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Show VON KUEHLAUliN BOASTS OFTHE OHFfllfi German Foreign Secretary Says Teutons Will Beat Force With Force Until Dawn of Better Day. ACCEPTS RUSSIAN ARMISTICE OFFER Believes Kaiser's Military Successes Are Beginning to Incline France and England Toward Peace. AMSTl'RIWM. IVi-. I. lurir.s vo?-terja vo?-terja s silting of the roieliMa;; nuun lOinmiuoi'. l;r. von kttchlmiuui, Herman foreign s-ev-roiary. made : svtHvh, iu w b i 0 h ho sai-i : Our eyes a t I ho present moment are turned toward the oust. Uusta b set the world abhie. The ol lu;i eau--r:ils find s cc-ph.snts, rotten to the eore. oemiliii the weak and rms-iliiidcd, rms-iliiidcd, though probably well nieaninc. autocrat, surreptitiously brought about the mobiUrat'ou of that eouatry. whieh was the m-rual and immediate cause of the Sant ic 0:1 last rophe whieh befell t he world. Now, ho ever. Ka.'sia has sw opt r.side the culprits and she is laboring to J'in.J through an armistice and pea.-o an opportunity for her internal reeou-M reeou-M n:. t ion. I need not supplement the r'cr,r words in which the chancellor Yesterday stated the attitude of the Uorman government toward thee aim?. Here ng;i'i our policy will adhere to the priii'-1 pie of firm but moderate stattnuniship. based upon facts. Acceptable Basis. ' The principle? hit hert n atmoun. ed to the w orM bv the proem rulers in t'wrograd appear to be rniirelr acceptable ac-ceptable as a basis f'r r-'organi.it ion of affairs in the east a reorganization whieh. while fully taking into a. -count - the rien of nations to tiet ermine their j own destinies, is calculated permanent-jy permanent-jy to safeguard the essential interests of the two great neighboring nations, Uenuanv and Russia. J r am profoundly atisfd that we shaM be able to pursue this eourr-e in full agreement with our allies and. I take it. aiso with the almost unanimous moral -up;.rt of the representatives of The irman people here assembled a fact which will give our a- tion necessary neces-sary w eight. Italy's Defeat. . After referring to the Teuton victory vic-tory in Italy a'ld to the bittcmos aued in Uernianv by Italy's entrance into 'be war. Dr. von Kuehlnmnn taid: ' ' Nevert h.eless. there b soini who in this hour of ut: er coliape wi ii not withhold bvmpathy from the Italian people. The effect of Germany ?s military successes, the foreign secretary said, wes noticeable also in England and France. "In Germany, ' the speaker said. ' t he great words spoken by the emperor em-peror at t lie outset of the war have, curing the war, borne fruit an J have developed relations between the people peo-ple and the crown which have, on the hays of the most sincere and mutual "-ODtidencp, forever more been rendered freer a nd more active a nd therefore stronger. In Germany the government is carrying out the programme laid down by the chancellor yesterday, not gi vicg way under party pressure, but rat her proceeding with clear pereep-tion pereep-tion of historical necessity. The development de-velopment has been actually opposite Thar of Kngland and France, where, freedom of thought and freedom of ,MVch lone been suppressed, piutlv bv ioleiu and brutal measures. In these countries, which had boon democracies, thing me tending more and more to-w to-w a rd absolute dictatorship. Oetnetu'oau Lat Card. " "In Frame, actuated b the do-ged I desire to continue the niir which tiuds 1 its mainsta'' in l'redent 1,'o.nctuc, I l lomeneeau ha been called to power as the last card in the game. At the 'same- time that in Germany the chan I eellor is making the goorumetit pro ! gramme a matter of detailed di.-osion ;witii the aricih psrt'O, m France the , newspapers deot.-d to Fr-niier ' le n , eneeau are praising bun l"ir haing constituted Ins cabinet entirely wit u-i u-i out consulting parliament, in an abso 1 lutelv diciatoriat manner and as one of I the first functions of the government the ruthle-s suppression of pacitist efforts ef-forts is announced. ! "in Fuglau I t'ie development which i has occurred tn France tt-ok pis. e sonio time ago. The party for war to the lend brought Idovd George to the fore, lie wa.- invested with powers under 1 which, disregarding the pro iions I dear to the Hntish constitution, he j was made do facto dictator." I Ignorant of (lermany. 1 The foreign e,Tetarv F.-i-i T r. Idovd I George proba bl v had not pi it e come ; ui t I he c.pec tat ius of hi; friend-, j but that inasmuch a? t here ?eetnd in I b--1 no one to surpass hiin in the dccr-; dccr-; minat ion to m rrv on the vrp.r. im Ics j Ford XnrThcbffe had been rorN'd to, i ' we mav probabl v for some t lino to come sec the we ern deniocr.-v ie un-I un-I der the leader-hip of ilnur .tictalor'.. discussing i a fall ha rmon v ipiesr ions I regard 1 ng the comma tid ot' the all led 1 forces. ' ' 1 Gontonding that Mritilr stRG'-men were RMouridi ngly i g no rant of Ger jmanv, lr. von Kuehimann said bv av ; of illustration that For 1 Kdiorl (C i! (had tunned down the Kritish goveru-: goveru-: r;ent to the storv of utili.'ation bv the : Germans of th bo-io, f the dead and . (had dnciared that the reported plan to1 institute poivgamv in Germany wn j characteristic of German views and in ; Pt'Ttitions. 1 ! The foreign secretarr then told his I hearer? it had be n said Germany had . shown great rsTve on account of the j fact that she had a fraudulent design. and t hat om-e German a -t 11 tenss had sucrrpded in bringing togethir her adversaries ad-versaries at t ho conference table she I would come out with impossible claims, j reckoning that the people, being Gred of war and prepare. 1 for far-reaching sacrifices, would not gtv thiiir states j men the support iits-Ij ry to refute j Genua ti rlema nds. ' in this account u I hp.s been sai'i it would bo nceary for j Germany's enemies to continue tbu j fight until Germany wa-i force. to make t a detailed statement of her terms. j Germany's War Aims. . ' If our adversaries are anxious to j know what our amis are.'' lie contin-: contin-: ued. ' t h ;s matter is cry pimple in 'deed. There is a sufficient number nf i ways at their disposal. History has not furnished a single pxample of anv great j diplomatic assembly purporting to ?et- tl1 int.'niational affairs ever having ' been convened without previously hav-i hav-i ing informed itself &h to the intentions 1 of the parties concerned." 1 iermany. said Dr. von Kuehimann, welcomed the clearing of the situation I as regards the western powers, ' ' un-I un-I der pressure of our recent Buecctses. " ' He added: I ''Those in favor of war to the extreme ex-treme have come out into tho open, demanding Tictorv and nothinc hut htorc. How thrv intend to lire this irt orv it how 11 hv the hecrnt document docu-ment puhlMicd hv the Kuaaiau envorn-moii envorn-moii t . ' ' The MVh'turv referred to the IctteT ol the M h np 1 1 of I -a n .low m-. miviii; ' It mav he that I .aitdow ne ' l.-l t cr can he taken a- a hopeful mn that een in Kii'dand the force- of lundcra t ion are i;a i n i n y rou nd. ' Hut t" . ' ' lie cont mucd. ' ' it i certain t hat t lie pope mc-ae i re ri'ivnii; no rr-poiiM t'rmii ihe we-tcrn power-, and that France and l!niland : re re.-ol c! to r.'lv 01; 1 v on idle nee. Therefore, the ( leruia n peple will stan'l up and he prepared ! heat force with f.irce until the dawn of t lie better bet-ter and more hnmann 11 ndc r.-.t a 11 1 n which ii- hej; 1 11 11 in j; to n ppea r in t hrt eastern blv haU wri.-e in the natinn of 1 he w e-t , w hh h are ri vet f died with red for inoiin and pow er. ' ' |