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Show KAISER TOLD CRUSHING OF ALLIES HOPELESS Amsterdam, Oct. S. George Goo-tlieln, Goo-tlieln, progressive member of the relchstag, is quoted in a Berlin dispatch dis-patch as having said at a meeting of tho central committee of his party that, although the military situation was satisfactory, there was no hope of crushing Germany's enemies on land. As for the submarine campaign, 7,000,000 tons of shipping had been sunk, he assorted, but no disposition toward peace on the part of England was discernible. A rationing systom for foodstuffs had not been oven introduced, in-troduced, and no ono was able to say when the U-boat would make England Eng-land more Inclined for peace. "America cannot be forced to make peace," Her Goetheln continued. "We cannot force America to pay a war Indemnity. There remains only England. Eng-land. But should we, to obtain an Indemnity of 10,000,000,000 marks, sacrifico 50,000,000,000 marks and another 500,000 men?" Germany's allies, Ilerr Goetheln continued, wero not inclined to continue con-tinue the war for pan-German plans of conquest, but wero striving for peace by understanding and conciliation, concilia-tion, while tho pan-German clamor for annexations was finding a bad reception among thorn. Ho assorted that tho long working hours and Insufficient In-sufficient feeding at homo Increased the deslro for peaco among tho workers and that strikes might be expected If tho war should bo continued con-tinued for alms of conquest. London, Oct. 8. London saw In Berlin reports of a discussion of Germany's Ger-many's war aims to be held lu the lelchstag today another echo of Field Marshal Halg's great guns blasting their way to victory on the western front. The Berlin reports, coming by way of Amsterdam, Indicated the government govern-ment had been compelled to take this step of debating war alms by growing boldness or the prelimtnary body. At tho opening of the fall session of tho relchstag, September 27, Chancellor Mlchaelis flatly rejected re-jected all pleas to announce Germany's Ger-many's alms, Insisting that the time was not yet ripe. As observers here traced the situation, situa-tion, theso developments, indicating waning strength of the militarists In tho field while they were seeking to assume even greater governmental powers, emboldened the Liberals to act. Germany has permitted only tho most meager outline of relchstag proceedings to pass her censorship during tho last week. The provisional provision-al newspapers of yesterday, howover, said Dr. Helfforlch, vlco chancellor, had announced that Mlchaelis probably prob-ably would appear for a general de-bato de-bato on war alms today. |