Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-10 | Page 1 | Wilson Pleases Army Officials

U PLEASES llflCIS President Confers With General March on Late Developments. WASHINGTON, Oct. 0. With the German Ger-man peace offensive met and halted unless un-less tire enemy actually is ready to sue lor pace on American a nd allied terms. 1 President Wilson today turned his attention atten-tion to the battlefields where the once conquering Teutonic armies are being driven back io their own soil. He walked over r.o Secretary Lansing's office at the state department and sent for General March, who appeared with a huge military mili-tary map of the west front. Th.e conference lasted only the few-minutes few-minutes i eci ui red for the chief of staff to show the. present battle lines and point to the advances of the victorious American, Ameri-can, British aDd French armies which are making inev i table a German retreat on a great scale. M ititary men are vastly pleased over the president's refusal even io discuss an armistice w hile German soldiers remain re-main on inv aded toil anyw here. The president is known to be ready to ad without delay when the German chancellor lias answered t'ne pointed questions asked in bus note. If these answer-; snow, as most observers ob-servers here hc.iev e they will, that the 'Kaiser is ict yet ready to surrender and teat the pea c proposal merely is another im-idious diplomatic mo e. the president will he ready to tcl! Germany and tiie wor:d why it is necessarv tor Genera! Foeh to cniplct e his task.