The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-12-28
GERMANY LEADING MOVES
All the Other Nations of The
Allies Seem to be Following
in the Lead of the Dictator of
the Fighting the Central
Powers.

LONDON, Dec 27.-Germany's re.
ply to President Wilson on the peace
question, as transmitted by the Asso
ciated Press correspondent at Berlin
to New York and transmitted here
did not reach London until too late
for comment. or even for insertion in
the earliest morning editions of the
London papers. 1t is printed with
great prominence, however, in the
second editions, credited to the Asso
ciated Press.
The only present indication Of its
reception here is furnished by the
daily Mails headline: German
Peace Dodge" and an Introductory
note, in which the Mail says:
EVADE EXPLICIT ANSWER.
''If President Wilson meant, as re-
cent American comment contends
that his note should force Germany
to state her terms, Germany has cour
tered with this proposal so that she
can evade an explicit answer"
1t is a coincidence that Great
nremiers to attend war conference
not later than February to consider
questions affecting the prosecution of
the war forms the main feature of the
morning papers. AS it Is apparent that
no important decision affecting the
conditions under which the war can
DIFFERENTIATED by the allies is likely
to be taken until the conference, ii
may be assumed. apart from any
other considerations, that Germany
suggestion for an immediate exchange
of views probably will not materialize.
TO PREVENT DEFEAT.
The Daily Telegraph, commenting
on the imperial conference, says:
"The allies are very far from com
mitting the mistake of not consider
ing among themselves the conditions
of peace. for which they propose to
obtain the only effectual guarantee.
These deliberations are not of kind
to be concluded in haste. We have
not willed to have a premature peace
and we do not mean to have it. Our
enemies have willcd such peace and
are making every possible effort to
force one as the only alternative to
final defeat. They have failed to dis
arm any of their intended victims
by military means; certainly they
will not do so by the exercise of
diplomacy"
The Pail Mall Gazette says:
Germany has not been slow to
seize the advantages gives her by
President Wilson's maladroit diplo.
macy. 1t would he real triumph
for Germany to have herself recog-
nized as the wire puller of the power
whose subjects her submarines
drowned with impunity and which
lectured her in the name of all the
cardinal virtues. II would teach the
world that by letting the Americans
do the talking Germany understands
how to get her own way eventually
in the sphere of practical politics.
COAT OF WHiTEWAsH.
"The studied impartiality of tho
american uOtt SuUDlItS btluldJIN
with a coat of whitewash Of which
she was badly in need Germany
proposes an immediate conference Of
bellieerents which appears to her to
be the most promising way of nro.
noting fissure In the entente. The
allies have only one possible attitude
to this; namely, they will hold no dis
cussion with an unpublished criminal
or with a power whose solemn en-
gagements are mere scraps Of paper.
If Mr.. Wilson's real object was to
elicit plain statement Of the aims
and terms Of both sides, Berlin's an
swer shows that he failed.
ut did not require note to pro-
cure a plain statement of the allied
cause. Upon the German side the
invitation meets with summary dis
missal. The ill-conceived note has
been frustrated and the most digni
fled course now would be It's frank
withdrawal"
EAGER TO END WAR.
The promptness of the German
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