The Washington herald., 1918-04-29
KING GEORGE
FEARS TEUTON
HAND IN ASIA
Gives Warning in Message
Sent to Viceroy Of
India.
ARMY RULES TEUTONS
Western Drive Is Desperate
Move to Keep Up Morale
of People.

London, April 2S-King George,
telegraphing to the Viceroy for
India, in acknowledgment OF the
latter's communication regarding
the Delhi war conference, says:
"Our position in the East is
menaced by the enemy, who has
instigated disturbances in Asia.
"The increasingly important op-
crations of our armies in Egypt,
Palestine and Mesopotamia must
be largely sustained from India"
Allied diplomats now recognize
the menace to Germany from the
East-the menace of political and
economic revolt. Men who, three
months ago, were inclined to
scott at President Wilson's play
to the German people. now grave
ly admit that Germany was forced
into the present offensive as
much by political consideration at
home as by military considera-
tions in Belgium and Northern
I France.
See No Collapse.
They still warn that no collapse OF
the German army may be expected.
Pan-Germanism. militarism and right
by might are still firmly in the saddle
i'm Berlin and Vienna. But for the
first time allied diplomats here are ad-
mitting that the German concept Of
power Is facing a clear-cut test at
home. The Teuton peoples have been
brought to weigh the worth of all
they have sacrificed by three things,
in the opinion OF shrewd observers
here. These three are:
l. The admitted failure of their
masters to make good their promises
OF food from Russia and Ukrainia.
.. Failure of Teuton diplomacy to
consolidate the Balkan conquest.
3. Similar failure of Germany to
bring order out OF chaos in Russia.
The effect of these three failures has
duced a political volcano in Austria;
it has brought open demand in Berlin
for the removal Of Foreign Minister
Kuehlmann on the one hand and
return to the no-anneXation-and-n
indemnity Reichstag peace resolution;
and. observers believe. it has prompt
ed the Teuton war lords to stake all
for victory on the battlefield in the
West, and in the restoration of the
Gar in the East before the internal
storm breaks.
President Wilson has frankly. OPEN
ly and publicly stated his Willingness
TO talk peace with the German people.
In the same manner Clemenceau has
published to the world the perfidies Of
the German Ambassador at Paris
when war was declared and the letter
Of Emperor Carl admitting the claims
II France to Alsace- Lorraine.
Germans Do Not Know.
These plain statements OF facts
have never reached the German
army. But they have reached Rus
sia and the Balkans and the Czechs
and JuEo-Slavs of Hun
gary. They came at a time wher
events had plowed the ground for
them. AS late as the, time of his
defense of the Brest-Litovsk treaty
Count Czernin told the Austrians
that wheat conveys were already
on their way from UkraN- These
conveys have never arrived. Frank
reports recently published in the
Vienna press admit that they never
will arrive this year.
1t Is now a generally accepted
| theory here that Germany chose
the early spring for her drive of
destruction at the British army in
order that the thunder of the guns
might keep the minds of her own
people OF the aching void in their
cherished stomachs.
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