Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-18
MONDAY .......... DECEMBER IS, 1916.
GERMANY,s PEACE TERMS.

Germany's terms of peace, which are the terms
Berlin has marked out for all her allies to follow,
have not been definitely announced even in the pro
posaIs sent 10 the Entente group. Chancellor Won
Bethmann Hollweg in his address TO the Rechstag
said that the status quo of Europe before the war
would be restored. except that il is proposed to
erect independent kingdoms in Poland and Llthua-
MIA This latter scheme is patiently TO set up buifer
states between the Teutons and the massed Slays
OF Russia, always a menace to Central Europe
The chancellors plan seems to be 10 yield up Bel.
gium and the conquered portion of France. The
Balkan situation, in his guarded uterance has been
left rather vague but the chances are all that if the
Central Powers are able to carry through their
plans. Serbia will be wiped out Of existence half
going to Bulgaria and the other half TO Austria
But Il must be remembered that powerful as the
chancellor is with the backing of the kaiser he is
not omnipotent in shaping imperial policies, and
there is a very large body of his eompatriots who
are not content with peace based on the European
map as il stood before the Last August an or
gauization calling itself 1.-THE Independent Commit
mittee for German Peace issued proclamation
which showed at once that ii is composed of the
extreme war advocates. This proclamation, out
lines of which have reached Honolulu, demands the
annexation of Belgium In part the document SAYS
e'our enemies viii not succeed" continues the pro
clamation "Onc thing they have accomplished Is to
force upon us the realization that England Is spe
<iaf and most dangerous enemy England causes our
enemies to stick together England leads them. Upon
England they depend and will depend more after the
war On the wreckrge of empire England hopes
TO unfurl the banner Of AngloSaxon world dominion
The document asserts that Russian territory from
the Baltic to vohynia must in the future be included
In the German sphere, to serve bufwark against
the Russian tendency to annihiate Germany Frances
revenge ideas must constantly be kept in mind SO that
n he necessary
giur adds the proclamation. either will be German
or an English bulwark real guarantees here also
are needed
The document cites the expression of DIR. Peter
SPAIN leader Of the Catholic Center party in the Reich
stag, that belgium must lie in German hands mill
tery, economically and politically
clearly the Entente Allies could accept no such
terms as these In fact, public sentiment in the
British Empire and in France is NOT likely to ac-
cela any peace terms which Berlin is at all likely to
dictatc.s
The world waits with intense interest for what
LloydGeorge is TO say in the British house of
mons. His utterances will determine peace a
continuance of war. Unless the Allied resources
have been drained to an extent of which the world
has no Indication whatever, the Entente group.
though battered, has not passed the maximum of its
military power, and therefore has reason to ac-
cepf pelce on German terms The uncertain factor
lies not in the military but in the political solidarity
Of the Allies Disquieting hints of Russias discour-
acement persist The Allies cannot afford to lose
this great Slavic ally.
Lloyd-George's illness is probably magniied by
The official bulletins. The situation very likely is
that he is using the several days of isolation and
delay thus afforded to secure an exchange of salts
factorily staneh expression from all the Entente
powers and to formulate full and ringing state
ment OF Entente determinations With this strong
statement in which he has the entire concurrence
of the Entente nations he go before his own ma
tiop and the world with a speech that will renew
teeondence of the Allies in their ultimate victory
aud that moreover, will justify their in re-
jecting peace negotiations at this critical time.
The opinion is frequently expressed that Ger
naiy's proposal has been made to put the Allics.at
a disadvantage, to impose upon them the onus of
continued war. The new premier has TO meet pre-
cisev this situation in his address, which will rank
in importance with those of viscount Asquith at
the time when the world waited to know whether.
with Germany storming the gates of Lege, England
would come into the mighty conflict.