Herr Michaelis the German Chancellor, addressing the Reichetag Committee on
Friday week, declined once more to State Germany's war aims. "Any such public statement at the present time "could, only have a confusing effect and harm Germany's interests. We should not have come a step nearer to peace, but we Should have - contributed certainly to a prolongation of the war." In other, words, he dare not reply to Mr. Adquith's challenge for a plain statement on the question of Belgium, because he knows that his masters mean to keep Belgium if they can. Meenwhile he is playing • for time, in the faint hello that something may turn up to Germany's advantage. The Pacifieists here who are always clamouring for a- fresh statement of our war aids—as if they had not been stated broadly and clearly-over and over again—are, consciously or uncon- sciously, helping Herr Michaelis by striving to produce dissensions, among the Allies. If, and -only if, the Allies remain united and resolute in carrying on the war. Germany will see that the game is up.
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