The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
WILL PEACE PREVAIL, IS
THE QUESTION NOW
Notwithstanding (iermany's Overture
No Word is Vouchsafed as Basis on
Which to End War

No Word is Vouchsafed as Basis on
Which to End War
The announcement by the leu
tonic allies of their readiness to dis
cuss peace with the entente allies
continues to be the absorbing feature
In the war news today. AS yet,
however, no announcement has been
vOuchsHfed as to the basis on which
they desire to attempt to bring an
end TO the war. Neither has there
come from any of the entente coun-
tries any official announcement as
to the attitude they purpose to take
with regard to the proposal.
@Earlier reports were as follows:
! tuesday the world was startled with
the inforlnatiaon that Germany and her
allies had proposed peace and that the
help of neutral nations was invoked to
| this end.
The United States will be the great.
mediator and will transmit notes to all
the hostile countries at once, for last
! ing peace. Wilson's policy of keeping
will now be more appreciated than ever,
| if possible. Had we been caught in the
vortex of war, such peace proposals
| would have had little weight
"The chancellor this morning received
one after another the representatives of
the United States of America and
| Spain, Switzerland, that is of the states
protecting German interests in hostile
foreign countries. The chancellor trans
mitted to them a note and then asked
| hostile governments. The note will be
read today in the Reichstag by the chan
cellor.
"In the note four allied central pow
ers) proposed to enter forthwith on
peace negotiations. The propositions
which they bring for such negotiations
are, according to their firm belief, ap-
propriate for the establishment of last
ing peace.
| -XThe .goyernmnets atrVienna, Constan-
tinople and Sofia transmitted Identical
notes and also communicated with the
Holy See and all other neutral powers"
| President Hears News
| Washington, Dec. 12-News that Ger
many and her allies were about to enter
on peace negotiations was Immediately
sent to the President.
Speaking for the President, Secretary
Tumulty said he was deeply interested
but could make no comment until it was
learned what reception the proposals re-
| ceived from the entente allies.
The state department received it's first
information of Germany's proposal
through the Associated Press dispatches
from which officials assumed that the
/ offices of the neutrals addressed are ask
| ed only to transmit the proposals.
This will be done, so far as the Unit
ed States is concerned, promptly upon
the receipt of the official dispatches In
Washington. They will be sent to all
the entente countries where the United
| States represents the central powers,
automatically.
/ Whether the United States would ac-
company the CTaHSWISSlOA WIN 'NAJ
comment or suggestions, it was mdl-
Gated, depends entirely upon the nature
of the proposal and whether it is con-
sidred likely of consideration.
If the offer is deemed one on which all
sides might negotiate the United States
probably would urge that it be taken
up.
| In transmitting the proposal 1t was
stated the United States probably would
follow the practice which has been IN
variable in acting as the medium of COM
m,,nication between the hostile govern
ments and would not make it public.
| The terms would be known to President
Wilson ard Secretary Lansing who
would examine them to determine
whether they should be accompanied Dy
anv word of the United States.
The news was practically the only
topic of discussion among members OF
Congress as they assembled. The reg''-
| lar cabinet meteing was scheduled today
at the White House and there was no
Doubt that it would be discussed there.
| The foreign embassies and the lega-
tions received their first information OF
the event through Associated Press dis
patches.
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