The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-26
warning
TO CONQUER, IS
HERTLINC PLEA
Continued from Page J.


carried out with the sole aim of Sc
curing peace with Ukraine. He said:
Our war aims from the beginning |
were defense of the fatherland, main |
| tenance of our territorial integrity |
and freedom of our economic deyel- |
opment," said the chancellor "Our |
warfare, even where it must be ag- |
gresslve in action, is defensive in aim. |
1 lay special stress on that just now
in order that no misunderstanding
| may arise in regard to our operations
in the east. Their sole aim is to Sc
cure the fruits of our peace with the
| Ukraine
| London dispatches say Chancellor
Won Hertling's reference to a state
ment by Walter Runciman, former
president of the board of trade, con-
cerned remarks made by Mr.. Runci-
man in a speech in the house of COM
mons on Feb. 10. Mr.. Runciman said
the greatest contribution that could
be made to the peace of the world
would be that the representatives OF
opinion in the be1ligerent countries
draw together and exchange views.
Concerning Mr.. Runciman's state
ment, the chancellor said:
81 can only agree with Mr.. Runci-
man if he meant we should be much
nearer peace if proper responsible re-
personalities of the be11igerent pow
er would meet in conclave for discus
sion. That would be way to remove
all intentional and unintentional mis-
understandings and bring about an
agreement on many individual ques-
lions. 1 am thinking especially in
this connection of Belgium"
Signing of Russo German peace
will not be the final solution of the
German problems on her eastern from
liter and the final settlement will come
when the peoples of Cour1and, Es-
thonia, Livonia and Poland take mat
tiers into their own hands, according
to M. Kameneff, one of the Bolshevik
| delegates to the Brest-Litovk nego-
tiations, in an interview in the London
kDaily News. M. Kamenef has arrived
: In London after three weeks journey
from Petrograd. He is on his way
j to Paris as Bolshevik plenipotentiary
to France.
!. With the handing over of the land
and factories to the peasants and
workers, M. Kameneff said, they had
begun to realize, as they could not un-
; der the old regime, that a German
: invasion of Russia would injure their
vital interests. Consequently the con-
seriousness of the necessity of defend
ing the country was growing among
the Russians.
German occupation of Petrograd, M
:. Kamenef added, would not be enough
to restore the monarchy. Any attempt
at restoration would entail fighting il
every town and village for the peas.
ants and workers were well aware
| that restoration would involve the los
of their land and political rights.
The four bases of just peace, an.
bounced by President Wilson recently
and referred to by Hert1ing as his OWL
sentiments with qualification follow
These are the four principles SCI
! forth by President Wilson in his ad.
I dress to Congress on Feb. II:
First, that each part of the fina
settlement must be based upon the
: essential justice of that particular
d case and upon such adjustments as are
n most likely to bring peace that will
Y be permanent;
d Second, that peoples and province:
: are not to be bartered about from
f sovereignty to sovereignty as if they
j were mere chattels and pawns in
It game, even the great game, now for
= ever discredited, of the balance o.
d power; but that
= Third, every territorial settlement
n involved in the war must be made il
the interest and for the benefit of the
Il populations concerned and not as
It part of any mere adjustment or com
n promise of claims against rival states
a and
8 Fourth, that an well defined ma.
tional aspirations shall be accorded
|, the utmost satisfaction that can b.
: accorded them without introducing
s new or perpetuating old elements O.
d discard and antagonism that woult
= be likely in time to break the peac
of Europe and consequently the world