AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 November 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

SDKISTERS' RESIGNATIONS „»n_ „',„ Amsterdam. Nov. 2. and Herr Waldon have BERTtmG'S APPOINTMENT CONFIRMED. Beuter Service Received Nov. 4, 5.5 p.m. w Amsterdam, Nov. 3. ««yiln now officially confirms the apfefcAtment of Baron von Hertling. .JIBING THE iPOPE AS A TOOL FOR PEACE. : -Times Service Received Nov. 4, 5.15 p.m. London, Nov. 3. V% Times, in a leader, says that Baron Jon Hertling na* been appointed manifestly owing to his long services as un-pfficWjPrtwgo-Qerman agent at the Vatican. The Kaiser's choice means that SITS?" 7 ™ her efforts to use Jne Pope as a tool for peace manoeuvres.

TBE NI6W CHANCELLOR. -Frederick W. Wile, in "Who's Who in FS2i M? SU t ° nS i dMei ' ibe * the new Chan* ***: ™* tffltured and courtly Prime Wtastet of BSKVafia is a type of the Merman professor in politics. Up till 1906-von Hertliitg was born in Hesse Darmstadt .in .1843—he was a professor of seknee and political philosophy in Munich, becoming Bavarian Minister of Foreign 4fftira and 'Premier in 1912 The Poman Catholic Centre Party rules in )Ba»arte, and vein Hertling for many years represented 4me of its leading constituencies feii-ttoii Beiehstag at Berlin, wher. pe was looked upon as one of the fewstatesmanlike figures and Speakers in *°*!fi, dullest debating society. He Bpeke -wfth MpiaefaWe authority, and always with reason and moderation, on foreign aflairt, though he was a pronouiieed apostle of Germany's 'forward' policy. .Von Hertling is an aecomplised Ittlifth scholar.' One of his literary production* is "Joan Locke and the* Cambridge Sen-dM."' ' In February last the "Munchener Neu- *»** Nachrichten" published an interview WHt Baron voii Hertling. in which de declared that the war would be waged to the end under all circumstances, and with Ml the means at Germany's disposal. Bencral Hindenburg had declared that from the, theoretical point, of view the war could still be continued for an unlimited tihtt, gjnee the German losses were not as large as the reinforcements .that.had «me into the army. Their frontiers, east, west and south, were intact. The aim of- the war was to defend themselves against the attacks of the enemy, and this'aim had been achieved With complete success. Yet the enemy, tlso, was theoretically capable of carrying en tie War for an unlimited period. provided always that he could receive supplies from overseas. If, therefore, they were to put ah end to the war once JUS& for all, these supplies must be cut jiff, and thus the submarine warfare had jbeen strengthened. The last stage of the war would be a terrible one. They pad gained all they wanted, and so there were no reasons, from Germany's point fef View, for continuing the struggle.