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Are Submitted to Him at Ge-
neva by Prof, Quidde of
Munich, in Hope They
Would Be Sent to Wilson,
HUNS BEG FOR MERCY
AFTER WAR IS ENDED
4 Wonder You Have Effront-
AIRY to Ask Me to Lay Such
RigmaroIe Before American
People, Replies Heron,

w mONTNS JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WlREl
London, May 10.-A story of how
an attempted German peace offensive
directed toward President Wilson was
turned down ignomniously by Profess
sor Heron, an American living in Ge-
neva, is told by the Swiss correspond
ent of the Daily Mail in his dispatch
dated at Annemasse on the Franco
Swiss frontier. Professor Heron is
described as friend of President
Wilson.
The German government according
to the correspondent, tried to get
peace offers sent to the president
through Professor Heron, who was
visited on April 10 by Professor Quid-
dc of Munich, friend of Count Won
Herting, the imperial German clfan-
cellor.
Professor Quidde was accompanied
by the Dutch pacifist, DR.. Jong Van
heck.
Come TO Talk Peace.
Professor Quidde said he had come
" PiSpSiAO tIIc way lOl II IiltICllul
peace and gave Professor Heron to
understand that he spoke for Chan
cellor Won Hertling and the German
foreign office. He assured the Amer.
lean predominance in Germany, and
that he wished to prepare President
Wilson TO take advantage Of that aus
picious moment.
Germany. Professor Quidde said.
was willing to make the following
terms:
First To grant autonomy to AL
sace-Lorraine within the limits of the
German empire, provided the allies
would not broach the subject of AL
sace-Lorraine at the peace conference.
Second. The Brest-LitovsR peace
treaties not to be discussed at the
peace conference although the allies
might submit claims for the revision
of them and Germany might make
certain concessions.
Third No economic war against
Germany after the war.
Fourth. German colonies to be re-
stored.
Professor Quidde asserted that the
present offensive in France had the
ultimate objective of achieving a dur
able peace.
Called it an Effrontery.
Professor Heron, the Daily Mail
correspondent writes after listening
to the German educator, explained:
81 wonder that you have the
cffrontcry To ask me to lay such
rignarolc of cant and deceit be-
fore the American people Far
from creating u spirit of concilia-
ton 1t would simply strengthen
the American will to smash the
pcrfidious and ncfarious offer OF
such proposals.
"Thc United States intends to
continue the fighting until the
Prussian military power and, If
necessary. the Prussian state
along with it, is cxtinguished
forever as power for evil,
whether It takes one year or ten"
The Professor Quidde referred to !
above is probably Prof. Ludwig Qud-
de, a historian of the University of
Munich in the Bavarian capital. Ger
man chancellor Won Hertling is a Ra-
varian and was formerly Bavariar /
prime minister.
Prof. Ludwig Qudde was delegate
to the twentieth universal peace con- !
ference at The Hague in the fall of
1918. In moving before that confer /
ence for gradual disarmament Pro- |
fessor Quidde severely blamed Ger !
many for the increase in armaments
in Europe. He said that there would I
have been no increase by France but
for the action Of Germany
The professor Heron referred to in
the dispatch is probably Prof George
d. Heron, formerly of Grinnell col
lege. Iowa. Nearly twenty years ago
Professor Heron came into consid-
cradle prominence on account of his |
views regarding marriage. Separated i
from his first wife he followed out
his ideas in contracting a second mar /
riage. He has lived in Europe for
more than a decade.