specify
how the imperial channcellor's speech
was received.
Nothing was further from my in
tention," declared Hollweg, than to
cling to my post, but now 1t Is ques-
ton Of protecting the fatherland from
injury, and for this reason consider
1t necessary to retain my post
Speech Dictated by Kaiser.
London, July 11.-Autocratic Ger
many does not propose to announce
to her people nor to the other nations
of the world the terms on which she
Is willing to make peace.
he H., ii IL,
officials saw in reports of the imperial
chancellor's speech.
That Observation-Disclosures rejection
Of the centrist and demands for free
and detailed outline Of the German
peace aims was dictated by the kaiser
himself, was Indicated in other dis
paches received through other German
channels. The kaiser undoubtedly
determined upon continuance of his
divine right policy at various confer
ences which have been held during
the last few days In Berlin, notably
with Field Marshal Hindenburg and
with the crown council, comprising
the autocratic ring of officials con-
trolling Germany.
Herr Erzberger Assaulted.
The chancellor bitterly assailed the
patriotism of Herr Erzberger, the
Centrist leader, who on Saturday pre-
cipitated the whole political crisis in
Germany by suddenly announcing his
determination not to support the gov
eminent further until Hollweg de-
tailed the empire policy and immedi
ate fulfillment of electoral reform
pledges.
1t is reported in Amsterdam, says
the correspondent of the Exchange
Telegraph company, that the resig-
nations of DIR. Karl Helfferich, the
German vice chancellor and secretary
of the interior, and DIR. Alfred Zim-
hermann, the German secretary for
foreign affairs, have been decided up
on by Emperor William. -r
May Also Gust Admiral.
Copenhagen, July 11.-Reports on
the crisis in Germany are that For
eign Secretary Zimmerman retires
with Admiral Won Capelle, who sue
ceeded Admiral Won Tirpitz as head
of the ministry of marine and that
DIR. Won Bethmann- Hollweg and Lieu
tenant General Won Stein, Prussian
minister of war and state, opposed
vigorously the idea of peace without
annexations and that General Won
Stein read a letter from Field Mar.
shall Won Hindenburg to bolster up the
submarine policy.
Zimmerman to Retire.
Theodor Wolf of the Berliner Tage-
blatt doubts whether Chancellor Won
Bethmann-Hollweg will fall and wheth-
er anything beyond the usual compro-
mise will emerge from the crisis. He
says IL would be curious though not
surprising dispensation il the chancel-
lor should be toppled by attacks d.
rected against submarine warfare and
policy which forced America into
the war after repeatedly risl1ing his
position by persisting in an opposite
course.
Although the German censor has
keptsout of the newspapers the speech
Ttbefore sthe reichstags main committee
of Matthias Erzberger, leader of the
Catholic center party, In which he at
tackled the German admiralty and the
pan-Germans, an idea of the nature Of
his references to the German subma-
rine campaign may be gained from the
angry comment of Count Ernst Won
Reventlow, naval expert of the Tages
Zeitung of Berlin.
The count declares that in attempt
ing to end the submarine campaign
Herr Erzberger and his supporters are
aiming at destruction of the nations
confidence In victory which depends so
largely on the submarine, and of the
prospect Of German peace :