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WILSON MAY SEND
ANEW PEACE NOTE
President Intends to Try Again
If Entente Reply Does
Not Suit Him
WOULD MAKE POSITION CLEAR
Executive Believes More or Less Con-
fusion Has Arisen Regarding First
Note to BeIIigerents.

Washington, Jan. 5.-If the Entente
reply to President Wilson's peace note
fails to meet his proposal for an early
occasion for an aVowa1 of terms, the
President will not let the negotiations
drop, but will make at least one more
move. This became known definitely
today, although it was indicated that
no final decision on the nature of the
next step had been reached.
If another communication is sent,
it is expected to make clearer the po-
sition of the President, as it is felt
that as result of comment abroad
and in the. United States and the de-
bate in the Senate, more or less con-
fusion has arisen as to just what he
intended.
President Wilson's chief hope in the
ultimate success of the negotiations is
known to lie in his suggestion that a
means be found for maintaining peace
in the future If an agreement on
that point can be reached, the Presi-
dent is said to feel it would constitute
the guarantees for the future" de-
handed by the Entente Allies and it
might be possible then to return to-
ward a settlement of the present con-
flict.
1t was generally indicated today
that the President has no present in
tention of asking Colonel E. NJ. House
to go to Europe on a peace mission.
about his visit here and before COM
ing arranged engagements which kept
him busy until the time of his depar-
ture this afternoon.
While the President never has pub
licly indicated willingness to act as a
medium for an exchange of terms Sc
cret1y between the belligerents, it is
known that he would prefer that it
be done publicly. American diplomats
and other sources of confidential in
formation have been looking into that
point. The negotiations today were
described as the beginning of period
of Observation-Disclosures pour parlers.
Ambassador Sharpe at Paris cabled
today he had been notified the En-
tente reply would be placed in his
hands soon, but gave no date, and it
was said he sent no forecast of it's
contents.
Says Wilson Knows Terms.
London, Jan. 4-President Wilson
now knows the peace conditions of the
Teutonic Allies and the Entente Pow
ers can learn what they are from him,
Count julius Andrassy, formerly pre-
mier Of Hungary, is quoted as assert
ing in a dispatch from Budapest for
warded to the Central News Agency
by way of Amsterdam.
The statement attributed to Count
Andrassy was made in q New Years
speech. He said:
CAS- the Entente alleges that our
peace proposal was only a maneuver,
and was not made with any earnest
desire to bring about peace, 1 am able
to declare that President Wilson now
knows our peace conditions and the
Entente can learn them from that
source
The version OF the Budapest dis
patch received by the Reuter- Tele-
gram Company, via Amsterdam,
quoted Count Andrassy as saying the
peace conditions of the Central Pow
ers will be communicated to President
WASOAS DO1AS dS AO4'
lows:
eff the Entente reject our peace Of
fer only because they maintain that
our offer is not honestly meant, but is
merely a maneuver and that they can
not enter into negotiations before
knowing our conditions, they can
learn these from President Wilson, to
whom they will be communicated"
An Explanatory Note.
1t is reported from Berlin that Ger
many will shortly issue an explana-
tory note to the neutral powers in
connection with certain statements in
the Entente Allies reply to the Ger
man peace proposals. says a dispatch
TO the Central News from Amsterdam.
Reuters Telegram Company tonight
publishes the following concerning the
reply of the Entente Allies to Presi-
dent Wilson's recent note, suggesting
that the belligerents state their terms
OF peace:
'The document is still undergoing
slight modification of the draft and
viii not be published until a day or
two after it is in the hands of the
President
1.-The note viii be more positive
than the reply OF Germany and is ex-
pected to indicate in more precise
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