Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-05-14

Y IN the Following dispatch pTopaULy
= is Prof George D. Heron, formerly
Of Grinnell college. Nearly twenty
years ago Prof. Heron came into
considerable prominence on &C.
count Of his views regarding mar
rage Separated from his first wife
he followed out his ideas in con-
tracing a second marriage. He has
lived in Europe for more than de-
cadet
London, May IA story Of how an
attempted German peace offensive d.
Fected toward President Wilson was
turned down ANONYMOUSLY by Prof,
Heron. an American living in Geneva,
10 told by the Swiss correspondent OF
the Daily Mail in his dispatch dated
Ut Annamasse, on the Franco-Swiss
frontier Prof. Heron is described as
. friend of President Wilson.
The German government, according
to the correspondent, tried to get
peace offers sent to the president
through Prof. Heron, who was visited
on April 10 by Prof. Quidde of Munich,
o friend of Count Won. Hertling, the
imperial German chancellor. Prof
Quidde was accompanied by the Dutch
pacifst, DR.. Jong van Beck.
CLAIMED REICHsTAG SUPPORT
Prof Quidde said he had come to
prepare the way for merciful peace
and gave Prof Heron to understand
that he spoke for Chancellor Won
Hsrtling and the German foreign of.
flee He assured the American profes.
sor that the peace party in the reich.
stag was able to gain predominance in
Germany and that he wished to pre-.
pare President Wilson to take ad.
vantage of that suspicious moment.
oERMANY's PROPOSALS
Germany, Professor Quidde said, was
willing to make the following terms:
4. To grant autonomy to
Alsace Lorraine within the limits
of the German empire. provided
the allies would not breach the
subject of Alsace Lorraine at the
peace conference.
2. Brest-Litovsk peace treaties
not to be discussed at the peace
conference, although the allies
might submit claims for the revi-
sion of them and Germany might
make certain concessions.
3. No economic war against
Germany after the war.
4. German colonies to be re.
stored.
Professor Quidde asserted that the
present offensive in France had the
ultimate objective Of achieving a dur
able peace.
OFFER is REJECTED
Professor Heron, the Daily Mail cor
respondent writes, after listening to
the German educator. exclaimed:
Il wonder that you have the ef
1rontery to ask me to lay such a
ngmarole Of cant and deceit before
the American people. Far from
creating a spirit of Cancellation it
would supply strength in the Ameri-
can will to smash the perfidious and
nefarious offer Of such proposals
The United States intends to con-
tiKue the fighting until the Prussian
military power and, if necessary, the
Prussian state along with it, shall be
extinguished fore as a power for
evil, whether it takes one year or ten.
"MONSTRoUS BLUNDER"
IF you call the remorseless sacri.
dce Of 1000, 900 men peace offensive,
and IL you want the United States to
recognize your Smelling Of Partisan
congregations and churches as part Of
II, you are making monstrous and
foolish blunder.
when l listen to your false and
treacherous overtures, fell ashamed
q humanity
Professor Quidde, adds the cores.
Do0dent, left the house weeping. The
next week Professor Heron was be.
sieged by new offers by telephone, one
OF tho speakers saying he was DR.. w.
g. Zolf, German colonial minister
Professor Heron talked straight to all
Of them, telling them among other
things that, 1.-THE United States no
longer wants peace; it wants to sweep
out the augean stables at Potsdam."