Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-01-19
PRESIDENT HAS
ENTENTE REPLY
Note Received at Washington
Shows Very Little Desire for
Peace Now.
WILL NOT MAKE STATEMENT

Refuse to State Their Objects in the
War Until the Hour Of Nego-
tiations-BeIgium Also Sends
Note - Statement
From Berlin.
Washington. GLOWING is the trans
lation of the entente allies reply 10
President Wilson's peace note, trans
mitted to the state department by AM
bassador William G. Sharp in Paris:
Ambassador Sharp to the Secretary
of State. American Embassy, Paris,
Jan. 10, 1917.
''The allied governments have re-
ceived the note which was delivered
to them in the name of the govern
ment of the United States on the 18th
of December, 1916. They have studied
it with the care imposed upon them
both by the exact realization which
they have of the gravity Of the hour
and by the sincere friendship which
attaches them to the American people.
in a general way they wish to de-
clare that they pay tribute to the ele-
walton of the sentiment with which the
American note is inspired and that
they associate themselves with all
their hopes with the project for the
creation of a league of nations to IN
sure peace and justice throughout the
world.
''The allies have as profound a de-
sire as the government of the United
States to terminate as soon as posi-
BILE war for which the central en-
pires are responsible and which in
f1icts such cruel sufferings upon hui
mainly.
Not Time for Peace.
"But they believe that it is impossi-
BILE at the present moment to attain
peace which will assure them repara-
ton, restitution, and such guarantees
to which they are entitled by the ag-
gression for which the responsibility
rests with the central powers and of
which the principle itself tended to
ruin the security of Europe; a peace
which would, on the other hand, per-
nit the establishment of the future of
European nations on solid basis.
'"The allied nations are conscious
that they are not fighting for selfish.
interests, but above all to safeguard
the independence Of peoples, or right,
and Of humanity.
''The allies are fully aware Of the
losses and suffering which the war has
caused to neutrals as well as to
beIligerents, and they deplore them
but they do not hold themselves re-
sponsible for them, having in no way
either willed or provoked this war, and
they strive to reduce these damages
in the measure compatible with the in
exorable exigencies of their defense
against the violence and the Wiles of
the enemy.
'The allied governments believe that
they must protest in the most friendly
but in the most specific manner against
the assimilation established in the
American note between the two groups
of belligerents; this assimilation, based
upon public declarations by the cen
trail powers, is in direct opposition to
the evidence, both as regards RESPONSE
bility for the past and as concerns
guarantees for the future; President
Wilson in mentioning it certainly had
no intention of associating himself
with it.
eff there is historical fact estab-
lished at the present date, it is the will
f1,1 -
tria-Hungary to insure their hegemony
over Europe and their economic domi-
nation over the world.
Germany proved by her declaration
of war, by the immediate violation of
Belgium and Luxembourg, and by her
manner Of conducting the war, her sys-
tematic contempt for all principles of
| humanity and all respect for small
states; as the conflict developed the
attitude of the central powers and
their allies has been continual def
ance of humanity and civilization.
Cites Enemy's Atrocities.
us it necessary to recall the horrors
which accompanied the invasion of
Belgium and Of Serbia, the atrocious
regime imposed upon the invaded
countries, the massacre of hundreds Of
thousands Of incfensive Armenians,
the barbarities perpetrated against the
populations Of Syria, the raids of
Zeppelins on open towns, the destruc-
ton by submarines of passenger
steamers and of merchantmen even IN
| der neutral flags, the cruel treatment
inflicted upon prisoners of war; the jul
ridical murders of Miss Cavell, of Cap
tain Fryatt, the deportation and reduc-
ton to slavery of civil populations,
| etc.?
1.-THE execution of such a series of