The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-26
IMP PERIALISTS ON
 TOP IN GERMANY, VIEW IN LONDON

London, Jan. 26.-The' view enter tained by majority of the morning newspapers of London respecting the speeches of Chancellor Von Hertling and Foreign Minister Czernin is that Germany regards herself as the con- queror, that she is determined on ag- gression and is prepared to listen to no peace terms except her own, and that therefore the war must go on.
 1t is admitted that the tone of the Austro- Hungarian foreign minister is more conciliatory than that of the German chancellor, but this is attrib- uted largely to the pressure of inter- nal conditions in Austria Hungary. Count Czernin's respectful references to President Wilson's address are re- ceived coolly for the most part be- cause of his declared fidelity to the alliance with Germany
 The Morning Post thinks Chancellor Won Hertling's evident anxiety to and cannot reconcile his professed agreement with President Wilson's general principles while differing as to details, but assumes that the speech Was constructed, as so many have in- terpreted it, with equal reason to op- posite senses. After making an in- dignant condemnation of the proposal that Great Britain give up Gibraltar and other defenses, the Post says: Now having received another proof of Germany's inexpungable hatred of England, we will get on with the war;
 The Telegraph fears that the speeches of both statesmen contribute Iiothing to the pacification of Europe and believes that there is no radical divergence in the views of Germany and Austria The Telegraph says that the chancellor's views are especially important because he exposes unmis- takabIy the face that the militarist party in Germany has gained a re- markable ascendancy.
 1 The Chronicle says that Chancellor Won Herthng, while giving guarded and practically valueless assent to some of President Wilson's abstract principles, refuses every one of the concrete territorial demands. The Chronicle finds it difficult to say how much Count Czernin's phrases regard ing President Wilson mean for on concrete points he comedies nothing.
 Concluding, the Chronicle says that
 ''it looks as if nothing but Germany
 defeat could change Germany S heart"
 The Daily Mail says: "If there are
 any shirkers or believers in peace by negotiation still among us there vii
 be none left when Chancellor Won Hertlings speech is read. It is clear that Germany is unrepentant, un
 beaten and swollen with victory fol aggression"
 The Times thinks the two speeches
 were arranged in collision and consti'
 tute a combined diplomatic offensive
 against the Entente allies. The Time:
 says: "The attack obviously was in
 tended to shake the solidarity of oul
 defense at several points, but Presi dent Wilson manifestly was the chic objective of the converging forces Neither speech discloses the leas readiness to make any concession
 which the Allies declare to be indis pensable."
 Paris, Jan. 26-'Never was the Al sace-Lorraine question farther iron being the sole obstacle to peace,
 says the Temps in it's comment o1 the speeches of the German chancel Tor and the Austro7 Hungarian for eign minister. '@This only is the mos visible symbol of the intractabl German imperialism
 The Temps says the chancellor fail utterly to follow the reasoning of D1 Von Kuehlmann, the German foreig secretary, saying "if we were to con slider the Alsace-Lorraine demand h would have been forced to declar \ Germany's readiness to restore Bel gium without hindrance, and to giv thn pnles I I.atts and Iithuanians free