Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-05-31
GERMANY WILLING
FOR SECOND TRIP
OF PEACE WORKER
Berlin Papers Print Report
That If Colonel House Ap-
pears Again, Change
Will Be Seen.
WASHINGTON INTERESTED
Belief Is Expressed That Pres
ident's Representative Will
Leave After Con-
ventions.
WASHINGTON INTERESTED

again turned in favor of the French,
according to this afternoons official
bulletin from Paris, which says French
troops have recaptured part of the viii
lage of Cumieres. Trenches northwest
OF the village were also reclaimed in
the French attack. while on the oppo-
site side of the Meuse Paris claims the
repulse of a German effort to gain fur
ther ground in the neighborhood of
Fort Douaumont.
Tor the Austrians in the Trentino.
They have captured an entire noun
tain ridge and nav taken more than
$500 prisoners.
Rome officially reports the Italians
making a determined stand which held
the Austrians in check i'm all but one
sector of the front. An Italian retire
ment from an advanced position on the
AsticO river is admitted.
Washington. May 29.-The definite
statement in the Berlin press dis
patches that Germany would welcome
peace was read with deep interest by
officials here.
The only made was that
President Wilson'S speech tonight be-
fore the League to Enforce Peace
would make plain his position.
OFFICIALS said they new of no inten-
ton on the presidents part of asking
Colonel House to &c pack to Berlin.
Berlin, Tuesday, May 90, (via Lon
p. M. House to Europe would come
as no surprise to the initiated in off,
cha quarters here. The r,0nors to this
effect are regarded as having a GER
tain basis in fact, although the opinion
prevails hat the trip would naturally
be postponed until after the national
conventions.
1t is hoped here that should Colonel
House pay such a visit he will come
this time as a h%arbinger of peace, or
at any rate to prepare, If possible, the
f~oundat1ons for a peace proposal, diff
cult as this task is recognized to be.
During his last previous visit to Eu-
rope Colonel House made no effort
and conducted no investigation in the
direction of a peace-in Berlin at any
eVent-haVing perhaps found absolute
ly adverse conditions in capitals of ma
lions hostile to Germany. Presuma-
bly,. also. he had previous information
that American mediation was not de-
sired and it would not be accepted as
long as the United States continued to
shot, shell, cartridges, powder and
1000 other requisites for waging war
against the central powers. Moreover.
no intimation had been given at the
time OF this visit that Feasibility in
high quarters here on the munitions
question was in any way abated.
Would Welcome Peace.
The situation, it may be said. nov
has changed. Apparently there is no
harm from either a political or a stra-
tegical standpoint in saying that Ger
many would welcome peace. AS Ar
thur Won Gwinner, the managing di-
rector of the Deutsche bank in Berlin.
stated to the Associated Press corre-
s%pondent recently, Germany is in the
position of a poker player who has
gof 1n r0 -, oil Ill., - III
and naturally is willing to break Off
an all night session and retire with his
winnings. while the Others persist in
continuing in the hope Of %recouping
some of their losses. The cards, how
ever. to continue the simile. are run
ming strongly in the Germans favor, it
is pointed out, as shown in the renewed
postponement of the long heralded
Anglo-French offensive in the west,
the steady. though slow progress of the
croWn prince at Verdun, the victories
of the Turks and finally the crushing
results of the Austrian offensive in the
Trentino.
Whether these events are enough TO
induce the entente allies to retire from
what is looked upon here as a losing
anne. and whether the changed tone of
the u~tterances OF Premier Asquith and
Sir Edward Grey. and what is consid-
cred a disavowal OF their intention to
crush Germany as a nation and a COM
merclal rival, or dismember the empire.
are indicative Of receptivity toward
reasonable peace proposals., is an UNI
certain factor in the reckoning.
Can't Take Berlin.
The best posted neutral observers
here, particularly diplomats in touch
with the sentiment in both camps, are
inclined to give a negative answer to
these questions and to hold that some
thing further must occur to convince
the entente allies that the expulsion OF
the German armies from occupied ter
ritories and the completion of the "on
to Berlin" campaign are impossibilities
even with the aid OF the blockade and
economic pressure. AS one possible
means Of bringing about this recep-
tive attitude in entente capitals, one of
these neutral diplomats who is not sus-
pected Of partially for either side, re-
Gently suggested the presentation OF
evidence gathered by neutral impartial
agencies Of Germany's ability to con-
tinue the struggle Indefinitely, despite
the food situation and other effects Of
the blockade.
Colonel House Silent.
New York, May 27.-Col. E. NJ.
House said tonight hat he had no
plans for returning to Europe. When
told of press dispatches indicating thai
he would be welcomed there as a har.
binger Of peace. his only comment was
that he was very much flattered. He
and President Wilson had q conference
here Wednesday, when Il was indicated
that the chief subject Of the converSa.