Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-01-10
PEACE RuM0RS FLOOD U. s. CAPITAL
TEUT0nIC POWERS
ASK MEuTRALS' AID
Washington, Jan l0--A veritable food of
sensational rumors, having common origin ap-
oarently in that they agr eed the Teutonic powers

eed the leutonic powers
lhave asked a prominent
neutral to intervene in
1.-THE war, descended on
Washington this afternoon. Their
source could not be aseertained and
responsible officials greeted them
askance and would not comment upon
them
| One version was Sweden had been
asked to mediate between the Entente
Allies aud the Central Powers, the
United States not being mentioned.
Another had it that Switzerland was
the neutral approached. The lega-
tons and embassies as well as tho
state department were wholly without
information and there was general
inclination 70 discredit the reports.
| The same reports were issued out
of Petrograd saying Sweden had been
! asked to intervene between England.
France and italy.
The War Summary.
report that Bulgaria has enter
! ed into separate peace with Rus.
sia and that the pact has been
signed. attracted wide attention to-
day. The report which was entirely
unofficial, originated in Berne Swi,.
zerland, where it was printed in
newspaper.
The status of the negotiations be-
tween the Bolsheviki ENJOYS and the ;
delegates of the Central Powers al
Brest-Lltoysk was not disclosed to-
lay, but advices received In petro-
i ,.sradl ,indieaica sshats~the, = &asepneaa--
had consented at least provisional.
ly to the removal 70 neutral soil.
The German frontiers boarding
upon Holland and Switzerland have
been sealed for q month. indicating
that the movement OF German and
perhaps Austrian troops to the
western front is again under way.
A captured German army, officer
was quoted in an interview printed
IN a Paris newspaper today as say
ns that Germany will launch her
long expected offensive on the west
ern front as soon as possible The
officer added that Germany il stak.
me her last hopes for general vic
toriouS peace with annexations and
lndenlnitieS upon this offensive
which Will be her greatest eifor, in
thc war
German Crisis Continues
Amsterdam. jan. l0.---The crisis in
iefmany is not Yet passed Further
evidence of the seething political tur-
noll created by the interference OF
he military heads in the ." .rs 0.
De political government is revealed
ny a Frankfurt newspaper The sit.
nation brought about by the conflict
>etWoen the nilitarists and the mod
rates over peace terms is described
Y this newspaper as rotten
NO Time for Peace. ."--kcnyon.
Washington. Jan. l0.-~Thc prcscnt
IS not the time for peace talk. This
vas the warning sounded in tho Ser.
'te today by Senator Kenyon. of Iowa,
who has but recently returned from
A visit 10 the European battieficds.
Those who are now trying 10 help
n bringing about patched up peace
are weakening the American forces"
said the senator from Iowa
we are fighting for a permanen.
peace. When the Kaiser takes his
bloody hands OIL of Belgium and
France then will be time enough to
consider peace he ended
France to Set Forth Aims.
Paris Jan. lC,--lt was stated on
high authority that the French foreign
minister would deliver war-aim
speech either this afternoon or tomor-
raw, setting forth in detail Frances
peace terms
Disclose reutonie Agreement.
Geneva. Jan l0--The disclosure of
a territorial agreement. between Ger
many and Austria gave q new phase
10, tho peace situation today. Accord
Ing to the information Austria sur.
ports Gcrmany.s claims for the re-
tcntion OF Alsacelorraine and her
colonies, while Germany agrees to up.
hold Mustria'S demands Tor the reten.
ton Of Treutno aud Trieste.