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Show ONE BRUTE LESS. Three Germans of note figure in recent re-cent news dispatches, Dr. von Bethmann-Ilollweg, Bethmann-Ilollweg, former imperial chancellor; Dr. Eichard von Kuehlmann, former imperial im-perial foreign minister, and Count Six-tus Six-tus von Arnim, general commanding the German forces in Flanders during a large part of the war. Von Arnim, who has been in retirement on his estates in Bohemia since the collapse of Germany's Ger-many's military ambitions, while in Flanders was a worthy imitator of Von Bissing and quite as brutal in his treatment treat-ment of the territory he occupied. Von Arnim, angered at the sight of peasants gathering firewood from his estate, shot at tho freezing wretches. Thereupon a mob of these peasants attacked the Von Arnim cast'e, pillaged it and beat the general to death. Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg emerges to heap more obloquy on the exile of Amorongen, the former emperor of Germany. Ger-many. The ex-chancellor, replying to a defense made by the former kaiser's friends, declares that at no time in the period immediately preceding the outbreak out-break of the war vas the emperor in ignorance of the course of events, as his apologists assert. After the war began, be-gan, Vou Bethmann-Kollweg says, the kaiser was not only f.nly informed of affairs but warned against the folly of continuing the struggle, just as he had been advised of tl e danger of provoking the outbreak of hostilities. Thus the former chancellor ads another count to tho long indictment against his imperial master. It seems to bo the fashion just now to heap all responsibility on the head of William Hohen7ollerh. Dr. von Kuehlmann takes an optimistic optimis-tic view of Germany's recuperative 1'Owers. The country, he says, will bo rehabilitated much more rapidly than most people think, which is a statement quite at variance with the lugubrious assertions of the government, pleading j for easier terms and denouncing the allies ' conditions as certain to involve j Germany in irreparable ruin. Von j Kuehlmann adds to his hopeful note a hint that the rejuvemtad Germany will have its old masters at the h.-lm. The former ruling classes, tie says, havo not despaired of regaining power. If the former minister speaks advisedly, C-er-mniii is preparing for its rehahilit at'on jUi'dor circumstances which wdl warrant j t!,e allies in saf egvarding their int:rests. j A : :- venated Ccruiary, eon'.relled by 'i;c eleir.-'nt.i viii'-h led to jts disaster, is one which will bear watching. Tho past is not so remote that the les-ou taught by four years of bloodshed and devastation will be lost on the world. Finally, the doctor tells us thsit, "im-doi "im-doi favorable cond lions." the Germans ought to be in Paris beforo 1025, which mav be a reminder for the allies that the c-i-ws of the Prussian tiger may grow out anew, or it may be uuuely the doctor's facetious manner of referring re-ferring to the delay in concluding the peace treaty framing. Under favorable favor-able conditions the Germans should bi in Paris beforo tho middle of April in 1919, hat in hand, ready to hear the terms and humbly subscribe to tncm. |