Arizona republican., 1917-12-26
PEACE MOVE |S NJ REASON ID LET UP
 0N PREPARATIONS
Republican A. p. Leased Wlr.l

BOSTON, Dec. 25.-Secretary of War Baker is right in stating that the German peace maneuvers should not for d moment induce the United States to slacken preparations for war, in the opinion of H. Charles Woods, Fellow of the Royal Geo. graphical Society, and Q recognized authority on military matters in Eng land.
 In a statement today Mir. Woods pointed out that the exit of Russia from the war would remove one of the great obstacles in the way ot the realization of the desire of Elm peror William and his advisers for | domination from Hamburg to the Persian gulf, an area in which they could maintain their position with out sea power. If any proof were wanted,' he continued, that the Ger mons, in negotiating peace with Rus sia. have in view their future sue cess in the east it would be in the | personnel of the German and Turk ish delegations.
 Non kuehmann, whom I knew when he was counsellor of the Ger man embassy in London until the outbreak of the war. is himself all | one aim and object was to bring about an agreement between England | on the one side and Germany and | Turkey on the other, favorable to the latter two countries in regard to the | Bagdad railway.
 "In this he nearly succeeded for | he lost no opportunity of making propaganda of the most subtle kii.d with politicians and journalists, Brit ish and foreign. Indeed it was nearly | impossible to persuade him to speak upon any other subject.
 Thus, if there be a man in Ger many who would be willing to make sacrifices in the west or even upon | questions of general importance to Russia in order to secure the CO., | operation of, or a free hand from, | that country in the Balkans and in l Asia Minor it is von Kuehlmann, the i German foreign minister
 "The personalities of the Austrian | and Bulgarian delegates are, ir my opinion, of no great importance for the representatives of the dual mon- archy will have to follow the orders
 of Germany and Bulgaria has no di-
 rectly outstanding questions with
 Russia. It is, however, interesting to
 note that the Bulgarian delegates are
 none of them men of outstanding
 regulations at home or abroad.
 This can be no accident. It is
 due either to the fact that Tsal
 Ferdinand considers he has no inter-
 ests. other than the retention ol
 Macedonia, upon which he would ac-
 cept no decision except one forced
 upon him on the field of battle. ol
 to the fact that the fox of the Balk- : ans wishes later or to be able tC say that he never treated this cln-
 ference seriously and therefore. tC
 be free to accept any policy wEicl may then seem advisable to him. Coming to Turkey, the personali 1. ties of the delegates is again mos
 significant for Germany cannot ig nore the present and future atti tudes of that country and at tn , same time realize her 'Mittel- Europa scheme. Messing Pasha must b either Osman Nizami Pasha, formerl. Ottoman ambassador in Berlin, ard delegate at the London peace con 7 ference after the first Balkan wal
 or Nesim Pasha, who is a promi s nent diplomatist and member 0 } the committee of union progress. 9 But the Turkish delegate of out , standing importance is kakki Pashs
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