The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-10-08

WIFI tilS NdlSeI.
London, Oct. 7.-Distrust of Ger
manys intentions and skepticism as
to the result of the peace overtures
OF the central powers are reflected
in comments made on the peace
proposals by the newspapers here.
The Daily Mail will have nothing
to do with Germany's offers, which
1t says, mean not peace but trick
cry"
I'm Pince Maximilian's speech"
the newspaper continues, there is
not a word of repentance for crimes
Germany has committed. Il = He
offers proposals which are less than
the conditions that will be imposed
by the allies as preliminaries to any
discussion at all.
I'VE did not allow Bulgaria to
tell us what to do We told her what
she had to do. We intend to act
precisely in the same way with Ger
many and Austria.
IF the German people wish To
know what guarantees President
Wilson and the allies require, they
may be embodied in two words, 'un-
conditional surrender The Ger
mans must leave the territories they
have occupied, restore all the prop
erty they have stolen, pay for all
the damage they have done and sur
render for trial by the allies, the
great criminals of the war
The Mail says there are about 500
of these. beginning with the en-
peror. 1t also declares that Ger
many will in no circumstances be
given back her colonies.
No Bargain Peace, Says Telegraph.
This method OF approaching
peace is the method OF a people
trying to strike a bargain, and the
peace that is coming is not going to
be bargain peace, says the Tele-
graph
The newspaper sees a marked
change in Germany's attitude as to
certain matters in dispute, but de
clares the proposals as whole to be
Even the most stronly pacifiSt
element in this country has endorsed
the demand for the evacuation OF
France and Belgium ' t says, "aS
precedent to negotiations,
and Prince MaXimiiian knows that,
in asking for negotiations and an
while German armies are
in France and Belgium, he is asking
for an impossibility. Negotiating
under such circumstances would be
an admission OF Germany's superior
lty and concede the loss of the war
by the nations who are aiming to
break German miitarism. For this
reason, we cannot believe the peace
offer seriously meant
The article repudjates the idea OF
irving to reach an understanding as
to indemnity Tor Belgium. 1t says:
Hun Must Pay.
at is requirement of simple
Justice that Germany meet the ac-
count which will be presented her
for the devastation and plundering
Of Belgium. There are no funda-
changes in the German ad-
Only a few men have
been shifted, and the kaiser and
those who rule him still are the
rulers Of Germany"
Admitting that the latest German
peace move is the most important
Of any thus far made, and confident
hat the allies will give the closest
attention to it, the Chronicle says
.hev will find it insufficient.
mo statesman who believes in the
policy of trying to end
var once and for all can be content
With anything less than the final
md unequivocal elimination of the
Potsdam war makers" it contin-
les. There must be restitution.
.eparation and guarantees. and the
criminals who launched the war
must be so Enthusiastically beaten
hat never afterward doubt may be
-aised as to who won it and who
ost it.
"The chancellor's promise that an
,ffort will be made to reach an un-