The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-07
Paris View of Note.

continued from rage OHe-1
This war should be finished so it will
be the final war"
Paris View of Note.
Paris Oct. 7-Germany does not
accept the Wilson terms for peace in
Prince Max's speech to the reichstag:
she merely says the fourteen and four
points form a basis for negotiations"
Therefore there can be no peace I'M
Ntil Germany makes full reparation and
gives guarantees that Will insure the
future.
This is the stand taken in Paris and
all of France on the peace statements
coming from Germany.
One newspaper declares it is a de-
spairing trick to cheat the allies and
avoid the pehalty of infamy and pre-
vent the devastation of Germany as
she has devastated those weak nations
which have opposed her.
One fact stands out:
Germany Admits Defeat.
Germany knows and admits she is
beaten, but this does not mean that
the war is ended"
Meanwhile the victorious allied
troops are advancing while the mil
lions eyes of fighters and peoples are
turned hopefully to President Wilson.
Germany leans upon principles
which would only make the arms fall
from our hands," LIE Temps says
the German troops have regained their
breath, and the imperial government
is popular and strong, the German
plenipotentiaries would knock down
one after the other the pretended bases
for negotiations.
I'VE should have to re-begin the
war, or sign a disastrous peace that
would not last long"
Unconditional Surrender.
London, Oct. 7.-Distrust Of Ger
many's intentions and skepticism as
to. the result of the peace overtures of
the central powers are reflected in
comments made on the peace pre-
posals by the newspapers here.
The Mail will have nothing to Go
with Germanys offers, which # says,
means not peace, but trickery."
I'm Prince Maximilian's Speech" the
newspaper continues, there is not d
word of repentance for criIpes Ger
many has committed He offers pro-
posals which are less than the condi-
lions that will be imposed by the allies
as spreliminaries 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 Germany and
Austria.
IF the German people wish to know
Swhat guarantees President Wilson and
dIIleS require, IHey may pe SHlDOuleI
in two words unconditional surren-
der The Germans must leave the
territories theyshave occupied, restore
the property they have stolen. pay for
all the damage they have done and
surrender. for trial by the allies the
great criminals of the war"
500 Great Criminals.
The Mail says there are about 500
of these, beginning with the emperor.
1t also declares that Germany will in
no circumstances be given back her
colonies.
This method of approa ching peace
is the method of "a people trying to
strilSe a bargain. and the peace that is
coming is not going to be a bargain
peace" says the Telegraph.
The newspaper sees a marked
change lin Germanys attitude as to
certain matters in dispute, but de-
clares the proposal as a whole to be
Impossible.
Even the most strongly pacifist
element in this country has endorsed
the demand for the evacuation of
France and Belgium it says, las a
condition precedent to negotiations
and Prince Macmillan knows that in
asking for negotiations and an armis-
tice while German armies are in