Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-05
Chancellor Won HertIing, in Ad-
dressing ReiChStag, Pro-
claims Readiness to Wait
RuSSia'S Softening,
BORDER PROVINCES
APPROVE, HE AV0WS
People Promised They viii Be
Kept Informed Of Progress
of Negotiations Eastern
Problem Big,


Berlin, Jan. (via Amsterdam -
Addressing the /, r,ichstag main COM
mittee yesterday Cha 1cellor Won Hert-
ling said in regard to he Russian re
lection of the peace prop sails dealing
with disposition of the occuried Rus
sian territory:
I'VE can cheerfully await the fur-
ther course of this incident. We rely
upon our strong position, our loyal in
tentions and our just rights"
The chancellor announced that DR..
Won Kuehlmann has been instructed
to reject the Russian proposal to
transfer the peace negotiations to
Stockholm.
Chancellor Won Hertling said he
greeted with satisfaction the oppor-
tunity Of the government and the peo-
pies representatives of comforting on
the weighty and fateful decisions
which were being discussed
Want Peoples Suggestions.
The government would take ad-
vantage Of this opportunity, the chan
cellor said, to make communications
on the course the peace negotiations
so far had taken. He said he desired
TO receive suggestions from the rep
resentatives of the people.
Count Won Herting said the for
eign secretary, Won Kuehlmann, yes
terday, after a stay of only two days
in Berlin, had returned to Rrest-
Litovsk He therefore, to his regret,
was unable himsef to report on the
h. wit
sia. The under secretary for foreign
affairs. Baron Won Dem Busche-Had-
denhausen, would undertake the task
instead.
other Negotiations Begun.
Baron Won Dem Busche- Hadden-
hausen gave to the main commitmtee
the history of events leading to the
reace negotiations. He said the ar
mistice negotiations had taken rapid
and smooth course and had reached
. generally satisfactory conclusion
December IS.
Parallel to the negotiations at Best
Litovsk, the foreign under secretary
said, ran the negotiations at Fokshanl
for an armistice on the southeastern
front, at which conference Rumania
was represented.
Allies Impede Work.
The peace negotiations which fol-
lowed. the baron said, naturally were
very difficult as they had to be con-
Quoted between the coalition on one
hand and single power on the other
As to the course of the negotiations
the public had been informed to
greater extent than usually was the
case. This had made the negotiations
more difficult as the entente powers
were "enabled to impede the negotia-
tons by circulating false news"
Baron Won Dem Busche-Hadden"
hansen then reviewed the Russian
proposals, the German counter-pro'
posals and the tasks Of the German
commission sent to Petrograd to deal
with the questions Of subjects of the
central mowers interned wounded SOL
d!ers and prisoners.
Lasting Peace Aim.
During the debate a member or the
centrist party expressed approval, on
the whole Of the attitude of the Ger
man representatives at Brest-LltoVsk
and said:
"Our aim must be not only to ar
rive at an understanding with the
Bolsheviki government but to reach
a lasting peace with the Russian peo-
pie and prevent war in the future
The speaker asserted that consu- :
tutional bodies existing in Poland
Lithuania and Courland, established
on valid law, express the will of the
peoples of those territories.
A socialist member declared II
would be in the interest Of the en-
pire to recognize the principle of the
right of peoples to self-determination'
Political life in the occupied ter
ritories is obstructed by military pres
sure which must be removed ne
said "The negotiations in the east
must be conducted to a satisfactory
end. This is the will Of the German
people and of the German nation"