Show GERMANS FEEL JUBILANT OVER ALLY RET RETREAT I 1 C ov War Culprits Culprits' CuI P ra ts Trial at Home s 1 t Considered Victo Victory f Br Dr S Ceske k Berlin Berlin BerUn Feb 1 IS Gorman S.-Gorman Gorman press comment comment com com- ment on tho allies allies' con concession allow allow- allowing allowing ing trial of or tho the alleged war culprits 1 by tho German Gorman supreme court ranges from suspicion of or tricks and ami man mantraps mantraps mantraps traps traps- expressed b by tho government organ the to tho the Jubilantly trIumphant wo told you OU so boasts Inthe inthe In the Nationalist press s while the tho extrema extreme pan German Journal interpreting tho allied recession as 19 a sl sign n of weakness s blew bIb tho the trumpets of ot defiance urging urSin that oven even the Idea of ot trials In German Germany must ho flatly rejected Nowhere r-o r hero does ono one find an m expression lion slon of ot gratification and It Is IJ already apparent that at tho allied decision has stiffened the backbone rt or the nationalist nationalist nation nation- alist elements which point to It as the first German victory since the armistice arm arm- Germans Are Tho rho government Is 19 still deliberating on the exact ct form ot of its answer to the tho allies alUes 86 V co Chancellor who Bj is Js also m minister ister of Justice has h called a Z cabinet to decide upon final action netlon B Bust st opinion seems to bo be that the Rove government oe ment will merely ac- ac tho allied note Tho The nationalists na- na 1 oi are exerting great Pressure to prevent ont Lt It from saying anything bo be construed that might as I In ono one quarter It ItIs Is to w the government will assure t tho allies that tho the nation as a n whole I and nd the government In particularly wilt will co operate w with th t them cm In the fulland fulland full fulland and proper exercise of ot Justice The one attitude of or the thee alleged ed culprits themselves themselves them them- selves is not y Jt clear It la iN Possible that heartened b bv by the victory which the they see ace in tho allied concession they mn may now force forc the Issue further and anel defy tho government to come como and antI get them them even en though h their Judges areto are arc areto to 10 bo ho Germans bit tut the universal hope is that the saner counsels will prevail pre- pre all van vail and that tl o UtI culprits perhaps WIth a a. few hot heaLed exceptions wi Rill 11 now rose voluntarily report for trial at S-osk S 1 Ji Defiant Minister of Defense Koske is still sUll defiant and continues to encourage themen the themen men whose trial is s demanded In a speech speech at Firemen Bremen he reiterated the assertion that Germany will never acknowledge acknowledge ac ac- knowledge as crimes the purely military military mili mili- tary measures measures of or the former war chiefs Though he himself Is not On ron the list and Is In to In Inno no way Identifier identified I personally with tho told old ld military clique his attitude Is a watched d with the tho greatest great great- est Interest because ho 10 is the head of Germanys Germany's armed forces and his defiant defant utterances have bayo done don much to encourage encourage age t e tho the back to too the wall stand of ot the alleged lIles-cd culprits ts I All AU the nationalist organs take tako the tho allied down back as a 3 matter of ot fact tact asserting that the tho allies cou could d have done dono nothing else else Some like lIko the even look for further concessions such as a a. sifting of or tho the list and the tho elimination of or a number of or men Including former Chancellor von Bethmann This paper refers to the tb complete retreat of or the allies I socialist has rho Tho some flome words of ot distrust for tor the Leipzig su su-j preme court alluding to the Judges as faithful and zealous supporters of oC I |