The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-09-11
BURIAN RAISES
PEACE BARRACE
Washington Regards Idea as
Not Only Ridiculous but
Extremely Insincere.
AMERICA STAN DIS FIRM
War Aims Are Before Central
Powers and When They Are
Accepted War Will End.

Washington, Sept. Ill. n. ST.
Ridiculous and extremely insincere.'
That summarized official Washing
tons opinion today of the peace bar
rage raised by Baron Burian, the Aus
tro- Hungarian foreign minister. Ir
many quarters the summing UP was
Vouched In even stronger language,
Many diplomatic officials did moi
hesitate to characterize the sugges-
tlons Of the Austrian oflciaI as insult.
ing. Their open insincerity," 1t was
| stated. was demonstrated by the fact
that the central powers have COM
pelledNthe bolsheviki to sign the anti
entente treaty. Under this the Rus
sian red guard has obligated itself to
pay an indemnity OF six billion marks
to take up arms against the entente
not only in Siberia, but on the Mur-
man coast, and receives in return
protection for its coastal and fishing
fleets. If it has anything Of the kind
left.
"That Is about what Baron Burian,
speaking for his Berlin masters, would
like to force on the entente" declared
an ambassador of an allied power to-
day. 1T really shows far more than
words can just how hollow is the sug
gestion that the allies and the central
powers shall, in n calm exchange of
views, discuss and weigh everything
which today separates the belligerent
parties, While the declaration Of the
baron Is intended to keep alive in Aus
tria the official declaration that the
allies arc making war ruthlessly to |
crush their opponents rather than he |
cause they have n war program, II also |
Is hoped through 1t to influence neu-
trails so that they will make another |
effort to secure mediation.
"Ths effort will fall. There were
only two nations that had showed any |
to aid automatically the |
central powers-Spain and Sweden.
The former nation is today swinging
more and more toward the side of the |
allies. Sweden has within n very brief
period told Berlin that she could not
suggest mediation under existing war
"And as for any influence Baron
Burian's statement might have on the
allies. his answer can be found in the
Allied war program, in Field Marshal
Haig's address yesterday. and in to-
registration of Americas
American diplomatic officials would
rot discuss the Burian speech in de-
all. They made 1t very plain in con-
that this country intends
'arrying out its military program with
tut becoming n party to any useless
discussion of war aims. The war aims
II the United States are before the
central powers. it was pointed out.
When they accept them the war will {
nd. They are not expected to accept
hem until their military machine Is {
rushed. And the military machinery {
T the United States is being speeded !
p to so crush it-next year, the gen. t
raj staff says. 6
The wonderful manner in which the I
var spirit of>the United States Is be- r
ng strengthened by the way In which I
he American forces are handling :
themselves in France has inspired Of =
c!aldom here. The belief Is universal =
ere that when Germany Is crushed.
,ar will have been made an impossi-
ility in the world and that any COM
romise which would keep alive Teu- v
,nic military methods would he an
,sult to the fighting forces of the ma Il
on. The result was that the Burian f
peech. which was available in full v
ere TODAY. was received with far less b
than anything that has p
receded II.