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Show EVEN THE GERMANS DOUBT GOOD FAITH OF KUEHLMANN LONDON, Jan. 3. The situation created cre-ated by the hitch in the Brest-Li tovsk negotiations, dispatches from Amsterdam i reflecting news from Berlin show, has I aroused the activities of the rulers and politicians . of . Germany and Austria-I Austria-I Hungary. ! Emperor William yesterday received in joi nt audience Chancellor von Herding, Field Marshal von Hindenhurg, General vuu Lud-: ndorff , Finance Minister von RoedPi n a nd Foreign Secretary von i Kuehlmann. The foreign affairs commit-i commit-i t.-c of the German bundesrat. under the : presidency of Count, von Dandl. discussed I the Russian situation at the chancellor's palace. Chan -ellor von Hertling had a jf.nq eon versa: ion wit h Admiral von Tir-! Tir-! pifz, t'-,c former minister of marine, and Em pet iir i 'harlos received in audience Professor Kucha nsevski, the polish premier. pre-mier. Foreign Secretary on Kuehlmaun's return re-turn to Brest -Li tovsk. after a hurried visit to Berlin, is sa id to have created surprint;, as did his conference wiiii reiehsi.ig leaders, who were summoned sudden'.y. Le-viers of all parties were present at the conference, according to information 'in A m-iterdam, a nd they informed Dr. von Kueh'.nvtnn that they ad iir red strong-ly strong-ly to the eemand thai the r-M.-hstag be I summoned as speedily as possible. ! The foMure of the conference is said to ha ve 'of c-n the on; spoken speeches of i Philipp Scheidf-nia nn and Fried rich Ehrt. fnr the nrm ial Socialists, and Huyo H.-iasc. for tiie indpndnt Socialists. 7 hev are credited with having t"ld von WuehlPMr-r i ha' his attitude in the Rus-sn.n Rus-sn.n negotiator: was prejudicial to peace. Thev tnld him th.it to ray on1 d;w that Gcruunv wanted no Russian frritorv and in say the nxt day thai it waiUol vlr- j t u.i liv nil t-n i tor-- nc, upird bv ( man "o.:;--: :!:-(:'. , i !.. f i r f- l a : .-sin n in cV- i .t;;.i-v.- ! r!:n'" .-oi.'Ml-Mtcc hi Um- vonl I ol Germany's leaders. The foreign cccre- tary is said, however, to have made explanations. ex-planations. The Leipsic Volkszeltung. leading independent inde-pendent Socialist newspaper, commenting on the Brest-Lltovsk situation and the activities of von Kuehlmann and the government, says: "Germany low reveals her eastern peace aims. Everybody in Germanv, Russia and entente countries now knows that she is not aiming at a just peace without annexations and indemnities such as von Kuehlmann depicted, but at a peace providing for an enormous increase in-crease in Germany's military, political and economic strength . "These intentions must strengthen the war will of the entente. Germany intends in-tends really to annex all territories she now holds. Her excuse that the populations popula-tions of these territories have declared their willingness to be severed from Russia Rus-sia is untrue. Individuals may have done so. but they always have been irresponsible, irrespon-sible, acting on some German suggestion." |