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Show DIVIDED OPINION EXISTS IN GERMANY COPENHAGEN, July 30. German newspapers variously interpret the talk on peace possibilities of Dr. Michaelis, the German imperial chancellor, chan-cellor, to newspaper men in Berlin on Saturday. Radical papers of tho stamp of Vorwaorta profess to find in the chancellor's concluding phrase a disavowal dis-avowal of all annexation plans while the Pan-German and annexationists organs are no less satisfied with the declarations and thoy lay weight with the alleged designs of conquest entertained enter-tained by Germany's opponents as nullifying all overtures for a moderate moder-ate peace. The Tages Zeitung says th6 rcvela'-tions rcvela'-tions mado by the imperial chancellor chancel-lor show tho necessity of material and comprehensive securities for Germany's Ger-many's future In the peace treaty and proved how childish and comic are discussions dis-cussions of German peace based on understanding and subsequent reconciliation. recon-ciliation. Vorwaerts regrets the chancellor did not expressly stato that Belgium would bo given complete freedom. Any less intent, that newspaper says, would be utterly incompatible with the reichstag's program. |