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Show VON HERTLING ' MAKESEXCUSES Peace Treaty With Russia Contains No Disgraceful Conditions. ALLIES ARE LIARS Untruthfulness Second Nature and Their Brutality Worse Responsible fof War. COPENHAGEN, Monday, March 18. Chancellor von Hertling, on tho first reading in tho reichstag of the peace treaty with Russia today, declared that he did not wish to discuss the opinions opin-ions of Germany's enemies regarding the treaty. "Hypocrisy," the chancellor added, "has become second nature to the enemy ene-my whose untruthfulness is made worse by Its brutality. Every attempt at calm explanation and every real deliberation de-liberation must fail when the enemy, at the very moment they are laying a heavy hand on a neutral country dare to speak of a policy guided by complete com-plete unselfishness. "The treaty with Russia contains no conditions disgraceful to Russia, if the provinces breaking away from Russia say it is In accordance with their own wish and the wish Is accepted by Russia." Rus-sia." Provinces Belong to Germany. The imperial chancellor declared that Courland and Lithuania were united unit-ed to Germany politically and economically economi-cally and militarily and added: "Livonia and Esthonia aro the eastern east-ern frontier fixed by tho treaty, but wc hope that they also will have close and friendly relations with Germany not, however, to the exclusion of their friendly relations with Russia. Poland is not mentioned in the treaty and wo shall endeavor to see if it is possible to live In stable and good neighborly relations with tho now state! "If the reichstag adopts the peace treaty, peace on the whole eastern front will be restored as I announced February 24, but among tho entente powers there is not tho least inclination inclina-tion to finish this terrible war. The responsibility for bloodshed will be upon the heads of those who wish continuation con-tinuation of tho bloodshed." |