The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
NO DELAY
IN WAR WORK
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h Wilson's.
ION these lines" declared the
4 News, 1--WE will go forward with 3
clear conscience and a firm purpose
Il We have laid down the lines OF
clean peace. We must stand by them
without yielding"
ct still rests with the enemy 10
turn from war to peace by ABANDON
Ing his war aims declared the Daily
4 Mail.
eve fear the only answer from
Berlin will be a cry of incredulous
rage" the Telegraph held. "Ihese
y war aims of Lloyd-George are terms
Of victory. Before the allies can &C
complish their end, they have yet 10
pass through the sternest months
and most severe trials OF the war.
1.-THE most important state docu-
ment since the war began" was the
verdict of the Times, ''in national
character and world wide appeal. AS
y domestic circumstan lend peculiar
force to its declarations, its full sig
nificance can only be judged in rela-
ton to the war in general.
ITO the attainment of this object
we are resolved to bend our united
will, our every resource and our
utmost endeayors."
"Its careful terms, in which the
aims of the league Of nations are
formulated, are among the most val
uable parts of this historic utter
ance," the Chronicle asserted. 1T
may fairly go out to the world as the
British empires message, having be-
hind it the will Of all classes"
Conference of Premiers.
PARIS, Jan An early confer
enee of, the allied premiers was semi
officially reported today as likely 10
be called very shortly.
Presumably conference will de-
eide the exact outline of joint re-
statement of allied war aims.
Socialists to Meet.
Y AMSTERDAM, Jan. What the
socialist organ Vorwaertz called the
most important meeting of socialists
since the start OF the war" was
called in Berlin today. 1t was COM
posed of the socialist members of
the reichstag and was specifically
assembled to discuss the Brest-Lit-
ovsk peace negotiations. Berlin dis
patches predicted the conference
would urge withdrawal by the Ger
mans of the terms held unacceptable
by Russia.
Protest Against Terms.
AMSTERDAM, Jan. Both ma
1ority and minority socialists of Ger
many are opposed to the imperial Ger
man governments deceit in the
terms of the peace offered Russia as
to "self determination of peoples" ac-
~ - .vaA
today from Berlin.
They quoted Philip Scheidemann,
majority socialist leader, and DR..
Haase. minority leader, as both pro-
testing against the terms.
I'VE social democrats" Scheide-
mann, declared in the reichstag on
Saturday, "repudiate ali intentions OF
conquest and stand by the unre-
stricted right of self determination of
peoples. We must have absolute
clearness on these subjects. The
declarations are made
Quate."
He asserted:
1.-THE reichstag must without am
biguity interpret the principle OF self
determination of all peoples-other-
wise an early, peace is impossible"
First German Comment.
AMSTERDAM, Jan. First Ger
man newspaper comment received
here today on Premier Lloyd Georges
speech held that the address showed
England maintaining her old imperial
lstic aims.
'Lloyd-George's declaration shows
q changed attitude toward the United
States" said the Koelnische Volks
zeitung, "but the old imperialistic
aims are wholly maintained.
The premier bellies his opening
declaration that he does not want the
destruction of Germany by stating
that he would take away Alsace-Lor-
raine from us and give Poland por-
tons Of east Prussia. Despite his
contrary assurance, he wants to rob
Austria-Hungary and Turkey"
German Advice to Trotsky.
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 7.--Indepen-
dent socialists in Germany have sent
a message to Bolsheviki Foreign
Minister Trotsky advising him not to
accept the German terms and to
avoid separate peace, according to
d ISpOlL lSSGlSSu ASlS
Public Peace Negotiations.
by J. w. T. Mason, Written for the
United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. Public peace
are now in progress be-
tween the allies and the central
powers. This is the inevitable con-
clusion from the open declarations
being made by the various bellger-
ent statesmen.
The negotiations are not following
the time-worn custom of handing
over the fates of nations to a few
secret plenipotentiaries who have
settled the outcome of previous wars
behind closed doors.
Instead of duplicating these pro.
ceedings of the past the people of
the warning nations are now being
publicly informed Of every move the
negotiations take. The negotiations
themselves, are simply these an.
nouncements of the hostile statesmen
spoken not principally to one an.
other, but to the millions Of people
of all nations who are doing the
fighting and the suffering.