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Show NO EXTENSION OF TERRITORY ! Germany Wishes Solely to Defend De-fend Her Own Against Foreign Conquest. DEMANDS GUARANTEES Allies Desire Reparation for Despoiling of Belgium and Other Countries. AMSTERDAM, May 31, via London, 2:27 p. m. The declaration Is made by the seml-ofilcial Nord Deutsche Allgemelne Zeitung of Berlin that Germany Ger-many desires no extension of territory for the purpose of aggrandizement or of political or economic accretion of power. Germany wishes sololy to defend de-fend her own territory against foreign plans of conquest, the newspaper says, and moreover demands such guarantees guaran-tees as will serve for tho purpose of her future defense and self-protection. These statements are made in comment com-ment on the recent speeches by Lord Robert Cecil, British minister of blockade, and H. H. Asqulth, former Zritish premier. The newspaper says that, apart from the Imputations In Mr. Asquith's speech, the principles expounded ex-pounded coincide with those of responsible re-sponsible German quarters, both formerly for-merly and during the present war. German Reparation Demanded. Lord Robert Cecil said in the houso of commons on May 16 that Great Britain could not commit herself to a policy of returning German colonies and Turkish provinces in which tho natives had been mistreated and asked whether such a policy should be adopted adopt-ed in the cases of Poland, Alsace-Lorraine Alsace-Lorraine and Italia Irredenta. He said Germany should make reparation for despoiling Belgium, Serbia and northern north-ern Franco and destroying merchant ships. Mr. Asqulth Said that if tho war were to end in an honorable peace there must be annexation, continuing tho emancipation of populations laboring labor-ing under despotism and that tho retention re-tention of strategic positions as safeguards safe-guards against future attacks might be necessary. |