Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-09-24
AUSTRIAN PEACE PROPOSAL.
Only a Trick to Try to Dissatisfy
the People.

the People.
New York World.
I The peace offensive launched by
| CO Iriary through Austria-i! ungary
m:.Iks. in tn" opinion OF DR.. \. y. Da-
Wis change in the pcac" polly OF
| the German imperial government. DIR.
| Davis is the man who was for four
teen years dentist 10 Emperor Will
| liam of Germany and who" articles
revealing the workings OF the Imperial!
mind wcr" recently published IN the
World.
".tll previous German p"ac" r"o-
iOsals." he said Yesterday 10 Il Nori!
reporter. 'w"rc for the sole purpose of
holStcring up the spirit of the German
people. The primary purpose OF the
present peace offensive is also TO boil
stcr up the spirits Of the German poo
pie Sufficiently to carry them through
| tn" coming winter. There is. however.
- new element that was not contained
in previous efforts. This is the hope
that the Allies will be inclined to con-
slider the present proposal because of
its concessions.
"Thr Germans lost their only oppor-
tunity to make peace in Dccembcr,
1916. soon after the kaiser had made n
peace suggestion intended TO cncour-
age his own people and to demoralizc
the Allies President Wilson dispatched
his note suggesting that they get to-
gethcr and discuss possible terms of
peace. The answer Of the German
government was unrestricted subma-
rine warfare"
According to DR.. Davis. the kaiser at
the time of his first peace proposal in
1916 laughed at the prcdicament in
| which nc had placed the Allies. THE
kaiser himself and one of his chief ad-
viSers. Prince Won Plcss. told me at
| ;hr time" said DIR. Davis that they
knew the Allies would not accept their
proposals. We don't want them to
accept them they said. They are i'm
a nice mess trying to explain to their
people why they don't accept them
Foretold Last Offensive.
AT that time" continued DIR. Davis,
Germany still believed she could win
the war. Today she would be de-
| lighted If she could bring about peace
| by returning n portion of her gains.
| ON March II in speech at the st.
| Nicholas club in New York. predict
cd the big German offensive which
started March y. said then that
when that offensive failed, Germany
would bring forward peace PROPOSE
| ton which might be so fiattering that
without giving II due thought and con-
sideration. many people in the Allied
countries might be inclined toward ac-
| cepting it.
81 also said at that time that II
| would be- the most critical period of
the war when Germany launches Il
| sincere peace proposal.
However. 1t even appears to me to-
day" he added. that this peace pro-
posal also Is more or less insinccrc
when ! recall Il remark which the kai-
ser made to me. Wilson, he said.
will never have the opportunity TO sit
at the peace table, although that is
the reason why he pulled America into
the war"
If premature peace is granted to
Germany" said Dr. Davis. 'thc Cry in
Germany will he when the war is over:
Where would we have been IL it had
not been for our great army?"
Germany half defeated would give the
imperial government an excuse TO OK
claim to the people of Germany: If
YOU had given us two or three hundred
| thousand more troops at the beginning
of the war or if we had had larger
standing army. We might have reach
I'd Paris. The necessity Is plain, there
fore. of keeping up our great army
Must Humble Germany.
"'rhr only possible course can see"
continued DIR. Davis. is to give Ger
many such defeat that the people
themselves will know that they are
defeated so that they will learn that
II was their own leaders who got them
into their prrdicament and not the Al
lies. who. to quote the German press.
started the war TO dismcmber Germa-
ny: Now the people of Germany feel
that their army has been their protcc-
tion instead Of their ruination."
DR.. Davis said that he had predicted
| some time ago that if Germany receiv-
ed one big defeat she would disntc-
crate. she Is beginning to disinte-
CRATE now." he said. although natu-
rally she will become more powerful
as she approaches nearer to her own
borders and to her base of supplies"
Dr. Davis predicted that more peace
proposals would follow. that they
would he increasingly enticing until
there was the danger that the laboring
people OF England and America might
cry: What Is the use of fighting any
more? Look at what we are getting.
Look at the concession Germany is
willing to make"
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