Evening star., 1917-11-08
Progressive Elements Threat
ened Unless They Drop
Their Demands.
CHANCELLOR DENIES X
HE PROMISED POSTS
Friedberg Declines to Be Vice Presk
dent of Prussian Cabinet-Situa<
ton Critical, London Hears. i;
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, November s.-The
threat that military dictatorship is in>
evitable unless insistence upon radi<
cal vice chancellor is dropped and tho
government of Count Won Hertling a.
it now stands is accepted, is held out
over the progressive democratic ele<
nents in Germany.
Count Won Hertling. through q semiA
official note in tho Norddeutsche Allge-
meine Zeitung, announces that no prom.
ises whatever were made to give the
radicals the posts they desire. The rep-
of the reichstag majority
have issued an equally authoritative an.
that they adhere to their
old position. The radical press indis
Gates that the chancellors compromise
proposal to appoint radical deputy to
the newly created ministry for occupied
territories with a seat in the Prussian
cabinet is not acceptable. because such
q post would be merely temporary and
the occupant would be powerless In the
face of the military authorities.
Drifting Toward Desired Goal.
Tho situation Is drifting rapidly to-
ward the goal desired by the resctfon>
aries-that ID, . split in the present mis
nority in the rsichstag ana the tor1nAr,
tion Of q new coalition embracing the
conservatives and the national liberals.
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means impossible, Notwithstanding fha
apparent unity proclaimed by the mHx
jority caucus. The Catholic centrum
by no means adverse to following.N
chancellor along road marked MI
party advantages. ~
The national liberals. whos fore q
most part are conservatives and amp Z
ationists and whose hearts. neverYHefSsf
in the present majority bloc 3ntinnxs
strongly in their. formal sannouncelns3t
of Herr Frfedberg's wfthdrawAH1fh hi
acceptance Of the vice presidency ef
the Prussian cabinet their dissati11aS-
tion with the attitude Of the radicd71A
and the socialists. They are probablR
quite ready to link up with the sociai.s
lists in an alliance. Herr Triedberg
gave as the reason for his withdrawal
that these parties advanced preten.
tions to his prospective offlce which .
could not be fulfilled. and In 10 doing
vain hopes Of creating a d.
pendable working majority in parlia.
ment.
Will Remain In Opposition.
The socialists apparently have aban.
doned the dictum expressed by Philip
on Sunday that the new
Won Hertling government, which diff.
~ nf IT,
the person of its chief. provided al
necessary guarantees of responsible
government as precondition to peace.
The socialists declare that they have
made up of conservative. centrum and
elements imposed on a sub.
structure of old-line bureaucrats, and
will remain in opposition unless the
whom the socialists regard as their
in the ministry
The Tageblatt and other radical news.
papers say that II Chancellor Won Herf-
ling bows to the hidden powers' and
the influence of the court clique the
will introduce on November
22. when the reichstag reconvenes, q
resolution of lack of confidence in the
government.
Count Won Hertlfng's position is much
like that of DR.. Michaelis after his "As-
I-interpret-it" speech.
Annexation Policy Likely.
The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin, organ
Of the annexationists and great bust.
ness interests. publishes a report that
At the conferences which have been in
progress recently between German and
Austrian representatives In Berlin the
decision was reached to abandon en-.
ZIONIST peace program and to go over
10 the policy of uniting Poland with
Austria Hungary and Courland and
Lithuania with Germany.
This report has neither been con-
irmed nor denied in authoritative
quarters. The wish of those whom the
Lokal Anzeiger represents may per-
1aps be father to the thought. but on
he other hand 1t may be recalled that
Vienna newspapers printed similar re.
ports a week ago without evokinr n
ienial.
Other Berlin newspapers discuss
hese statements as entirely possible
rhe socialist organ. vorwaerts. lodges
which, 1t says. is a nat negation OF
sermany's reply to the Pope and Of
he reichstag peace resolution.
Crisis Declared Acute.
LONDON. November s.-The German
olitical crisis is represented as being
8 acute as ever in special dispatches
rom Amsterdam. Some say that Count
on Hertling's chancellorship is in dan
.er of Immediate shipwreck. The re-
usal of Herr Friedberg. leader of tho
ational liberal party. to accept the
ice presidency of the Prussian min
,try and the alleged certainty that Dr..
Ielfferich IL to be retained as vice
hancelIor are regarded as matters I'M
ossible of settlement. Count Won Hert-
nR IL reported to have succumbsd to
Military and junker influence.
The Berlfner Tageblatt refers to the
stationary forces opposing the, uom-
nation of progressive leaders. The
.oelnische Zeitung blames the pro-
ressives and the socialists for the re-
wAkening Of the crisis. and say that
he prospect for political txpce has
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