The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-07
GREATEST0F
TEUTON PEACE
DRIVES READY
Proposal of Winter Arm.
istice Is Predicted as
First Move.
MAY RECALL KUEHLMANN
Crown Prince, Formerly Vio-
lent War Victory Advocate,
Reverses Stand.
MAY RECALL KUEHLMANN
Special Cable Despdtch to THE SuS.

Copyri0hf. 1918; all rights reserred
LONDON, Sept. 6.-Signs multiply that
Germany, with her armies in retreat and
the possibility of her own frontiers be-
ing threatened before the end of the
year. Is now engaged in preparing for
a peace offensive that will go much
further than any preceding similar at
tempt.
Out OF the maze of peace reports
reaching here to-day there stood out
one--contained In a despatch from The
Hague quoting the Tyd--to effect that
the Central Powers were considering
proposing an armistice during the win
ter. or course the report is unofficial,
but simply shows the lengths to which
Germany will go in an effort to bring
about peace before another spring or
summer offensive by the Allies.
Crown Prince Changes Front.
Not only is the officially inspired Ger
man press endeavoring to entangle the
Allies in peace discussions, but the Ger
man Crown Prince has now put forward
the assertion that Germany never aimed
at conquest but only at defending her.
self. The Crown Princes attitude 10 all
the more remarkable inasmuch as he
now wishes to appear as follower OF
DR.. Won Kuehlmann In the belief of the
impossiblity OF a military victory which
contrasts strangely with his bellicose
utterances from the outbreak of the war
Signs are not wanting that DR.. Won
Kuehlmann will shortly be recalled to
the post OF Foreign Secretary. where he
will play the dove to the pacifists OF all
the allied countries. The Crown Princes
Interview is only n part of the elaborate
pacifst programme which embraces
statements by Ministers. Reichstag lead
ers. newspapers and industrial magnates
to show how Germany has been misrep-
resented by the war parties
Would Avoid Winter of War.
The Entente Powers purpose in this
propagandist campaign is revealed by
German comments on developments in
England. The Zurich Ndchrichten is
quoted as the authority for the state
ment that the Entente for financial rea-
sons has determined not to go through
another winter Of the war. while the
Cologne Gazette publishes a telesram
describing the growth OF n peace propa-
ganda in England
1t is significant that some OF the
most extreme industrial annexationists
now renounce their previous demands.
The Mining Gazette, the organ OF the
ironmasters. who with their eyes on the
iron districts Of Lorraine have been the
most pronounced annexationists. now re-
jects the Brest-Litovsk treaties and con-
demns the German policy in grabbing
all she could in Russia.
On similar lines Count Reventlow, the
fire eating mllitarist. now asserts that
neither before nor during the war was
Germany inspired by the ambition OF
conquest. The same men and news
papers who are now declaring that an
nexations were never intended were the
most violent supporters OF the annexa-
ZIONIST propaganda.
Reassures German People.
Germany's peace offensive includes the
reinsurance OF the German people In the
eventual outcome OF the war and the
renunciation for the time being Of an
nexationist aims. In this Berlin Is being
ably assisted from Switzerland by the
Dutch Socialist Troelstra. who is still
remaining there after the fasco of his
attempt to hold Socialist peace con-