Show i 0 OP P WAR i tile the dorm german a n fo foreign reign minister feels i that tho the occasion Is ono one tor for frank ut torance to ranco and ho he gives it to us ua lie ho that ho he has and still continues to rOD repulse all efforts tending to the demobilization of the old german army that old german army can bo be used ho he says in tho least from this we may lufer that tho the old german army lo Is still in ex fa faience tence which justifies Just inoa the forebodings said to bo be entertained by foch aa a he watched tho the dusl disbanding anding of tho the allied forces and their withdrawal from france foch is fa reported to I 1 have auald that within two months j germany i could organize an army I 1 th that I 1 in relation fon to tho the allied armies would bo be as three oree to two that such a report Is necessarily authentic Is truo true enough but the probabilities are in its favor lit in any event we may exorcise exercise the same caution with regard to those other utterances that I 1 aerman germanas germanys Germ anys Ys railroad system Is in so BO ruinous a state as to prohibit tho the movements ot of troops that of course Is precisely what germany would wish us to believe she sha has hao I 1 had a breathing or space aco of twelve weeks since the signing of the first armistice she did not comply with tho terms of that armistice and she has not yet coni compiled plied with them and I 1 i not a single coercive measure has I 1 i been directed against her in conse quence q bonce wo we may also note the alg nill patice of the foreign ministers ret forence to the use of the german army in tho he east why should tho the german army bo be used lit in the east cast i why should the germany army be used anywhere the reply Is of a simple one tho the foreign minister and also count yon von bernstorff have definitely stated that gor wany will not evacuate west sla that Is to say northern poland 1 that sho she will not permit tho the complete restoration of poland or polls polish access to the w water ater at Da dantzle Dantz lg although this la Is one of 1 the fourteen points that she ehe Is supposed to have accepted and that she says she he has accepted germany says that she will not ato west because that would mean the of east bast prussia such Is her claim but the real reason for the retention tion of west prussia la IS the tact fact that alioti alio ho fi has as no other highroad into rusl sla this of course has been said often lotten before but oven at the cost coat of being ti tiresome resoLe it Is necessary to say eay lit 4 again we want to know not on 1 ty what germany Is doing abut al also i what she intends to do in other words why sho bhe it if the id ea I 1 that germany Is cherishing har r old schemes of asiatic conquest la is received with incredulity only by those who obtain from the tho study of maps 1 and ami who cherish tho the illus illusion lon that tha t I 1 gormany germany accepts defeat the only remedy edy lor for that illusion la Is the examination of the facts i the germany foreign minister then went on to say that germany refused to pay her indemnities and that no territory should be ceded to tho victors although af though he reluctantly admitted that alsace and lorraine Lorr alne were lost the victory of the allies ho said was largely an economic victory and not a military one this TO IB I 1 was asserted also in a message to general foch who thereupon refused to receive it until it should be couched in courteous terms but the Y victory I 1 atory to theaplies tho the Allies being an economic peace which means s that germany must bo be at once placed on an economic and industrial parity with her enemies there must be no discrimination against her in any respert moreover it germany la Is to under take any work of reconstruction in tho the devastated portions of prance france and it must be 0 hor her own free will and not by the labor of prisoners of war any othor 1 treatment would not be acceptable I 1 I 1 to us if germany la Is to have a freedom to trade without ilsc dis crimin iman aalona she must als also 0 have the free idom doni of t the seas and the freedom ul of I 1 tho the seas means the abolition of the right to blockade it Is evident that the foreign minister Is looking 1 forward to the next war and to re I 1 ilef in that war from the embarrass ments of the allied navies great britain her chief naval enemy would at once sink to the status of oc a fourth rate power it if she were deprived of 0 tho the right to blockade her navy might aa aswell well bo be destroyed and the same may be said of france and america and italy germany Gir many being I 1 I 1 now new without a navy and being pe cull cult arly vulnerable to blockade would naturally like hire to sio seo this weapon disbarred dis barred and the foreign minister la Is in no way reluctant to say so BO lie ile wants tornow to know what has be bej j come of president wilsons Wll Wil sona sons pron pronoun oun 1 cement to the effect but perhaps the cream of the foreign minister speech la Is to be found in its conclusion like a sagacious statesman ho he leaves the best beat until the last germany he says must effect a union with austria Aus fria the twin nations are to find each other again the peace conference he aada will assuredly assur edl 7 not refuse it its a sanction to the rectification of this mistake of the past henceforth wo we must filst protest against any violence boing being done to germans and Aust austrians rians who are so to speak our tellow fellow coun thymen 11 now this moment momentous oui statement was made by the Gerin german voi foreign minister to tho the german national assembly it was not tho the unconsidered utterance of a firo fire eater lt it was in an avowal of german policy and it was made to a representative and elected assembly of the german people moreover it was at confirmed by tho now new german chancellor phillip Schol demann who said we desire no reluctant adherents he rents and by the same sam 0 token nobody wishing to join us should bo be prevented then Schol Sc heldemann demann went vent on to say that if an unjust peace was forced upon germany there are seventy millions of people who in their hearts will never forget or forg forgive lve heldemann Sc be it remembered belongs to the pacifist or conciliatory element elbrent of the german parties as opposed to general von winterfield who advocates the resumption of the war and a bt blank ank refusal of all arm armistice estice proposals and yet holdmann Sc roann not only advocates a n union with austria but threatens vague and unspecified things from seventy millions of people if his demand for union with austria should be rejected this lg is the first time that such a demand has been openly made but it was by no means un forseen it was forseen by cher adame me who regarded it as one of the great perils of the war almost irrespective of whether germany should win or lose iose austria lie he said in any event must fall into the german maw which means that austria Is thereby added to the german to empire m Chern Che radame dame lid did not then forsee the disintegration of austria tho the loss of her slav provinces nor the creation of the czecho state but this only lessons lessens the peril it Is by no means abolishes it ire he wild said that a postwar post war union of germany and austria would leave germany with nn an enormously increased territory and with the tha control of millions nill llona of austrian soldiers who would thereupon be drilled into german soldiers sold lers a very different thing it would mean the extension df austria of tho the german military railroad system it would moan mean in other words the establish establishment mene of mittel europa a continuous german sway from the north sea to tho the bal kang kana that Is just what we are in a fair way to witness tho the loss by austria of her slav provinces and perhaps also her magyar elements lessons lessens the peril as has been said but it by no means exercises exorcises it once more we see germany clinging to her ideals mittel europe has not even yet become for her the unattainable she Is still stretching out her hanos hands toward the balkans it if she cannot go the whole way at least she will go as far as an she can she will keep ke 0 P open P e n he her r door way to russia and siberia through west prussia no matter what she ebe may have agreed to the contrary and now we see that even the south cm road la Is by no means to be considered closed wo have the def definite laito e stat mont and from the hibbeat of all sources that germany will demand the right to absorb the whole of german austria and with a keen eye to the possibilities that such a success might imply coincidentally we have various reports from the austrian germans that they too regret their mistake of the past the mistake of separation and that since they have been sundered from the slavs slave and magyars magyari they will seek reunion with germany and merge their hopes for the future in those of their brothern ethern br to the north and west so long as this project was no more than one of the many schemes floating coating in the air of ure wo we co could 1 uld afford to disregard it dut now it la is suddenly lifted to the plane lilane of practical politics by the simultaneous declarations of the german chancellor and tile the german foreign minister before the german national assembly at weimar and the german chancellor permits himself to threaten the world with the animosities of seventy millions of p people cople in caso case the scheme should be frustrated now these are the real news items of the day and not the events that are transpiring at ta the peace conference these are the events that 41 with conditions and n not ot with theories these are the events that will not be memorized away by visions of a parliament of men it a federation ot of the world how should we receive a demand for the uniting of germany and austria tria ilow how could we refuse to accede to it it we adopt the principle of the self determination of peoples and here we should probably have hava an austrian vote for union with germany m any on which there would hardly bo be a dissentient vote there can be no future for the austrian germans except in such a union the austrian empire has disintegrated the slav peoples will go their own way at least we hope they will although we would indeed bo be rash who should venture upon any sort of definite nite repletion n tion under existing conditions thore there Is reason to believe that tho the magyari magyars also will go their own WT this leaves a compact german nationality tiona lity as a residuum and presumably it would have the right of self determination and it if it should exorcise that right it would undoubtedly cl claim a m to be renni reunited ted with all the other germans in Elu europe rope and so form an integral part of the new german republic then we w should id seo sen a Gerina germany nv largely egx aggrandized ns a result of the tap war with an extensive and now recruiting ground among gernian german sneaking i 7 1111 its iti tentacle enst enit ward toward the balkan tn in other words we should wp the nitah nt nf nerona nn rona which WP we linbo apfl selves navor fn an ro r ia n r bilm with ali p ap nry i sort of spare tentacle reaching eastward through poland west prussia into russia and with reasonable pos of extension to siberia vla via dl and the pacific ocean we should have a triumvirate of germany japan and china as aa the trans trana 1 pacific neighbors of tho the united states now all this makes an unpleasant picture but it Is a true trub one it was the power of 0 the peace conference to draw the fangs from the german mouth within one wook week of tho the signing of the he armistice germany now thinks that the allies were afraid to do so the allied tir nr les fes were then at the maximum of choir strength and the german armies at the minimum it ta is the A al alf 1 armies that are now rapidly approaching pro aching their minimum but we do not know much about the ger ronn armies except that the germans themselves them tho solves are willing to disclose and that by the way Is a good deal bilut we do know that germany has ano consciousness of military defeat alt she re regards gardt herself as momentarily unfortunate and that she de mands to bo be treated as an honorable awl undefeated enemy against whom wham has turned and who must bo be loft left to pursue her old aggressions as soon as she shall be e prepared to ido 0 s so 0 all this might have been it if the peace conference had addressed essed itself at once to the most emergent of all its tasks it if it had in saintly stint ly stated tho the terms of peace that should have been debated and agreed upon a year ago foch was ready with his armistice terms why were not the allies ready with their peace terms perhaps history will answer SIDNEY CORYN |