Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-10-10
500 GERMAN LEADERS
TO BE TRIED FOR CRIME

Distrust of Germanys peace in
tentions is reflected in comments
made on the peace proposals by the
newspapers.
''In Prince Maximilians speech;
says the Mail, there is not a word
of repentance for crimes Germany
has committed.
1--WE did not allow Bulgaria to tell
us what 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 Germans
must leave the territories they have
occupied restore the property they
have stolen, pay for all the damage
they have done and surrender for
trail by the allies the great Grim
inals of the war The Mail says
there are about 500 of these, begin
ming with the emperor. 1t also de-
clares that Germany will in no cir
cumstances be given back her col
ones.
This method of approaching
peace is the method of a people try
ing to strike bargain, and the
peace that is coming is not going to
be- a bargain peace" says the Tele-
graph.
Germany Must Pay Belgium.
The newspaper sees marked
change in Germany's attitude as to
certain matters in dispute, but de-
clares the proposals as a whole to
be impossible. The newspaper re-
pudiates the idea of trying to reach
an understanding as to indemnity for
Belgium. 1t says:
"It is requirement of simple JUS
tice that Germany meet the account
which will be presented her for the
devastation and plundering of Bel
gum. There are no fundamental
changes in the German administra-
ton. Only few men have been
shifted, and the kaiser. and those
who rule him are still the rulers of
Germany
Out With Potsdam War-NIakers.
Admitting that the last German
peace move is the most important of
any thus far made, the Chronicle
says it is insufficient.
mo statesman who believes in the
Wilsonian policy of trying to end the
wGr once and for all, can be content
with anything less than the final
and unequivocal eliminatio of the
Potsdam war-makers," it continues.
1.-THE criminals who launched the
war must be so Enthusiastically beaten
that never afterward doubt may be
"a sed as to who won and who lost
it. The chancellor's promise that an
effort will be made to reach an I'M
Outstanding regarding an indemnity
to Belgium is not enough. II is in
dispensable that in Belgium's case
no equivocation should remain. Ger
many must say outright, L did
wrong, and l undertake as far as
possible to pay for it. Prince Maxi
milian's standpoint still seems essen
TALLY different from what is vital
to us. Germany has undergone
neither change of outlook nor change
of heart, which alone can permit
world peace to be permanent"
Perhaps the most welcome fea-
ture of Gerrany's hastily arranged
| move is that il can be only. meas
ure of her military necessity" says
| the Times.
After reviewing the Chancellor
| speech, the Times declares it to be
Ambiguous and disingenuous stuff
and asks:
Twill Germany ever realize there
is only one way for her, namely,
by deeds and not words? 1t is far
too late to talk of a basis for peace
negotiations. The determination OF
the allied peoples is that the defeat
of those who made war shall be COM
plete and absolute. That task they
have undertaken, and it shall be
performed to the very end, and there
will be no peace until Germany has
surrendered without condition to
terms which will leave her not mere
ly without the will, but without the
power to break them"
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