Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-26
.TEUT0N REPLIES HOSTILE TO
PEACE AIMS OF THE ENTENTE
Hertllng Re fuses to Discuss Restoration to
France of Alsace-Lorraine- Germany's Vital
Interests Must Be Considered in Northern
France - Motono Says Japan in Full Accord
with Allies

Germany, through her Imperial.
chancellor. Count Won Hertling, and
Austria Hungary through its foreign
minister, Count Czernin. have made
reply to the peace terms Of the AL
lies and the United States as recent,
ly enunciated by David Lloyd George,
the British prime minister. and Presi-
dent Wilson.
Although on some points both Count
Won Hertling and Count Czernin af-
feet to see the possibility of comins
into agreement with their enemies on
minor points the concrete basis es-
sential to peace are declared to be un-
acceptable.
Hostile to Wilson Aims
: The spokesman for Germany was un-
compromisingly hostile to a majority
of the peace aims as put forward by
President Wilson treating seratim in
his address those upon which Ger
many could not come into accord.
Count Czernin was more moderate in
! his treatment OF President Wilson's
ideas, declaring the Presidents view
point, expressed in his latest address
to Congress showed that there was less
incompatibility between Austria Hun
gary and the United States tnan had
seemed to be the case
From the German standpoint ac-
cording to Won Hertling. the restora-
ton to France of Alsace-Lorraine is
beyond the realm of discussion. Re
earding Belgium. he declared that its
restoration could be settled only in
peace negotiations, but that Germany
never had dema nded the incorporation
| of Belgian territory by violence"
Likewise, methods of procedure in
T, the evacuation Of northern France
must take account Of Germany's vital
| interests and be agreed upon between
! Germany and France.
I The chancellor said the fate Of Po-
land and the Balkans and the read
| justment of the Italian frontier lies
with Austria. while the evacuation 81
Russian territory concerns only Rus
sia and TIE Central Powers Germany
he added. considered that the integri-
~ of Turkey and the safety Of its cap
ital We're closely connected with the
question OF the Darda nelles, which was
f. Of vital interest to Germany.
With regard to Russia, Count Ger
min said Austria Hungary desired nc
( anneXatiOns or indemnities-'Not y
/ metre of territory, nor kreutzer Of in
4 demnity'-and that Russia could havs
leace if she maintained the same
+ STANDPOINT as she evidently intended
! to do.
Both Count Won Hertling and Count
! Czernin thought it obvious that the ex
change of peace views with the United
States might form the starting poinr for a
/ conciliatory discussion among all the
states which had not vet entered the
peace negotiations.
Ia an address before the japanese Diet
Niscount Motono, the foreign minister
reiterated the views previously expressed
by Premier Terauchi-that Japan was lr
fun accord with her allies in the wal
and that il was her intention to maintain
tranquility in the Far East.
On the battle fronts the fighting lssih
has died down to small proportions. only
BON rdments and small infantry opera
tons having been recorded.
The Russian chief of staff reports de-
moralization among the Russian soldiers
on the eastern front. The soldiers are De
, declining TO come up for relief of the
men in the trenches, and at points there
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