The Elbert County tribune., 1917-10-12
TEUTONS PLAN
new PEACE OFFER
SURRENDER OF FRENCH LAND,
NO TERRITORY, NO INDEMNITY,
BASIS OF PROPOSAL.
BELGIUM TO Be FREED
IMPOSING PEACE DEMoNsTRA-
TON HELD BY CHRISTIAN So
cIALIsT PARTY IN VIENNA.
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Amsterdam, Oct 10.-Germany and
Austria Hungary have agreed to make
another peace offer to the allies, the
Deutsche Zeitung of Berlin says 1t
learns on good authority. The offer
will have as its basis no territorial ag-
grandizement. the surrender Of Bel
gium and French territory, the renun-
citation Of possible territorial acquisi
tions of payments in money and no in
demnity on either side.
A dispatch received here from Wen
ma describes an imposing peace dem
onstration which was held by the
Christian Socialist party In the town
hall. Thousands of persons were pres
ent.
Prince Alois Lichtenstein, president
OF the lower Austrian diet, opened the
proceedings by announcing that the
meeting had convened out of gratitude
to the pope and emperor to demand
peace by agreement and general dis
armament and arbitration as outlined
in the recent speech of Count Czernin,
the Austro-Hungarian foreign minis
ter
I'VE offer our hand for an honest
peace said Prince Lichtenstein, but
II It is rejected we shall seize the
sword which, as hitherto, with Gods
help, will decide in our favor"
Councillor Kunschok followed with
an eloquent speech in the same tenor
and was frequently applauded.
Washington.-The United States
will reject any German proposals. of
peace that carry with them only de-
mand for the restoration of the status
quo antebellum. High administration
officials made this plain in discussing
the report printed In the Deutsche
Tages Zeitung of Berlin. that a new
peace offer, with that suggestion as
central powers.
Copenhagen-Vice Admiral Won Ca
pelle. German minister of marine, an
nounced in the Reichstag that plot
had been discovered in the navy to
form a committee of delegates on the
Russian model and to paralyze the
fleet so as to force the government to
make peace. The guilty parties have
been arrested and have received their
just deserts, the minister added.
Amsterdam. Oct. 9.-"Americnn can
not be forced to make peace" George
Goethein, Progressive member of the
Reichstag, at a meeting of the central
committee of his party, according to
a Berlin dispatch.
I'VE cannot force America to pay q
war indemnity" he continued. "There
remains only England But should we.
In order to obtain an indemnity of
10000, 100000 marks, sacrifice 50.000.-
100000 marks and another half mil
lion men?"
Germany's allies, Herr Goethein con-
tinued, were not inclined to continue
the war for pan-German plans of con-
quest, but were striving for peace by
understanding and conciliatiol, while
the pan-German clamor for annexation
was finding bad reception among
them. He asserted that the long work
ing hours and insufficient feeding at
home increased the desire for peace
among the workers and that strikes
might be expected If tie war should
be continued for aims of conquest
Goethein said furtler that although
the military situation was satisfactory.
there was no hope of crushing Ger
manys enemies on land AS for the
submarine campaign, 100000 tons Of
shipping had been sunk, he asserted,
but no disposition toward peace on the
part of England was discernible. A
rationing system for foodstuffs had
not been even introduced, and no one
was able to say when the U-boat
would make England more inclined for
peace.
External pressure to force the Ger
man government to set forth its war
aims clearly having failed on the sur
face. internal conditions within the
empire threaten to compel the issu.
ance of full statement of Germany's
aims. What the German leaders want,
il they are successful, will be dis
cussed in the Reichstag. The chan
cellor, DR.. Michaelis, is finding the
way as difficult as it was for his pre-.
decessor Won Bethmann- Hollweg. and
, he must now face the critics of the
government In the Reichstag.
ALL