Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-10-25
GERMAN REPLY DOES
NOT PLEASE BRITAIN
ATMOSPHERE CHARGED WITH
SUSPicION-BELIEvE HUNS
SEEKING COMPROMISES.
WANT FINAL SURRENDER
Germany's Acceptance Of Presidents
Terms in No Wise Means Her Ae-
eeptanee Will Be Met BY Great
Britain and France.

London.-Germany's reply to Pre-.
ident Wilson reached London too lat
for any authoritative comment. !
was bound to come, however, into Al
atmosphere charged with suspicion
and the opinion is still held in al
quarters that the reply would be
good gauge of the degree of Gel
many's military distress. An arms
tice Is the old familiar ruse for a dis
tressed army.
Apparently the reply gives on,
statement Of news. II associate,
Austria Hungary, but not Turkey
with the German government. TIL,
implication seems to be that unles.
the German secretary for foreign af
fairs has written the message with
unusual haste, Turkey is no longer
Germany's ally. In all previous i'm
portant diplomatic documents Ger
many has scrupulously mentioned all
her allies.
The phrase. ITO agree upon practi
cal details of the application of these
terms is on its face a straight reply to
President Wilson. 1t was not unex.
pected here, but is likely to be re-
garded with suspicion. English pa
pers have said that a conference bas-
ed on such formula may be consid-
cred by the Germans to mean an ex-
tended debate.
Some Of the most important Ger
man pepers, in latest quotations ca
bled from Holland, persist in using
the word Compromise with refer,
ence to the application of the presi-
dents priniples. But the feeling in
London IL that 1t will be hard for the
allied armies to hold their hand in
the hour Of seeming victory.
Unconditional surrender" is the
watchword much more appealing 10
the British people in this hour than
any commission to arrange for evacu-
alton. Events in the past week, par
ticularly the sinking of the Leinster,
have steeled British hearts against a
compromise.
There is strong belief here, voic-
cd even by the Compromising" pa
pers. that there are yet two powers
in Germany-one power of the new
government, the other Of the army
and that 1t is not yet decided which
II supreme.
Germany's acceptance of President
Wilson's terms in no wise means that
her acceptance win be met by Great
NAM ~a4A>zssoaee The restoration
OF ship for ship from the German
mercantile marine for all submarine
losses is British principle which ap-
parently is accepted by all the British
people.
Commenting on the reply, the Sun
day Observer says:
The FIRST issue for us is the mari.
time question. We ought to insist
[hai the German submarine campaign
should be marked out for special
treatment in immediate connection
with any peace preliminary. II any
military armistice is accompanied by |
concrete guarantees so must naval |
trmistice. We ought to insist. before
here can be any suspension of hos
tilities, that the German submarines
shall be surrendered to the allies and
America"
News of the World says: ANY ces-
Bation of military operations at this
stage would compromise all our mill
tary success. They will not enjoy |
such q respite. Foch and his gallant
armies, now hot in pursuit Of the enc
my, are not to be thus easily cheated
Of the fruits of their splendid victo-
ries."