The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-07-31
GIVES VIEW
OF BRITALN'S WAR AIMS
Chancellor Tells Newspaper Men That the Only Sort
Peace Island Empire Desires is the Kind 7hatWM
Mean German Enslavenaent.

Berlin, July 80, via Copenhagen -
DR.. George Michaaelis the German
imperial chancellor, on Saturday sum-
moned a large number of newspaper
men to whom he declared:
"The speech of David Lloyd-George
the British premier, at Queens Hall,
London, and the recnt debates in the
British house of commons again have
proved with indisputable clearness
that Great Britain does not desire
peace by agreement and understand
ing, but only conclusion of the war
which means the enslavment of Ger
many to the arbitrary violence of our
enemies.
"Proof fthis may be seen in the
fact that Sir Edward Carson (member
the British war .cabinet) recently
declared in Dublin that negotiations
with Germany would begin only after
the retirement of German troops be-
yond the Rhine. In response to a
question put by Commoner Joseph
King, A. Bonar Law, the spokesman
of the British government in the house
of commons, modified this declaration
by fixing the standpoint OF the Brit
ish government as being that if Ger
many wanted peace she first OF al
must declare herself willing to evac-
uate the occupied territory.
-. French Plan Known
We possess clear proofs. that the
enemy gives assent to a declaration
going even further than that imp1-
dently made by Sir Edward Carson.
You all know that detailed inforna-
ton regarding the French plans of
conquest, approved by Great Britain
and Russia, has been circulated for
weeks past in the neutral press and
that it has not been denied up to the
present.
eIt would be Of the greatest i'm
portance for the enlightenment of the
whole world regarding the true rea-
SOS for discrimination Of sanguin-
ary massacres of nations for it to be
known that written proofs of our enc
mics greed for conquest have since
fallen into our hands. l refer to re-
ports of the secret debate On June 2
in the French chamber.
"I ask the French government this
question: Does it deny that ex-Premler
BRAND and Premier Ribot in the
course Of that secret sitting, at which
were present deputies Moutet and Co
chin. who had just returned from Pc
trograd, were forced to admit that
France shortly before the Russian
revolution had come to an agreement
having IN view plans Of conquest with
a government which Premier Lloyd
George described in his last speech
as a corrupt and narrow autocracy.
Speaks of Treaty
eff 7 ask if it is true that the French
ambassador at Petrograd, in response
to a request sent by him to sign q
treaty prepared in advance by M.
Doumergue (ex-premier and foreign
minister) after negotiations with the
Russian emperor"
eft is true or not that the French
president at the instance Of Gen.
Betrhelot, head of the French military
mission to Roumania, formally en-
trusted him with a mandate and that
NJ. BRAND afterward sanctioned this
step?
'aThis treaty assured to France her
frontiers, but amended on lines OF
previous wars the conquest of 1870 to
include besides Alsaoe- Lorraine, Saar-
bruecken and vast territorial modifca-
tions OF the left bank Of the Rhine.
Gas desired by France when n
Tereschenka, the Russian foreign min
lister, took Office, the Russian govern
ment protested against the French
aims of conquest, which also included
that Of Syria, and declared that new
Russia no longer would be willing to
take part in the struggle if it learned
of these French war aims.
The Secret Session.
wasn't it the principal object OF
Albert Thomas, member Of the French
war council, on his journey to Russia
4o ovo-oonna this ranrnrca Of Tere-