The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1918-10-07
NOT PEACE BUT
TR|CKERY, SAYS
ALLIED PRESS
Germany's Method Of APP
preaching Peace, That Of
Person Trying to Strike
Bargain, is Charge.

LONDON, Oct. 7.-Distrust of Ger
many's intentions and skeptisism as to
the results of peace overtures of the
Central powers are reflected in com
ments made on the peace proposals
by the newspapers here.
The Mail will have nothing to do
with Germanys offer, which it says
means not peace, but trickery."
'fIn Prince Maximilian's speech
continued the newspaper, there is not
a word of repentance for crimes Ger
many has committed. He offers pro
posals which are less than the con.
ditions that will be imposed by the
allies as preliminaries to any discus.
sion at all.
I'VE did not allow Bulgaria to tell
had to do. We intend to act precisely
in the same way with Germany and
Austria. ~
Not a Bargain Peace.
"If the German people wish to know
what guarantees President Wilson and
the allies require. they may be EN-
bodied in two words, unconditional
surrender The Germans must leave
the territories they have occupied, re-
store the proeprty they have stolen,
pay for all the damage they have done
and surrender for trial by the allies
the great criminals of the war"
The Mail says there are about 500
of thees. beginning with the emperor.
1t also declares that Germany will in
no circumstances be given back her
colonies.
This method OF approaching peace
is the method Of people rying to
strike bargain, and the peace that
is coming is not going to be bargain
peace" says the Telegraph.
The newspaper sees marked
change in Germany's attitude as to GER
tain matters in dispute, but declares
the proposals as a whole to be impos-
sible. Even the most strongly paci-
fist element in this country has en-
dorsed the demand for the evacuation
of France and Belgium" it says, "as
a condition precedent to negotiations
and an armistice, while German arm
les are in France and Belgium, he is
asking for an impossibility. Negotia-
ting under such circumstances would
be an admission Of Germany's super
iority and concede the loss OF the war
by the nations who are aiming to
break German militarism. For this
reason we cannot believe the peace
offer to be seriously meant"
Must Be Restitution.
The newspaper repudiates the idea
of trying to reach an understanding as
to indemnity for Belgium 1t says:
at is a requirement of simple JUS
tice that Germany meet the account
which will be presented her for the
devastation and plundering Of Bel
gum There are no fundamental
changes in the German administration.
Only few men have been shifted and
the kaiser and those who rule him
are still the real rulers OF Germany"
Admitting that the latest German
peace move is the most important Of
any thus far made, and confident that
the allies will give the closest atten-
tion to it, the Chronicle says they will
find it insufficient
mo statesman who believes in the
Wilsonian policy of trying to end war
once and for all can be content with
any thing less than the final and une-
quivocal elimination Of the Potsdam
war IudhcTS. IL COutluucS ucIc
must be restitution. reparation and
guarantees and the criminals who
launched the war must be so unmis-
takably beaten that never afterward
doubt may be raised as to who won
it and who lost 1t.
Shows Military Necessity.
THE chancellor's promise that an
effort will be made to reach an un-
derstanding regarding an indemnity to
Belgium is not enough for our pur-
pose. 1t Is indispensable that in Bel
gums case no eQuivocation should re-
main. Germany must say outright: I
did wrong and l undertake as far as
possible to pay for It," Prince Maxi
milian's standpoint still seems essen
TALLY different from what is vital to
US. German has undergone neither
change Of outlook nor change of heart,
which alone can permit world peace
to be permanent"
Perhaps the most welcome feature
of Germany's hastily arranged move
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