The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-01-31
lI3rlIiTg Iiasas Reply 10 AMER
lean Pace Terms
KILL KEEP" LOST PROVINCES
Great Britain Must Surrender World
Wide Fortifeations In Plan For Flu
ture Freedom OF Seas--No Wish &c
Acquire Land "by Violence"-our
Points and Replies

Washington. Jan n Chancellor
Won Hertllng's long deferred peace nd.
dress 10 the reichstag declared That
The imperial German government
would not consider the return Of the
| lost provinces" to France.
Heriling also declared that In con-
neciion with reduced armament
peace program Berlin would Insist
that England relnquish ar dismantle
armed points Of support along inter-
national trade routes, mentioning
Hong Kong, Malta and Gibraltar par
ticulnrly.
The four points upon which the
chancellor declared Germany might
end common ground with the United
States ana the entente allies were:
Open covenants and absence Of
SECRET diplomacy"
Freedom Of the seas.
Guarantees for the reduction Of ma
tional ornaments.
The removal Of economic barriers
In concluding his address, Hertling
suggested ;hat both President Wilson
aud Lloyd George reconsider and re-
STATE their respective war aims.
Herring commented on The fourteen
points in the program for world peace
set forth In President Wilson's speech
10 congress. He took up the prcsi-
dents terms in their order and made
the official answer for his government
to the demands The points ard re-
plies are condensed as follows;
Open covenants Of peace with
out private international understand
ing
Germany ready 10 accept.
2-AbsOlutc freedom Of the seas In
peace or war except as they may be
closed by international action
Germany ready 10 accept.
3-Removal Of all economic barriers
and establishment Of equality Of trade
conditions among nations consenting
TO peace and associatlng themselves
for It's maintenance.
germany READY 10 accept.
Guarantees for the reduction Of
national armaments 10 the lowest
point consisting with domestic safety
Germany ready to accept
5-ImnartiaI adjustment OF all col
onlal claims based unon the principles
that The peoples concerned have equa
weight With the interest of the gov
ernme1t
lfertling saws some difficulties would |
b. met with by his term
6 Evacuation os an Russian ter
ritory and opportunity for Russia's
political development
Concerns only Russia and the cen.
trai powers"
The Case Of Belgium
7--Eyncnaton If Belcigm without
any at'empt 10 limit her soyereignify I
Gan only be settled in peace nego- /
tiatIons, but Germany has never de-
mandcd The INCORPORATION of Belgian 1
territory by violence ("
S-All French territory to he freed
and restored, and the wrong done hy
The taking Of Alsace- Lorraine should
be righted
Germany does not wish annexation
by violence, hut this Is question
only 10 he discussed by France and
Germany However. we cannot talk
Of the cession of Alsncp- Lorraine 81
percent of whose population speak
German +"
9-ReadiuJmcnt Of Ifalv's frontiers
along clear lines If nationality
1O-Freest opportunity for autono-
nous DEVELOPMENT OF the peoples Of
Hungary.
Evacuation Of Rnmania, Serbia
and Montenegro. with access IN the
sea for Serbia. and International
~ economic and political
and territorial integrity
u the Balkan states.
1--WE must leave the answer IN these
three terms In The first Mace IN Aus
trim. hut whore German interests are
concerned they would he defended en-.
" Secure sovereignty NJ Turkeys
portion ~ the Ottoman pmnire. hui
with other nniionaliiIps under Turkish
rule assured security Of life and on
por'uniy for autonomous devotion
men', with the Dardenelles pcrrna
Den'lv opencd 10 MI nnilons
HerilIng said he wnnlh NOT fnres'an
Turkeys attitude towards this polnt
Ne nddeh that the integrity of Tur-
kew and the safety ~ her canital
closely were connected with The ques- I
lion ~ the strait, which was of vital
interest 10 Germany
10 Establishment ~ mn indepen-
lent Polish state. inc'udno territories I
Inhabited nv infisnuiahlv Polish pop-
Nations. with free access n the sea
ind political and economic lndenend-
'nre and territorial integrity guaran-
eed nv International covenant
Germany win he ready when nh
,'her questions are settled 10 discuss
! leagne ~ peoples
I4-General association ~ nations
inder sDecifc covenants for mnfHal .
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