The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-01-25
VON HERTLING
IN ADDRESS ON
PEACE TERMS
DECLARES AGREEMENT CAN BE
REACHED ON FIRST FOUR"
OF WILSON'S PROPOSALS.
HANGS ON TO POLAND
Alleges Germany Never Demanded In.
corporation of Belgian Territory by
Niolence-Hints That Bankruptcy of
Nations After War VIII Bring the
League of Peace"

Berlin, Jan. "a CThursday)-CVia Lon.
don)-Count Won Hertlng in his ad-
dress before the reichstag committee
said that the evacuation Of Russian ter
ritory was question which only con.
Germs Russia and the central powers.
Commenting ON the fourteen points in
the program for world peace as set
forth in Presidene Wilosn's address to
congress, the chancellor said an agree
meme could be obtained without diff
Guilty on the first four points.
Regarding the fifth point mentioned
by the president, the chancellor said
some difficulties would be met with.
Germany never demanded the incor.
poration Of Belgian territory by vio-
lence, the chancellor said. He asserted
that the state of Poland would be de.
cided by Germany and Austria-Hungary.
When all other questions had been set.
tied, he added, Germany would be ready
70 discuss the question of a league OF
peace.
Count Won Hertling said the question
of the Limitation of armaments was
quite "open to discussion The chan.
celor added that the financial position
of all European countries after the
war would probably operate most eff
fectively for the solution Of this prob,
lem.
Won't Give Up Alsace-Lorraine.
County Won Hertling contended that
Alsace-Lorrane was almost purely Ger
man territory, which had been severed
from Germany by violence. When
Germany, in 1870, claimed the land
thus criminally wrung from her" it
was not the conquest Of alien territory,
the chancellor declared, but what today
is called Instrumentation.
There is no difference between Ger
many and President Wilson regarding
the freedom of the seas. Count Won
Hertling said. He added that the thor.
ough freedom of navigation during time
of war, as well as in peace, was one of
Germany's main demands, it being emf
nently important for future free navi-
cation that England should be made to
relnquish her strongly fortified points
of support on international sailing
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kong and the Falkland islands.
The chancellor declared that Germany
did not wish anneXations by violence,
but that the question of northern
France could be discussed only by
France and Germany. He asserted there
could be no talk of the cession Of Alsace-
Lorraine.
Alleges New Proposals.
The chancellor demanded that the
leaders of the nations a, war with Ger
many set forth new proposals. The
terms outlined by President Wilson and
Premier Lloyd George contained certain
principles which could be accepted by
Germany, he said, but the concrete pro
posals were unsatisfactory.
The first four points in President Will
sons speech respecting which Chancellor
Won Hertling said an agreement could
be reached without difficulty related to
abolition of secret diplomacy free navi.
cation of the seas outside territorial
waters. subject to international laws,
removal of economic barriers and estab-
lishment Of equal trade conditions
among nations, reduction Of armaments.
The fifth point in regard to which the
chancellor said some difficulties would
be met with provided for impartial ad-
justment of all colonial claims based
upon the principle Of interests of the
population concerned and must have
equal weight in the government whose
soil is to be determined
The ninth point in the presidents
speech called for re-adjustment of the
Italian frontier along clearly recogniz-
able lines of nationality; the tenth for
free opportunity for autonomous devel-
opment of the peoples Of Austria-Hun-
gary; the eleventh for the evacuation of
Rumania, Serbia and Montenegro, free
access to the sea for Serbia and adjust
ment of the relations among the Balkan
states, with international guarantees Of
their independence.