Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-03-06 | Page 12 | Kaiser Glad of His Victory

KAISER GUlf : OF HIS ffili j Congratulates King Leopold o( ; j Bavaria on Glorious Page in German History. )t 1 AMSTERDAM, March G. Emperor 3 William telegraphed a message of con' I gratulations to Field Marshsl vonT I Hindenburg on "the glorious concluj. I sion of the war on the eastern front T ? The telegram as quote din a Berliul dispatch says: J l "Now tho costly prize of victory in! jl the long struggle is in our hands. Out! j j Baltic brethren and countrymen ard J i liberated from Russia's yoke and maI . again feel themselves Germans. Godl was with us and will continue to nidi jus." 4 William in a telegram to Prince Leo4j pold of Bavaria, the Austro-Gernianljl commander on the eastern front, ac"ilj cording to a Berlin dispatch. congrat-4l ulates hi'm that after three and a halt' ' years of struggle the Gorman armies! have called a halt to "the Russiani army, which with an overwhelming! superiority of numbers, threatened our country." j In alluding especially to Prince Leopold's troops, the emperor said: "In irresistible marches over bad roads in ice and snow they did their, utmost. Tho victorious march in the last fortnight will remain a glorious page in the history of the German arm1." j Germans Not Rejoicing. g AMSTERDAM, March G Despite Kj orders from the 'German high core- la mand for the German people to beflag their towns and rejoice over peace ! m with Russia, notes of doubt aro not Bj lacking in the German press in regard M to the future in the east. Tho Vorrj S wacrts says that Russian territory is f not the place the Germans longed for,; cf or is German occupation calculated to jjjji endure. ; jfii It adds: raf "Wo should regard it as wiser and j more far-seeing if the German gov-i g eminent had not exploited to the ut-, n most the helplessness of the Russian trt, peoples and forced a peace, for wbicli ; the only historical parallel is that which crushed Prussia when she was j obliged to conclude peace at Tilsit In iso7. im German Democracy Must Fight. JJaj "Tho Gorman social democracy mustffiy now take up the fight with tho object of preventing the now neighboring ;o states from being treated by Germany, . as subjugated peoples." ; Goorg Bernhard in the Vossiscbe : Zeilung confesses to uneasiness as . - .Urn whether tho same condition which '.vas ; .- confronted before the war "and whicfl . Is now momentarily broken as a figh'-j j, ing organization," will not after tlie. war reconstitute itself. He hopes Ibf j . fa peace in the west, when it comes, will ; .j not show tho same lack of Imagination that characterized tho Russian peaces i Hollwerj Is Berated. : 0tj( f-Tprr TCnrnnrfl fimimllv borates Dr. : von Bethmann-Hollweg, the former German chancellor, regarding the Ger-r KQi man demand revealed by M. Piclionj the French foreign minister, to "m Icppg given Verdun and Toul. It says it wa j,to'g( a peace of stupidity which made tn entry of Great Britain into the warln-J. lr ovitable. r lii