NEUTRALS' TREATMENT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3173, 25 August 1917, Page 7

NEUTRALS' TREATMENT

PREVENTION OF FURTHER RUPTURES j STATEMENT BY GERMAN j FOREIGN MINISTER / Amsterdam, August i! 3. ! ; In tho Reichstag He it Kuhlmann, j Foreign Minister, addressing the Main I Committee, Mid:-"Our treatment o( neu- j trols is important, and tlio prevention of j further ruptures in relations is a material task, which can only be solved by ] the principle that might is not U o only \ factor, but also right. Any [.-olicy base-it ; on might is doomed to failure beforehand. j Tho study of tho enemy's psychology is ! also important, as wo should not destroy, \ by hard, grim words, oventual feelings of reconciliation." He also declared, that this would probably bo tho last year of , the war. ; j The Progressives are deligflted with the ' speech. Social Democrats. that ; as long as the enemy refused to contludo j peace Germany must contimio her mili- . tary pressure. Tiiey believed that Ger- ; many would be unable to force , peace by i means of the submarines. —Renter. j THREATS FOR HOLLAND AND;: j DENMARK • | REGARDING SUPPLIES OF STEEL j COAL. j (Rec. August 24, 5.5 p.m.) .! j Washington. August 23. j The State Department lias been in- j formed that Germany haß threatefl&d not . j to give Holland any more steel for ! ship- , construction, unless Holland will 'agree i that 'the ships constructed from it will be used in t'he interests of Germany for j the duration of tho war and five years thereafter. Germany has also informed ! Holland that sho must send minors to j Germany if .Bhe desires more tlinh a cer- j j tain allotment of coal. - .- ! It' is -understood that Germauy is '..sing ; the same tactics towards Denmark.-—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. j