Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-04
HOLLWEG SEVERELY
ASSA|LED AS FOE To
GERMAN MONARCHY
Even Conservative Papers AC-
cJse German Premier of
Setting Course Prescribed by
Peace-Seeking Socialists

BERLIN CVia London, May S.-"The
central powers arc all united and must
continue to ight--but they are always
ready for an honorable peace. which is
only possible through a conference de-
clared Talaat Pasha. Turkish vizier. in
an interview printed today by the
Vienna Neue Freie Presse.
COPENHAGEN. May 3.-(Via Lon
don. )-Such German newspapers as are
now permitted 10 reach here indicate
that the campaign against Chancellor
Won Bethmann-Hollweg is again in full
swing. The conservatives, although in
sisting that the other parties observe a
political truce in the interests IF the
fatherland, have adopted a set of reso-
lutions sharply attacking the chancellor
and censuring The government for weak
ness and vacillarioneou the peace ques-
ton and in dealing with the strike agi-
lation.
The resolutions express grief and con-
Germ at the steadily growing influence
of the Socialists whose peace-making
efforts are declared to be leading Ger
many to the brink of ruin. Apparently
this attack was timed to coincide with
the opening of the reichstag and it is
significant that the resolutions are in
dorsed by the free conservative wing
under Baron Won Seydlitz. Baron Won
Seydlitz has hitherto been far less an
extremist than Count Westarp and
Herr Won Heydebrand. leaders of the
regular or junker conservatives.
CONSERVATIVES ACTIVE.
Among the papers which are directing
their fire against the chancellor are the
conservative organs the Greuz Zeitung
and the Deutsche Tages Zeitung. They
accuse the premier of endangering the
monarchy and sailing a course pre-
scribed by the Socialists.
The Berlin correspondent of the Ham
burg Fremdenblatt declares that the po-
liticaI life of Germany is now passing
through an era of strife and differences
of opinion on external and internal
questions which daily grow more lively
and of broader dimensions.
The correspondent says that dissatis-
faction with the governments policy
is growing in all directions and that it's
reticence on peace terms is being used
to sharpen mutual suspicious and the
antagonisms of the parties. The Social
fist leaders. he continues. do not hest
tate 10 explain anu JUSTLY the ldIeSL
strike movement on the grounds of the
delay in reforming the Prussian fran
chise. On the other hand, the pan-Ger-
man reactionaries stop at nothing to
prevent the formation of A majority
party. capable of realizing the needed
reforms in the body polite.
GENERAL STRIFE.
The writer declares that the national
liberals are coquetting with the con-
servatiyes and that the opportunist
clerical center is intent only on a
preservation of its own influence. His
picture of the situation at the opening
of the reichstag is, in other words. one
of general strife in which each mans
hand is against every other, a condition
promising an Illuminating parliamentary
discussion on all the questions This
condition probably explains the de-
cision of the Socialists. whom their op-
ponents accuse of having captured the
chancellor. to postpone the proposed in
terpellation on peace and perhaps put
the brakes on a discussion of the prob
lens of political reform.
The Berlin Vorwaerts i'm an editorial
signed by Herr Landsberg, a Socialist
deputy, attempts to convince the work
men of the necessity of going easy with
reforms until peace is secured.
The no-indemnity plank of the Social
list peace platform has been selected by
his opponents for their heaviest attack
against Philip Scheidemann. The work
men are told that ruin for the empire
and penurS for themselves are certain
unless a heavy indemnity is eXacted.
otherwise. they are informed the war
will end with a German debt of a least
12O. 200. O0O. 900 marks. requiring an an
nual taxation of half a billion marks for
interest and redemption in addition to
three billion for normal eXpenditures.