Evening star., 1918-01-26
WAR MUST COON,
VERDICT OF ALLIES;
SEEFOES' GUILE
Both London and Paris AssaiI
Won HertIing and Czernin
Principles.
GERMANY ADOPTS
ROLE OF CONQUEROR
Speeches Throw Light on Tricky
Men and Kind of Diplomacy
Teutons Employ.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press,
LONDON, January 40
Austria has declared her readi-
ness to conclude separate
peace without Germany, and
to accept the Russian demo-
cratic program, with the excep-
ton of self-determination of
nations, says dispatch from
Petrograd to the Exchange
Telegraph Company.
Another dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company
from Petrogfad, dated Friday,
says:
The bolshevik newspapers
today report that great demon
strations are taking place all
over Austria-Hungary. Work
mems and soldiers organiza-
tions have been formed at
Vienna and Budapest. A big
strike has begun at Warsaw.
THE socialist congress at
Warsaw has resolved to or
ganize a revolutionary council
of workmen's and soldiers
deputies"
LONDON, January a6.vtThe view en-
tertained by majority Of the morning
newspapers of London respecting the
speeches Of Chancellor Won Hertling and
Foreign Minister Gzerllin is that Ger
many regards herself as the conqueror,
that she is determined upon aggression
and is prepared to listen to no peace
terms except her own, and that, there
fore, the war must go on.
It is admitted that the tone of the
Austro- Hungarian foreign minister is
more conciliatory than that of the Ger
man chancellor. but this is attributed
largely to the pressure of internal con-
difions in Austria Hungary. Count
Czernin's respectful references to Presi-
dent Wilson's address are received coolly
for the most part, because of his declar-
ed fidelity to the alliance with Germany.
Light on German Methods.
The first impression that Chancellor
eon Hertling's speech has made on this
as gathered from public men
and the newspapers. is that it throws
4 searchlight for the nations allied
against German militarism upon the
kind of men and the kind of diplomacy
with whom and with which they are
iealing. The first example of this
diplomacy was given by the German
with the bolshevik dele
gates at Brest-Litovsk, when the Ger
mans declared themselves in perfect ac-
,ord with a policy of no annexations or
coupling this platform
With terms which knocked all the props
from under it.
Count Won Hertlng's speech strikes
he British as reeking with the same
sort of diplomacy. The test and the
of Germany's policy was felt
o rest on one word-Belgium. What Won
iertling said about Belgium is so
,ague that it gives no straight clue to
he ears of British listeners of what
Germany proposes or may propose
o do.
Words Cause Suspicion.
Germany never has demanded the in
OF Belgian territory by
,iolence," said the German imperial
haneellor but great amount of doubt
nd suspicjon is attached to those two
words. Only yesterday the news came
= Germany's plans TO make II appear
hat the Flemish people wished inde-
,endeuce from the Walloons,-of Bel
INN. All the FleEishR Reig;an spokes-
,an in London declare that their peo.
lie wish nothing of the kind.
Count Hertlings proposals for the me-
citation of the Belgian question in
eafe conference fall on cold ground
an have thought of no Belgian questions.
ut orIy of the one question OF the res
grafton of all the rights that that king
ON enjoyed before the war. with no i'm,
erritory as she stood before the war.
Voice That of Mailed Fist.
The placing of the restoration of Bel
inn and northern France in water-tight
GOVERNMENTS one to be decided by
eneral peace conference and the other
y negotiations by Germany and France
nly equally fails to command n response.
nunt Won Hertlinsfs speech also strikes
70 English as showing that shining ar
,or is in the saddle in Germany and that
"a voice that speaks represents the
allied fist only and in nowise is the
nice of the German people.
The people oe Europe. the plain people
hose sons are suffering on the battlefield.
70 asserting themselves today never
,fore and are as one with President Will Z
N for the disarming of the mailed fists
hereyer they may be brandished and for
20 ending Of war The British labor
,sty. which indorsed President Wilson's
,o1ram by cheers whenever 1t was men,
oned in their conference. speaks with the
me voice, it is thought here, as the
ustrians have been speaking by their
rikes.
Source Of Speculation.
Count Czernin's direct invitation to
ia United States to enter into negotfa-
ous with Austria as sort OF inter-
ediaries between the two groups OF
airing nations. excites much specuia-
on. The question is whether Count