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Show GERMAN PRESS IS QUARRELING OVER WILSON'S SPEECH AMSTERDAM, ' Jan. 12. The German Ger-man newspapers have begun violently to quarrel among themselves regarding, their respective views of President Wil-1 son 's recent address to congress. Tho Taglischo Kundschau of Berlin, for instance, under the caption, ''The Pied Piper of Washington," attacks tho comment of the Socialist newspaper A'onVaerts, which it pillories as "dis-pieublo "dis-pieublo baekbononess" while the Ivheiniscbo Westf alische Zeituug, under ' the head of "Wilson's Last Hope," turns fiercely on tho Berliner Tageblatt, Tage-blatt, tho Chemnitz Volks Zeitung, and others, which it accuses of having confirmed con-firmed President Wilson in the oelief that Germany some day will "oblige the entente by surrendering the fruits of ictor3'. " The Vorwaerts, in its comment, declared de-clared that, compared with his previous pronouncements, tho president's address seoms "an example of statesmanlike moderation." It added: ' It is a beautiful, alluring programme of world peace," continues the" Socialist Social-ist organ, "but we must be on guard against too ready confidence. We cannot can-not welcome Mr. Wilson's utterances enthusiastically without testing what he means. "We never stood behind our statesmen states-men for any other purpose than to exercise exer-cise pressure from the rear in the direction direc-tion of pence. Wo shall continue to do so, and if the workers of other countries do the s-ame, then a general world peace will be attained at no distant date."" The Frankfurter Zeitung, while dissenting dis-senting from many points iu Mr. Wilson Wil-son 's message, says the whole document seems inspired by the desire which also animates Germany, namely, to avoid further bloodshed. "If our enemies desiro to convert their words into deeds," the newspaper continues, "and if President Wilson is able to induce the entente to make similar simi-lar concessions, then, indeed, the basis for conversations with a view to ending the war issupplied." Tho newspaper dissents entirely from the president s position regarding Alsace-Lorraine, possession of which, it asserts, is indispensable to Germany's national integritv and freedom. Most of the Berlin newspapers that have reached here, such as the Tageblatt. Tage-blatt. the Yossische Zeitung, the Lokal Anzeiger, the Tages Zeitung, the Taglischo Tag-lischo Rundschau, the Kreun Zeitung and Vorwaerts, and also leading provincial pro-vincial newspapers printed the president's presi-dent's address fully. Others printed onlv the fourteen points. The Catholic organ. Germania, printed a summary of t he address, with sspecial attention to those parts affecting the Russian situation, captioning the article "Wilson on Brest-Litovsk," and so far has added only tho first four of the fourteen points. The smaller provincial journals nave published extracts from the message. |