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Show PM5 1 . OFFERJF PESCE Based and Drawn on as Little Political Basis as Before. i Opportunity Is Neglected to Discuss Alsace-Lorraine With France. - . By Vniversal Service. '' T-ONIXN". O-'L . (1'Tman papers arc -ill e J willi fii:ori;l rvmrnrnt on the situation situa-tion c-reateti by t!ie ha ru-ellor's peare ". . . r. ... Ceorcr Henihuni. writing in I ho Yos- sische 'oitun.u. says. : V "AH our sympathy for (lie rhaiu-eUor tannot keep us from rovoqnizini; that his fi-ace offer is hased ami drawn upon just as little political foundation as all former offers. Cli.i nreilor Maximilian evidently still re? arris Alsace-1 .or mine as an internal in-ternal politii-ai ,,uesUOn. lo iias eonse-. eonse-. tiuently neglected the opportunity to declare de-clare in Germany's name thai she is ready for direct discussion with France on this point." Ueferrinp; to Russia's forma! request i"r the revision of tiie l.ievt-1 -iio sk treaty the writer adds. Claims of Russia. - - -J "Tt is now. therefore, known thai at the international pea re conference Russia will put forward her claim to the border lands. How. in these circumstances, is ir possible that the chancellor yesterday "did not at the eleventh hour hold out the prospect of an understandinir with Rus-sii Rus-sii herself on the question of these iands? The kh ni-eilor's all it ude on this foint uniy confirms the view that 'tiie now government means to perpetua-te the norld - . .political -o.noeptions of the old govern ment. This continuation of the id policy is quite an extraordinary ilantrer.' In a special article headed : " Vic tor v or DisErraoe" me Pchlcssische Xoiumi; Mercy Not Expected. "We are not in the posh ion of the" . .dueiist 'who in a moment of weakness can propose to an honorable adversary . - ;.o end the comi-at and t hus insure a n honorable conc lusion. : "We are in the position of a soiitary rraveier who is attacked by rapacious and , hioo itnirsiy bandits. "We cannot re.. kon on mer-y a:il an honorable peace. To be weak is death, death for trie German nation and servitude servi-tude for every German. Therefore we must be victorious." The Stras'rvirir Pos:. an itwlueiiiial semi-- official p.-tprr. aunitts tna" there is uo O'lfstion really of demo'-ra i izmp; Germany, and asserts that i; was not :or the sake or democratization. b';t .!e'.y wita the : ob;e't of unitinp: aii forces ot" ti'.e nation ! for common action, t i a r the natjonnl lio-! lio-! era! parry, for example, consented to support t.ie new regime. ..." Ministers in Chains. ( The Gemian paper Heriscie Adet-si Adet-si imme of SoLnen. in a leading arth-le. say?: "foes reform consist in speeches and paper promises of ministers who are in i-'iains? Wo ;ho:;u t,iat it consisted of dreds. If what is mean by reform i attainable at-tainable h: a. I. pacnien: must be made in nrd cash. Poimcd credit has de hned rv zreatiy in value, aa paper money rias decunfi. "Tf a stare of ie.-- wtp raised the people would then for the f i rst t :m e have ; r-r 'jrnerj to it w" ,a " is owin? to it but evn then it would rq "eh- noh:n more than it former. y possessed. ; Very Much Mistaken. ; "Cm areat p'a'ar.;s no-le-i on A:u-r 1. l''M. in Germany, it wa annr.unced t; at t'te stat-3 of s;.;- would re abo..shed after the ad h tve of o-;r armies. Tr.it i"as not happened. Will it har-pen now? 'h no. Th-v wiil summon a few S. i:--:ro-manr.i to the sro--.-i nmen r that will he :). fx they 'h.nk thev r.u: eon-ent th-- , ieop, the whole l;:borinir r-ople. with that? Thev are vt-rv mu. ii m.sraken If TtiV do. "Tn1 parti--ipa tiou of S.v ia lists in ho government is a far-e bc-ausr- this jo ernment has nornint; io say. siiup p-e Mare of sieire ttish- ur"n the . unntrv .Aid pia. es all roer in th" haiVs of tren-eraif tren-eraif irrespo;i;h:e to the government. "Th ondM ion pr-'-cMient for a reform " r,f 2ove:-nnien uavii;-' i-'-atd t.i its re--- '. .S'Onini;:!i'-e m eis';ii r. 1 1 m.- la neen is fiif ahoii'iifin of the siai of Hief. "If vrc are not lo vaJisfied with words aione. if t;.e ronf:deri' & f ti:e po-T'e po-T'e is to b-- won. or ai leas' 'nope aid T; rh in a i w ;r"e 'irman;.' o' the f j t ; j r e are to !e a 'a a kf'n'-d, -.v.iv is the state of Pifp no: a ."i : hen '.' "If i nev : h ink t ho-.- .-n n win the i op -finVnee of th-1 'A-O'kinr r",on;e ny summon sum-mon in z 'hf ide main..- ; h" an-. mis- ! tiikon." j |
