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Show I Four Points Seem to Indicate j Attitude of German I Leaders. . LONDON, March 5. In the .view of the Marquis of Lansdowne, expressed in a letter to the Daily Telegraph, the recent speech of Chancellor von Hert-ling Hert-ling marks a perceptible advance in ! peace discussions. Lord Lansdowne thinks it all the more remarkable be-I be-I cause "the speech may be regarded as a kind of rejoinder tothc depressing announcement recently made some of us think rather gratuitously by the Versailles' conference.", Lord Lansdowne notes that the ' German chancellor regards the speech ' made by Viscount Mllner on February 21 as more conciliatory than that made made recently by Walter Runciman, former president of the board of trade, 1 and Lansdowne seems by implication i to agree with Count von Hertling. J Four Points Commented On. Four points of von Hertling's speech are selected by Lord Lansdowne for commenL First is the chancellor's wish for an intimate meeting of tho belligerents. Lorn Lansdowne interprets inter-prets this to mean a small informal meeting, not of plenipotentiaries but of persons authorized to discuss confidentially con-fidentially the possibility of a moro formal conference. Ho refers approvingly approv-ingly to the opinion of Foreign Secretary Secre-tary Balfour that it would be unwise to begin negotiations unless some preliminary pre-liminary agreement exists and asks ' how such a preliminary agreement is ' to be reached without preliminary conversations. Wilson's Four Principles. The second point is von Hertling's admission that peace can be discussed i on the basis of President Wilson's four principles. This, says Lord Lansdowne is all right as far as it goes, but he maintains that "wo are entitled to scrutinizo the manner in which these principles have been applied ap-plied by Germany." The third point 1b the chancellor's assurance that he would greet joyfully joyful-ly and co-operate gladly with an impartial im-partial court by international arbitra- Iliuu. juviiu uuusuuwutj siiyif ini3 siaie-ment siaie-ment may be welcomed and recalls that Mr. Balfour made a similar utterance. ut-terance. The fourth points is von Hertling's intimation that Germany does not think of retaining Belgium together with the chancellor's references to the papal note and to tho utilization of Belgium as jumping off ground for Germany's enemies. Lord Lansdowne points out that the material passage the papal note upon which von Hertling Hert-ling apparently relies, insists that Ger-many Ger-many evacuate Belgium. I nn |