The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-09-16

WAR TO CONTINUE WHILE DIS
CUSSION is HELD AT SOME
NEUTRAL MEETING PLACE.
APPEAL is LOOKED UPON AS
THAT OF A BEATEN MAN AND
INSPIRED BY THE GERMANS.
ANSWER OF UNITED STATES TO
BE IN TERMS OF PRESIDENTS
BALTIMORE SPEECH.
(By the Associated press.)


| AMSTERDAM, Sept. 15--In ex
tending an invitation to all the bel
| igerent Governments to enter into
| onnbinding discussion at some neu-
trat meeting place, the Austroddun-
| garian Government states that the
| object of the conference would be to
secure an exchange Of views which
IWould show whether those prere-
quisites exist which would make the
speedy Inauguration of peace negotia-
tons appear promising.
| The Austrian proposal, which is an.
nounced in an official communication
teiegraphed here from Vienna, sug-
gests that there be no interruption of
war and that the discussions would
go only so far as considered by the
participants to offer prospects of sue
cess
The proposal calls for all the pel-
iigerents to send delegates for a
confidential and unhinding discussion
on the basic principles for the con-
clusion of peace in a place in a neu-
trail country and at a near date that
would yet have to be agreed upon"
| The proposal says the conference
would be one of delegates who would
be charged to make known to one an
other the conception of their Govern
ments regarding those principles and
to receive analogous communications,
as we'll as to request and give frank
and candid explanations on all those
points which need to be precisely
Defined"
The Government announces that a
note embodying its suggestions had
| been addressed to the various belliger-
| ent powers and that the Holy See
had been apprised of the proposal in
a special note: The Governments of
the neutral states also had been
made acquainted with the proposal.
Our Reply Force to Utmost.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-Ger-
many's latest peace feeler, advanced
through Austria, it was officially stat
ed today, best finds it's answer in
President Wilson's Baltimore speech
delivered last April
Force, force to the utmost, force
without stint or limit, the righteous
and triumphant force which shall
make right the law of the world, and
cast every selfish dominion down in
the dust.
That was the Presidents answer
then, and it was reiterated today, it
Is his answer now. No one doubts that
it is the answer of all the triumphant
Allies.
While Austria's proposal reported
last night from Amsterdam, had not
reached Washington in official form
tonight, it is expected hourly through
some neutral-possibly Sweden and
1t is recognized the long4heralded
peace offensive upon which Germany
Is counting to arouse enough senti-
ment of peace among the people Of
the Allied countries to compel an end
OF the war on terms which substan-
TALLY would preserve the Prussian
conquest
The Allied leaders recognize it as
the cry Of Germany which knows
she is beaten and hopes by negotia-
ton to get the best terms possible
There will be no round,table con-
ference, no sounding-out process, such
as Germany proposes and which she
hopes will give opportunity probably to
deal with her enemies separately.
If any reply at all is made, it will
be after an exchange of views be-
tween the United States and the other
cobelligerents so that a reply for all
may be made in one. On every side
among American officials and Allied
diplomats it seems agreed that the
only ground on which Germany may
have a conference is the acceptance
of the principles laid down by Presi-
dent Wilson, and which have been
accepted by all the Allies as their
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