The Little River news., 1918-10-09
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 Washington, Oct5.-"The voice is the voice of Prince MaXimilian, but he is speaking the language of the military party
 This was the comment or one State Department official tonight when he was informed that the new imperial German chancellor, in his first ad- dress to the Reichstag, had asked the allies to state their peace terms, and had also, unconfrmed reports said, proposed an armistice.
 Nothing but the exigencies of the military situation, it was suggeste1 is behind the German move for peace, which follows so closely upon Aus trias move which was rebuffed in urry by the allies.
 Another State Department Oficia declared that Prince Max's proposal seemed to follow the same lines as Austria's request for a, mon -binaing discussion" on the part of all bellig- erents, and this being the case, he eX- pressed the belief that it would meet with the same treatment.
 The department tonight had not been officially advised of the move of the chancellor, but in the light of newspaper cable advices, it was gen. orally conceded that Prince MaXimil- ian, aware of the dangers now con- fronting German arms, was only too willing to assume the burden of at tempting to obtain peace and that his utterances betrayed his willingness.
 Armis!ice UnthinEable. Whether or not the aTmistice re- port is correct, one sentence will suf- flee for it-namely, the allies will not consider it. The United States, in common with the entente sllies hare seen, as President Wilson point cd out, the full fruits of the Brest Iitovsk and Bucharest treaties ana will Tot allow Germany the slightes hope of an abandonment of hostili-
 
 terized Germany throughout the cn- : tire war would show to it's best ed vantage were an armistice allowel, . was said. l.-aAu President Wilson's Vie.e. II It was less than two weeks az. when President Wilson restated the . ilas of the war--an5 his words have : been approved by all the allied ooun !. tries-and declared we could nc- , come to terms with Germany Of Aus.
 ria. In view of this, some officials here say the action of Prince Maxi ; milan is more than presumptious. , We h:ve stated our peace terms more than once. It is up to Germany to accept them at their face value, : without asking for further explana- , lions, it was said.
 . We are all agreed said the , president in his New York address, that there can be no peace obtained | by any kind of bargain or compro- mise with the governments of the central empires, because we have ! dealt with them already and have seen them deal with other govern ments that were parties to this strug: gle, at Brest-Litovsk and Buch -cest They have convinced us that they l are without honor and no not intend justice. They observe no covenants, accept no principle but force and their own interests We cannot come to terms with them. They have made it impossible. The German people must by this time be fully aware that We cannot accept the word of those who forced this. war upon us. We do not think the same thoughts : or speak the same language of agree 'ert."
 This portion of the presidents speech, officials say, closed the door to the German proposal.