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.AMSTERDAM, 26th January.' Cologne Teports state that Count Hertling's speech has been well received * in moderate German circles, where the fact ihat the Chancellor discussed President Wilson's Message seriatim is regarded as of considerable importance. Germany now believes that the Alsace question has been finally settled, and that the legend that she has made plans for the annexation of Belgium and France has been exploded. The Independent^ Socialists and Conservatives reproach Count Hertling with not defining war tarns. , The Austrian: press receives the speech with niarked coolness. ■ Dutch newspapers observe that the speech brings peace no nearer and rejects President Wilson's terms, except those which are advantageous to Germany 1.. ,
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 24, 28 January 1918, Page 7
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