New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
German Peace
Envoy Said to
Be London
Eruption of Neutrals to
Further Teuton Propa-
ganda Announced
Dutch Financier's
Overtures Rejected
British Press Reflects De-
termination to Fight ON
Until Victory

Until Victory
/ LONDON, May Am emissary 0.
| Germanys new peace offensive alread,
is in England. According to the Cen
tral News, he is Dutch financier. An
other agent, the Central News says
is believed to be on the way. "Th'
! Daily Mail" speaks of an "irruption'
of neutrals in England to further the
enemy's peace propaganda.
But all the newspapers reflect the
determination of the British nation an(
it's allies to see the war through. They
say it is impossible that Germany
should succeed in duping the Allies
| into peace which does not fulfil the
principles for which they are fighting
"The Times" says the general ex'
pectation that the Germans failing to
obtain crushing victory in France and
Flanders would inaugurate, peace
campaign in the Allied countries seems
likely to be fulfilled. 1t continues:
"On the one hand. German speakers
and agents show suspicious readiness
to dilate upon the food shortage and
general discomfort in Germany, with
the obvious intention of lending ring
of sincerity to Germany's profession
of anxiety for peace.
Neutral Emissaries Used
"At the same time neutral emissares
of we'll known antecedents and ten.
dencies are understood to have arrived
recently in England and other Allied
countries for the purpose of suggesting
that if the Allies will only show a pa
cific disposition they will find Germany
ready to meet them on moderate terms
In some instances these emissaries are
believed to have put forward proposals
as to the best policy for the Allies to
| follow
ut need hardly be said that the
origin of these manmuvres is quite as
we'll understood as was the purpose of
the military offensive in March, and
that the Allied governments are likely
to present as firm front to any peace
intrigue as the Allied armies presented
to the German military attacks"
"The Daily Mail" says: "The irruption
of amiable neutrals into England with
no visible business already has begun
including the arrival of pro-German
friend Of the German Foreign Secre-
tary, DR.. Won Kuehlmann, who is not
charged with any official mission as far
as his London legation is aware. These
neutral emissaries would save them.
so h In
danger if they would recognize clearly
that Great Britain is not to be duped
like the Bolshevik and Ukrainian
dupes"
What Kaiser Must Do
"The Daily Express" says:
IF the present feelers are being nut
out by Won Kuehlmann, the obvious an
swer is that Won Kuehlmann has no
power to pledge his country to any
thing. Germany is to-day absolutely
in the hands of the militarists. When
the militarists have given up hope of
victory in the West, let the Kaiser him
self approach the Allies as a whole
Let him admit he cannot win the war
categorically abandon his scheme OF
conquest and withdraw his armies with
in his own frontiers. After that the
Allies will talk, but the Germans and
Won Kuehlmann may make up their
minds that hole-and- intrigues
will be boycotted and that we shall con-
tinue fighting till clean, not patched
up, peace IS in sight"
The Express" adds that the first of
the peace offensive agents in London
laid his proposals semi officially before
various officials. The newspaper says
it understands on high authority that
this agent is a Dutchman with impor-
tant financial associations and that he
came as a friend of Won Kuehlmann:
that is to say, his inquiries were made
on behalf of the civil and not the mill
tary party in Germany.
Overtures Repulsed
"This agent represented to the au-
thortles here" the newspaper con-
tinues, "that by our refusal to consider
party in Germany of the chance of
ousting the military party, and also
that the most we could hope for now
was peace by arrangement He was
told there was no such thing in the
English dictionary as peace by arrange
ment. He was told also: Very soon
there will be no such phrase as raw
material in the German dictionary
There is no doubt that the present
w Sit'ANS 10 lHSPiASu lNIEGly py
Albert Ballin director of the Hamburg
American Line) and other magnates of
the German shipping world, who fore
see that determined Entente can cas-
lily cut them off for many years from
all markets of the outside world, as
we'll as from Allied ports.
"The failure of the first envoy to
find sympathetic hearing will not end
the peace offensive. 1t is known that
other neutrals have been persuaded to
undertake the task OF laying further
suggestions before the British govern
ment without any apparent inspiration
from Germany. But the business as
sociations of these envoys are too we'll
known for any doubt to exist that they
are deliberately inspired"
German Good Faith Doubted
The evening newspapers are skep-
tical of the good faith of the reported
German "peace offensive" "The Pail
Mall Gazette" says:
"That Great Britain is always ready
for real peace goes without saying,
but. such peace involves the settlement
OF the moral questions raised by the
war, full expiation of Germany's fiend-
.ish crimes and the establishment of
complete safeguards against any future
outbreak of Hunnishness. No surges-
ton has come from Germany OF her