Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-20
BCONOMIC WAR;
CRY IN GERMANY
Press of Right and Left
Considers 1t Necessity
i'm Peace
FOREIGN POLICY SCORED
Admit Kaiser Does Not Expect
to Get All Colonial Empire
Back
$peciaf Gable TO Euening Public Ledger
copyrtoht. ,sis. bv Ned YORK Times Go.

The Hague, June 20.
.swirtschaftsSrieg" Economic war) is
{ the popula: cry for the moment, and
the organs OF the Right and Left are
deyoting columns to this burning ques-
Ntion. Raw material, food and other
4 necessary imports and the best means
Of procuring them, shipping and how 1t
may be controlled during the bridging
over OF the period after the war, etc,
are the subjects discussed daily. Then
the Pah-Gernidn and Anyexationist pa
pers are beginning to feel that It is
time the public realized that military
victory ts aot everything and that the
Entente hive strong weapons IN their
hands
The Nor,ideusGhe hllegeime Zeitung
article cabled recently openly admitted
this The papers. however, do not cease
to talk OF Lisrmanys brilliant military
victory, while the peace offensive and
the economic var talk continue.
The Deutsche Tageszeitung pretends
\ that Hindenburg has wrecked Frances
last Illusions. snatching from her even
the PROMISED help of the Americans
! n says:
/ Thai whrrh has arrived up 20 the
1 present aad has been tried on ;he west
front has oesu badly beaten and driven
1 back
4 "Bnri-s" Another French Hope
The paper naturally does not mention
4 The German losses but points out that
what the Entente has lost in men and
material during the last offensive may
y be otherwise interpreted in America. but
not In Europe. II France still has hopes
j Of a favorable peace in consideration
Of the promised American help and fear
I OF the Americans in the fall who are
not yet arriving. the paper says. .hen.
! this hope must also be buried.
! The big gathering NJ Hamburg and
! iHansa merchants. which met to consider
(, economic questions. such as shipping,
/ exports and imports in practical way.
I rs well as the future OF foreign dipio-
l macy. was attended by Prince Won Bu-
low and many prominent Reichstag
I members. Including Vice President Dove,
the conservative members. Dietrich and
4 Won Westarp. and Of other representa-
X & tiyes of parties. such as Stressrnann,
4 Rechenberg ard Naumann.
I = Ballin and Hulderman, of the Ham
Line, made conspicuous
speeches. The latter closed his speech
Gjfh the words OF the South Gerrna n
Merchant Down with the Berlin organi-
* nation" and the whole tenor of the
6peeches appears 20 indicate that The
Hansa towns. which control one-th'rd Of
he foreign trade in peace time. con-
t{6er the economic afterthe-war STRAIT
exy. as well as the bridging of the Pc
riod as being badly organized and that
Mere must be freedom from wartime
measures d ad cou;Toi of shipping sLthe
Dl5essation Of hostilities. while mdfe stfess
5Nust be laid on export and less on en-
bargo OF imports, and gold should be
Exported 10 improve exchange,
sThis meeting was the occasion of a
fete for the Hansaites. and the Ham
burg American Line ran special train
FOR the delegates from Berlin in Its
usual enterprising way.
Economic War Important
Bernhard Deruburg. who, in a recent
article In the Berliner Tagehlatt. an
swered questions regarding Wilson
t.force speech" returns to the questiCr
pf the economic war and Germany:
chances Deruburg repeats what he
said then namely that IN view of the
ecarcity # raw material and tonnage IL
ali countries and the needs Of industry
peace based on The acquisition of ra"
materials is impossible and not 10 b'
csntempla ted and that Germany mus
have guarantee IF the things neces
<ary Cor the reconstruction of the em
nir< The writer considers these dues
lions of an imperative and immediate
amporiance saying:
Z ,sEconomlc war is as important as
military war. and. therefore. war aim
Of the first importance.
Considering the situation of the Cen
tral Powers, the writer points Cut that
1 Eermany leads in the continental sphere
Lstrengthened bv' league with Austria
10 which Turkey. Bulgaria and the Dor
der States will ally themselves. He says
that the second big circle includes 'h'
.Na., -, l.s#, -,.l
sof The Atlantic, the English domniou'
md the Atlantic colonies: and. thirdly
comes the big empires OF the yellow
races. with a tendency to expand towar'
siberia. under Japan's leadership. Uude
the emblem of Asia tor the Asistics.
kJapan intends TO have supremacy of III
Pacific That is the reason why [ des
Agnate India as a strive-for territory be
tween the second and third groups o
powsrs." he SAYS.
Germany's Old Dodge
I. This Is of course. Germany's OIL
dodge for trying TO stir up trouble be
tween America and Japan and England
and game which the papers revert t
with untiring zeal and perseverance
Also the question as to whether Japa
N Will intervene in siberia has been .
vital import to the Germans. and 1
SS .folIowed with keen interest.
The writer pretends that China an
Japan are not as bitterly opposed % th
central Powers as to the AnGln-Saxo xon
He saws:
Without attacking in Europe, lana
81 constantly strengthening her srms
Haents and increasing her influence. an
~ Afnerica, without an enemy in the Pa
q f1hc is strengthening her coast an
& asiands so that Lapan asks Why?'"
~ g Dernburg here quotes an allege
&peech OF Secretary Daniels in regar
Al u the yellow peril, and further assert
j3N HAT the feeling hAtwesn England an
n Japan Is at a tension over the Iud
'<, 0esap The writer also alleges tba
VI vhereas there are conflicting interest
Aetween the Mongols aud the Anglo
Uaxons there is no such feeling betwee
\ me Central Powers and eastern Asia
which are now joined by a vast Ian
HridEe. The writer pretenfs that a
khexe conditions Improve Germsny's eco
nomic position and that the Ensent
!. N5Q be obliged TO come 20 terms.
81 Professor Dove. of FreibuHg Unive
Hify. discusses Gerinany's African ain
tSs3n the Vossische TetunK.
j REVOLT IN UKRAINE
A =.