The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-23
FRENCH CALL NOTE
BARBARIANS' RUSE
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sidered unless II gives the Allies at once
exactly the same guarantees as a COM
plete victory
The Temps says: Now more than
ever the decision must be with the mill
tary and naval chiefs OF our alliance.
To make the French public believe that
Germany yields and to insinuate that
peace Ia coming along the pathway of
least effort Is an outrage to truth and
an Ill service to the country. There Is
only one way to spare French blood md
that is to refuse the enemy until he
capltulates. A respite in the fighting
would give Ludendorff time in which
to recover"
The Temps points out that the German
note Contains no word of apology for
crimes committed. The note. II says,
is composed of two parts. One part.
which Is short, carries the need of the
General STAFF for a respite from fight
ing. The other, which is verbose, an
swers the need Of the German Govern
ment for sustaining hope in Germany.
In regard to the German demand that
arrangements for an armistice should
be according to the power on both sides
of the field the Temps wonders what
Gen. Hoffman, would have said about
that before the Brest-Litovsk negotia-
ton.
What Is the good" it adds. of tell
Ing us the German regime has been
radically transformed when the Reich
stag has not deliberated on any of the
three replies TO President Wilson. To
say II is dark at midday deceives no.
body"
The Figaro says that the men who
combined to write the reply to President
Wilson have translated the anguish,
aud nnwarleaa nf the
people in whose name they pretend to
speak"
The German note Is typical docu-
ment." says the Mdtin. In II are ex-
pressed the sentiments OF barbarous
people who failed in a foray. There is
not a word in the note which reveals
that stoical strength OF which France
and other nations have so often given
proof in misfortune. Nevertheless by n
remnant of that lying trickery innate In
the Teuton, our adversary seeks still TO
deceive himcelf by lulling himself against
all evidence and hopes by one doesn't
deluding Wilson by sophisms and equivo-
cations"
Really an AvOwal of Defeat.
The Journal says the note seeks TO
divide the Allies and seeks also to draw
from President Wilson a formal decla-
ration that nothing will be asked con-
trary TO the honor of the German people.
but what an avowal Of defeat it Is ~
The Germans are hoping bv their dis
cussions of an armistice to substitute
Gen. Pershing for Marshal Foch as the
military leader who will state the terms.
the Petit Journal says. This newspaper
adds that II is sufficient to point out
that hao Wv,
partisan OF unified command. 1t re-
marks that only the supreme commander
has the right to lay down the conditions
OF an armistice.
The announced German concessions
respecting submarine warfare are
merely pretence. the Petit Journal con-
tlnues, inasmuch as the submarine cam
paign is a definite failure, particularly
In view OF the loss OF Ostend and Zee
brugge.
Col. de Thomasson, in the PETIT Jour
nal, says: THE note IL proof that the
German High Command considers the
situation OF its armies most grave, bu,
not yet desperate"
THE German Government Is again
trying to bubble" says PHomme Libre
still. while humiiiating itself. 1t does
not admit its defeat. but one feels It Is
at the end of It's resistance"
+ Marcel Cachin, writing In Humdnite
says: ION every point the German
Government clearly shows an effort a,
Cancellation. Good sense and reason die
tate that we do not persist in talking OF
traps and tricks. We said a few days
ago that the conversations begun or
October would be continued We may
observe that a new step toward jus'
peace has been made this day"