New-York tribune., 1918-01-09
British Terms
Denounced by
Enemy Press
Premier's Speech Generally
Ridiculed; "Vorwaerts"
Not Heard From

LONDON, Jan. s.-Although no state
ment by the leading German Socialist
daily "Vorwaerts,' has been received,
ell the other comment of enemy coun-
tries on Lloyd Georges speech of Fri
cay outlining Great Britain's war
aims condemns the Premier's stand
The "Norddeutschc Allgemeinc Zei-
tung," The semi official German organ,
accordings to an Amsterdam dispatch,
says:
even if David Lloyd George now, TOR
obvious reasons, renounces the talk
about all kinds of crushing aims with
which nc formerly was wont to make
an impression on the masses of his own
people and the Allies, and if those
points in which Russia had the great
est interest were erased from the GEN
cral programme of the Entente, there
change in England's own war aims
They are, as before, the result of the
will for unrestricted world power.
"Mr Lloyd George knows to day, as
when he ma le his first war speech, that
the territorial integrity of the Austro-
Hungarian monarchy. as we'll as that Of
the other allies os Germany. must
form the cornerstone in the building of
| a new peace Nevertheless, he adheres
TO his imperialistic war aims with their
unmeasured demands, and only by
change in tone tries to give the impIcs.
SION that he takes into account the
alteration of the military and political
situation. 1t is characteristic Of Kim
and his allies"
Maximilan Harden, in "Dic Zu-
kunft," according to an Amsterdam
German plans for annexalions in the
East
He declares that g broad chasm still
yawns between the two parties at
Brest- Litovsk. and that if the demands
of the Central Powers 10 annex or join
the territories in question to the two
empires in Europe are realized, then
there will again be only an armistice
and there will be no lasting and hon
orab,e peace with Russia, which coun-
try will not cternally wear Lenine's
red livery, or be satisfied with tNc dis
! intcGraticn and communist;c dwarfing
of communities.
Herr Harden says that even were the
Let's, Lithuanians, Livonians and Es-
thonans, who for five centuries have
been opposed to all Germanism, to vote
contrary to all expectations, for union
with the German Empire, Germany
would be obliged to refuse that union,
for its body cannot bear fresh foreign
clements, and it does not desire, BY
provoking the deep hostility of the
! Russian people, which before 1850 will
compromise 100000, 900 souls. to brew a
consoling draft for it's Western enc
mics
The key to the Temple Of Peace, Herr
Harden declares, lies IN the Capitol at
Washington.
The "Koelnische Zeitung' says:
"If Lloyd Georges war aims should
be fulfilled Germany would be driven
hack into her position in 1914 but with
out Alsace- Lorraine and the German
colonies and loaded with an immense
war indemnity, faced with dangerous
Polish state on her frontier, and, more
ever, delivered to the discretion OF the
Entente Allies for receiving goods. The
peace offer of Premier Lloyd George
cannot be accepted"
The "Rheinische Wcstfaelische lei
tung," of Essen, says:
"When Lloyd George and British
labor demand Alsace FOR France and the
German colonies, Arabia, Syria and
Palestine for England and speak OF the
war indemnity VIC will have to pay, the
answer, in view of the actual war sltua-
ton, is, 1T is too much
The newspaper thinks, however. that
the calmer tone in which Lloyd George