Kaiser Offers Peace to the Allies.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 October 1918, Page 4

Kaiser Offers Peace to the Allies.

On Liberal Terms. Press Association Extraordinary. Received 11.30 a.m. NEW YORK, Oct 6. The Kaiser, in a proclamation to the Army and Navy has decided to offer peace to the Allies on liberal terms. GERMANY’S NEfvV PEACE OFFER* TERMS STILL IMPOSSIBLE Received 5.50 a.m. NEW YORK, October 5. Prince Max will announce in the Reichstag the restoration of Belgium, by an international fund, revision of the Brest Litovsk treaty by a general congress, freedom of of the seas, no indemnity, the French to retain Alsace in return for her colonies, partial and progressive disarmament. GERMANY AND AN ARMISTICE. LONDON October 5. The High Commissioner reports r London. sth. 9.10 p.m.— Unofficial. —'Prince Maximilian of Baden, the new Chancellor, offered an. armistice in the Reichstag to-day. ONLY AN EFFORT TO FOOL ALLIES. , WASHINGTON October 5. The State Department sees only another attempt to fool the Allies in the © German Chancellorship change. It is expected that Germany, under the guise of democratizing the country, is about to make a peace move intended to divide the Allies. NEW YORK October 5. The United Press’ Paris correspondent learns that Austria proposes an. armistice on land and sea, and in the air. to President Wilson through the Swedish Government, Austria is willing to accept President Wilson’s peace principles and to negotiate on the basis laid down in his speeches of January, February and September AMSTERDAM Oct. 5. ■ Newspapers anticipate an immediate new Austro-Hunga-rian peace move. ■ vlt is ’definitely anntounCed that Prince Max has been appointed Chancellor; ,He will outline his policy in the Reichstag to-day. \ THE KAISER’S PEACE OFFER.

The news that the Kaiser is about to make a peace offer to the Allies will come as no surprise to thoughtful students of events. Since the initiative passed to the Allies and the German hordes are in 'full retreat, added to the defection of Bulgaria, it has become necessary for Germany to endeavour to arrange a peace while she has territory in the West to use as a pawn to negotiate with. The telegram above, stating that Prince Max of Baden, tbe new Chancellor, will announce the terms on which peace will be offered in the Reichstag, must be read in conjunction with the Kaiser’s proclamation to his army and navy,. The new Chancellor makes no reference to restoration in Russia, no recognition of the Slavic races' demand: fer nationhood; the exchange of Alsace for French colonies is unthinkable. President Wilson has stated repeatedly there will be no negotiation with the German Military Party, and that peace, when it does come,, must make the world safe for democracy. In his Mount Vernon speech, on July 4, 1918, President Wilson said: “There can he but one issue. The settlement must be final; no half-way decision would be tolerable; no halfway decision is conceivable.” Mr. Robert Lansing, Secretary of State for United States, oh June sth of this year said: “Let us understand that a Prussian-made peace would not he the end: that it would only postpone thefinal struggle. Now that this war has come upon us we must carry It through to a decision. We must not transmit to future generations the germs of Militarism. . . To listen to proposals for a Prussian peace, to compromise v\ith the butchers of individuals and nations so that they would by agreement gain a benefit from their crimes, would be to compound a felony, which this Republic would never do.” In the face of these' recent and emphatic opinions it is mere heating of the air for the Kaiser to “offer” peace terms. It is for fheAllies to offer and he to acccept, PEACE MOVE BY TURKEY. LONNDON, Oct. 5. There ane 'renewed reports that Turkey is seeking to get into toueb with the Entente Governments.