Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-01-15
Berlin Press Bitter Over Entente's
Reply, and Says Germany Must
Fight on For Defense.

note were published today by the
North German Gazette. The letter
was dated October 81, and, in part
read:
"a peace proposal is necessary to
deliver the Notwithstanding neutrals
from obsessons. For such an act
a ruler is needed with conscience
and Il feeling of responsibility to God
and his own heart. For my own
and hostile peoples l will venture it.
relying upon God. Please soon give
me a note and prepare everything.
Lively appreciation of the kaiser's
defiance to the allies, and acquies-
! ccnce in his declarations that the
entente's refusal of peace shows
their 'boundless lust of conquest, y
was expressed in message from the
! King Of Bavaria to the Kaiser today,
according to Munich dispatches.
In part the Kings message read
Your strong words expressing in
dionation over our enemies AFRO
giant reply find a lively echo in all
our hearts.
"All the German people share
! your iron will TO break our enemies
! presumpton--the enemy whose war
! aims disclose their boundlcss lust Of
conquest and desire for our destruc-
ton.
| "The sclf-sacrificing heroism of
the troops of the empire and of the
| people will henceforth defy all at
lacks and lead to victory. May God
! continue with our just cause
Berlin, Jan. 15.-Further comment
!, on the note of the Entente PoWers
! to President Wilson lays emphasis
cr the decisive character Of the
declarations. which clear the air,
j. the newspaper say, and give the
Central Powers well-defined goal
defense against the plan of their
opponents for remaking the map Of
Europe.
Even Vorwaerts now turns to the
| Socialist dissenters who have been
+; demanding peace, without conquer
ors, without conquered and says
that Germany's enemies are not
ready to give such Il peace, hence
"every deed and every word tending
to shake the sclf-detcnsivc will Of
/ the German people would be Il
crime against the German people.
Vorwaerts says that the terms are
such as could be dictated only after
the Entente had occupied the CHIEF
cities of their opponents and broken
hopeIessiy their power of resist
ance. and that the note is q new dec
! laration of war, with limitiess aims
! Of conquest. 1t declares the note
! was intended TO frighten the Central
Powers into submission, but the
Entente forgets that willingness OF
the German Government to yield
would encounter barrier in the will
! os the German people who. after
such unspeakable sacrifices and such
mighty military successes, would not
tolerate without conlpulsion the
placing of Germany in the position
of conquered state. Much as the
masses of the German people ap-
prove the declaration of the Govern
ment that the war aims already
| have been attained in successful
| self-defense, they demand none the
| less that this success be fully main
tanned"
| Referring to Belgium, Vorwaerts
says:
"The prospect of reaching an
agreement is jeopardized seriously
By the crazy demands of the note"
George Bernhard says in the Fos,
sische Zeitung that lone must long
turn the pages of modern history tc
find more stupid diplomatic docu'
! nlent than this note" -
"The Entente now is unnasked,
he continues. "and everything it says
in skillfully playing upon Germany'S
declaration of war and injustice tc
Begium weighs light as a feather
when compared with the Entente'E
unveiled plans of dismemberment'
Herr. Bernhard further argue:
that it must be clear to, American:
), that any American intervention no"
is rendered impossible. Whoever
should come, as mediator upon ths
basis of the Entente's proposals
! Herr Bernhard. l. declares, "wouic
Iconfess himself our enemy"