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Show CUT KAROLYI IS wmm PEACE End of War Also Being Discussed Dis-cussed in German Newspapers. LONDON, July 18, 3:30 a. m. Count Michael Karolyi has resigned from the presidency of the Hungarian Independent Indepen-dent party, according to a Budapest dispatch dis-patch to the Morning Post, and will form a new party, which will demand immediate peace between Hungary and its enemies, with or without the consent con-sent of Germany and Austria. Count Karolyi 's peace party, the dispatch dis-patch adds, will start with a membership member-ship of seventy members of the Hungarian Hun-garian parliament. Count Michael Karolyi, who is a member mem-ber of the Huncarian lower house, is well known in the United States, having hav-ing visited several American cities early in 1H14, in the interests of free rule for Hungary and in advocacy of a Hungarian home paliamcnt. He abandoned aban-doned his American tour owing to the Serbian crisis, returning to Europe in July. Count Karolyi caused a sensation in the Hungarian parliament in December. liHo. when ho demanded that the government gov-ernment should make peace proposals to the enemy powers. Ihe Budapest correspondent cor-respondent of the London Post quoted Count Karolyi as contending that Hun-garv Hun-garv had achieved everything she desired de-sired by the war, hail saved the country from invasion and had preserved the monarchv and throne, and that the Hungarians Hun-garians had a perfect right to come forward for-ward with their claims for compensation. compensa-tion. He argued further that the political unitv of the Hungarian nation shoulV I be recognized; that all the attributes of I PnnHnnnfl fin "Pafrt TnrfP 1 C0I1 KHULYI IS WORKING FOR PEACE (Continued from Page One.) a national state, as well as economic independence, should be granted, and that, above all, peace should be restored. re-stored. "We have given proof enough of our physical courage," Count Karolyi was quoted as saying. "Now we have to show our moral courage." THE HAGUE, via London, July 16, 11:30 p. m. The German newspaper Vorwaerta reprints an article recently written by Professor Konrad Metger of Berlin, a member of the National Liberal Lib-eral party, under the heading, "Dread of Peace?" Professor Metger, at some length, tries to make out that the role of peace mediator would only serve to raise the personal prestige of President Wilson, who, according to the writer, is anxious to emulate President Roosevelt 's success suc-cess at Portsmouth. "But," he adds, "this should be a warning to us, seeing the result was that Japan "was cheated of the fruits of victory." ' The Vorwaerta comments on the article: ar-ticle: "The anti-Americanism of the National Na-tional Liberals seems to have risen to such a pitch of self-deception that thev would wish the war to continue indefinitely, indefi-nitely, so long as America is kept from being the mediator. The great majority of German people certainly do not share this view. ' ' i AMSTERDAM, via London, July 6. j 9:33 p. m. In reminding the German i government that owing to the expira- , tion of the present term of the reichs- I tag in January, elections must take I place before the final conclusion of , peace, the Frankfurter Zeitung sng- ! gests. with a view to ascertaining the ; real feeling of the nation under the : changed condition, that a truce should be arranged to permit half of the German Ger-man army to return home for the elections. elec-tions. J |