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New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

cause his military operations have tenn
porarily turned out badly. This is ex-
actly what he did in 1916. and now as
then, his peace offensive is a war often
sive, it is a method of winning the war
on his own terms, it is preparation for
military operations later, just as the
loosing of poison gas and the delivery of
an artillery bombardment are prepara-
tions for an infantry attack.
The very best way in which to under
stand the present German offensive is to
go back for a moment and examine the
first peace offensive. Then it will be real
lied how completely the peace agitation
is subordinate to the general and central
idea, which is to win the war If the
American people are to understand the
German campaign they must at once dis
miss two misapprehensions, one, that a
beaten Germany is seeking peace by sur
render to escape defeat and disaster.
two, that when the German talks about
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
The Enemy Is Still
Close to Paris

The danger of losing the Euroneor
phase Of the war, which was acute lae+
March, has passed; the opportunity to
win the war is beginning to develop Ru+
1t IS only beginning to develop. We are
excited because our long range guns aro
firing upon the forts of Metz. but tbs
German armies are still only seventh
miles from Paris, and the Germans still
occupy ground along the Aisne from
which they had been driven four long
years ago. Losing battles the German ;s
losing ground, losing men and guns. but
in this situation he turns to the strategy
which he used with complete success two
years ago, after he had been defeated
at Verdun and driven backward at the
Somme.
The Austrian proposal is only the
opening move Of the German peace of.
fenslve, just as the note addressed to the
Allied governments by Germany in De-
cember two years ago was only the first
move in that earlier operation. There
seemed to be then the same unanimous
rejection of the proposal on the part of
the Allied peoples that we perceive now.
But out Of the maneuvre there de-
veloped thereafter the greatest peril to
the Allied cause, now become our cause
which had existed since the First Battle
Of the Marne. We have, then, every rea-
son for fearing that there may be great
dangers resulting from new ma
n@uvre.
1t is essential at all times to put aside
the delusion that beaten Germany is
seeking peace by surrender or peace by
negotiation which must mean the sacri-
flee of what Germany has acquired in
this war, the release of subject peoples
enslaved as the result of other wars and
the payment of indemnities for crimes
committed in the present struggle.
There is no escape for Germany from
approximate economic ruin, no deliver
ance Of the dynasty and the ruling ele-
ments from impending ruin on the polti-
cal side, apart from military victory
Therefore, by all means, military and
otherwise, all Germans are bound to seek
that military victory and there is not the
smallest chance that we shall be able to
accomplish those things to which we
have dedicated our youth and our ma
terial resources until we have broken
the military power of Germany by de-
cisive defeats of the German army and
the occupation Of German territory.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
beware of the Reichstag
- Discussionsl

The apparent agitation now going for
ward in Germany for ''liberal' reforms
was carried OH by the same men and for
the same purpose in the summer Of 1917.
We heard about Reichstag reforms and
peace without annexation or indem-
nifty" all through the period when our
own morale was being undermined by
these same devices. But we had a sud-
den end to all this revolution in Ger
many when there was a new chance to
attain military victory, when the ma,
n9uvre had achieved its desired end in
Allied countries. We have to face now,
as then, an attack upon the home front
1t is matter Of life and death for us to
perceive this fact and not again TO fall
the victims of a German campaign which
swept into its course the ideasm and the
!seltishness of the enemy nations alike,
which renewed the alliance between the
Puritan and the blackleg," which almost
broke our home front, our firing line ana
our power of moral and military re-
sistance to the enemy.
Victory will not be won by negotiation
or by the discussion Of peace terms. We
had an ultimate demonstration Of what
the German really means by peace az
Brest-Litovsk and again at Bucharest
The great German military teacher
Clausewitz, once said that war was only
an extension of policy" A German ora
tor, Herr David, a Socialist member Of
the Reichstag, said last year: Ger
many must squeeze her enemies with
pair Of pincers. The German armies
must continue to fight vigorously, while
German Socialists encourage and stlniu-
late pacifism among Germanys enc
mics" The two utterances comprehend
the present and the past peace offenslves
of the German government. They will a.
so explain any future maneuvre. Ger
many is still seeking to win the war 81
the civilized instincts in enemy countries
are TO be turned to her advantage, she
talks peace to disarm her enemies, ous
while she talks she sharpens her ONE
weapons. We are at the beginning OF
new campaign, more dangerous than tna1
other German offensive which focn
broke at the Marne.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

events in 1917. Russia fell; the Ro1sbe-
WIKI, rising to power, turned to Ger
many, accepting German peace gestures
as made in good faith and broke with
their old allies. Russia was eliminated
from the war and the Germans at LOST
reached situation where thew conld
concentrate their energies on single
'front.'. The defeat of the French army
at the Aisne gave a new energy to tho
de1eatlst campaign in France. and the
morale OF the army, affected by that of
the people, sunk to the lowest level in
three years of war In Britain there
was disorder among the various ele-
ments which was fatal to national unitv
OF purpose and action. In Italy the sit
uatlon was still worse, and out of this
situation came the disaster of Caporetto
in the autumn.
IN sum, twelve months after she had
opened her peace offensive GERMANY
had by it eliminated Russia from,
the war, brought Italy to the edge Of
ruin, almost broken the nerve Of France
produced a situation in Britain out Of
which no leader could have improyised
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

assert themselves and their criticism of
their own government was undermining
pubic confidence. At the other end of
the line selfishness was making itself
heard; labor, fearful lest its recently
won victories should be lost in the war.
capital, apprehensive lest a prolongation
OF the war should lead to the destruc-
ton Of capital and the elimination Of
all ancient privileges, were becoming
nervous and looking eagerly toward a
settlement.
In addition, there was in Britain dis
appointment with the government which
had Just led to the fall of Asouith and
the coming of Lloyd George, and upon
Lloyd George the pacifsts and the ideal.
lists were centring a dangerous attack
Instead of assailing the enemy for h;
great crimes, these pacifsts and 3d.
called liberals" were denouncinp AL
ned war aims, alleging that these aims
were German in character and respon.
slble for the prolongation of the strue-
gle. And this continual assault was
weakening public confidence.
In france a monstrous "defeatist"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
A War Device, Method for
Winning the War ON
German Terms
BY FRANK III. SIMONDS
Author of 'The World War;" "They Shall Not Pass

is peace by bargain. Germany will
pay back some of her stolen profits pro-
vided she can keep others The German
people demand of their government that
it shall show it's moderation and gener-
osity by offering terms of this sort: the
government is intrenching itself against
criticism at home by putting Austria up
to offer such terms and then indorsing
the proposal of the subordinate. It is an
utterly false view to hold that Germany
is exhausted, believes herself beaten and
has offered peace proposals in panic to
escape defeat. This is not the case.
On the contrary, the German has had
recourse again to the peace offensive be-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Germany Launches Her Second Peace Offensive

peace he means peace In our sense, or
means anything but the use Of peace
talk to disarm his energy, that he may
fall upon him again and destroy him.
Six days after the fall of Bucharest in
1916 the Germans made peace pro-
posal. They did it on the morrow Of
great victory, but at the close of a cam
paign in which they had been defeated
both at Verdun and at the Somme. This
proposal was at once hailed in all Allied
countries as an evidence of weakness and
despair and was rejected by Allied
statesmen nth little thought as TO the
real purposes or the actual dangers
which had been created by the German
gesture Now, after two years, we can
see clearly what the Germans had in
mind in December, 1916.
In the first place they knew that Rus
sia was at the end Of her rope, exhausted,
and incapable of new military effort.
They knew that the Stiirmer Ministry,
realizing that revolution was at hand,
had betrayed Rumania to them in order
that the defeat of Rumania might demon
strate that victory was impossible and
peace by negotiation inevitable. Only
thus could the bureaucracy in Russia
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
The Mannuvre Will
4 Grow More Dangerous

It is essential, therefore, to keep ones
mind fixed upon the new German ma
noeuvre as dangerous and certain to grow
more dangerous in the next few months,
during which military operations will
necessarily pause and the world, resting
from battle, but not from the agonies of
war, will have time and reason to think
once more of peace.
To-day we are all of us In America of
one mind on the subject of peace. We
are agreed that there can be no peace by
negotiation and no peace of any sort
until the German army has been beaten,
the military power of the German nation
broken by defeat; until we have demon
strated to the German people that it is
not possible for them by arms to doni-
nate the world, or, having invoked ruth
lessness and terror, to escape the conse-
which have for more than four years
been the steady concomitant of German
advance or retreat
We are, in America, agreed that the
time to talk with the enemy is when he is
beaten, not before, and that the way to
talk with him then is by the imposition
upon him of our peace terms not by
secret debate in private conference,
which shall have the character of bar
gain counter operation. In this spirit
the nation, not only through the Presi-
dent, but with the President, answered
Austria. We have been a long time ar
irving at a sound view of the world
situation, but we have arrived. and our
voice is unanimous.
But 1t is necessary at once to recognize
the character of the new danger. There
has been too much willingness on the
Allied side to accept German conditions
as painted by optimism rather than by
accurate report. Failure to understand
the facts at the time of the first German
peace offensive almost involved ruin. a
failure now will be less costly, perhaps,
but it will be terribly costly; no man
can doubt this
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

campaign was getting under way, skill
fully engineered by German agents and
supported by German money. Invaded,
bleeding, France was suddenly attacked
behind the firing line and the attack was
directed at war weariness; after Verdun
and the Somme the war was still going
on, and German agents asserted that it
was continued not in French interests,
but to serve British ends; the French
government could have peace, honorable
and profitable to France-Germany Of
fered it, but the French government was
bound to the British chariot. Interna-
tional finance in London and in Paris
lifted its head again.
Now, the leaders Of the Allied nations,
in rejecting the German peace proposal,
did not thereafter take the necessary
steps to abolish the consequent danger
They had their eyes fixed upon the Ger
man public and were satisfied that Ger
man morale was breaking down at the
very moment when German morale was
mistaken and the morale Of their own
peoples was becoming seriously affected
Once more they had been surprised; they
had failed to gather the drift of the new
attack; they had imagined that in MAX
ing the proposal Germany was confess
ing weakness and in rejecting it they
were revealing strength, the truth was
just the opposite
All of this is revealed in the course of
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
We Must Put Aside the Delusion
That the Hun Is Honestly
Seeking Peace
Copyright, 1918, New York Tribune Inc.

victory. But for the failure in America
the peace offensive might have won the
war, but the failure had been followed
by the entrance Of the United States
into the war, bringing new hopes and
new resources. Now, it is not too much
to say that no German military cam
paign in the four which had occurred
between August, 1914, and December,
1917, had achieved any such results as
this peace offensive.
But by the opening of the New Year
the peace offensive had completed its
work and we saw Germany resume her
military offensive The ''liberals" in the
Rechstag, who had been making loud
demands for peace without annexation
or indemnity, lapsed into silence; the
movement for democratiZing German in
stitutions was overtaken by paralysis; !;
the German Generc' staff went to Brest-
Litovsk and had its aay with Russia, and
then LudendorfP launched his great Of
fensive on the Western front, which be-
gan with great victories and narrowly
escaped reaching Paris
Fortunately for mankind, Allied pub
lies woke up in time. Clemenceau
came to power in Paris and saved
France, despite the outcry Of so-called
liberals" in all Western nations; Lloyd
George stuck to his guns in Britain, and
a common peril at last became patent to
all men. To save t'-ar lives and to pre-
serve their country ON destruction the
very people who had been playing with
the peace idea to the utter demoraliza-
ton of their own nations will to live
and to the complete benefit Of Germany
suddenly began to see the drift Of events
and gave over their support Of the
enemy agitation, a support which was
blind; due in many cases to the highest
motives, but almost fatal to their own
countrys cause.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
\ lwavs the Same Objective: {:
~ Military Victory

Such, then, was the German peace Of
fensve Of 1916'17 1t was never a
move for peace; it was always varia-
ton of the manner in which Germany
still sought the same objective, military
victory and when its possibilities had
been exhausted the German returned to
the military method once more and won
the battles of Picardy, Flanders and the
Aisne.
By lying, by proposing a negotiation
he did not desire, by exploiting the
credulity of the liberals, the war weari-
ness of the masses, the selfshness of the
classes, the German gained in 1916 the
same sort of advantage he had acquired
in 1914 by invading Belgium. He Sc
cured the moral initiative and he used
this until he regained the military initia-
tive, at which point he dropped the mask
and became the Prussian, and not the
Angel of Peace, once more.
1t seems to me nothing is more obvious
now then. that the German is again
manmuvring for the moral initiative
do not believe his peace gesture is anv
more unrelated to his war plans than
was that of December, 1916. do not
believe that the German people are de-
feated in their own opinion and eager for
peace at any price. On the contrary. T
believe they will fight long and des-
perately to escape the only kind of settle
ment the western nations can or will ac-
cept. l do not believe that the peace pro-
posal is sign of weakness, anv more
than the shifting of an attack from one
flank to another, in battle, is an evil
dence of panic or the collapse of the will
to win the battle
On the contrary, there is every reason
to believe that this German mannuvre
ls war device, a method for winning
the war on German terms, a deliberate
effort to exploit war WEAKNESS once
more, to get our liberals" and ideaLsts
to talking again about the iniquity of
Allied purposes and the need for re-
statement of Allied war aims. 1t is an
effort to exploit the fears of both capi
tai and labor for the future, it is a des-
perate attempt to break down Allied
morale behind the firing lines, in the
hope that this collapse will be felt at the
front, as similar collapse was felt in
1917, that the German may have a
chance to return to the offensive as Lu-
dendorff returned to the offensive last
spring. And believing these things I
confess to a very great apprehension at
this time lest blindness or ignorance on
the part of the Allied leadership, Allied
publics and Allied press may enable the
German to repeat his achievement of
1916, and escape from the evil military
situation in : hich he now stands by ex-
ploitation of the advantages derived
from regaining the moral initiative.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

plete the work Of Hindenburg and Mack
ensen and put Russia out Of the war.
Then they could have their way in the
East. The Treaty of Brest- Litovsk was
the final proof Of their correctness of
vision.
Again, the Germans were on the point
Of launching their submarine campaign,
and there was deadly danger lest this
should involve them in war with the
United States. But they hoped that if
they assumed the attitude of seeking
peace, affirmed willingness to end the
war, adopted the tone Of reasonableness
without giving any awkward guarantees
of good faith, the enemy nations would
at once reject their proposals and the re-
suit would be the creation of public
sentiment in America against Allied OBJ
stinacy, and that this sentiment would
lead to an acceptance of the new subma-
mine regulations. Believing that the
American people would see the war pro-
longed by Allied obstinacy, the Germans
hoped to escape conflict with America.
In this they miscalculated, but what is
important is that they were calculating.
Even more important were the calcu-
lations with respect to the British and
French people. Both were war weary.
In Britain the pacifists, the ideaists,
the humanitarians were beginning to re-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
0ur Ever-Ready and
" Ridiculous Optimism

From the very outset Of this war we
on the Allied side have been cursed by
an ever-ready willingness to see things
in Germany as we wanted them to be
and on this ridiculous form of optimism
to build solemn edifice Of early victory
This is our peril now, when new sue
cesses IN the field have given rise to new
and In part unreasoning optimism. We
have stopped The German advance, we
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

have driven the German back to the linn.
from which he emerged last Marcb -
seek victory. We have inflicted a terr;blo
loss in men upon him and we have :
reasonable ground for hope that we shall
drive him to the Belgian frontier befora
snow flies. Moreover, the arrival of
America has given Foch an advantaro
which is considerable and will h.
enormous.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

~RESIDENT WILSON'S prompt
and crushing rejection of the
"A Austrian peace proposal has
stopped the second German peace
offensive in the enemy's places of assem-
bly,. The assaulting columns never left
the hostile trenches. In every circum-
stance this action of the President was
admirable, and the inspiring fact was
promptly disclosed that Mr.. Wilson had
spoken the will of the country and that
his decision was that of the whole Amer
lean people.
But does the first repulse end the Ger
man offensive; has the initial defeat
ended the danger? I do not think any
one who recalls the history of the first
German peace offensive, that of Decem-
Der, 1916, can believe this In point of
fact, the Allied statesmen of all the ma
tions at war declined the first German
proposal as promptly and as uncomprom~
isingly as has the President now, but
what was the result? For more than
year the German manpuvre continued:
it procured revolution in Russia, disor-
ganization in the Allied countries, a de-
cline in the morale and the solidarity Of
the British and French peoples; it
brought the whole Allied cause to the
edge of utter disaster.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-04-25
TO TRAIN SOL LD|ERS HERE!

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ulty conditions that Will be
of it by the department
will be brought here for scientific and
technical military work 1t means
officers the will be stationed to train them In
substantial addition population of Moscow and added pomi
the university.
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enrolled this will
Thursday
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in stemmng the German advance
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-04-25
CREAH|bATTLE IS STILL IN
PROGRESS ON WESTERN FRONT


continued all
total gains of the Germans yesterday
they paid awful killed That
Zeebrugge a
yesterday
hrugge affair had failure
the the
reached having from London The the
regarded
full and likely battles
The teegaphic and cable received today follow:
British Regain Ground Yesterday
LONDON ThudayThe Germans
positions Amien
the attacked the
repulsed there.
attacks this also attacking the British positions
The British ve
to the Germans yesterday by brilliant
took number o prisoners
fighting
night still continues today.
heavy
a wide
From French
PARIS Thursday, (Offal)-The
Hangard the front southeast of Amiens The battle continued with
violence through the night n this
The
out the but holding a of the Immediately
British Reclaim More
by
German French British lines the
Knmi continuing The
to the of the Kemmll hills
Vigorous British counter attacks towards Vl
the battle fiercey
early to make claims.
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LIVESTOCK PRICES
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HOGS REACH $17.75-STEERS GO TO
$14.1O AND LAMBS BRING
Is CENTS


Hogs-Receipts, 179; market steady.
Prime mixed, $17.5O@1775; medium
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ers and feeders, $6.75@9.
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lambs, $14.5O@15.5O; prime yearlings,
$14@15; prime wethers, s12.50@13.25;
best mutton ewes, $10@11.50.
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