The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22
Germany to Announce She is
Willing to Quit War on
Basis of Status
Quo.
WANTS COLONIES BACK
viii Evacuate Belgium and Northern
France In Return for the Land
Captured by the
ALLIES.

| limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
| PARIS, Dec. 22.-German new
peace proposals now being drafted.
contemplate peace on the basis OF
| the status quo, according to special
tdispatches printed In todays Matln-
According to the Mathis informa-
| tion Foreign Secretary Won Kuehl-
mann will offer the evacuation OF Bel
gium, with guarantees"
presumably indemnities-and Will an.
nounce retirement from France and
! italy In exchange for return Of Ger
manys colonies and guarantee OF the
/ freedom OF commerce. The question:
OF Turkey, 1t was stated, Is to be left
| in the background in the hope of In
teresting England in some trade.
| Bulgaria, 1t was stated. Is insisting
on ACQUISITION of Dobrudja, southern
Macedonia and that part OF Serbia,
extending as far south as Morav1a.
She is also asking that Rumania be
put under subjection to German eco
nomical domination. Russia Alsace-
Lorraine may be ignored in tho forth
coming peace negotiations or pos
! stbly concessions made in these two
| factors IL peace is completely refused.
Reports Denied.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 22.-Catesori-
cal denial of reports in the foreign
press that Germany will repeat her
peace offer" was registered by the
! semi-oficial newspaper Cologne Ga
zette today, according to dispatches
received here.
Germany Wants Some Land.
ZURICH, Dec. 22-"Rectiffcation
of the frontier is the invariable
phrase used by the German press in
discussing Germany's demands for
peace with Rlissia, according to copies
of recent issues received here. A2-
parently it was this demand for Rus
| sian territory which caused the dead
lock reported at Brest Litovsk.
| Merely German Propaganda.
! LONDON, Dec. 22.-The British,
foreign office told the United Press
today no such hint of Teutonic terms
as recently reported at Washington
had been received by the British
government through the neutral ma
! tion said to be circulating them. The
/ foreign office expressed the belief
that "the peace terms" were purely
German propaganda put out In an
effort to influence the American pub
lie.
No Selfish Aims.
LONDON, Dec. %. = Premier
Lloyd Georges emphatic disclaimer
that Britain had selfish aims of ex-
tending her territory through the
war, brought almost universal ap-
proyal from the London press today.
/ 1--WE fear it may be difficult to de-
termine the wishes of the inhabi-
ltants of the various former German
colonies" said the Express, "but the
Influence of the United States in the
peace conference will insure that
commercialism will not count more
than humanitarian"
"The premier again showed the
falsity of the charge that our aim Is
conquest was the Times comment.
"The speech has not an explicit
statement of war aims" the News
criticized, but it was an admission
of the justice of the demand for that
statement of aims"
The Post found fault with omission
by Lloyd-George of ''the application
of compulsion to Ireland and bitter
ly condemned the league of nations
idea.
War Reaches Tahiti.
lIUnited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22.-War
has reached out to the romantic isle
of Tahiti in the south Pacific and
robbed it of all it's youths, 1000 Of
whom are now fighting for France,
according to Countess L. Cassian
who was in San Francisco from Ia
hiti today.
Many descendants of the former
NATIVE rulers are included