The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-09-13
ANOTHER Gun
IN HUN PEACE
OFFENSIVE FIRED
German Vice Chancellor Says
Europe Is Bleeding to Death,

AMSTERDAM Thursday sept L..
- he posVoncment OF peace prospects
and the Likelihood OF filth war
winter weigh equally on all Lelliger-
cntS and mot onh un Germany alone,
m the opu'oD vi Frederick Won Pay
g. the lm.pIll N.r chancellor II
Germany pfr..rd IN d speech at
Stuttylrl
Our tate dcbt,' the ice chan
cellor Ald are everywhere reaching
ianla't. heights and everywhere we
struggle against the Entertainments on
our personal liberty. All Of the
bellgerents Of Europe must admit, II
They are not blind that the longer the
European people laccratc each other
the more certainly will the historical
and paramount position OF weakened
and Impoverished Europe be lost in
favor oi ,lcyertr and more calculating
peoples
U-boat Weakness Admitted.
Herr yn Payer reminded hls hear.
ers that after four years. the war
still va, being waged almost entirely
on cipmy territory lie admitted that
the U-bost war had not worked as
quickly and surely as had been hoped
'Sie added that ii was useless 10 dis
pute whose wa, the fault The enemy,
he said, was still unable to eompen.
safe their losses by new construction
and declared that the robbery OF neu-
fral ships almost without parallel by
the entente could not he repeated
The more troops the United States
SEND the greater will he the need OF
seg for reintorcements OF mum
tions and provisions Herr Won Payer
said. The filling up Of the enemy
army by Americans. therefore, bears
IN itself its limitations"
English Loss Predicted.
He argued that the loss OF the shin
ping would become fatal 10 Great
Britain after the war, because il would
lose shipping superiority to the United
States and the hope OF compensatinV
themselves from the German fleet
which stli has 10 be conquered. will
surely be adequate comfort only for
the very imaginative Britishers"
Contending that technique and in.
yentiye genus which ALREADY had
helped the Germans over heavy Oh
staeles, would still help them. Herr
von Payer said We lack cotton and
pills our enemies lack coal Food
!. scarce here and there hut already
things probably have turned in orr
favor In the east the world is again
open 70 US for a food supply while
our enemies supplies OF ioodstufi,
and raw materials give precedence to
the. fronts calls for Americas armies
and 'their provisioning
Keep Fight Away from Home.
The speaker said that the Germans
have only TO see that the war con.
tlnues 20 be waRed in foreign coun-
ny; that the, Germans are fighting
,f their lives and their homes and
that the enemies only hope !, that the
Germans might collapse <hwardly
sooner than they lie asserted that
enemy attempts to SOW discord wtTo
mavailing and that the Germans
were strong enough to reach a de-
clsion in our differences OF opinion
regarding economic power and politi-
cal rights, even down 10 IN, food
question"
No Ordinary Peace.
Herr Won Payer considered that the
present terrible struggle would not
end with a peace OF the customary
character. A mere glance al the state
OF complete exhaustion OF the world
excludes such a possibility, he said.
In former peace negotiations" 'he
said, the middle and the lower classes.
when Il came to the council table.
fell quietly into the background. This
now is over and the government will
conclude the coming peace treaties in
close harmony with the entire people
The main thing for them In peace
70 no, the acquisition Of land, treasure
aad Elosyi the aim nowadays, 4