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Show NCETIS TO BARGAIN in m Hypocritical Wail Is the Way Washington Describes De-scribes Latent German Effort to Save Skin By Carl D. Croat United Pr... Staff Corr..pond.nt.' WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. Washington today regarded the latest Teutonic peace moves as attempts to barter for peace a peace to Germany's advantage advan-tage b.for Atniican-ftUi3 arm. can Tlalt retribution an tha loch irmlea. Inaamuch aa tha offer, contain no pro-pnaala pro-pnaala lor wlthdrawlna; troop, from III.4 territory, no pmioaala for a general gen-eral and complta laylnn down of artna. th.y are not acceptable. International authorltlea declare. . WILSON READY. That one or both of the hypocritical m.lla for peace 4oull be ready for prealdeatlal and at.L. department In-pectlnn In-pectlnn before night, appeHred likely. Tha government atood ready to aend. upon abort notice, tha reply of Preal-dwt Preal-dwt Wllaon. The propoual. are timed to befog the air at anoment when America la putting put-ting forth Ita mailmum effort with It. fourth Liberty loan and when American-allied fnrcea are amnahlng the ooche armlea bark along the weat front AGAINST PROPOSAL. But In ao far aa AmericM la concerned - there la a unity of feellnic aKHlriNt the propoaaia. lioth KukImmiI and rVance are likely now to mke a .tntement of war alma, mined t ITealtU'nt WI1-aon'a WI1-aon'a dealre along that line. Hrlnce Max. tlorman chancellor, tin. eked that I're.ldent Wllenn communicate communi-cate with the aJllea regarding the peace propoaaia. Tha pre.ldent may dl.cuea with them the eubjert of a re.mtement of war alma, making the allld purpoaea uie-mi.takably uie-mi.takably clear. In uny event, he will let Germany and Au.trla know that America a term, are plain and that no Inalacera peace offnra will awerve thla nation from Ita purpoaea. ABANDON CONQUESTS. N ' Pome authorltlea believed he miftht tell the Teuton that prare. negotiation, oould ba InVltuted If Uermany cleared her armlea out of the occupied territory alMolutely; If aha bIm laid down her arm. and gave the I'nlted Ktataa control con-trol over them: If, In other worria, aha made a complete military eurrendcr not a breathing apell armlattce. Thla would te comparnltle to the - terma given Bulgurla. Ittilgarla aur-rendered aur-rendered when .he accepted, but there are no algngthar tlernmnyi. ready to accept the peace of the loaer. On the contrary, authorltlea any thnt ahe la attempting to deceive the world by appearing ap-pearing to hava had a change of heart. ACTIONS MUST CONVINCE. Rut tha atata department haa aald privately on a number of occaatona, "action apeak louder than worda,'' referring re-ferring to tha fact that (lermany uttera peace terma whU ahe atlll matntulna a atrannle hold on parts of Rumania and Ruaal and while her armlea are still on the soli of France and ItelRlum. Official Washington can be aald to fa- vor military action without atint, until Germany Is forced to surrender until she Is ready to clear out of these occupied, oc-cupied, lands, and" until there la a real spokAsrmui representative of the Germany Ger-many people rather than of the kaiser. VICTORY CERTAIN. Army men point out that victory Is certainty next year. They any It would be the ret. test tragedy of all times were the allies now to wipe the slate claan after aacriflcin hundreds of thouaanda of Uvea. Quitting- now would leave Germany Intact and not I contrite. The old militarist rule would atlll be In force, and the world would hava no suarante that thla clique, headed by the Hohensollerna. would not attempt In tha next generation to Inflict Its gluttonous deMre for world domination npn lfwMw,lP,nnnw- |