El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-05-18
BEWARE A GERMAN PEACE OFFER;I
DANGEROUS AS POISON

THERE Indications that Germany may put for
ward another peace tsmptaton-one vastly more
aur1g than any Of the feeers heretofore thrown out
to the entente allies
The German offensive has been failure up to now,
in the larger sense At the cost of hundreds Of thousands
Of Hvss-dlled wounded and taken prisoner and by
unheaTd Of expenditure Of notwithstanding has won
score or heaps ruins which still bear the names
Of and square miles Of shell tortured land But
the British army has not been destroyed has the
Chiefly, the Germans have failed their main purpose
ceave their way through TO Dunrk and Calais They
hoped to capture the channel ports cutting off the English
channel from the use Of the British forces and placing the
allies thus at enormous disadvantage BY the loss OF
ther chief debarkation and supply bases They believed
Britain then would be easily induced to abandon the war
and that France would have TO give in under the crushing
weight The German plan put Britain and France
cut Of action before the United States could get great
army into the war.
None Of these main OF minor objects has been accom-
pshed Meanwhile the reserves of the enemy have been
sadly depleted and be Is at the time so far COM
mtted that for him there cut three options Either
be must 60 ahead with his offensive with very slight
chance Of success be must abandon the offensive and dig
the defensive, which would be confession failure
dshearenng to the Germans at home who the back
bone Of the The third alternative peace offer
enc were made and the allies were to accept it. the day
would be saved for Germany BUT NOT FOR THE
WORLD. OUR DANGER WOULD BE GREATER THAN
EVER BEFORE. We WOULD BE COMPELLED FEVER
ISHLY TO ARM OURSELVES AGAINST THE TERRIBLE
DAY FOR WHICH GERMANY IMMEDIATELY WOULD
PREPARE.
Just how seductive could Germany afford to make
President A. Lowell Of Harvard suggests the
ashe Germany nay offer to retire from Belgium and
france and 70 contribute toward paying for the
age suffered (hus satisfying Belgium and also satisfying
france ana bn as 10 that matte5 TO oede Asace and
Lorraine leave their future be settled BY plebseite
(oesson Of AsaeeLoraine would satisfy Frances chief
var ablonl 70 give the Irentlno and Trieste 70 Italy
(his is ltalys ambiton), to promise kind Of
autonomy TO the various in central and eastern
Europe TO satisfy the United States) and to agree that
sh OF he ner-
President Lowell might have added an allursnent for
Great Britain the pr0ered cessi0n Of the African provinces
and for all the allies the Observation-Disclosures of Palestine
At first glance such offer would almost like
TPGPY IF TFF LiTTFS GcCEPTFD IT cFPBTET1y
WOULD HAVE WON THE WAR
The foregoing formula contains nothing about Russia
Germany would spulae that the Brest-LitoVsk peace
treaty be allowed to stand unchanged GERMANY'S VIC
TORY WOULD LIE IN HAVING SECURED DONNA
TON OVER WHAT IS GEOGRAPHICALLY THE
GREATEST NATION IN THE WORLD nation Of some
2000oe0oO population This domination nov Is complete
to part Of Russia and incomplete the rest If the
LtoVsk peace treaty allowed to stand, Germany
With the coming Of general peace would be free to devote
auhampeTed efforts to the Germanization Of all Russia
Germans the principal land owners, manufacturers
bankers and business men Of western Russia Central
Russia contains thousands Of liberated German prisoners
Of who have settled down to peace pursuits and show
no desire 70 return 20 Germany south Russia OF the
Ukraine and the Cmea have been virtually taken over
b. Germany German prisoners IN large numbers are
scattered through Siberia Advces reaching the allies
that upward of 10000 Germans at Irzutsk alone.
Consider German efficiency" the one hand and Sav
nefency the other and consider what Russia would
have become within IS years the to end
Russia might 90 under variety Of 0stensbly It
might be parceed up into groups Of states each ndepen6
ent paper In reality Russia would be part Of Germany
and the German empire would be the greatest nation the
world in population and Germany would domi-
nate Europe and ASIA too France and Great Britain would
oe puny n comparison Great brlEans weakness would
lie IN her scattered possessions while @AGermany' would
lie closs-nit and compact The United States would be
no match Tor Germany as BY this conquest OF Russia Ger
many would be stronger than in resources would
outuumber IN population three TO one.
Moreover, there would be the Tasssl state Of Austria
Hungary Something Of far reaching importance happened
IN Germany last week at the conference Of emperors
William and Charles and their ministers Official state
ments purposey vague referred to the outcome Of the
meeting strengthened alliance having do with mill
tary and economic affairs Il IS reported from unofficial
sources that 20 year alliance effected terms which
give Germany virtual control Austria Hungary One