The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-09-27
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persuade all parties to come to the
aid Of the government in it's grave
straits by demonstration that no sub
stamtinl differences of principles exist
between their parties and the govern
mPnt.
II IS n so considered here rs nuuthrr
move in the peace offensive.
Yesterday in the Reichstag Won Payer
defended his Stuttgart speech in which
he declared that the treaties OF Bu.
rharest and Brest- Litovsk must stand.
de said it would he a mistake to
abandon those treaties as they regulate
the relations Of the obigatories
In his stuttgart speech Won Payer
said that Germany, Gas the innocent
and attacked party" had right t"
demand indPmniRcntiOn. That as n pre-.
liminary to peace Germany and her
Allies must have all their pOssessio ons
restored to them, including the German
colonies and that in return Germany
would evacuate the occupied regions
and could give back Belgium without
incumberance and without reserve.
Hands on East
lie asserted that Germany would not
submit to the entente powers for ap
proVul or alteration Of the peace treaties
which GcrmAny had signed with the
kraine, RVssia and Roumania,
PostpOnement Of peace prospects and
the Likelihood of fifth war winter
weigh equally on all belligerents, and
not on Germany alone, he said.
Herr Won Payer reminded his hearers
that inter four wears the war was still
| being waged almost entirely on enemy
territory. He admitted that the L boat
had not worked as quickly and as sure
ly as had been hoped. He added that
it was useless to dispute whose was the
fault. The enemy, he said, was still
unable to compensate their losses by
new construction, and declared that the
robbery Of neutral ships, almost with
out parallel, by the entente could not be
repeated.
U. s. Limitations
"The more troops the United States
sends the greater will be the need of
shipping for reinfarccmentS Of mum,
tions and provisicns,' Her Won Payer
said "Thr filling up of the enemy
army by Americans, therefore bears in
itself its limitations.
He argued that the loss Of shipping
| would become fatal to Great Britain
after the war because it would lose its
shipping superiority to the United
States AVID the "hope of compensating
| Themselves from the German fleet
which still has to be conquered, will
SURELY be adequate comfort only for
! the very imaniginativc Britishers.
Liberated Russia! .... .... ... ...
Russia, he thought. might have re-
.maincd in capable existence if she had
| granted tolcrahlr conditions to the en-
Sl"vrl Russians bv IA federal cOnstitu
| ton
"Sh" collapsed, " the Vice Chancellor
said. "becrusc she could not maintain
internal cohesion. Our victories anc
those Of our allies now have given the
subjects of TINT colossal empire an op
pOrtunitv to hhcrate themselves
"Wr rnnnot hand over Poland tC
Russia" h" added, "nor can we assist
in having Finland again placed under
the Russian yoke. We rannDt leave tr
| their fate the border states which lie
on the GermAn frontier and the Baltic
! be subjected against their will tc
| Russian rmUrriulism o. thrown into The
prrls Of civil war a"d anarchy.
"Tn fnct, those states have come t.
an understanding with us. ~ thOs mos
nearly Interested. can only be nm aAvan
tH"c to the world, and we can nrvr>
urrmit any one TO mcddle with us il
this matter from the standpoint of the
present European balance of power OF
rather British predominance
9'he vire.chancellOr said rcuuisit,
understanding between GERMANY an,
Belgium was easier because their econ
omic interests freqeuntly were parable
and that Belgium was directly depen
| dent upon Germany as a hintPrland. HI
| said he had no reason to doubt that thu
| Flemish question could he solved in nc
cordnnre with the dictates of justic,
and wise craftsmanship.
Accuses Belgians
cit is hypocrisy to represent Bel
glum us the innocent victim of on
/ policy,' Herr Won Payer said, "an,
to rlothr her, ns il were, in the whltC
garment Of innocence. The Belgian
government aud that is what mat
trrs, not the Belgian people took al
active part in Great Britain's polio,
Of rnrirrling Germany"
Tn" vice chancellor said there sti,
WAS the question Of war indrmuI,ir
from one or the other purty and ha,
Gr'mnuv "hrru allowed to pursue he
! Wmk in pence there would have h,rr
no war or injury
"Thrrr can be no question, There