Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-12
FIGHT ON M|CHAEL|S
AND HELFFER|CH PLAN
Of RE|CHSTAG HEADS
Formidable Movement Under
Way in ReichStag to Rein
state Won BJeIoW. Say Dis
patches From Berlin

AMSTERDAM, Oct IA formidable
and open movement in the reichstag to
GUST Chancellor Michaelis and Vice
Chancellor Helfferich and reinstate
Prince Won BueIow as chancellor was
reported in Berlin dispatches today
quoting the Vossissche Zeitung. Tn e
German newspaper asserted that "a
number of reichstag members are openly
working to this end"
Michaelis and Helfferich are par
ticularly under fire for their institu-
ton of propaganda in the army for the
Won Tirpitz pan-German political party
3 the Fatherland party"
The Centrist-Radical wing is likewise
opposing them for refusal specifically
and formally to discuss the govern
ment's attitude on the majority peace
formula.
The Berlin dispatch showing opposi-
tio1 to these two leaders whose post
requires them to act as the buffer be-
tween the German parliament and the
government itself, came on the heels of
speeches by Michaelis and Foreign Sec
rotary Kuehlmann declaring that peace
could never be forced from Germany
while her enemies sought to separate
her people from the kaiser or~~while
they demanded that Germany surrender
any VI
Kuehlmann firmly declared that Ger
many would never consider abandon
ment of Alsace-Lorraine.
las long as our enemies insist on
their demand for parts of Germany,
Germany will stand with folded arms
declared Michaelis in discussing the
same general principle.
Oar peace is still to come" he as
serted.
Berlin dispatches declared that
Michaelis' speech was received with lit
tie applause. The reichstag was nearly
empty.
During the debate in the reichstag
yesterday Deputy Conrad Haussmann
said that the declaration of DR.. Won
Kuehlmann, the foreign secretary-that
aFart from Alsace Lorraine there. is no
absolute bar to peace-was tantamount
to definite understanding that Belgium
should be given up.
THAT should be heralded forth 20 all
the nations" the deputy added.
Gustav Stresemann, national liberal,
said he would not oppose a reduction of
armamen1s but he thought disarmament
hardly was practical politics.
Count Won Westarp, conservative.
thought that Germanys answer to the
pope ought ito have made clear that
Germany would not undertake to dfsarTn
and hoped that Won Kuehlmann had NOT
lied himself to yielding up Belgium.
George Ledebour, social democrat
leader, dealt on the damage done to the
German cause by the revelations con-
corning Won Luxburg. the German min
lister to Argentina. He considered that
the populations of occupied territory
should be permitted to decide their own
fate.
Bitter invective against President
Wilson featured the debate, according
to delayed dispatches from Berlin re-
ceived here today.
Deputy Haussman argued that Ger
many was not guilty of starting the war
and that the American president was
mainly guilty for its prolongation.
THE interview with Lloyd George
year ago in which he said the war would
continue to a knockout was the turning
points of the war;" Haussmann declared.
Adoption by Britain of the French
war aims for ,Alsace-Lorraine means war
to the death"
Count Won Westarp vituperatively as
sailed President Wilson and character
lied the plan for Belgian independence
as IAN Utopian dream"
'HOnly British or a German Belgium
is possible after the war" he asserted.