Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-01-25
GERMANY SETTLES
WITH Discomfort
ON EVE OF SPEECH
Chancellor HertIing to Address
ReiChStag in Atmosphere
Surcharged With OminouS
MUtteringS at Home

LONDON Jan. 24.-The impressions
conveyed in today's eRews dispatches
from Switzerland and Holland regard
ing the internal situation in Germany
Oh the eve of Chancellor Won Hertling's
expected address before the reichstag
is one of discomfort among the masses
suppressed by the triumphant hand of
the military party.
Efforts of the German censorship to
prevent public knowledge OF the Aus
TRAN strikes and peace demands sue
ceeded for a time, but the news leaked
through gradually and Austrian events
seem now to be widely known by Ger=
man workers.
The Austrian hope that the latter
would follow their lead has not, how
ever materialized, while German news
papers which vcntured to hold out a
hand to the Austrian proletariat have
been suppressed. Nevertheless, accord
ing, to the Posts Amsterdam dispatches,
the rebellious sentiments of German
workers, especially independent social
lists, are becoming stronger This Is
partly attributable to the attitude of the
German delegates at the Brest-Litovsk
conference which caused widespread dis
content as was manifested by the tu-
multuous scenes at numerous meetings
of the fatherland party.
Wilson Sowed Seeds
The Dutch Catholic journal Tyd prints
an article received through an indirect
channel from its correspondent in Ger
many in which he says that events
at Brest-Litovsk and President Wilson's
new peace formula, which in wide cir
cies is considered suitable basis for
the regulation of society of the future.
have prepared the ground for the Boil
sheviki tendency"
ut is recognized in educated circles"
saws the writer, that the wooden horse
has been brought in at Brest-Litovsk
and there is anxiety lest the German
attitude in the negotiations may lead to
division among the people. The
masses turned away from the yelled
annexationist lust OF power formulated
by General Hoffman"
Continuing the writer speaks of the
rebelIious temper of the factory popGla-
ton in the industrial centers and adds
mo wonder fear is expressed here
and there that the people, Disguised with
the postponed suffrage reform, furious
with the pan-Germans, exhausted in
| body and fortune. and deprived of the
hope of the restoration of national and
individual happiness will itself take
the settlement of its lot into it's own
hands if any great military setback is
suffered. The failure of separate peace
with Russia would also give the signal
for an incalculable reaction at a mo-
ment when the nervous strain is we'll
nigh unbearable."
important Conferences
An incident in the Saxon lower house
on Monday, the Tyd correspondent says
is indicative of the popular sentiment
The king of Saxony recently sent q tele-
gram to the fatherland.. party advocat-
ing a safe peace" This was sharply
censured by the Socialists in the cham
Der. The Socialist vice president,
Frassedorf. said that the king was bad
ly misinformed and badly advised by
his ministers and declared that the peo-
pie took quite a different standpoint
from the fatherland party.
IL is in such an atmosphere, if re-
ports quoted are accurate, that Chancel-
Tor Won Hertling meets the reichstag to
speak TO his own countryment and the
world His newspaper supporters say
that the chancellor is in no wise shaken
by the recent political crisis but on the
contrary he has the emperors full con-
fidence. Important conferences are re-
ported to have been renewed on Mon
day Tuesday and Wednesday wherein
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg, General
Won Ludendorfr. Chancellor Won Hertling
and DR.. Won Kuehlmann, secretary for
foreign affairs, participated with the
emperor.