Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-06
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The King of Bavaria has issued proclamation in which according to Munich telegram to the Frankfur- ter Zeitung, he says: My BaHarians, contrary to our hopes, the fourth year of war also is ending without having brought US peace. Germanyis Armies have beaten the enemy in many a successful battle and preserved the German homeland from devasta ton and misery. But in spite of aii their failures our opponents are not yet ready for peace, and still regard the crushing Of Germany as their aim. No German, however, thinks of a shame full peace. We must therefore carry on the fight I know I am. one with my people, and that it will not for sake it's King and Fatherland. and will perservere till the arrival of a happy peace"
 In the zukunft of July %, Herr Harden give d very interesting ac- count of Kuhlmann's fall and of the real position of Count Hertling. It sheds a good deal of light on the Ger 1 background of future German peace" rnoves-whether or not Hertling re- mains in office and whether or not | Kuhlmann returns to power of any 1 kind.
 Harden puts Kuhlmanns calcula- l ton thus;
 There will be peace in 1918. I shall make it with the generals and with Helfferich. By that time the old gen. tleman will have destroyed his stom- ach with the burning soup which he must ladle out. I shall be Chancellor
 at 46. and may remain Chancellor for l @ quarter of a century. The Reich stag is only made of pasteboard, and
 can be taken anywhere with some we'll turned compliments. Erzbarger is my brother in the faith, and needs me because Hertling cannot stand
 him owing to his rivalry in the Gen. ter Party. Philip Scheidemann-nc
 Philip of Macedon but a thorough pat
 riet-will take me next week for his comrade and fight for me like lion If I am sure of Army Headquarters
 it will be as easy as tobogganing. | Unfortunately for KuhlHlann he for.
 got the wise account of the German system which Herr von Holstein onct
 gave to Prince Bulow. When the SUI
 shines the Chancellor suns himself
 when it rains, it is the Foreign Sec,
 retary who gets wet"
 Harden writes:
 Belgium is a country to he regarded
 as an independent State if it will no ) be restored to it's owner before nego , tiations have been favorably coneludes
 with twenty other empires, and if be
 fore it's restoration it m t undertak to adapt its policy and its econemi systeHl-in other words it's whol
 State life-to the will of the Powe which is still reigning in enmity ol ? its soil2
 International law forbids the Ger s man Empire to keep single paving } stone of Q Belgian street, and com ' mands Germany to restore the king
 dom in the extent. the wealth an
 the sovereignty which it had befor
 our troops broke in, If the right c [ might is to prevail, we may take Wha s we like by force, and the only oues
 tion is how long this force can main t tain itself against everybody else. l V international law is to prevail, Belg i, lum must be compensated withou } any aqibbling, for all her losses an
 her future must be independent of an 2 negotiation with other States; it mus [ be left to Belgipm alone to deeid r whether she will be the Hassai. tn
 area of military concentration or tn
 ecenoQlic eomrade of any other States 2 she must decide whose friend or eu emy she will be.
 c II Belgium is to be accused of as 5. sailing the German Empire, then dis s pose of this enemy completely. Bl 2 if. as has been proclaimed in the nam # of the German Emperor and of th Federal Governments by a Germa