New-York tribune., 1918-01-12
|,,.,, Reventlow Declares
pr..ident Has Linked
America With Teutons
svord Still Talks,
Says Another Paper
,.d;cal Press Asserts Ma
,;on Is Being Drowned
With Words

roNpON. Jan. 11.-According to a
s,stch from Amsterdam. Count Ernst
l.. Reventlow. panGerman publicist,
ting in the "Tageszeitung." says that
,.s;dent Wilson'S message is likely to
AVE valuable service throughout
R.many in the way Of enlightening
|,hhc opinion Count Won Reventlow
|xsrts that the President with "grati-
Dras frmness' has allied himself with
f. Won Kuehlmann. the German For
,u Secretary, and Count Czernin. the
.1s.ro-Hungaran Foreign Minister.
In referring to President Wilson's
,,marks on the 1reeIcm OF the seas,
ssrentlow says:
This passage, rendered into Ger
IAN. means that Germany would be de-
,rived of the use Of the North Sea
Ind all connection with world traffic
artil she accepts all the international
res,ies put up to her, among which
would be an agreement to abandon the
ubiect Of commercial warfare"
Sees I'll eCt on Russia
The "vossische Zeitung," of Berlin,
als particular attention to that part
( President Wilson's address affecting
sussia, and says:
4Anglo-Saxon clear-sightedness here
sury evident. Beaten and disorgan-
ned, Russia is not bound uncondi
aonsllv to submit to US in the sense
lat many Germans imagine. OF course.
rs can force her to give up territory
us-and that is what America and
: agland want-but we cannot force
,st to love US. II our policy forces
sussa 70 regard us and the Anglo
s.xon group as two evils she undoubt-
xiv will consider our opponents the
ssser evil. and her enmity will be
;irected not against those who have
Qlerated her dismembelment, but those
sho have accomplished it.
The consequence for us would be
mat German territory would be en-
lsrged by so many square miles, but
still relatively small, and surrounded
BY hostile minded neighbors, which
fact would react unfavorably on our
economic Development and on the
problem of how to feed our increasing
population. That danger faces US now,
and it is high time that it should be
properly recognized"
The "Zeitung am Mittag' says:
We shall never permit that Presi-
ient Wilson, through an unjust and
'rvolous declaration OF war, should
i've obtained the right to play the
n. Of arbiter in Europe at the con-
ssnce table. We would object to this
IL the more. as he is only England's
xond. There are no contracts among
Il as long as the enemy keeps or
alaing about the surrender Of Ger.
IAN territory, be it Alsace, Posen OF
.ansie.
Sword Still Talking
The sword is still talking. Yet {
ale while and the London and Wash
igon programmes will rid themselve
+ those unbeatable points which to
ay make controversy wholly super
: i.ous.'
The "Neser Zeitung," German
sdcal newspaper, calls the America
'iesldent's speech on the Entente
ar aims "Wilson's latest words of wis
@m' and says:
at looks as if Germany is to b
inwned in words. since she cannot b
: eaten by arms. Wilson asks for whor
ne the representative of the Contra
Powers speaking at Brcst-Litovsk. w
= iN extremely sorry that we cannot in
4 arm the Pres ident. We do not knoN
! !uFselves'
Referring to the freedom Of the seas
tie newspaper asks whether there wer
Neaties guaranteeing it prior to 1871
md adds
"0f course. but that did not preven
tie Entente from making free naviga