Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-07-13
KAISER TO FIGHT
UNTIL VICTORY,
SAYS HOLLWEG
Peace Without annexation Not
Acceptable TO Germany.
REFUSES TO RESIGN POST
Chancellor Tells Reichstag That I'VE
Will Win if We Fight on"--Says
He Cannot Give Peace
Terms.

BeFue, July H. EeaCe without an
.nexauon is not acceptable 10 Germany.
Germany can win if she holds out.
Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg
so declared in a speech before the
main committee OF the reichstag, &C
tcor6ing 10 she Lokal Anzeiger
Il consider ii my duty to remain as
chancellor for the protection cf the
fatherland.
4 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 no 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 HoIlweg, than TO
cling To my post. but now it is ques-
ton Of protecting the faIherland from
injury, and for this reason / consider
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Speech Dictated by Kaiser.
London, July 11.-Autocratic Ger
many does not propose TO announce
TO her people nor 10 the other nations
of the world the terms on which she
IS willing TO make peace
That was the point which British
officials saw in reports Of the imperial
chancelEN's speech.
That Bethmann-Hollweg' rejection
of the centrist and demands for free
and detailed outline Of the German
peace aims was dictated by the kaiser
himself. was indicated "a other dis
paehes received through 1er German
channels. The kaiser ldoubtedly
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 aud
with the crown council, comprising
the autocratic ring of officials con-
trolling Germany.
Herr Erzbereer Assalled.
The chancellor bitterly assaiIed 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 10 support the gov
eminent further until Hollweg de-
tailed the empire policy and immedi-
ate ful6llment Of electoral reform
pledges.
IL d gr. A DO.
the correspondent Of the Exchange
Telegraph company. that the resig-
nations of Dr. Karl Helfferich, the
German vice chancellor and secretary
OF the interior, and DR.. Alfred Zim-
hermann, the German secretary for
foreign affairs. have been decided up
.on by Emperor William.
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
Or. 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 letter from Field Mar
shal Won Hindenburg TO bolster up the
submarine policy.
zimmerman to Retire.
TheOdor Wolf of the Berliner Tage-
hlatt doubts whether Chancellor Won
Bethmann-Hollweg will fall and wheth-
er anything beyond the usual compro-
mise viii emerge from the crisis. He
says il would be curious though not
surprising dispensation if the chancel-
Tor should be topped by attacks d.
rected against submarine warfare and
a policy which forced America into
sthe war after repeatedly risking his
position by persiStlng in an opposite
course.
Although the German censor has
kept out of the newspapers the speech
before the reichstags main committee
,of Matthias Erzberger. leader of the
Catholic center party, in which he at
Hacked 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 Ems, 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 a German peace.
DESTROY German SeanI.nns