The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-11-10
KAISER IS
 PREP AIRING NOW TO
 LAUNCH PEACE PLAN
By Paul LanCeister

PARIS, Nov. lO.-ihC kaiser and ms lelOW cOnSpn- atols are at this moment preparing to launch against the allies the subtest but at the time most powerful blow since the original one struck in the summer of 1914
 The fall of Riga marked the downward swing. The collapse of Russia leaves the way clear Only by the cley crest work the part of the remainder o the allies can the blow be palried for it is practically certain that what Wilhelm II and his unkers aim at is nothing less than enlstng, by crafty stroke, the public opinion in allied nations to bring about what they desire.
 And what they desire, on one word, is peace.
 Such is the meaning of the Russian debace
 Onits face the proposition appears not only supreme Iy mpudent but impossible In reality it may be very simple The nteIectuas in Russia feared this thing be- fore the Czar Nicholas abdcad his throne For a mo- }ment it seemed that the democracy might ward off the danger Then chaos came and opened wide the door, leaving the great cmprc-0r epubIic-absouely at the Imercy of her enemies and incidentally brought to the a lies as whole the greatest danger they have had to face since the start of the war.
 Before Christmas the kaiser is almost sure to pose again as the great apostle of peace He will try to bring about the end of the var the expense of Russia and the Balkans. Of that am convinced after what l heard in Russia and amongst Scandinavian neutrals His offer of peace will be the most veyety thing seen the cunnngeSt piece of lchiavtsm that put forth to trap less wary souls
 The next few weeks will see Prussia reaping in Rus sa the harvest for which she has been preparing nten sivey for years, and more especially since 1914 This country of l7OO0OOOO people now threatened with pee open subjugaton to her southern neighbor of 7OOOO 000 who has had her in more or less secret subugaton for scores of years When the kaiser has Russia just where he wants her, his peace bid will come.
 The bid to be expected will fall upon the world about like this
 "What an awful, awful thing this war" the kaiser will say T have never wanted it. From the very first it has made my heart bleed to the flower of the worlds youth march away to batte to become cannon fodder Why oh why cant we get together and stop all this saughter greve for the French and the British and the Italians who have died in this horrible war And poor Belgium and Serbia and Roumania, How deeply pity them.
 Some courageous figure, strengthened by Almighty God and armed with sense of righteous duty must offer himself a sacrifice l am that man. Speaking for my people, am willing to give up conquest by the steel hard will to victory of my brave soldiers to pave the road to peace. will even give indemnities."
 In short the kaiser is likely to offer to yeId-on pa per and apparently practically everything that England France Italy, America and the rest are fighting for in order to put end to which slowly, but surely Strangng the life out of the central empires He is like y to put his peace proposals in such pous and sanct mOniOus light that the great public of the world may be- for time, absolutely taken in
 He is counting on the public failing to recognize that Germany has Bulgaria and Turkey absolutely under her thumb; that Austria has become vaSSal state that Ger many will demand all her colonies back in return for get ting out of France and Belgium.
 Such peace would mean that Serbia and Roumania would come out of the entirely at the mercy of the central powers Any treaties signed by the present Ger man government would not be worth the paper upon which they were written and world made safe for de- mOcracy and all such phrases would still be sOundng| brass And last of a Russia is under the German thumb Summed up Germany would come out of the mightier than ever her prestige higher When she threatened the world would tramhln Her would he intact and