Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-27 | Page 4 | Germans may Make Peace Proposal

GERMANS 11 MAKE PEACE PROPOSAL Vorwaerts Foreshadows Probable Declaration by Chancellor Thursday. AMSTERDAM. March .2fi, yia Lcti'lon. A M, p. m. (British Admiralty, pr Wire- 1--5S Press. ) - The Socialist now spa per Vnrwartfl of Berlin foreshailxv-K a proh-,il-1ft dc-clarar jon nv Dr. vnn Bethmann-H Bethmann-H oil wee, the Imperial rhanllor, on Thursday ne-xt, plmllar tn that of his pear proposn I of Deremhr la 51. "!,t us tpil Rus5ia," says Vorwaerts, "that she can have pearp. If Russia con-i.lniics con-i.lniics 10 remain our enmy she will do .so for all time. We hall not he flphtin? against tsarlsm, but against an aKiame u ilpmorrarlc peoples which wis hey to hienk rmany, the last bastion standing or reaction." COPENFIAr.nx. yta Lon-Jon. Marr-h 2'"'. 7 "si p. m. - --The Riuih-al Sih mIis l o:ch n -'.-.-it'ori In Of-many, uliirh. after l;a iii b';c:i aad out of tne regular t-ovjidlisl ranks, now is forming a new party, has ipsued a programme as a reichstag resolution. reso-lution. The programme demands, among other things, a ppeedy peace and no annexations an-nexations by any belligerent. Other planks demand the assent of the relchstag to al treaties of alliance and of declarations of war or peace : the responsibility re-sponsibility of the chancellor to the relchstag-, by which he may be dlsmiseei, and imperial legislation introducing universal uni-versal suffrage in all the federal states. The influence of the new party, thouerh is considerable among the working ciasses in a few of the large cities, is absolutely nil with the government, and its demands on parliament are not apt to accelerate peace by a day. The old Socialist organization, on the other hand, is "patriotic" and cannot be expected, under the leadership of Philip Schelde-mann, Schelde-mann, to wavr In Us support of the government a. long as the attitude of the entente allies toward peace negotiation? remains unchanged.