Licking Valley courier., 1917-10-04
NrMS Review OF
THE PAST Week
House May Decide to Investigate
Bernstorff's Plot to Influ-
enCe Congress.
FIVE NAMED BY rom KEFLIN
Bulgaria Ready to Quit War-Ger-
manys Conditional Offer TO EVacu.
ate Belgium--Lansins's Expos
ures Well Tlmed-Haig Makes
Further Advances in Flanders.
BY EDWARD W. PlcKARp.

The house of representatives may
determine to investigate Itself, or rath-
A., er the action Of certain Of its MEM
'bers, as a result Of the disclosure of
the Bernstorif plot to influence con
gress and keep the country from en-
itering the war, by the expenditure of
$4,000 through some organization.
Representative Tom IIefin of Ala
bama precipitated' the inquiry by stat
ing In the house that he knew of some
congressman whose actions were Sus-
piclous. Called before the rules com
mittee, he named Senator La Fol-
lette, Representative ut Large W. n.
Mason of Illinois, Representatives
Fred A. Bntten of Illinois, and Pat
rick d. Norton and John NJ. Baer of
North Dakota. He did not accuse
anyone of receiving German m0aIy.
but demanded that the activities Of
these five men be investigated.
Bulgaria Wants to Quit.
Bulgaria, having attained the ends
for which she entered the war--the
recovery of Dobrudia, Macedonia, aud
parts of Serbia that We're taken trom
her In the Balkan war-is ready to
quit fighting If permitted To retain her
conquests. So says Stephan Pan
aretoff, Bulgarian minister to the
United States. His country, he adds,
has no interest In Germany's amhi-
ltion to establish Mttel Europa, aud
would have preferred to enter the war
on the side of the allies, hud their
promises been as unconditional us
those Of the kaiser
.kustrla-lIungury, according to adj
N.les received in Washington, Is rap
idly nearing collapse, and the Ger
man war party realizes that peace, II
it is to he of the German brand, must
be procured within six months or be-
fore America gets fully into action
There Is great distress throughout III,
realm of Emperor Charles and his peo
pie would gladly stop fighting provid
ed they do not have to yield too mucl
to Italy.
Germany offers Belgian Bargain.
The replies of Germany and Austria
to the pope's peace proposals, lille'
with high sounding phrases and hypo
crlsy. were virtually ignored by the nj
lied governments and condemned n
evasiye and insinccre by the press
Therefore the kaiser came forwar'
with an addendum, verbally eNpreSse'
10 the papal nunclo ut Munich by For
elgn Secretary Kuehlman, In which h
agreed to evncunte Belgium In orde
10 gain peace But the nifcr wnS hedge
about by conditions that made ull III
non.Teutonlc world laugh He d,
lmanded that Germany have the RICH
to develop her economic enterprise
freely in Belgium, especially In AM
lwerp; that Belgium give guoranl
that "any such men 70 Ns that Whie
threatened Germany In 1919 would
future he excluded" that Belgium III
dertake to maintain the adminslratly
lseparntion of the Flanders and Wa
loon districts introduced by Germnn,
and Not enter into any commcrci'
sSeaiIes aimed Mt Germany. In r
turn Germany Offers graciously to caI
tribute Q share of the compensation
be pall to the little nation She III
rnvlshdd.
The now German party orgnni2,
by Admiral won Tlrpit2 and others II,
, Inow In office got into action last wee