South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-12-28
French and Russian Notes
Will be Identical With Lon
don'S So Far AS PrinCi-
pies Are Concerned.
FRANCE MAY GO INTO
HISTORY OF CONFLICT
Dispatches From PetrOgrad
Show Car is Determined
to Fight Until Ger
many SurrenderS.
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international News Service:
LONDON. Dec. %. - The allies
reply 20 Pres-t Wilson's note viii be
handed 20 American diplomatic rep
resentatives within As hours. ac-
cording TO belief expressed in diplo-
matte circles today.
The answer. IL is expected. viii
be exactly i'm line with the speech
Of Premier Lloyd-George and viii
be negative IN tone.
The notes from France and Rus
STA viii be identical with that OF
England so far as their principles
are concerned, although they viii hc
different i'm composition
Il is more than likely that one Of
the allied governments. probably
France. will go into the history OF
events leading up 20 the war.
See No Conference.
ANY hope that may have beep
felt that the peace talk would leao
10 a conference in one Of the neu-
trail capitals has dwindled 10 min
imum The papers. IN commenting
upon the German reply 20 Prsa's
Wilson make this plain.
The British. French and Russian
papers make a big play upon the
omission Of terms from the German
note. This action is called n dirs.s
evasion Of the main object which
Pres't Wilson was tryiuE TO attain
A dispatch from Paris quotes the
Temps as follows on the German
answer:
The character o. the note reveals
how Wilhelmstrasse is EN- harrassed
for il throws not the slightest light
ON Germany's war objects nor on her
ideas rePa ding European orcaniza-
zion Prest Wilson has drawn a
blank The Teuton reply implies
the contrary 70 the overture in the
American note II declines diplo-
maticallv an mediation II is evil
dent that Germany desires peace.
but German peace which ehc desires
90 enforce upon her adverTarios in
lieu Of force Chancellor won Beth-
mann FIoilweg's conceutiou of
league OF nations after the war is
20 have Germany ar its head
Georges CfemenceaU. former pre-
mier OF France writes MS follows 81
his paper. THE Man in Chains"-
Wilson Lantern Smokes.
"FFe who wants 10 influence di-
rectlv the opinion OF men must
sneak ont clearly lIr wilson's
lantern smokes too much Tn Eng
land the same impression was pro-
duced az first and II VIII Doe recog-
uized that when statem7n Intends
20 Influence cOutemporl- ~ ls a
grievious misfortune Or both friends
and enemies can in good faith DO
mistaken as 20 his intentions"
NJ Clemenceau concludes by de-
claring that the allies are engaged
I'm a war OF self-defense and that
they were iu no way responsible for
the beginning
The reply 20 the original German
peace note Of Dec y has evidently
been delayed. but it IS expected that
u WIN 60 forward az once II may
precede the reply 20 the United
States or both may De turned in AZ
the same time
Russia stands Firm.
IN view of the hope that Russia
could be induced ~ make p separ-
ate peace. disratche- from Petro-
grad have produced a most salts
factory impression in London The
Petrograd correspondent OF -he
Morning Post .ntimated that Russia
will demand the uucondltionsf s1r-
render 81 Germany in her answer 20
the Teut0nic peace propose
A dispatch 20 the Daily News f~om
1eneva saws that a number of Aus
--isn diplomats have arrived there
They were credited with The state.
uent that they favored Geneva az
the seat Of a peace conferences
rather than The Hague Their de-
meanor has given rise % the inn
preston that Ausfro- Hungary fs
very eager for peace ~ once. the
dispatch added The Geneva COR
respondent 81 the Daily News con
ceived the impression that Emperor
Charles the View ruler - Austria
IS doing all IN his power 20 help tho
peace movement and is using All his
influence with Germany tn the same
direction