The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-01-03
ALLIES WILL REJECT TERMS OF
FERED BY COUNT cZERNiN,
AUsTRIA-HUNGARY MINISTER.
TREACHERY SUSPECTED
ASK GERMANY TO MAKE REPAIR.
ALTON FOR ALL WRONGS AND
EvAcUATE TERRITORY.
Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, Dec. 2S-Germany's latest
peace offer made through Count
Czernin, foreign minister of Austria
Hungary, will be rejected by the al
lies, just like other peace offers that
have emanated from Berlin during the
past year The Czernin offer is con-
sidered absolutely unsatisfactory to
Great Britain and 1t is presumed Lon
don is speaking for all of the allies.
OF course. the Czernin offer has not
been communicated to the allies Off
cially. but its text has been read by
those who are in charge of the gov
eminent and by them openly and un-
officially rejected.
So suspicious of treachery is Lon
don of any peace offer from Germany
that something more substantial than
a communication from the Austro-
Hungarian foreign minister to the
Russian Bolsheviki will have to lie
made before any attention is paid.
Germany can have peace if she
makes the proper kind of an offer and
not until. The Czernin offer is clee-
er proposition which could be con-
strued in a dozen different ways at
conference table. This is one of the
reasons why the allies suspect mere
German treachery. 1t is doubtful if
any answer is made to the peace Of
fer. even if it is presented to the al
lies in some formal manner.
Germany must make full reparation
for all the wrongs and barbarities she
has inflicted upon the allies and must
evacuate all territory she has seized
and is now occupying. She must also
give up Alsace-Lorraine, surrender
any claim to her lost colonies. and re-
store Poland. In addition. 1t must be
understood that the Holy Land will
never be returned to the Turks nor
British at an enormous cost OF blood
and treasure be returned to Sultan.
And when the Kaiser is ready to ac-
cede to these demands, he will be
asked by the United States to pay for
all the American ships his U-boats
have sent to the bottom OF the ocean
in violation of international law. Fur
thermore, he will be expected to pay
a heavy indemnity for all American
lives lost as the result of the opera
tions of his U-boats and sea raiders.
Washington. Dec. 2S.-Germany s
proposals to the Russian Bolshevik en-
voy through the Austro-Hungarian for
eign minister for a basis of peace,
have attracted little more than pass
ing interest here. chiefly because the
attitude of the United States govern
ment has not changed in any degree
since President Wilson solemnly told
Congress that the word of the present
rulers of Germany could not be ac-
cepted for anything worth while.
Moreover, officials here think the
very conditions imposed by the Teu-
tonic plenipotentiaries stamp their
promises of mo annexation and no in
IDENTITIES" as insincere.
1t has been assumed from the first
that the object of the Germans wou,o
be to keep the Russians talking as
long as possible, confuse the situation
in every conceivable way and thereby
gain time for further troop movements
to France, while impressing their pee
Pile at home with the idea that the
Kaiser really wants to make peace