German Reply to Entente

Taihape Daily Times, 26 January 1918, Page 5

German Reply to Entente

REVIEWS LLOYD GEORGE AND WILSON’S SPEECH.

NOTES THEIR CHANGED TONE

Received 11 a.m.

AMSTERDAM, Jan 25

The Kaiser presided at a Crown Council, whereat Hindenburg, Ludehdorff, Hertling, and Kuhlmann se*'-. tied the , terms of Hertling’s spepch.. ' Baron , Hertling, addressing ;i - : , the main centre of the Reichstag, said negotiations at Brest Litovsk were preceeding slowly, and with difficulty, but he clung to the hope of coming to an agreement with the. Russians. Negotiations with the Ukranians continue favourably, and w£. hope soon to conclude, a treaty mutually satisfactory, especially from ran economic point of view. The period wherein the Entente might have co-operated in a general peace expired on 3rd January,* after which Germany . was fL ' to proceed .'with separate' negotiations with Russia <. Lloyd George and Wilson had since announced their waxaims. Lloyd George showed an alteration of tone,-and was no longer abusing, but was showing an inclination to negotiate, but not showing an earnest desire for peace'. Lloyd George, while appreciating Germany’s political economic, cultivated opposition, adjudges her guilty of the utmost pcs: hie crimes. We cannot understand such feelings. The Chancellor reviewed the situation before the war, stating the alliance with Austria w r as purely defensive and never misused for aggressive purposes. He declared Edward VII endeavoured to create an enemy coalition, Wilson’s tone had changed since replying to the Pope. He tried to sow dissension between the German Government and the people. It was no longer the trial of autocratic German Government and suppression of the people. He does not repeat his attacks on the house of Hohenzollern,