AMERICA'S PEACE NOTE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2959, 23 December 1916, Page 9

AMERICA'S PEACE NOTE

' : - ' - ; . ■ ... . ,-r SURPRISE PACKET RESENTED IN BRITAIN f PRESIDte'S HAM FOR€ED PRO-GERMAN MANOEUVRE - ; GREECE AM) THE ALLIES: FURTHER DEMANDS PENDING :The sensation of the Hour is the American Peace Note, of which' .V Hho-full-text is published' to-day. Taking as it does; a markedly ' ' German view of the issues at stake, it has provoked a storm of ,hos'tilo comment in England and the newspapers address some plain '... a'warnings, to President Wilson. T>he. Note is freely denounced as- a ■ _ ■ pro-German manoeuvre, and the • real: -or .'affected inability ' of - the ' ■ President to perceive the actual merits of the war is made the subject of stinging- reproaches. In their early .rendering some comments upoiithe Note made'by Mr. Lansing included. a statement . tliat.America was on the verge.of war,lbut. he'.KasJjiastened-to' ex- . J... plain,tliat '-America' has intent ion ' of. departing from, neutrality at any-time. . ' President. Wjlson h "as also proffered an explanation; ;. , / ' ■'■•that he is "merely taking soundings; ,,: The Allies are reported .to ' 'be presenting another drastice Note to Greece, but the actual posi- : ' tion otyaining in that country is somewhat obscure.