Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-23
READY TO RETREAT
IF NOT MOLESTED
Huns Would Evacuate in
North on Express Condition
Allies Do Not Press Retreat.
FOE PRESS 0. KS REPLY
BIZ the Associated Press.

BIZ the Associated Press.
PARIS. October 23.-Germany's mgh
command is ready to evacuate the III
vaded territories of France ana BEL
GUM on the express condition tnat tlie
allied troops will not follow them IN re-
treat. but will remain where they no"
are located, according to the latest m
formation from Berlin, says the Zur1ch
correspondent of the Journal
This grotesque proposal is the out
come of the latest conference at Berlin
hetween the members of the general staff
and the war cabinet, it is said Inc
rni,itarist party is rapidly gaining
ground, but the members OF the mooer-
ate factions believe that before long
crave internal events will help to i'm
prove the situation.
The dispatch says that the exlsting
government remains very hostile TO the
Tetrocession Of Alsace and Lorraine 70
France. Emperor William nimseH Is
reported to have denounced emphaticaiiy
such an event at the meeting o. the
crown council Saturday.
Sees Danger in Slow Retreat.
AMSTERDAM, Tuesday, October %.
lions even defensive warfare on the
German frontiers would involve great
dangers, the Frankfort Gazette says
that even the most careful defense on
the western front will entail big losses.
It is not to Germanys interests, tne
newspaper says, to make slow, defen-
siye retreat from Belgium and that
fighting there will not be unnecessarily
prolonged a single day.
1--WE recognize the movement OF
uopularizing the government after the
example of 1913 has proceeded in con-
tinuai waves since August, 1914, and is
still proceeding" the Gazette continues.
"Despite this we are convinced that
Germany would submit to oppressive
conditions which, perhaps not Presl-
dent Wilson, but the entente generals
desire, only if our armies were physl-
eally unable to avert this submission
without mourning still greater mishap
GENEVA, October 22.-Peace must
not be delayed single day on account
Of the Hohenzollerns If they are rear, an
obstacle to. it, declares the Volks
Frieund of Harrisburg, which also is
nermitted to speak OF the disappear
ance of the superstitious belief that
the emperor was chosen to rule py
The schWabische Tagwacht says
that everybody now is convinced the
allies will not accord Germany a
cheap peace. but II the glory ana
mower of imperial Germany IS LIE
price the German people are ready TO
permitting such items to leave
Germany the German censorship ap-
t,......y is preparing public opinion
for coming events.
German Press o. KS Reply.
LONDON, October Theodore
Violin, in the Tageblatt of Berlin.
says that great difficulties will be
caused If President Wilson or the al
lies refuse to negotiate for an armis-
tice, as proposed by Germany.
IN Paris, New York and London
there is now talk about military ne
cessity." Herr Wolff continued. I've
won't deny our own politicians spoke
with violence in the same strain when
they thought possession of Paris was
in sight"
President Wilson demand the impos-
sible we must reckon with a continue
ton of the war;"
The German press generally consid-
ers the reply to President Wilson sat
isfactory and a good basis for further
negotiations, despite the fact that
most of the papers are not quite sure
what the first part of. the note means.
according to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Copenhagen.