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Show Prince of Baden Desires to Bring About Speedy Peace BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 5. Tho reicbstag peace resolution of July 9, 1917, will be re-af firmed by Prince Maximilian of Baden, the new German Ger-man imperial chancellor in his declaration declara-tion of policy beforo the reichstag today, to-day, according to information received v hero today. Tho new chancellor is expected ex-pected to develop tho scope of this resolution in his statement and Indicate Indi-cate desire for a speedy peace. PRINCE HAS CLEVER SCHEME. PARIS, Oct. 5. Prince Maximilian of Baden, the new German imperial chancellor, will declare against annex-1 ations in Ihc west by Germany and in I favor of the full restoration of Belgium, Bel-gium, according to a diBpatch to Le Journal from Zurich. The restoration would, however be carried out by means of an international fund. There is indication also that the chancellor will make known a disposition dispo-sition to confide tho revision of tho Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest treaties to a congress of all tho belligerents. He will declare against payment of tho damage done to France, it is de- ,av.u ' and wiu demand the freedom ?l ; v seas in the German sense of tnat phrase, and the return of the Ger- Iff ?an colonies. It is further forecast fR tbat the chancellor will favor partial iK and progressive disarmament but that fR he will not entertain any idea of an K? arrangement with France concerning tV Alsace-Lorraine. I SOLF MADE SECRETARY. B I COPENHAGEN. Oct. 5. Dr. W. S. fBfc Solf, German colonial secretarv, has been appointed to tho German imperial foreign secretaryship, it was officiallv announced in Berlin today. " Mathias Erzberger, the Centrist leader, has been appointed secretarv fM&t of state without portfolio. Herr Bauer, j Socialist member of the reichstag. has been named as secretary of state for SllSv the Imperial labor office. t W |