Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1918 — YES, HE IS OPTIMISTIC. [ARTICLE]

YES, HE IS OPTIMISTIC.

Amsterdam, May 18.—“ I am still optimistic enough to believe we will reach peace this year,” Count Von Hertling, German chancellor, told interviewers for the Budapest newspaper. “I am confident the events on the west front will bring nearer the’speedy end of the war. We only want a place in the sun. Germany and Austria are entitled to harmonize their actions. The emperor discussed basic ideas of the alliance. Details will be negotiated later. “The agreement is not aggressive. If the world some day would unite in an international peace league Germany unquestionably would join it. “Present conditions give little hope for such a league. We are fighting for our existence and for the peace for which are longing.”