Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-14
GERMANS DREAD
DEFEATS STIGMA
Bow Unbeaten Heads for
Righteousness Sake
Says Berlin Paper
STRETCH WILSON BASIS
Trying to Make Principles
Elastic Enough to Save
Berlin's Power
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The Hague. oct. H.
The attitude adopted by the German
press IL that IL is determined to avoid
having It ever said that the Germans
were really beaten. The Berllner Zetune
am Mittag says:
The conciliatlon Of which the German
Government has given evidence in send
ing its proposal to President Wilson IL
founded on decision for a righteous
peace. We have not complied with the
wish for power of our opponents and we
don't want an imperialistic peace. We
bow our still undefeated heads for right
| eousness sake.
prince Max Of Baden has assumed
| in his peace Offer that all will he inspired
with the same honest intentions. He has
also assumed that Wilson himself Is un-
doubt edly honest. Therefore we have
chosen him as mediator. 1t is not prob
able that Wilson's willingness to make
peace will meet with emphatic oppo-
sition from other statesmen. and that
Clemenceau or Orlando will smother the
little hope for peace which has just been
born"
All lne papers lay Ihl ltlNuldI SbItNS
on the fact that the military command
is discussing the situation with the min
listers and also that peace negotiations
on wilson's fourteen points will not he
| a dictated peace. and that Germans need
not be humiliated by It, Furthermore.
| II is asserted that an armistice, could be
made only on condition that the Allies
do not touch precious German soil. so
| that this fact can go down to history.
| They insist that the German front has
never been broken and that the Germans
| have never been defeated. and That the
whole world had to make peace. Ger
many. II is get forth, VIII give up her
| military supremacy as contribution
| toward the worlds desire for peace.
| The Cologne Gazette has refused to re-
tract its much criticized statement: "lf
| the Allies refuse our peace offer. we
| shall have to return to our militarism.
| II is nothing 10 he ashamed of, the paper
| saws The assumption I'm Germany Il
that Wilson and the Allies have begun
| to talk and that Germany must put forth
| every effort to make them go on talking
The press IL making Wilson's basis
more and more elastic all the time.
Note without Hatred
| The trend Is obvious from statements
L
llay stress on the question of evacua-
tion. The Neue Freie Presse says:
THE note from Wilson Is of no small
Importance for peace. 1t Is void OF
that hatred which might insult, even
by it's style. The Entente wishes peace
by compulsion and this is almost avoid.
ed. The note does not speak of peace
by way of punishment"
The Arbeiter Zeitung says:
we have noticed that the conditions
regarding the restoration of Alsace-Lor-
raine, as well as the conditions as tc
the Polish question, leave a scope &c
discussions. The points in question are
for Wilson principles only"
The paper remarks that the peace Of
fer of the Central Powers was steT
which had been thoroughly planned and
that the turning point has come in his
tory. Regarding the question of evacu
alton. the papers says that this is q
difficult problem for the German Gov
ernment to solve, as well as for Austria
| Hungary.