Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-02
WAR CANNOT Be
WON BY ARMIES
SAYS HUN CHIEF
Foreign Minister KuehImann
Fails to See Peace.
GIVES KAISER's WAR AIMS
Germany Unable to Make Promise
About BeIoium-Wants Overseas
Possessions Returned-DecIares
"Idea of Victory for En-
tente Is a Dream"

Amsterdam, June 26-Reviewing
the military situation in the reichstag
at Berlin DR.. Richard Won Kuehlmann,
foreign secretary, declared that vic
tories had given the Germans the mi
tiative in Frdnce.
1--WE can hope that the summer and
autumn will bring to our arms a new
and great success" he continued
1.-The Hungarian army also
has in dashing onslaught attacked
the Italian positions and achieved
noteworthy successes and pinned
down large, and important enemy
forces on that front.
when one makes a wide survey of
events one must ask whether the war,
according to human calculations, will
last beyond the autumn or the winter
or beyond the next year. There is
common idea among the people that
the length of the war is something alb
solutely new, as if the authoritative
quarters had in our time never reck-
oned on a very long war. This idea
is Incorrect"
End of War Far Away.
DIR. Won Kuehlmann quoted Won
MOltke, who in 1890 in the reichstag
said that if war broke out it's duration
and end could not be calculated.
Despite the brilliant successes of
our arms" continued the secretary,
there has been nowhere clearly rec
OgniZable among our enemies readi-
ness for peace. The German govern
ment repeatedly has laid down its
standpoint in declarations intended for
the widest publicity Our enemies
have nothing to show that can in any
degree compare with the German
peace offer, with the resolution of this
house, or with the reply to the papal
note.
The declarations of our enemies,
especially of English statesmen, allow
as yet no peaceful ray of light to fall
on the darkness of this war;"
No Belgian Pledge.
Germany cannot bind herself to any
pledges in regard to Belgium, Doctor
Kuehlmann said, and that in view of
Germany's resources "Our enemies
must perceive that the idea of victory
for the entente is a dream"
DR.. Won Kuehlmann also declared
that, considering the magnitude of the
war, its end can hardly be expected
through purely military decisions alone
and without recourse to diplomatic ne
gOtiations.
I'VE wish for the German people
and our allies a free, strong, independ-
ent existence within the boundaries
drawn for us by history" DIR. Won
Kuehlmann said. "We desire overseas
possessions corresponding to our
greatness and wealth, the freedom of
the seas, carrying our trade to all
parts of the world"
Quoting from former Premier AS
quiths speech of May 16, in which the
British statesman said that the allies
would not turn a deaf ear to a peace
proposal if it was not couched in am
biguOus terms, DR.. Won KuehImann de-
clared:
''We likewise can make the same
declaration, knowing it to he also our
policy"
"Once the moment arrives-when
l care not to prophesy-that the ma
tons which are at present locked in
battle will exchange peace views, one
of the preliminary conditions must be
certain degrees of mutual confidence
in each others honesty and chivalry,"
he continued.
Recalls Won MoItke's Phrase.
Referring to Mr.. Balfour's speech,
in which the British foreign secretary
said that Germany had unclaimed the
war to achieve world domination, DIR.
Won Kuehlmann said:
81 do not believe that any RESPONSE
BILE man in Germany, not even the
kaiser, or the members of the imperial
government, ever for a moment be-
lieved they could win the domination
in Europe by starting this war. The
idea of world domination in Europe
is Utopia as proved by Napoleon
The nation which tried it would, as
happened in France, bleed to death in
useless battle and would be most
previously injured and lowered in her
development. One may here apply
Won Moltke's phrase, Woe to him who
sets Europe afire.'
AT no moment of our later history
was there less occasion for us to start
or contribute TO the starting of a con-
fiagration than the moment in which
II occurred"
In the course of his address DR.. Won
Kuehlmann paid tribute to the neutral
states, which had done everything to
mitigate the suffering of wounded
prisoners, and which had Offered. il
need he, the hospitality of their coun.
tries FOR discussion between the bel.
ligerents."
Chief blame for instigating the Wal
was laid nj RuSsia'S door by DR.. Won
Kuehlmann. France and England
were 2amed as the next powers in or.
der It culpability.