Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-09

as to the reasons which impelled the chief executive to make his appearance so unexpectedly before congress again to enunciate the aims of the United States and it's o-beHigerents, it was stated authoritatively that in the opinion or President Wilson the psychological m0nent had arrived when it was absolutely necessary to make a strong effort to conteract the evil effects of German duplicity and double dealing upon the Russians who had been charged to meet the trained German negotiators. It is felt that no efforts should be spared to prevent a resumption of the Brest-Litovsk ne- gotiations by the Russians, without earnest but kindly admonition by the allies and America of the terrible dang CTS to which she is exposed.
 The president assumed in his mes- sage that these negotiations have been broken off Yet it is felt in official circles here that, alarmed at the ir- ritating effect upon their own people of the sudden withdrawal of the long ed-for peace with their eastern neigh bor from whom they had confidently expected to draw vast supplies 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 extreme demands or hy presenting them in fresh and spacious language calculated to cover their real meaning.
 Replies to Leon Trotzky.
 Another reason for today's address ic in ho nf 111y iF1ey some reply to the request of Leon Trotzky, the Bolshesik foreign min tster, that America and the entente all lies join in the peace conferences, Ger many having made it a condition of any peace agreement that Russia should bring her co-be11igerents into the negotiations. Not having recog- nized the BolshevfN regime as the Russian government the only feasible way of communication with it appear ed to be through a public enunciation | of American war aims, following the example of Lloyd George. It win be | necessary to the success of this pur- pose that circulation of President Wil- sons address shall be effected in Rus sia, to which end the fun taxt of the speech was sent by cable and wire less to all the principal capitals of the world for telegraphic distribution. May Leak Into Germany.
 Probably. in spite of the drastic German censorship rules, designed tc 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 neighbor- ing states and thus strengthen the | hands of the German sociaEstic party in it's struggle with the Pan-German: and the military party. | There are intimations, though nj official admission, that President Will. son and the British premier, spoke with full understanding as to wha ] was to be said and that the president who said today there is no confusion of counsel among the adversaries O the Central Powers" made his ad
 dress supplementary to that of tn, British premier.
 Lloyd Georges speech was prepares
 before the abrupt termination of tn
 Brest-Litovsk negotiations, and h.
 took rather hopeless view of Russia
 future, declaring that 'if Russia act independently, we cannot help the ca tastrophe"
 Hopeful of Russians Awakening.
 President Wilson is much more op
 timistic and hopeful of the awakenin
 of the Russians to the dangers of tn
 pitfalls which Germany has dug fo
 them.
 Some slight differences in the state ment of the aims of Germany's enc
 mics today as compared with preced
 ing utterances of President Wilson an even of the recent declarations ( I hIIf stated that these are unimportant an not designed in any way to affect ( weaken the general principles 1ai ] down as the basis, for any peace ths might be considered. One instance
 the use of the term "evacuation an restoration" by President Wilson i l regard to Belgium instead of ''restora t ton and reparation." This "restors
 tion" the president is said to hol 7 must be at the expense of German
 and not of all of the warning states 2 proposed by the Russians, so the di1
 ference in phrasing is not regarde
 as substantial
 Against Economic Warfare. a The third article in the president
 declaration, declaring against econom n warfare, Is regarded here as in lir f with the better-reasoned conclusion a of the entente ministries at presen
 though on it's face it is in conflict vii = the declarations of the Paris confe. q ence.
 = Readjustment of Italy's Frontiers. d The demand for the re-adjustmel t of Itafy's frontiers along national lin
 is expected to be welcomed by Il s Italians as full recognition of the S 'Itala Irredentia" aspirations, som t thing heretofore not forthcoming fro = America.
 Independent Polish State. . In his article providing for an fl V dependent Polish state, the preside Is said to mean that freedom shall
 given not only to Russian Poland. b
 to the Poles in Austria and German It also is stated that the demand f