The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-09-10
GERMANY WILL MAKE
NO PEACE OvERTURES
Willing, However, to Consider Sug>
gestions From Neutrals.

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will receive Hospitality any sugges
tions of peace from any belligerent
or from any neutral nation like thu
United States, acting for humanity:
sake, and will make known terms
on which she will make peace.
/ am also able to give definition
of the vague term freedom of the
SEAS" which has appeared so often
in official or semi-official statements
from Germany.
What Germany means by free
dom of the SEAS" while the present
war lasts, is sufficiently clear from
her official correspondence with the
United States, in which she sug-
gested that Great Britain be COM
PEELED to lift her illegal blockade of
the commerce of neutral nations and
to obey the rules of international
law and the treaty of London that
Great Britain herself initiated.
England is now violating and has
violated every day for 10 months
past that treaty.
What Germany means by free
dom of the seas" in peace, after the
present war, is in substance this:
''She wants an iron-clad interna-
tional agreement, to which, of
course, Great Britain would be a
party, providing that in all future
wars private property of all nations
shall be free at sea; that, the mer-
chant ships even of belligerents,
when bound on peaceful errands, not
carrying munitions of war, shall not
be molested by enemy warships; that
every nation when at war shall be
free to carry on it's ordinary foreign
commerce uninterruptedly; that it's
warships, .munition ships and other
admiralty vessels shall alone be sub
ject to attack, like fortified towns !"
Germany, having an army excell-
ing any other, wishes to make that
army potent and natives in general
less potent--to deprive a belligerent,
having command of the sea, of the
right to destroy peaceful commerce.
WANTS OPEN DOOR.
1t is also probable that Germany,
in any treaty of peace, would seek
to provide against German goods by
any of the nations now at war or
their colonies.
Germany knows, of course, that
every nation will fix it's own tariffs
and grant any degree of protection
It desires to it's home industries, but
Germany will insist that no country
give any preferential tariff to any
nation, nor discriminate against Ger!
nan exports in any colonial posses
sion.
Germany desires an open door to
the only understanding be-
ng that the nation that can produce
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where she may. She relies upon her
,wn technical skill to expand her
'oreign trade.
The other terms of peace accept
tble to Germany, when she is asked,
ire:
The erection of an independent |
Iingdom in Poland as a buffer state
,etween Russia and Germany, with
Roman Catholic monarch and
quality for the Jews.
Cession of a part, if not all, of
'ourland by Russia to Germany.
Russia to grant autonomy to Fin
and, which she has misgoverened
nd oppressed.
Servia to be divided between Aus
ria and Bulgaria, with possibly a
mall morsel for Greece. Servian
overeignty to cease.
Belgium to be restored to the Bel
ians, Germany to receive as COM
ensation for evacuating Belgium
he Congo State in Africa, now own
d by Belgium.
France to cede her African colon
Il territory to Germany as compen-
alton for Germany giving up North
IN France.
Great Britain to restore all of Ger
any's African colonies.
Germany to retain all of Alsace-
oraine.
No war indemnities are mentioned
| this category of demands by Ger
any for granting peace.
LIVE AND LET LIVE.
This is the first direct expression h
the German government looking d
ward cessation of international n
,stilities thru third party. The t
ternational News Service inform
1t is man of the highest standing
,th in the United States and Ger
any, and his views reflect those of
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