GERMAN CRISIS.

Evening Star, Issue 16627, 9 January 1918, Page 3

GERMAN CRISIS.

GENERALS VERSUS POLITICIANS. THE PEOPLE AND MILITARISM. SIGNS OF AWAKENING. Reuter's Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, January 7. A split between the Pan-German annexationists and the more .moderate elements in Germany over the Brest-Litovsk negotiations is evident by a violent attack on Von Kuhlmann by the ' Rheinische Westfaelische Zeitung,' which attributes to his conduct of the negotiations Von Ludendorff's threat to resign. The journal doubts' whether the army command can any longer co-operate with Von Kuhlman. It declares that renunciation in the east is Von Kuhlman's watchword, and renunciation in the west will follow. Germans must now choose between Von Hinden'burg and Von Ludendorfi on the one side, and Von Kuhlmann and Von Hertling on the other. The Pan-Germans are actively seeking Von Kuhlmanri's overthrow. They regard him as the chief obstacle to the militarists' policy. The Krupp newspapers violently denounce him. It is an open secret that Berious differences were manifested at Brast-Litovsk between Von Kuhlmann and Count Czernin on'the one hand, and the 'German military representatives on the other; also that Von Kuhlmann frequently appealed to Berlin for' approval. The German Democrats are agitating for the removal of Von Hindenburg and Ludendorfi, in order to end the military influence over Germany's political policy. LONDON", January 8. The ' Daily Telegraph's' Rotterdam correspondent confirms the seriousness of the struggle, between the Pan-Germans and the Social Democrats and other moderate parties. The Pan-Germans threaten the gravest consequences if Von Kuhlmann is permitted >o retain office. His attitude at Brest-Eitoysk is regarded as a menace to' ihe annexationists'policy,-- ;

The majority block, in the Reichstag has broken up, and the parties constituting the majority refuse to adhere to the resolution of July 19 of a peace without annexation and without indemnities. The decision of the Russian delegates to resume negotiations has somewhat calmed the anxiety of the Moderates. The Majority Socialists intend submitting an ultimatum to the Government forthwith. The Majority Socialists have sent a message to the Bolsheviks, inviting the latter to reject tho .pourparlers. . " The Pan-Germans blame the Socialists for the Russian rejection of the annexation programme, the Socialists having informed the Bolsheviks that a separate peace would be detrimental to the revolutionary movement developing in Germany.