The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-10-30

influence france Against England
and Russia = Fear Effect on This
Country
LONDON, Oct GO. W. Perris Paris
correspondent Of The Daily Chronicle
makes known in a dispatch to his paper
Gelmanys attempt to make peace with
France at the expense of the other allies
His dispatch says:
For combined audacty and thickness.
nothing within my knowledge equals the
attempt which the Kaiscrs advisers and
agents have made during the last few
days to separate France from her allies
and enable the German government. while
posing before the outer world and its own
people "a earnestly DESTROYS for peace. to
pursue the war with hopes of success.
Information has been conveyed to GER
tain influential Frenchmen who-,were. eX-
pected to act as Intermediates. that the
German Imperial government recognizes
the splendid showing made by the French
armies; that it has never regarded France
as Is principal enemy in thus struggle.
and that it * ready to make peace on
terms not merely honorable but generous
to the republic. These terms would in
clude the transfer to France of Metz and
perhaps a part of Alsace
Il need say nothing of the spelbound
establishment with which this proposition
conveyed, it Is true. not through official
but through commercial and financial
channels, vet with apparent authority
was listened to- No Frenchman can now
for moment ignore the horrible injuries
the war is working-it is even easier for
false than for true prophets of peace to
play upon this note-but neither can anv
responsible Frenchman ignore for mo
ment the fact of the multiple alliance and
all 1t stands for in the present aud future
What about Servia? What about Rus
sia? What about England? Above all.
what about the martyrIand Belgium?
Il am informed that before these ques-
tons the would-be negotiators fell to
vague Struggling of dubious shoulders, but
opined that Germany would have to re-
quirc at least an enclave on the Scheldt
in other words, Antwerp and Northern
Belgium
AS to the other three powers. they
could look after themselves; but here was
| an opportunity for France. an arrange
mcnt which she could not hope to better.
even if, with her friends, at a frghtful
cost. she was able to carry the war to "a
| victorious issue.
Il believe that. with all tba hitter cuf.
| feripg that lies heoy,, ON this Iand -,
public man dare onenl,- fsvo,. anJ ,caL
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