The sun., 1918-07-13
DIR. DERNBURG
JOINS GROWING
PEACE PARTY
Policy Which Wrecked Won
kuehlmann Now
Accepted.
RECEPTIVE. BUT HOPELESS
German Authorities Expect
No Proposition From
the Allies.
RECEPTIVE. BUT HOPELESS
Special Cable Despatch TO THs srx.

toprt0hf. 1918; all rights Seserrcd
PARIS, July 12-Chief interest here in
the German cabinet upset is in the part
played and to he played by Frederick
Won Payer. the Imperial Vice Chancellor.
That the trouble is not yet over, Is clear
from the telegram which the Chancel-
lor took the trouble to send to Won
Payer. warning him of his intention to
rame. Admiral Won Hintze in place OF
Foreign Minister Won Kuehlmann. and
also assuring him that the change entails
no modification in the foreign policies
OF the Government
Won Payers threat to resign N the
Socialists Joined the opposition In the
Reichstag. appears to have had its ef-
feet. and truce. or agreement, has
been patched up under which the Social
Democrats are to remain with the ma
jority. This truce extends even to the
peace question. and 1t is noteworthy
that. despite the fate that overlook For
e.gn Minister Won kuehmann for stating
publicly that peace could not be won by
Germany through military victories
alone. the same idea Is being voiced by
other men Of equal prominence. among
lHcIl LIT. fDtTHndTu DeTnDufR,
Ready for Peace Oners.
The military element has been brought
into line also, and it seems to be unani-
mously agreed by the politicians and
German army headquarters that they
are ready to receive any sincere peace
proposal from the Allies. all knowing
well that there is no possibility that
such a proposal will be made from that
source
Chancellor Won Hertling has even ex-
planned to the Re!chstag committee that
Germany's willingness to discuss a
righteous peace was clearly expressed
In her reply to the Pope and she will
not change her attitude. Admiral Won
Hintze falls into line, with formal
declaration that he will follow the
Chancellor's policy.
The point where new friction seems
most probable. is between Won Payer
ana Won HIntze. As the latter is on
top. for the moment, the Frankfort
Gazette very frankly invites Won Payer
TO retire. Won Hintze Is not regarded
here as in any sense a sta tesman: he
is hghting man New light was thrown
on his career to-day by Paul Sabatier
of the French Foreign Ministry. who
knew him well during his mission to
Petrograd.
Hintxe Disciple of Tirpits.
Won Hintze, according 30 this infor-
nation, Is one OF the strongest support
ers Of the Won Tirpitz policies, and is
ar ardent believer In the submarin as
the means of winning the war for Ger
many. sabatier characterised him as
"a political apache" a man whose ex-
pedients are corruption, bribery and
crime, in order to gain his ends. He
was notorious in Petrograd for his ex-
treme anti-Semitic tendencies, and in
private applauded the ma ssacres of
Jews in Russia.
He was sent to the Cars court as
military plenipotentiary." and his
function was to establish more init
| mate relations between the imperial
households OF the two nations, appar-
entity for the purpose of obtaining the
Cars support OF the Kaiseris schemes
for world conquest In no small measure
he was one of the creators Of the willy
Nicky- correspondence.
Tells of Intrigue In China.
In describing Won Hintze's intrigues
in China, how he brbed the Chinese
press with the money obtained from the
Boxer indemnity, to what extremes he
| went to establish German commerce on
| a strong basis in China, Sabatier says
that Won Hintze told the President OF
China that Germany was resolved to
| fight the war TO finish and II neces-
sary would use women and children to
accomplish that object.
The semi-off1cial view mere Is that
Admiral Won Hintze may last two OF
three months in his new post. He IL
regarded hero as essentially a foreign
| minister "of the offensive" to quote
| one official.