The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-01-05
REPLY To WILSON
COMING AT ONCE
Final Draft Was Made Yes
terday and May Be
Cabled Today
PUBLICATION LIKELY
EARLY NEXT WEEK
Belief in London That Tenor of Note
Will Meet Opportunity Given to Lay
Entente Case Before Neutral Tribunal
Washington Expectant.

LONDON, Jan. 5. - The reply of the
entente powers to President Wilson s
note may be on its way to Washington
from Paris within a hours. Longer de
lay is unlikely, for 1t is under
stood that all the allies, to whom the
reply had to be submitted for considera
tion, have expressed their approval of
its substance and general tenor. Some
slight notifications in particular parts
Of the text. suggested by one or the
other of the allies, having regard to
their special interests and views, are
all that remained yesterday for the final
drafting.
IN ample margin of time will be al
lowed for reception by the United
States government, and, as arrange-
mclts for the simultaneous publication
Of the reply IL America and the entente
countries will have to be made, it is
probable that the text of the reply will
not be available for the newspapers and
the public before the beginning of next
week.
In the official and diplomatic circles
which have knowledge of the character
and contents of the allied note there
exists a confident belief that the docu
melt will be found to have risen to the
| level of the high opportunity of laying
| the ease Of the allies before a great
neutral tribunal.
Exactly how far it will have been
! possible to respond to President Will
son ; invitation for the statement of
concrete terms is n question that only
the publication of the text will indicate,
but it IS predicted here that the Presi-
IdeEt will have no reason to conclude
that the entente has shown any UNI
willingness to do all that IS possible i'll
that direction, cosidering all the cir
Icunstances. Among these circumstances
are: First, the conditions Of military
supremacy and invincibility, claimed by
the central powers, and, second, the fact
that behind what might be termed the
concrete objects, which the allies may
bc able to set forth, there lie ideals foI
which they are determined to prosecute
10 victory i'll Il war III which they have
had to suffer two and half years OF
travail and anguish. 1t is hoped tina;
the difficulty of combining the presenta
tiol of ideals and the concrete methods
by which those ideals can be attained
and safeguarded will have been sur
mounted in the entente S reply to the
. President.
The German newspaper comments OF
the version of the allied reply to tn,
central powers, circulated by the Hava
Agency apparently the official text ha
not yet been published in Germany
have followed the expected line of en-
couraging the idea that the German IA
tion is surrounded by ring of enemies
thirsting for blood and conquest.
Nevertheless, few editorials lik
that of DR.. Heinkc are noted, with in
tcrest as possibly indicating an attcmp
to prepare the Germans for the discoy
cry that the aspirations Of the oXtrcm
lists of various types, who demand TIL
annexation of Belgium and the FrencI
I colonies or naval bases and eoalng sta
tions in all parts of the world or con
=, ditions which will insure to German,
| complete economic dominion of tn
| world, are bound to be disappointed
| Looked at broadly, the moderate Ger
/ man claims are summed up here as fol
4 lows:
/ First, il no indemnities are obtaina
/ bic, Germany at least must have sue
II commercial treaties as will secure he
II against all economic attacks of her enc
/ mics, and ultimately indemnify her TO
II her losses.
\ Second, the retrocession of all tn
i German colonies is required and thei
II extension in some directions, as, fo
Il instance, in the Congo.
II Third, the continuation and solidif
/ cation of her present alliances. whic
: would bring to pass that dream o
''mittel Europa which is now re
Igarded by some Germans as more al
3 tractiye than the extension of her Ell