HOLLWEG'S ATTEMPT TO SAVE THE EX-KAISER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 6 August 1919, Page 5

HOLLWEG'S ATTEMPT TO SAVE THE EX-KAISER.

BE "&RUELTY" OF THE TREATY PERMS MAY NOT BE RATIFIED BY AMERICA. EPARATION MAY BE REDUCED. ST CABLE— PEESS A.KSOCI ATION—COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, July 29. nterviewed in Berlin, Herr yon jthmann-Hollweg said that under c German constitution the Chancelv, not "the Kaiser, was responsible - ' the nation's acts and policies. Herr n Bethmann-Hollweg said that he d accepted the responsibility when was Chancellor, and had not tried avoid it. f Holland surrendered the Kaiser the Allies it would violate the saty stipulations between Germany 1 Holland. The League of Nations s created ostensibly, to. enforce a ;her regard for international j nties. Would the League begin by lifying its aims and demanding that i Hand disregard her treaty obliga-,' [is wij|i[ Germany? j 'he German signatories to the Verles Treaty were merely the means which the German Government was mitted to the most brutal compull of might in history. There had been a parallel where cruelty had i continued with such cold caleulai as after this war. WASHINGTON, July 30. ! the Senators could have their \in regard to the Peace Treaty the ,^Five would be unlikely to recog- > its offspring. Senator Fall, of T Mexico, has seventy amendments, other members are not less eniiastic. There is a prospect of a plete deadlock. It seems impos--5 to secure the two-thirds majority sssary for its ratification NEW YORK, 'Aug. 1. r Baruch, economic adviser to the rican peace delegation, made a anent to the Foreign Affairs Com«e of the Senate, in which he said Germany's reparation bill was ter than she can pay, but that Reparation Commission will prob-' reduce the sum. Mr Baruch d that President Wilson believed United States should not share German payments.