Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-07
HUN PEACE OFFER
SPURNED IN LONDON
Newspapers Declare 1t Con-
tains No Repentance for
T.. Germany's Crimes.
CITE Mr.. WILSON'S VIEWS
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, October 7-Distrust Of
Germany's intentions and skepticism
as to the result of the peace over
lures Of the central powers are re-
flected in comments made on the
peace proposals by the newspapers
here.
The Mail will have nothing to do
with Germany's offer which. 1t says,
Means not peace, but trickery."
I'm Prince Maxmilian's speech"
the newspaper continues, there is
not a word of repentance for crimes
Germany has committed .. He
offers proposals which are less than
tho conditions that will be imposed
by the allies as preliminaries to any
discussion at all.
I'VE did not allow Bulgaria to tell
US what to do. We told her what she
had to do. We intend to act pre-
cisely in the same way with Ger
many and Austria.
IF the German people wish to know
what guarantees President Wilson
and the allies require they may be
embodied in two words, 'Uncondi-
tional surrender The Germans must
leave the territories they have oc-
cupied. restore the property they
nave stolen, pay for all the damage
they have done and surrender for
trial by the allies the great criminals
of the war"
The Mail says there are about 500
OF these. beginning with the en-
peror. 1t also declares that Germany
M - tar raS he ciN
back her colonies.
No Peace by Bargain.
This method of approaching peace
is the method of a people trying to
strike a bargain and the peace that
is coming is not going to be a bar
gain peace" says the Telegraph
The newspaper sees marked
change in Germany's attitude as to
certain matters in dispute. but de-
clareS the proposals as a whole to be
impossible. Even the most strongly
paclhst element in this country has
Endorsed the demand for the evacua-
tlon OF France and Belgium" it says,
as condition precedent to negotia-
ton. and Prince Macmillan knows
that in asking for negotiations ana
an armistice while German armies are
in Frauce and Belgium he is asking
for an imposSibility. Negotiating un-
der such circumstances would be an
admission of Gcrmany's superiority
and concede the loss of the war by
the nations who are aiming to break
German militarism. For this reason
we cannot believe the peace offer to
be seriously meant"
The newspaper repudiates the Idea
OF trying to reach an understanding
as to indemnity for Belgium. 1t saws:
III is a requirement of simple justice
that Germany meet the account which
boz
ton and plundering of Belgium. There
are no fundamental changes in the
German administration. Only a few
German administration. Only few men
have been shifted and the kaiser and
those who rule him are still the real
rulers of Germany"
Germany's Proposal insufficient.
Admitting that the latest German
peace move is the most important of
any thus far made and confident that
the allies will give the closest attention
to 1t, the Chronicle says they will find
1t insufficient.
NO statesman who believes in the
Wiisonian policy of trying to end war
once and for all can be content with
anything less than the final and I'M
equlVocai elimination of the Potsdam
war MAKERS it continues. There must
be restitution. repration and guarantees
and the criminals who launched the war
must be so Enthusiastically beaten that
never afterward doubt may be raised
as to who won it and who lost it. The
chancellor's promise that an effort will
be made to reach an UNDERSTANDING
regarding an indemnity to Belgium is
not enough for our purpose. 1t is in
dlspenSable that in Eelgium's case no
eQuivoCation should remain. Germany
must say outright: Il did wrong and /
undertake as far as possible to pay for
It.. Prince Maximiian's standpoint still
seems essentially different from what
Is vital TO us Germany has undergone
neither change of outlook nor change
OF heart, which alone can permit world
peace TO be permanent"
Only One Way for Kaiser.
Perhaps the most welcome feature
OF Germany's hastily arranged move
her military necessity" says the
ner military necessity, says the
Times.
After reviewing the chanceIlor's
speech the Times declares it to be
ambiguous and disingenious stuff
and asks: VIII Germany ever realize
there Is only one way for her. namely
by deeds and not words? 1t is far too
late to talk of a basis for peace neeo-
tiations. The determination of the
allied peoples is that the defeat of
those who made war shall be complete
and absolute. That task they have
to the very end and there will be no
peace until Germany has surrendered
without condition to terms which
leave her not merely without a will,
out without power to break it,"
Copy of Austria's Offer.
The Morning Post takes the view
that the German offer in nowise diff
fers from the Austrian offer. that the
new chancellor is as much the kais-
erS nominee as was his predecessor
and that he will be incontinently dis
missed when he has served his mas
ter's turn.
The newspaper says that Maximil-
ian's action is a result of conferences
and agreements between the pan
German and other parties in which,
as heretofore. the military dictator
ship has directed the course of at
fairs.
so much is clear" the Morning
Post adds. THE German government
is not altered. The peace note fails
TO fulfill the conditions postulated by
President Wilson. The intention Of
division among the allies and attract
the attention of the pacifists in the
allied countries. No proposal direct
ed to one among the allies can be en-
fertained."
Unconditional Surrender
Is Held Imperative in
Paris Papers Comment
PARIS, October 6.-Unconditional
surrender characterizes the general
comment in Paris on the demand for
peace sent by the central powers to
President Wilson. 1t is felt here that