Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-26
ALLIED OFFICIALS
SEE NO PROMISE IN
HERTLlNG SPEECH
Alsace-Lorraine Not Only Oh.
stacle TO Peace, is Paris
Comment

LOnuO1, dH. ZO.-l L ne view
entertained by a majority of the
morning newspapers of London
respecting the speeches of Chan
cellor Won Hertling and Foreign
Minister Czernin is that Ger
many regards herself as the
conqueror, that she is deter
mined upon aggression and is
prepared to listen to no peace terms
except her own, and. that therefore
the war must go on. 1t is admitted
that the tone of the Austro-H Hun
garian foreign minister is more con-
ci1atory than that of the German
chancellor, but this is attributed
largely to the pressure of internal
conditions in Austria Hungary.
Count CZernin's respectful references
to President Wilson's address are re-
ceived coolly for the most part be-
cause of his declared fidelity to the
alliance with Germany.
The Morning Post thinks Chan
cellor Won Hertling's evident anxiety
TO placade America is very remark
able and cannot reconcile his pro-
fessed agreement with President
fering as to details but assumes that
the speech was constructed, as so
many have interpreted II, with equal
reason to opposite senses. After
making an indignant condemnation
of the proposal that Great Britain
give up Gibraltar and other defenses
the Post says:
Now having received another
proof of Germany's inexpungable
hatred of England we will get on
with the war"
Speeches Mean Little
The Telegraph fears that the
speeches of both statesmen con-
tribute nothing to the pacification
Of Europe and believes that there
iE no radical divergence in the views
of Germany and Austria. The Tele-
graph says that the chancellor s
views are especially important be-
cause he exposes Enthusiastically the
fact that the mflitarist party in
Germany has gained a remarkable
ascendehcy.
Comparing the utterances OF the
German chancellor and Count Ger
min the Temps says their words OF
yesterday indicate the choice each
has made. Continuing the Temps
| says:
Although Chancellor Won Hert-
| ling accepts such clauses in the
American program as appear advan-
! tageous for Germany by interpreting
them according to his liking, he re-
| jects the others"
Concrete Demands Refused
The Chronicle says that Chancel-
| lor Won Hertling, while giving
| guarded and practically valueless as.
| sent to some of President Wilson's
abstrict principles, refuses every one
of the concrete territorial demands
| The Chronicle finds 1t difficGlt tc
say how much Count Czernin':
! phrases regarding President Wilson
mean, for on concrete points he con-
| codes nothing. Concluding the
| Chronicle says that ''it looks as Il
nothing but Germany's defeat coulC
! change Germany's heart"
The Daily Mail says: 'If there are
any shirkers or believers in peace
by negotiation still among us there
Will be none left when Chancellor
Ven Hertling's speech is read. 1t Z!
clear that Germany is unrepentant
.unbeat and swollen with victory fol
| aggression"
The Times thinks the speeches
were arranged in collusioh and con
stitute a combined diplomatic often
sive against the entente allies. Tht
| Times says:
| "The attack obviously was intend