The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-05
Allies to Undertake Vigorous
Campaign to Offset the
Menace in Russian
Situation.
BRING PEACE SOONER
How European Map is to be Read
iusted After Germany Has
Been Forced Into
Peace.

| CUnited Press Leased Wire Servicel
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.--To offset
the menacing possibilities in the RUS
| sian situation and to force Germany
| into peace more rapidly, the allies
| probably will soon undertake q new
anti-Austrian campaign.
| Strong pressure is being eXerted on
, this government to declare war
! against Austria and then to aid IN
downing her so that Germany would
be without her aid and cut off Turkey
| and Bulgaria Thus far American Of
| ficials, including Secretary Lansing,
have seen the rather imminent pos
sibility Of war between Austria and
the United States, though they have
| inclined to let Austria take the In
itiative.
Just what form the new anti-Aus-
trian activities may take is shielded
as a military secret though appar-
emily 1t will come by, way Of Italy or
through more forceful tactics in the
near east. =.
Meantime allied diplomats are look
ing forward to post bellum territorial
/ lines. They declare that German aut-
ocracy must be wiped out and that
nations must be allowed to develop
along free lines, without the threat
Of Prussianism upon them.
This is how some allied diplomats
the French and British decline to
discuss the questiOn-would read1ust
, the European map, according to re-
ports here:
Restoration of Belgium, Montene-
gro, Serbia and Rumania.
I France to have Alsace-Lorraine,
part of the German colonies and
French protectorate over Syria.
England to retain most Of the Ger
man colonies without paying for them
and to control Mesopotamia and the
Sinai peninsula.
Russia to control Armenia under
autonomous form Of government. In
cidentally pressure is upon Russia to
make her demand possession OF the
Turkish capital or at least neutral
ization Of the Dardanelles.
Germany to evacuate Russia-Poland
and the Baltic provinces as well as
Serbia, Belgium and northern France.
Italy to have Trieste, the Istrian
peninsula, the Dalmatian islands and
the eastern coast of the Adriatic.
Serbia to have Bosnia and Herze-
govina and a Jugoslav state to be
formed out of the Jugoslay provinces
of Austria.
Formation of free Poland and
free Czecho-Slav state; liberation Of
the Arabs from Ottoman rule.
The foregoing has not been agreed
to by the United States, who has in
dicated she will not interfere in the
settlement of questions purely Europ-
can.
Allied diplomats explained today
that the proposed liberation of sub
jn ion oil in rl-I9 a
not necessarily constitute a dismem-
berment of Austro-Hungarian empire
if it still retains an outlet to the sea
through q port such as Fiume.
How the United States would view
this point, however, is another ques-
ton.
1t is admitted that Austria-Hungary
is the greatest national incongruity
in the world and will offer perhaps
the hardest problem in the coming
settlement. 1t is likely-however.
that the people of the subject nation
alities themselves Will be given an
opportunity to declare where they
stand in which case the territorial
readjustments in Europe, whatever
their result may be, will be the di-
rect reflex of the will of the people
themselves.
Now Blaming Russia.
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 5.--If Amer
lea had been aware of Russia's deal
ings, revealed in the trial of Gen
eral Sukhomlinoff in Petrograd. for
treason, her reply to the pope's re-
cent peace plea "woulu have been
quite different" according to Chan
cellor Michaelis of Germany.
The quotation was attributed to
1S,, II,