The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-01-31
No Peace Seen In Ger
many andAustrian Aims

Washington, Jan. 25.-No advance
toward peace is seen here IN the
speeches made yesterday in Berlin
and Vienna by the German chancellor
and Austrian foreign minister upon
the war aims of the Central Powers.
Formal comments will be withheld
until the texts are put out by an au-
thorized German agency, but after
reading press accounts Of the speech
es, officials expressed the opinion
that they were framed largely for in
ternal consumption with the incidental
purpose to plant seeds of discord
among the allies by suggestions of
discord among the allies by sugges-
lions of separate negotiations, and to
appeal to the sympathies of the radi-
cal elements in the enemy's countries.
Reason for Variance
Regarding the design to affect the
internal conditions Of Germany and
Austria, one official suggested that
the striking differences of tone in the
two notes, the German being almost
defantly aggressive, and the Aus
TRAN compromising and insinuating,
were calculated precisely to meet the
varying conditions in the two en-
pires. In Germany, strengthened by
the Russian collapse resulting in the
transfer of vast forces from the east
ern to the western front, the mill
taristic party is in the ascendancy
and the chancellor abandoning the
concilliatory attitude he occupied
when he assumed office apparently
voices the will of the military leaders.
In Austria, the working people are
reported in incipient rebellion and the
demands for peace at almost any price
are insistent and clamorous. This is
the explanation found here for the
foreign ministers vague promises of
peace without annexation or indemni-
ties, and his special bid for negotia-
tions direct with America.
Still Firmly Allied
It is noted, however, that the
speeches are inter-dependent; that
Austria will not negotiate without
Germans consent, and approval, and
that Germany gives her sanction to
what has been done in Austria. Both
spokesman express confidence in the
success Of the peace negotiations with
Russia, in contract to the bitter de-
1unciation of the conduct of the
Teutons by Leon Trotzky, the Bolshe
Wiki minister for foreign affairs. This
attitude, officials and diplomatists be-
lieve to be the result of apprehension
that the confession at this moment of
the failure Of the Brest-Litovsk ne
gotiations would exasperate the Ger
man and Austrial publics beyond the
safety point.
In some quarters there was a dis
position to find a grain Of hope in the
concession by both speakers that
there were points in the utterances of
that might be accepted to the German
Lloyd George and President Wilson
ic powers, and. afford the basis of fur
Their discussions But other officials in
sisted that this was only another de-
monstration of the truth of President
Wilson's statement in his address to
congress, that twas the practice of
German diplomacy to mislead by de-
claring adherence to large principles
and then neutralize them by insistence
upon details of quite another charac-
ter.
The present belief Of the officials is
that there is not the slightest prob
ability of compliance by the United
State and the allies with the final de-
mand of the German chancellor for the
submission by them of new proposals
for peace.