ABOUT THE ENEMY.
(Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association.) (Received May 24th, 12.50 a.m.)
LONDON, May 23. At a 'Mansion House luncheon, celebrating Italy's entry into the war, Lord Robert Cecil . (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs) said that a complete change had come over the German peoples since their superficial victories. Nothing was now heard of the Reichstag's renunciatory resolution, the German professors again preaching the blood and iron gospel. Tho promised democratic reforms in Prussia were forgotten. It was tho Entente's duty to increase its efforts and discard political preoccupations. Lord Robert Cecil, alluding to the Austrian Empire, said that the peoples subjected to Austrian rule must enjoy the freedom and independence which wero their right. Wo must not look to Courts or Cabinets for a future settlement, hut to the nations' peoples.
("The Timeo.") LONDON, May 22. The "Pan-German organ, "Deutsche Politek," is raising the Jiew war cry of "Hamburg to Herat," as the best description of the German scheme for expansion through Lithuania, Ukraine, tho Caucasus, Persia, and Afghanistan. With four new Eastern routes Germany can reach the heart of Asia, and tho "Hamburg to Herat" cry will become the guiding star of her future world economic nolicv.
(Router's Telegrams.} (Received May 23rd, 11.5 p.m.)
AMSTERDAM, May 22,
"Workers' delogates, representing all parts of Germany, held a conference at Bremen, and discussed war aims. They telegraphed to the Kaiser and Count von Hertling demanding safety of frontiers, indemnities, territory for settlement, and freedom of the sens.
LONDON, May 22
An authoritative Polish 60urce states that Austria and Germany hav© agreed that Austria shall take a large portion of Russian Poland. Prussia intends to seize the other parts, but the vast majority of the Polish nation demands a united independent Poland, free from German and Magyar domination, and including the Polish territories, Silesia, Posen, and Dantzig.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16220, 24 May 1918, Page 7
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