Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-02
Supreme Maneuver. "

Information in it's midday edition
today says:
1T is supreme maneuver. Will
President Wilson give way before this
challenge? 1t may be permitted us to
say. with all the Difference we have al
ways shown toward him, that he can
scarcely find an exit from the blind alley
into which the mahgnity of our enc
mics has placed him, except by either
humiliation or rupture, with its
consequences"
The Midi says: 1.-THE allies are not
alarmed beyond measure by this new
brigandage- Submarine warfare as
suredly is unpleasant. but it does not
take on the proportions of a catastro-
phe The figures of our losses from
submarines remain at a minimum in
comparison with the arrivals of ships
sour ports, but that is no reason for
not diminishing the losses with all our
force. For that we and our allies must
continue to arm"
Germany has replied to President
" lson's message. says the Temps.
TT is not, however, to make known its
peace conditions, as it had been in
vited to do, but to announce new meas
ures of war. President Wilson counted
upon bringing Germany to define its
conditions of peace. Count Won Bern
storff brings him nothing but generali-
ties IN contradiction with the facts and
ne=- reasons for the conf1ic-
For love of peace Mr. Wilson did
not go to the extreme limit of the
principles that he championed He
contented himself with securing recog-
milton for the liberty of American citi-
zens to travel by sea, and had obtained
the promise that German submarines
would look out for the lives of the
crews and passengers. OF all that Ger
navy makes a clean sweep under the
pretext that the allies. who have 10y
ally communicated their conditions of
ne~nfIafe hei
adversaries until the latter have
spoken with the same precision.
'Blackmail Exposes Trap
Germany declares that she will no
longer restrict in any way the destruc-
tive fury of her pirates This black
mail exposes the trap into which we
should have fallen had we replied to
Germany's appeal. It also will dissi-
pate all doubt in the minds of the
pacihst President as to what Germany
Ireaur by serving humanity in a more
elevated sense"
Choosing between a rupture with the
great American public and a chance to
subdue the allies, Germany does not
hesitate to decide in favor of aggra-
waited submarine warfare" says La
Liberte, THAT savage method must
have the inevitable consequence of a
breach with the United States. but
Germany-s decision is an evident proof
that she has not an instant to lose and
that before being completely famished
she desires to deliver great blow.
1T is impossible for President Will
sen not to accept the challenge. He is
constrained to do so by his written
declarations and particularly by the en-
FaEemont eXaCted by him from Ger
many after the Sussex affair"
4 Havas dispatch from Madrid says
that even the Germanophile press
chara cterizes the central empire block
age note as a document of real gravity
and calls upon the people to group
them selves around the government to
lend aid without reserve in conflicts
that are bound TO present mselves.
The Liberal says: I'VE are menaced
not only with hunger and ruin, but
with a far graveN danger. We are wait
ing to know the line of action of the
Tuite,i States in order to act in con-
sonance.