POLITICAL WAR MOVES

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 42, 18 February 1918, Page 6

POLITICAL WAR MOVES

Cablegrams received on and »ince Saturday confirm the impression that the policy of the Central Powers is to play off the Russian racial divisions one against another. Poland is not only being deprived of territory for, the benefit of the Ukraine, but is suffering similar deprivations, according to Polish news via Amsterdam, because of the creation of a new Lithuania. In history Lithuania was once the rival and later tha partner of Poland. The chance to make the Poles and the Lithuanians a oheck upon each other is too good for the Germans ;to neglect. r Then, on the Baltic coast, "there are the territories of Esthonia and Livonia. According to the authoritative Lokalanzeiger, Germans in • these parts are being " bullied," and will therefore prove as useful to Pan-Germanism as [ German missionaries in China used to be. While the Slavic races are being partitioned off by the Central Powers into suitable compartments, Austria-Hungary reoccupies the whole of bitterly-con^ | tested Galicia. Tha Habsburg flag thore- | fore flies wider than it has done for half, a-century, yet the structure is not solid, Feav of Russian aggression has gone, and with it the principal cement binding 'the. separate parts of the Dual Monarchy together. Simultaneously, Russian RefmMkmiiism wsrke lik« & nolvsnt at th» foundations. It Auitvia-HuHgivy it to

be held, the German sword must neither rust nor rest, and that is one reason why the storm-troops are in active training on the Western front. ' . .