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Show DOLSHEVIKI SCORED Rulers at Petrograd Accused Ac-cused of Not Practicing What They Preach. AMSTERDAM. Jan. 27. The German foreign secretary-, Er. von Kuehlmann. made a second speech before the reiehs-tag reiehs-tag main committee on Saturday, repiviug to speakers in the debate which followed his first explanation on Friday of the negotiations ne-gotiations at Brest-Litovsk. Incidentally, he expressed confidence that the status of the "great free German ttate" would appeal to the border peoples, and he dealt I strongly with the "Bolshevik policy of i ruling by forco as opposed to professions." j The secretary -continued: J "I warmlv greet the statements of pt ; David (Socialist leader of the reirhstag) that a representative body of Lithuania has really been honorably set uo and that : the representatives of the Lithuanian people peo-ple of p1! classes can strive toward rhe realization of possibilities. Tr hs been sngses-ted that we should wait until the end of th.e war before making extension to other exist Ins: representative bodies. We work under difficult circumstances in the country in question. The war still continues. We will, if peace is reached with Russia, do what can be done in conjunction con-junction with the military necessities, with a view to bringing about this extension ex-tension during the ar. "He rr Trotsky twice declared in open discussion that our government has no basis other than force. Tho. Bolshevikl mahrtain themselves by brutal force; their arguments are cannon and machine guns. Differences cf opinion are settled bv'their getting rid of Tiieir opponents in a radical and satisfactory manner. Th.e Bolshevik' preach beautifully, but practice otherwise. "They have solemnly recognized the Finnish republic. They never nhouted the right of that republic to reveive diplomatic diplo-matic representatives, but when it came to th.e act of sending representatives there thy created the greatest difnculties" When we have news from Finland we will know that the soldiery is cxer.-ising there a tyrannv worse than existed in iiJ ti-r-c of the czar." Dr. von Kuehlmann said that conversations conversa-tions v. ith Poland had been carried on by Germany and Austria for months with zeal, but were nob' yet ripe for communication. communi-cation. The statements of the Bolshev.ki he remarked, "show that these gentlemen are indulging in another policy than that of concluding an open and honorable peace with the bourgeois governments o the central powers, which are hated like ooi- ; son." The secretary concluded by declaring that the German government earnest!; dc- , sired a re a.ud honorable peice |