The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-05-30
GERMANY WOULD WELCOME
HOUSE AS PEACE ENVOY
Berlin Thinks Teut0nS' Position is So
Good They Can AFFORD to Stop
the War.

Berlin, Tuesday, Nay % (via Lon
Con, May 26).-Another, visit by Col.
E. M. House to Europe would come as
no surprise to initiated Quarters here.
The American rumors to this effect
are. regarded as having a certain
basis in fact. although the opinion
prevails that the trip would natural
ly be postponed until after the na-
tional conventions 1t is hoped here
that should.Col House pay such Avis
it, he will come this time as a .har-
binger of peace, or at any rate, to
prepare if possible the foundations
for a peace proposal difficult as this
task is recognized to be.
During his last previous visit Ito
Europe, Col. House made no effort
and conducted no investigation in the
direction of peace, in Berlin at any
event, having perhaps found abso-
lutely adverse. conditions in capitals
of nations hostile to Germany. Pre-
sumably, also he had previous infor-
nation that American mediation
would not be accepted as long as the
UNITED States continued to supply
Germany's foes with cannon, shot,
SHE'LL cartridges, powder and thou
sand and one other war requisites.
Moreover; no intimatiep had been
given at the time of this visit that
irascibility in high quarters here on
the munitions questions was in any
way abated.
Change in Berlin Now.
The situation, it may be said, now
has changed. Apparently there is no
harm, from either political or
strategical standpoint, in saying that
Germany would welcome peace. AS
Arthur Won Gwinner, the managi-g
director. Of the Deutsche bank in Ber-
lin, stated to the Associated Press
correspondent recently, Germany is
in the position of poker player who
has gathered in all the money on the
table and naturally is willing to break
off an all night session and retire
with his winnings, while the others
persist in continuing in. hope of re-
cuping some of ther losses. The cards,
however, to eontinae the simile are
running strongly, in. the; Germany's
favor, it is poiated out, as shown in
the renewed postponement in the
long heralded Anglo-Frencn offensive
in the west, the steady though slow
progress of the crown prince at Yer
dun, the victories of the Turks and
finally the crushing results of the
Austrian offensi,e in the Trentino.
Whether these events are enough
to induce the entente allies to retire
from what is looked upon here as a
losi1g game and whether the chang
ed tone of the utterances of Premier
Asquith and Sir Edward Grey, and
what is considered a disavoWal OF
their inteation to crush Germany as
..ation and a commercial rival or dis
member the empire are indicatiEei OF
receptivity toward reasonable peace
proposals is, an uncertain factor in
the reckoning.
THE best posted neutral observers
here are iaclined to give an eyasiVe
answer to these questions and to hold
that something else must take place
to convince the entente allies that
the expulsion of the German armies
from occupied territory and the COM
pletion of the ION to Berlin" cam
paign are impossibilities. An one
possible means of bringing about this
receptive attitude in entente capitals
one of these neutral diplomats, who
is not suspected of partiality for
either side, recently suggested the
presentation of evidence gathered Dy
neutral, impartial agencies of Ger
manv's ability to continue the strug-