The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-12-17
NEWS NOTES.

J lWlil CONSIDER proposals TOT peaC'
, have been definitely stated by iii,
Imperial Chancellor, DR., won Beth
mann Hollweg, to the Reichstag
Germany, the Chancellor declared
does not desire continuation OF
the war and is ready to give heed
Ito any initiative for peace that her
Ienemies may make which are com
lpadble with Germany's dignity and
safety. Germany, however, viii not
ttake the initiative In proposing
terms, because $50 long as in the
countries OF eur enemies the guilt
land ignorance OF statesmen are en-
ltanglea With confusion of public
goplnion ii would be folly for Ger
msny Dc make peace proposals, which
we0ld net shorten, but would length
lem the war
Secretary Lansing made public the
EtsNS Of the note of the United States
demanding from Austria Hungary a
&lSAvowal of the sinking of the An
coma, the punishment of the COM
gmander of the submarine and an in
ldemnity for the. American citizens
killed or injured. The United States
iexpeets the dual monarchy to ''ac
cede to its demands promptly"
Austrias delay in replying to the
American Governments request for
details concerning the Ancona, says
Vienna dispatch, is due to the fact
that since the report it has been inn
possible to communicate with the
submarine involved.
In the face of the onslaughts of
the Bugarians, the British and
French forces in the extreme south
eastern portion of Serbia continue
their gradual retirement. The re-
ward movement, according to Paris,
is being carried out methodically and
without great difficulty, and heavy
casualties have been inflicted on the
Bulgarians. The situation Of these
forces again brings to the fore the
salient question of the Balkan cam
paign--what is to be the attitude of
Greece to the Entente troops who re-
enter the trritory?
In a comprehensive address before
the Columbus Chamber of Commerce
Dracidapt Wilson 1,road hIcipocc mon
to mobilize their resources in order
to take more important part in the
worlds affairs, defended his Mexican
policy, praised the new banking and
currency law and predicted that
there would be no "patched-up
peace" following the European war.
He greeted 1000 persons at a re-
ception held at the Ohio Capitol.
Urging an abandonment of sec
tartan prejudices as an obstacle to
ultimate Christian unity twenty
four rectors of the largest Protestant
Episcopal churches in New York an
nounced from their pulpits their ap-
prevail of the determination of the
Board of Missions to par
ticipate in the forthcoming Panama
congress.
Count Won Bernstein announced
his disavowal of Capt. Won Rentelen,
a German agent, now a prisoner in
the Tower of London, and declared
Won Rentelen had not been ordered
to commit acts in violation if U. S.
Twenty-Five of the crew of the
British steamer st. Kilda, wrecked
off the coast of the Island Miquelon,
are belived to have persisted from ex-
posture during a blizzard after they
had escaped and landed on the cliffs
of the island.
Secretary Daniels announced that
contracts for the construction of bat
tleships Nos. 70 and "A, authorized
by the last Congress, had been
awarded to the New York and Mare
Island navy yards, respectively.