Evening star., 1917-11-10
BERLIN NOW PAST
POLITICAL CRISIS
Retirement of Heffferich Paves
Way for Harmony In
Government.
POLISH ISSUE IS ACUTE

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, November 9, via London, No.
vember 10-Dr. Karl Helfferich. the
vice chancellor. has capitulated and po-
litical peaoe once more has been re-
stored The cabinet, containing Count
Won Hertling as chancellor, Friedrich
Won Payer as vice chancellor and Herr
Friedberg as vice president Of the
Prussian ministry. means 8 virtually
coalition liberal government
The clerical. national liberal and pro-
gressive parties arc represented active
ly in the cabinet The socialists accepa
the appointment OF yon Payer as evil
dence that Count Won Hertling Is will
ing to work with the present group Of
reichstag majority parties. but they arS
reserving to themselves complete lib.
erty of action. The conservatives arg
the only important reichstag facfio4
not having a member In the new govS
ernment. which may be said to mark
the active Initiation of the first par
liamentary cabinet In Prussia and Ger.
many.
Hertung Returns to Munich.
to Munich. where he will assist in tho
reorganization of the Bavarian ministry.
from which he retired. His first public
appearance as chancellor is expected to
take place when the reichstag opens Its
next session. November %.
The liberals are now getting ready to
combat the reactionaries in their efforts
to obstruct the enactment Of the Prus-
sian electoral reform bill. These meas
ures are expected to be ready for drst
reading at the end of this month Tho
lclericals. national liberals, progressives,
socialists and Poles will constitute an
ample majority for 1t In the lower cham
Der Of the Prussian diet
Polish Program Resented.
COPENHAGEN. November s'-The
problem by annexing Poland to Austria
Hungary and Courland and Lithuania to
Germany has few friends in Germany.
aside from the proponents of the idea.
Virtually the entire press oppose it.
The conservative and nationalist or
gans are against 1t because they fear
the effect Of such step upon their own
anti-Polish policy in regard to the Pol
ish provinces Of Prussia The liberal
and socialist newspapers are indignant
at the attempt to decide a question in
vo1ving the whole future of Germany
behind the back of the reichstag, and
also resent the efforts to overturn the
anti-annexation peace policy set forth
in the reichstag resolution.
The socialist organ Vorwaerts of Ber.
lin declares that this adoption Of an
annexationist policy in the most irre-
trievable form puts in the shade the
crisis regarding the chancellorship and
all other developments of the day. It
reminds the government that the Haps-
burg monarchy, two parts of which are
absolutely non-German while in the
third the German element has a hard
struggle to retain its influence. may at
| no distant time become a military dan.
ger to Germany
| The Kreuz Zeitung reminds the au-
| thorities of the repeated promises to
| leave definite settlements until the end
| of the war.
Another Place for Helfferich.
AMSTERDAM, November lot 10
officially announced from Berlin that
| DR.. Karl Helnerich requested Emperor
| William that he be relieved of the vice
| chancellorship and as member of the
Prussian ministry and that the emperor
acquiesced on condition that DR.. Helf-
| ferich accepted Office of some other