The sun., 1919-04-16

climax In q fresh Prussian claim to the
Admiralty Of the Baltic. The Prusso-
Germans are prepared to admit Russias
right OF way to the sea 10 long as RUSSIA
is willing to recognise that she and
Prussia still have common interests
against Poland.
This statement of the basis OF the
Eastern orinentation OF German policy,
as the Kreus Zeitun0 calls 1t, involves
something more 1t means that the mo-
ment In at hand, when for Germany at
any rate, the Boishevists will have be-
come merged once more with the Rus
sian people. Il 10 with an eye TO this
contingency that the Berlin Government,
through Gustave Noske, minister OF de-
Tense, denies the existence OF any state
Of war in the Baltic provinces that the
first German Republican budget pro-
vidcs for the establishment this year OF
diplomatic agencies at Kiev. Goskow and
Tifis, and consu!ates Mt Odessa, khar-
kov, Rostov and Sartov and It is with
view to this that, above all. Won Bern
ptorfr 10 prepafing to follow Americas
lead In this quarter and even to ccunse
America regarding the appropriate form
OF any financial assistance for. Russia.
Shelving the Dansig issue has raised
once more the whole complex Of external
questions and has afforded the Germans
selves to what extent Bolshevism may
he adapted to Manifestations OF their
own Zeitgeist. There are signs that on
the Kovno front they already are taking
full advantage OF this opportunity, and
they will not fail to make capital out OF
the fact that the Allies hitherto have
been unable TO consult Russia as whole
regarding the future OF her border states.
They point to their own success In die
L..
the case OF DansiH, Thorn, Birnbaum
and the silesian boundary.
One luminous feature In the testimony
the German observers are reluctantly
compelled to bear an to the vitality OF
the Poles. According to a writer In the
German Gueotte, who Tecently returned
from Warsaw, the days Of German eco
nomlc supremacy in Poland are gone
forever II Poland becomes Independent.
Poles Hate the Germans.
The hatred for the Germans since the
occupation is intense. and this writer's
impression IL that reports regarding the
growth of Bolsheyism In Poland are ex-
aggerated. Warsaw with its 10000
unemployed may well have misgivings,
but In his opinion the Poles are in no
wise likely to sacrifice their ideal OF a
great united Poland to any Bolshevist
CouVoptiOHb Oh uHtNeTbAi happiness.
It 10 more than probable that an Inn
partial survey In Russia at this moment
would disclose on n much larger scale
precisely similar temperament and cor
responding prospects. But while the Al
lies are sending single emissaYtes the
Prusso-G Germans everywhere are secur-
ing a solid foothold, which they will be
prepared to contest or barter for wholly
disproportionate concessions elsewhere.
Thus tho Baltic barons and their Ger
man vassals. who number per cent OF
the total population, are demanding the
right Of national self-determination and
an independent legislature outside OF the
Jurisdiction Of any future Baltic state
system.
In Difference to democratic n,seepti-
bility. the barons are prepared to forego
their title to nobility. 80 long as Prussia
holds the bridge across the Vistua. these
claims will continue to grow daily both
In magnitude and multitude; SO long as
the Berlin Government continues to con-
nive at these schemes 1t 10 sheer dis
honesty on the part Of Schiedemann and
Won Brockdorff- Rantsau to appeal. as
they Just have been appealing to Weimar
to the sanctity Of treaties. to the spirit
Of good wfll among nations and the con-
science Of the world.