Show BERLINS GAME GETS NEW TURN Successful Retreat in Flanders Flan Flan- ders lers Gives Huns Hope of Better Terms Terris I I London Oct 21 Tho Tho view of or tIl the tho German reply reply- to President Wilson held b by military circles here Is that having having hav haY ing inS made In a more successful retirement from Flanders than the they expected to tobe tobe tobe be able alJe to make when the they first proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed an armistice the Germans now feel teel safer on definite new ne- lines and less eager to get back to their own frontiers Hence the they are inclined to let peace talk drift somewhat hoping thereby to secure better terms All reports concur that the retirement retirement retirement retire retire- ment In Flanders ers was carried out without without without with with- out serious losses S In in mon min on and material that it was waR well or organized and In no sense disorderly erb r The T operations owing to adverse weather con conditions condition have ha reached a sort of or a lull but there I is no reason to suppo suppose suppose sup sup- pose po e that this will be more than tempo tem tem- po ra ry The rime Dally Daily News after sug suggesting that Germany may only be bt playing for tOl time and keeping negotiations going in order to placate Austria Austila and withdraw her armies to a new defensive position says ys The duty duly of ot the allies Is to be armed armett for any an emergency enc and It Is urgently urgently ur ur- ur- ur gently necessary necessary to ol co co ordinate the political po political political po- po front It advises es tI time British government to back up President Wilsons Wilson's program sonic some points of which it thinks need elucidation atlon such Much as tr freedom e om of ot the seas But it Is convinced con that tho the fundamental fundamental fun fun- un- un basis of ot a. a Just peace Is th re The German reply means that the tho German armies are ale to march home with th their II munitions read ready to fight tight another da day says the Morning horning Post The Germans Ger Ger- mans brazenly suggest a a. neutral Inquiry In Inquiry Inquiry In- In into outrages Tho The allies anle can see ee this business through h without any neutral arbitration The They have ha suffered suffered suf suf- fer d long longer r experiences l s from th the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans than the thc United States and maybe may maybe maybe be permitted to say t-ay a th tile they arc re absolutely convinced that to talk to the German until he lie i is defeated and acid disarmed is absolutely U u. u useless l ss |