Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-22
Defends Germany Against Charges in Interesting
 Statement Of IdeGLS

comment on this that Germany must be destroyed by bloody and irrepar- able defeats on the battle field"
 Dr. Solf exclaimed:
 Thus speak the protectors, who for the sake of Belgium have drawn the sword"
 This is directed against our eastern policy. To this l reply that the Brest- LitoYsk peace came about by agree ment between the Russian and Ger man governments that the frontier peoples of Russia after centuries of oppression should be permitted to live their own national life. for which object they had been striving This agreement on the fate of the border peoples is a fact of world importance which never can be erased from his tory.
 Not about the aim, but about the ways and means leading to conferring their own national life upon these peO- pies did the Russian and German con captions differ Our conception was and is that the path to freedom shall not lead through anarchy to whole sale murder Between the first burst ing of the bonds and full capability for self-determination of the border peoples there lies a natural transitOry period. Until the regulation forces should cooperate in the various coun- tries, Germany felt called upon to pro- tect these communities in their own, as well as in the general interest. as indeed she has been called upon to do 1ax- hot al critics.
 The Brest-Litovsk peace is a frame work, and the picture which is to appear within is only sketched in rough lines.
 England forfeited the right ot act as moral champion of the Russian border states in their unparalleled time of suffering. During the war they repeatedly appealed to England for help. It was always denied them"
 Dr. Solf declared England's attitude towards Russia was merely selfish, saying:
 Were Ivan the Terrible to rise to weld Russia together again he would be a welcome ally to England in her crusade for freedom and right"
 The recognition of ths Czecho-Slo- vaks-those landless rObber bands-as an allied power is the logical keystone of the singular structure of Anglo Russian friendship.
 The economic distress in the terri tories occupied by us is undoubtedly great: but it is cynicism wh6n England laments this, because her hunger blockade is directed against the occu- pied territories, just as it is directed against us, against neutrals and against tn whole world"
 Speaking of MT. Balfour's reference to the improvement in the condition oc the colonies which had been taken from Germany, he said
 This means that England conquerg land and asserts that she can govern it better than its lawful owners, ana from this derives the claim to annex it. Does the British foreign secretary know nothing of the decimiation of the colored populations of the various Afri- can colonies by the entente's action? Nothing of the enforced recruiting in British East Africa? Nothing of the gigantic armies of warriors and work CTS from the British and French col onies?
 Has he any idea of the immeasur- able damages to the colonial mission of all civilized races which must re- suit from the use of black armies in battle against the white races and the bringing of the former to Europe?'
 He asserted that German was the only power waging war which has def initely adopted the administration o2