The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-26
U. s. IN WAR FURY,
HERTLING CHARGES


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committee of the Relchstag by Count
Won Hertling. the German Imperial Chan
cellor. and Admiral Won Hlntze, the Ger
man Foreign Secretary. Evidently the
addresses were made to allay the pres
emit fears among the Germsn people and
10 brace their morale. Count Won Hertz
ing calling attention to his expressed
acquiesence In the four points laid down
by President Wilson as peace essentials
ana the lack Of attention his acQuiesence
received
The Chancellor asserted that on Feb
ruary ~ OF this year he declared. in the
Reichstag his agreement In principle
with the possibility Of discussing a gen.
eral peace on the basis Of the four points
or President Wilson's address OF Feb
ruary 2. but that President Wilson
neither at that time nor since had taken
any notice of the Chancelior's declarn-
ton.
Admiral Won TIintze asserted that Ger
many maintained her readiness for
peace despite the repeated reflections
OF the offers of the Central Powers. In
commenting upon the recent proposal of
Austria as put forward by Baron Blu
rian. the Austro- Hungarian Foreign
Minister. Admiral Won Hintze said that
toward peace had been manifested in
repeated appeals to the whole world.
Effort Considered q Failure.
In Reichstag circles, according to des-
patches reaching here to-day with full
accounts of the speeches before the Main
Committee. the effort OF Count Won Hert-
ling Is considered TO have been a failure
and unequal to the gravity OF the situa-
ton. The Lokaian=ciger of Berlin says It
hears authoritatively that II Count Won
Hertling resigns DR.. Friedrich Won
Payer, the Vice-Chancellor, also will re-
Sign. and that Herr Friedberg. the Vice
President Of the Prussian Ministry of
State. is ready to follow. DR.. Won Payer
was one OF the speakers before the Main
Committee yesterday, but he spoke in All
entirely different vein from his superior,
asserting that the present treaties made
by Germany with Russia and Rumania
must stand.
In outlining his peace stand Count Won
Hertling asserted that he favored the
formation of league of nations, the
promotion of universal. successive dis
armament in equal proportions. the es-
Establishment OF obligatory courts OF arbi-
tration. the freedom OF the seas and the
protection Of small nations.
Puts Blame on King Edward.
I'VE have never concealed the fact"
said the Chancellor, that all thoughts of
conquests were far from our minds. But
how do things stand on the opposite
side? The world war was prepared years
ago by the well known encirclng policy
of King Edward. In France there arose
extensive war literature which referred
to impending war with Germany. Aus
tria-Hungary's influence in the Balkans
was to be eliminated. The Russian ex-
! pansion movement and the Pan-Slavic
idea demanded 1t.
THE match was not put TO the powder
by the Prussian military party. but while
the German Emperor was up to the last
moment endeavoring TO preserve peace
! the Russian military party put through
| the mobilization against the will OF the
weak Gar and thereby made war un-
| avoidable. The official account OF the
Sukhomlinoff trial made this clear to
every one who desired to see. We can
LOOK calmly forward to the judgment OF
posterity. For the present. it is true.
| those who are in power in the enemy
countries have succeeded by an unpar-
alleled campaign of lies and calumny in
obscuring the truth.
s'wildest War Fury in America
You have all read Premier Clemen-
ceau's last speech, speech which
seemed in it's fanatical hatred and the
coarseness of mind displayed to surpass
anything hitherto achieved But in Amer
| lea 1t found a many voiced echo, as Is
! proved by the pronouncements that are
| reaching our ears from across the ocean
The widest war fury Is at present
| raging in the United States. The people
are intoxicated with the idea that Amer
| lea must bring the blessing OF modern
| liberal kultur 60 to the enslaved peoples
of central Europe, while at the same
time they are rejoicing at the many
millions of dollars which the war arma-
ments are causing to flow into the pock-
cts of the business men.
Theory and practice are two different
| things The old proverb of the mote ir
| another's eye and the beam in ones owr
finds constant illustration in the ma
| chinations OF the Entente. They are
never tired of condemning our march
into Belgium. but they pass over the
oppression OF Greece. the interference
with that country's internal affairs anc
, the enforced abdication OF its King as II
| they were matters of course. They as
sert that they are fighting to protec
| oppressed nations, but the century ole
| sorrows and the justifiable grievances Of
Ireland nowhere find a hearing, not even II
| America. where the people are acquainted
with them through the numerous lrisl
immigrants. The British Government
which Is especially fond of talking o.
| right and Justice. recently found 1t com
| patible with those principles to recognize
| the conglomerate rabble OF CZecho
Slovaks as a belligerent Power
| Admits situation Is Serious.
| "Tne situation is serious, but it give'
us no ground for deep depression. Thu
| iron wall OF the western front is no
broken and the U-boat Is slowly bu
surely fulfilling its task OF diminishing
| tonnage. thus, above al, increasingl!
menacing and restricting reinforcement
OF men and material from the United
States.
1.-THE hour will come, because 1t mus
| come. when our enemies Will see reasol
and be ready to make an end OF the wa
before half the world is converted into
heap OF ruins and the flower OF its mani,
strength lies dead on the battlefield"
Abiding to the differences Of opinion
among Germans on political matters tn
Chancellor said:
1.-THE period after the war will ais
confront US with new domestic problems
since taking on my shoulders the heav
burden of the Chancellorshlp I have al
ways endeavored theoretically to carr
out what was still lacking in this re
spect. / am. of course. abiding to tina
great reform bill which. II is true. doe
not fall within the jurisdiction of tn
Reichstag. but nevertheless engages pc
litical circles in Germany far beyond tn
Prussian frontiers"