WILSON

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 125, 13 February 1918, Page 5

WILSON

ENEMY'S PEACE SPEECHES DISSECTED TEEMS OF SETTLEMENT WITH THE ENEMY A very full report of President Wilson's address to Congress on the subject of the recent speeches by Count von Hertling and Count taenrin in regard to the basis of the peace negotiations appears in the war dispatches to-day. The President, after appreciating the fact that these exchanges of views are being, uttered to tho ' audience of tho world, proceeds to dissect the speeches of the enemy's political leaders. Ho applauds the apparent readiness of Count Czernin to approach the question of peace negotiations in nn open and'equitable spirit, and suggests that hut for the entanglement of her alliances Austria would readily como to the peace table in that frame of mind. Turning to Von Hertling, he exposes with unmeasured scorn and the clean cutting of the surgeon's ecalpel the equivocation and mailed fist demands of the German Chancellor, whose proposals he rejects without hesitation. The President lays it down as an article of the peace the world is striving for—and will fight till such is secured—that the terms of settlement is no affair of any particular nation or group of nations, but the world's. The Bolshevik Government in Eussia is reported to have signed a peace agreement with the Central Empires on the basis of no reparations and no indemnities. It is further reported that the demobilisation of the Russian armies has been ordered.