Bisbee daily review., 1918-01-09

United States and Its co-belllgerents, it was stated authOritatively that in the opinion of President Wilson the psychological moment had arrived when it was absolutely necessary to make a strong effort to cOunteract the evil effects of German duplieity and double dealing upon the Russians who had been charged to meet the trained German negotiators- It is felt that no effort should be spared to prevent a resumption of the BrestLitovsk nego- tiatiOns by the Russians. without earn est but kindly admOnitiOn by the al lies and America of the terrible dangers to which she is exposed
 The Assumption on Russia
 The president assumed in his mes sage to congress that these negOtia- tions have been broken off Yet, it is felt in official circles here that alarm ed at the irritating effect upon their own people of the sudden withdrawal of the longed for peace with their eastern neighbor from whom they had confidently expected to draw vast sup plies of food and raw material with which to relieve their sufferings, the Germans will make a supreme effort to entice the Russians to resume the conferences by abating their first ex. treme demands or by presenting them in fresh and spacious language calcul- ated to cover their real meaning An other reason for today's address is found in the necessity of making some reply to the request of Leon TrOtzky. the BOlsheviki foreign minister. that America and the entente allies join in the peace conferences, Germany hay ing made it a condition of any peace agreement that Russia should bring her co-belligerents into the negotia- tions- Not having recognized the Bol- sheviki regime as the Russian goyern- ment. the only feasible way of com munication with il appeared to be through a public enunciatiOn of Amer ican war aims. following the example of Lloyd-George- It will be necessary to the success of this purpose that circulation of President Wilson's ad- dress should be effected in Russia. to which end the full text of the speech was sent by cable and wireless to all the principal capitals of the world for telegraphie distribution
 For Widespread Publicity.
 Probably. in spite of the drastic German censorship rules. designed to keep the German people in ignorance of the truth. the substance of the ad- dress also will leak across the Ger man frontiers from neutral nsighbOr- ing states and thus strengthen the hon5s of the German sOcialistic party in its struggle with the Pan-German and the military party.
 There are intimatiOns. though no of- ficisl admission. that President Will sen and the British premier spoke with a full understanding as to what was to be said by the president. whc said today there is 10 confusion of counsel among the sdverssries of the central powers made his address supplementary 10 that of the British premier
 Iloyd-George's speech was prepared before the abrupt termination of the Brest-IitOvsk neEOtiations, and he took a rather hopeless view of Rus sis's future. declaring that if Russia acts independently. we cannot help the catastrophe
 Optimism Expressed.
 President Wilson is much more Op- timistic and hopeful of the awakening of the Russians to the dangers of the pitfslI which Germany has dug for them.
 Some slight differences in the state ment of the aims of Germany's enc mics today as compared with preced- ing uttersnces of President Wilson and even or the recent declarations of Ll0yd-GeOrge are not noticed. but t is stated that these are unimpOrtant and not designed in any way to affect CT weaken the general principles laid down as the basis for any peace that might be considered. One instance is the use os the term evacuation and restoration" by President Wilson in