GERMANY'S AIMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 110, 26 January 1918, Page 7

GERMANY'S AIMS

i CHANCELLOR'S COMING SPEECH ANNOUNCEMENT CANNOT BE EVADED Amsterdam, January 21. Tho speech of Count von Hortling, Imperial Chancellor, in tho Reichstag to-morrow, in reply to President Wilson and Mr. Lloyd George, is awaited with growing interest in Germany. Count von Hertline and Dr. von Kuhlmann had a further audience with the Kaiser. Dr. von Kuhlmann received tho Reichstag loaders and informed them of the course of the Russian negotiations.

The "Frankfurter Zoitinig" urges that Count Hertling should clearly states his intentions regarding Belgium, with a view to counteracting tho effect of the Entente declarations. The "Mannheim Volksstimmo" demands a similar declaration, adding that tho Entente statesmen are cleverly using tho weakness of German policy. "We admit that the Central Governments cannot any longer evade the announcement of their war aims." —Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. AN EARLY_PEACE DESIRED MISTAKEN BELIEF AS TO AMERICA'S PREPARATIONS. New York, January 2*l. Tho New York "Times" London correspondent says that ho has obtained an intimato view of the German Government's attitude. Germany desires an early peace, and beliovcs it is likely to be attained. Germany also cherishes a mistaken belief that America's preparations are unreal and merely a bluff.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.