The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-28
NO HALT IN THE WAR,
WASHINGTON SAYS
Hertling's and Czernin g Talk Afford No
Hope for Real Peace-Parley
Proposal a Trick.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-Peace IS
no nearer as a result of the speech
Thursday before the reiehstag commit
tee bv Count Won Hcrtling. In fact,
according to prevailing view here,
ucacc is more remote than ever.
Officials of the government are not
vet ready to give matured Judgment
as TO the significance of the address de-
Iivercd by the chancellor, but it is evi-
dent from remarks today that they
think he was influenced by fear of Pan
Germans in his rejection of some of the
factors stated by President Wilson and
Mr.. Lloyd George as presenting q basis
Tor a peace agreement. Some officials
take the view that the chancellor $ adj,
dress was intended largely for home
consumption to induce the German PEG
PIE to believe that the government is
in a position, or Will be soon, to die
tate advantageous terms to its enemies
There is a disposition in some quar-
tiers to look upon the German talk of
big offensive as designed to deceive the
allies and raise the spirits OF the Ger
man and Austrian peoples 1t is not
doubted that an offensive Is preparing
on the German side Of the western
front, but observers here scent decep-
ton in the hints one day that this or
that point will be attack and the
next day that the attack will be made
/ elsewhere.
These hints, it is thought, are intend
/ ed as much to cheer the German people
/ as TO influence the allies, with the OBJ
T jcct, as far as the Germans are con
. cerned, of overcoming any disappoint-
meut they may feel over the failure OF
the chancellor to make a statement OF
terms thar the central empires declared
FOR % peace without annexations and
without indemnities was that they them
selves were immune, but that their Ell
cmies must submit to both
The suggestion by Count Czernin
Austro- hungarian minister for foreign
affairs, OF IourparlerJ between Nienna
and Washington was regarded as {
maneuyer, inspired by Germany, to in
NotHe one OF the powers, opposed K
her, in peace discussion, in the belize
that once begun, the infection w0ult
spread to other allied nations, and tina
despite the determination, peace OF
tine basis Of 4 draw would be nego
tiated.
Officials who have the best means o
Judging OF conditions in Germany sa,
1t would be folly to lessen the sendinj
Of troops to France. They conten,
! that instead there should be an increa.,
of activity. The hope is expressed tina
the people will not be misIed by tn
reports Of internal disorders in Ger
1 many and Austria-Hungary into think
I ing that the central power, cannot hol
out much longer and that it is VI
I necessary to Keep up military prepare
tIon here.
The reaction of the Socialists Of Gei
many, As reelected in the speech q
1 Philip Seheidemann, greatly intereste
y officials and it was thought by thcr
that Whatever reply was needed 10 tn
German and Austrian official utteranct
- would be made by the German peop
TO themselves.
( While government officials were re
iecut IN comment on tine chancellor
n .peech, there was no reserve in allie
- circles. In them the opinion was he
s. hat whereas the position taken by tt
ut central empires at Brest Litovsk he
- closed the door to peace, tine Won Her
ID ling speech had loe hed and bolted it.