GRAVE POLITICAL CRISIS IN GERMANY.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13932, 14 July 1917, Page 5

GRAVE POLITICAL CRISIS IN GERMANY.

• r __. i ... REPORTED RESIGNATION OF IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR. >«MII |l ' t id REFUSAL TO REVEAL DELIBERATIONS OF CROWN COUNCIL. (Australian njrtd New Zealand Oulile Astocialion.) • ' AMSTERDAM; July 12. ■■■ The Vossiclic /filling reports 1 tiai Ur von Bclliinaiiii-IIollwo"' 1 hi! (.leniiau Ini[icciiil Chancellor, Juts resigned. LONDON, July 12. The Rotterdam correspondent- of tlie Daily Telegraph reports thai the adjournment of the Reichstag on Dr von BethmannHolhveg's refusal to state what occurred in the Crown Council, created a sensation. This means that the Ministry cannot remain. Significance attaches to the fact that the adjournment was agreed to on the Socialists' initiative, the majority of the members of the Reichstag-apparently agreeing to Herr Schiedmann's demand for peaee without annexations. Meanwhile the Conservatives relentlessly desire, to continue the war till a German peace has been secured, and oppose all political reforms. -. NEW YORK, July 12. The United Press correspondent at Washington quotes Officials and diplomats, who believe that the Kaiser has perhaps created a'' crisis as part of a peace scheme. , Senator Folk has warned tlie nation npt to exaggerate the situation.. Despatches coming from the State Department indicate that both Dr Zimmermann and Dr Helferieh have been dropped. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY URGES NECESSITY FOR PEACE. SPECIAL DELEGATION REACHES BERLIk ON VISIT TO KAISER. • i (Reuter's Telegrams.) ! Received July 13, at 7.10 p.m. ' " ■ ( LONDON; July 13. The latest authentic news from Berlin states that the Kaiser received the Austro-llungarian ambassador, also the Crown Prince. There is the strongest reason for believing that Vienna is strenuously urging the necessity of peace. (Australian and New Zealand Cable Ajsoclatlon.) , ' Received July 13, at 5.25 p.m. '' * AMSTERDAM, July 12. ' Ilerr Harden has been called up as a civilian conscript. His newspaper Die Zukunft has been suspended for the duration of ■the war, owing to an article exposing the aims of German militarism. • . •