New Britain herald., 1918-02-27

been undertaken in the name of hu- manity. They are measures of aS- sistlnce and have no other charac- ter It is question of creating peace and order in the interest of peaceable populations.
 We do not intend to establish ourselves, for example, in Esthonia or Livonia. In Courland and Lithu- ania our chief object is to create or gans of self-determination and self administration Our military action, however, has produced success far exceeding the original aim.
 Views was received yesterday that Petrograd had accepted our condi- tions and had sent it's representatives to Brest-Litovsz for further negotia- tons. Accordingly, our delegates travelled thither last evening" It is possible that there will still be dis pute about the details, but the main thing has been achieved The will to peace has been expressly an- nounced from the Russian side. while the conditions have been accepted and the conclusion of peace must en- sue within a very short time
 'To safeguard the fruits of our peace with Ukraine, our army con-
 
 Russia will be the happy result.
 Peace With RumaIlia.
 Peace negotiations with Rumania began at Bucharest yesterday. It ap- peared necessary that Secretary von Kuehlmann should be present there during the first days when the foun. dations were laid. Now, however, ha will presumably soon go to Brest- LltoVsk. It is to be remem bered re- garding negotiations with Rumania that we are not taking part in them alone and are under obligation to Austria Hungary, Bulgaria and Tur- key, and to sec to it that a com- promise is arranged there regard ing any divergent desires that will possibly give rise to difficulties but these difficulties wll be overcome With regard to Rumania, too, the guiding principle will be that we must, and desire to. convert into friends the states with which on the basis of the success of our army we now conclude peace.
 1T will say a word regarding Po- land, in behalf of whom the entente and President Wilson have recently appeared specially to interest them selves. as a well-kown country nb- erated from oppressive dependence on Czarist Russia by the united forces of Germany and Austra-H ungary, for the purpose of establishing an inde- pendent state, which, in unrestricted develOpnet of it's national culture, shall at the same time become a pill lar of peace in Europe.
 '"Fhe constitutional problem-in the narrower sense the question what constitution the new state shall re- celVe-could not. as is easily under stood, be immediately decided and is still in the stage of exhaustive dis cussions between the three countries concerned. A fresh difficulty has been added to the many difficulties which have in this connection to be overcome, difficulties especially in the economic domain in consequence of the collapse of old Russia This difficulty results from the delimita- ton of the frontier between the new state and arjacent Russian territory For this reason the news of peace with the Ukraine at first evoked great uneasiness in Poland. I hope, how ever, that with good will and proper regard to the ethnological* conditions, a compromise on the claims will be
 
 to make serious attempt in this di- rectiOn has greatly calmed Polish circles.
 Tn the regulation of the frontier question only what is indispensable on military grounds will be demand ed on Germanys part.
 The entente are fighting for the acquisition of portions of Austro- Hungarian territory by Italy and for the severance of Palestine, Syria and Arabia from the Turkish empire. England has particularly cast an eye on portions of Turkish territory. She has suddenly discovered an affection for the Arabians and she hopes by utilizing the Arabians to annex fresh territories to the British empire, per haps by the creation of protecto- rate dependent upon British domina- ton.
 That the colonial wars of England are directed at increasing and round ing out the enormous British pos sessions. particularly in Africa, has been repeatedly stated by British statesmen.
 .Tn the face of this policy entente statesmen dare to represent Germany as the disturber of peace, who, 1n the interest of world peace, must be con- fined within the narrowest bounds. By a system of lies and calunny they end to instigate their own people and neutral countries against the Central Powers and to disturb neutral countries with the specter of the violation of neutrality by Ger many.
 Regarding the intrigues recently carried on in Switzerland we never thought nor will we think, of assail- ing Swiss neutrality. We are much