Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-29
Pan-Germans See Giving Up OF
Things Bought by Blood
of Thousands.
CENTRAL POWERS PLAN
CAMPAIGN TO END WAR
Trotzky Says Russia Will Sign Pact
in Ten Days if Allies Refuse
to Join Farley.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM, December zos
-Pan-German newspapers angrily
condemn the peace terms of the
central powers. The Tagfische
Rundschau of Berlin says:
Never before have we given up
50 completely everything we so
dearly brought with the blood of
hundreds of thousands, with the
sweat of millions, with the de-
privations of our children, with
our own hunger
The Deutsche-Zeitung says that
the entente has won the greatest
victory of the war and that diplo-
mats have destroyed all that has
been fought for. ~
Sees Opening Of Road. 4
The Koelnische Zeftung, on the other
hand. regards the conditions as opening
the road to a peace advantageous to al1
sides. The Lokal Anzeiger thinks that
the German answer to Russia will not
be much to the taste of people with
military leanings. but adds:
THE outlines. however. are drawn
wide enough to give scope for demands
of justice. Definite judgment upon the
peace work at Brest-Litovsk depends on
how far this possibility is utilized In
later negotiations"
The Frankfurter Zeitung, a COPY OF
which has been received here, COM
menting on the peace negotiations,
says:
"The hope of a speedy peace should
not be too sanguine. as the necessary.
revolution in the ideas of the entou&g
governments will be much too leEaak -
permit Of a general peace being rAp3d0
accomplished. Even peace with Run9
STA is not yet at all certain
Nevertheless the negotiations VIM
give tremendous impetus to the idea az
peace throughout the world and wfm
result in a movement which will COM
pei the entente to realize that without
peace by an understanding. such a.
Germany desires. there is no way cut
Of this war;
Elaborate German Campaign.
LONDON, December es-That the
Austro-German peace proposals to RUS
elaborate peace campaign by the CEN
trail powers is the belief here. 1t fs
likely that the next step by Germany.
according TO well informed London
opinion. will be a direct proposal to
the allies either through the Vatican or
a neutral power
Tire Russian government, in thu
course of the next few days, is expected
to endeavor to get the German ofter
officially before the entente allies, buf
as q formal reply to it would fnvo1va
recognition of the bolshevik goyerh-
ment it is doubtful whether any eilt6nkS
government viii make a reply h
formal, but sufficiently definite, rep1ten
TO Germany were made in London by
Premier Lloyd George and in PartS b.
Foreign Minister Pichon. -
Both rejected the German OMAR on 10
ground that the great principles FOR
which the allies are fighting would b
utterly lost In the status quo peace pro.
posed by Germany.
Means to Avoid Disaster.
Neither il; London nor Paris is there 4
disposition TO deride the German offer
as spurious. On the other hand. II In
regarded IS serious step by the Teu-
tonic group which regards early peace
as the surest and perhaps the only
method of avoiding disaster
The terms offered however. are -
clearly unacceptable that the only con-
sideration as to a reply is whether the
entente allies position will be Improved
by making again clear statement cf
their war aims There is nothing new
in Gernany's terms. In fact. they are
rather less comprehensive than the ofEor
of last July
Russia to Conclude Peace.
Leon Trotzky. the bolshevik foreign
according to a special dispatch
from Petrograd. informed the workmen's
and soldiers council that he would ON
cially ask the entente powers whether
they intended to support the Russian or
the German peace proposals. or whether :
they would propose some alternative
terms. If the entente allies refused 70
join in the negotiations within ten DAYS
Russia would be forced to conclude q
peace. Trotzlsy added that Ger
many. having announced her readiness to
free the occupied territories. the allies
should not refuse to negotiate.
Russia would insist that the princi-
plies of self-government should be au-
piled TO the territories and colonies
seized during the war. In particular.
and the populations OF
the German colonies should be asked
their opinion land given their choice of
a form of government.
Attitude of Russ People.
Special dispatches from Petroerad
bearing date of Thursday aim to give
an impression of how the German peace
reply was received there, but the etate.
nents are inexplicit and seem to be
based partly on surmise. The reply. ac-
cording to the correspondent of the
Daily News. created favorable imprek-
sion generally, and he believes that IL
the bolsheviki convene the constituent
assembly now they will have Russia
almost solidly behind them.
Representing the people as dispirfted
and Indifferent owing to the miserable
conditions of life. including the food
shortage the correspondent of the
Morning Post says that as far as north
.rn Russia is concerned it will accept
,eace on any terms the Germans may
ike to impose. How the remainder OF
Russia will act, he adds, is another
,uestion The correspondent of the
rimes is of the opinion that the bol-
,heviki are disheartened over the Ger
nan refusal to allow nationalities hit1a-
.rto without political Independence -
lccide their own future. He says that
. the Russian delegates win adhaG