The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-14
LAND OCCUPIED
HELD ASPAWN
German Chancellor Tells
Reichstag Gains Are Held
to Dictate Peace.
REASSERTS THE TERMS
Takes Direct Issue With the
Fathcrland Party. Except
as to Russia.
REASSERTS THE TERMS
Special Cable Despatch 10 TIE sux.
copvrioht 1915: all riohts reserved.

Special Cable Despatch TO TIE sux.
Copyright, 1918: all rights reserved.
LONDON. July 13.-Like the now IA
nous address OF DR.. Won kuehlmann
then Foreign Minister. that Germany
could not win the war by military deci-
sions alone, Count Won Hertling. the Inn
perial German Chancellor. provides a
sensational element in his speech in the
Reichstag in the form of an addendum
or explanation or amplihcation OF an
earlier passage in his statement, which.
however. was not contained in the re-
port of the Chancellor's utterances re-
ceived here yesterday.
The salient passages OF this second in
stalment OF his speech refer to the fu-
ture OF Belgium. which he refers to
merely as a pawn 10 be used by Ger
many In the negotiations for peace, with
no intention to retain 1t permanently.
This is the most definite pronouncement
on the Belgian question that has yet been
made by any Chancellor. 1t is a direct
challenge to Won Tirpitz. Revcntlow and
the Fatherland party group. which has
proclaimed again and again that the
moral frontier OF Germany extends to the
Belgian coast and that the giving up of
Belgium would be an admission of de-
feat.
Defines German Aims.
That the Chancellor's earlier statement
on this subject apparently aroused vio-
lent objections in the Reichstag is indi-
Gated by his appeal that his outline OF
fundamental peace terms should receive
support 80 that we may keep on our
internal front that unity which is so tre-
mendously significant 20 our brothers in
the field" Won Hertlins says further
that Germany's peace aims will agree
with what we want" and defines these
aims as follows:
THE inviolabillty of our territory an
open field for the expansion of our peo-
pie. especially in the economic domain.
and naturally also the necessary security
in regard to future difficult conditions"
The Chancellor earlier had declared that
the German Government takes its stand
on the Brest-Litovsk treaty.
seeks Peace by Barter.
In these specific utterances Count Won
Hertling reveals that the peace he pro-
poses Is peace on the Brest-Litovsk
hi'ucl' a ptd'c W cNN'ahtc anu W.
III "n'ch bels'u'n, 'ne "e''na" eoIon'e'
oVeupie' r'e"ch '''o's' -"esopo'"''''a
anu VIC 'e' "''n po'','" '''o'''PV'E "'u.'
NC toui'e's WIN ""'1" ''e "'p'o'"a''
would play their game.
Inc 'hsnceiior speech WIN i's asser-
ton that the army administration Is as
desirous OF peace as ne Is seems to In
dicate that internal conditions as we'll
as the military situation have impelIed
him TO nut forward again Germany's
uiIIi,o,ess to trade bsr gains I, 1.-Two
49,, x -, A., p'.i. ,t. -
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'ui" Oh "e' coio''es anu su"i""'eeS VI
economic equalitE'
The London Daily Nems sums up edi-
torially the point of view of the Allies as
follows:
president Wilson and the Allies de-
mand tho evacuation oc Re,sium. the
ro,.o,o,i,, r.. ,ha ,.os,, i,o,.s, ,.o,,,
,,, s..'.,.N, 80. 's, -
anu '"e ',ee'"e VI SCI o'a on" ''u'''""'"
hot as po'"'s VI parsd'" oG' ul''o'u'-
uonaIly as matters OF puoHc risht' so
long as Germany refused TO recognize
this public right there is no possibility OF
an agreed peace"
"Peace Only by sword"