Show I Germany Will Try Try I Series of Bargains I Before Surrender I By J. J W W. W T. T Mason Famous Famous' American Military Authority NEW EW EW YORK Sept 9 Germanys Germany's Germany s Doming oming peace peace offensive e her last lOpe o or pr preventing a knockout blow on the field of oC battle battle will b be a a bid to share the world between Germany and the the- allies allies- for mutual material gain Germany will try to persuade the allies to abandon abandon- their souls and join the German hunt for plunder wherever it can be found To accomplish this purpose fully however the Germans must retire leUre with the th allies into those secret recesses where cynical diplomats in all the past epochs of or the world have played with peoples as pawns 1 German Germanys Germany's peace offensive therefore will begin b bv by suggesting a con- con ft ence among the powers I arguments will will- willbe be advanced about the necessity for confidential exchanges It will be emphasized with I engaging frankness that big questions can be settled much easily by afew afew a afew few men round a table than b by a mass meeting attended by the world at large This is what diplomats call a negotiated peace It will be declined by bythe bythe bythe the allies because a a. negotiated peace means Sat at best a drawn battle There Therean can can an be no draw with Germany The only waY to s 's save ve the world from a a. continuation of ot the Prussian menace will be to refuse Germany the right to negotiate as an equal and to compel the kaiser io to plead for mercy It will I Ithen then be for the dez democratic nations to determine how much mercy Germany many shall shall have have and in what form it shall be granted When the kaiser is convinced he cannot entice the allies into a secret peace conference he he will announce the terms he Ja js willing to accept bargaining with them and waiting for responsive offers like an ancient money lender of Lombardy His progressive offers may may be expected to take some some- such progressive form as the following t THE TERMS I d 2 1 f berini GerMany Y i to evacuate te and d France France Jf fit the allies allies allies' will recognize the Russian and the Rumanian peace treaties The allies to erect no economic barriers against German traders and to give to Germany her old colonies or new ones In exchange No Indemnities to be collected by any anyone one 2 2 Germany to Indemnify Belgium besides besides be be- sides restoring Belgium's Independence and evacuating France Germanys Germany's colonies col col- I onles onies to be a subject for future with the allies The allies to recognize nize flize the Russian and Rumanian peace I treaties 3 3 In addition to terms No 2 Germany will consent to a referendum In Alsace Alsace- j Lorraine for the self self determination of I 1 those provinces or will agree to restore i ithem them outright to Fran France e. e I 4 4 In addition to terms No 3 Germany I will offer to compel Russia to repay her repudiated war loans to the allies and the repudiated debt of a billion dollars Russia owes French Investors In Russian Indus Industrial enterprises 5 5 In addition to the western terms Serbia to be restored by the evacuation of the territory held heid by the Bulgarians who have hoped for permanent occupation occupation tion cf Serbian Macedonia 6 6 The Dardanelles to be Internationalized International International- and the provinces In Turkey cur conquered CUrl con by the allies to be freed from the control of the sultan 7 7 The Rumanian peace tre treaty ty to be canceled d 1 iI v O 8 S. S dT T Tie The e Russian p peace ace t treaty e to be e cance can ce e d I The order of ot peace leace olf offers rs' rs 15 6 C 7 i those countries change during the pr pi what he can of ot his plunder Bt But t be acceptable to the democratic nation Thereafter Germany will be left Teft continue to cling to their medieval f C terms can prevent the democratic p Germany economically If It Germany dem democratizes herself 1 t tI But there mu must mut t be no mere mui democracy has Its Jan Ian landmarks as Ma I the fall of the Bastille C democratic fellowship until she is able y 4 HE j AI lAc of oft f these ese oll recognition of Germanys Germany's Germ nys ny's victory Ger Ger- would many emerge from the war as the he I conqueror of Russia and the Near East with her economic future assured allured The 1 allies will therefore decline to consla consider I terms ss No 1 1 I 1 These terms will be refused because they would give Germany a victorious peace by bribing the allies with Belgium j and some of the German colonies to recognize recognize recognize rec rec- Germany as the the suzerain power In Russia and the Near East I Still the allies aille will have to refuse for forthe forthe I the German menace In the east will re reo main I This offer will be a desperate play t to to detach France from the allied cause and so attempt to force the other nations to recognize Germanys Germany's position as dictator of the eastern horizon France of course I will wiil refuse The kaiser will then be compelled com corn to add to his offers In the the- west reluctant re reo I curtailments of his eastern program pro pro- gram I After having resisted the blandishments In the west the allies will not consider this proposal a sufficient addition to jus i granting Germany control of Russia and the Near East I Germany would thus abandon her Pier dream of cre creating Ung a great colonial empire empire empire em em- I pire In Mesopotamia but would still cling I to her control of Russia Hence the al allies allies al- al lies will decline to stop the warTo war I ai-I To the abandonment of Mesopotamia Germany would add the dissolution of her I Balkan ambitions Russia however would continue In the kaisers kaiser's grip and the al allies al lies will consent to no terms with that I ending With I this s final acknowledgment o d e of de defeat defeat de- de I kf 1 fe feat of the kaiser the war can be safely f ended Germany will have no way to turn i ito to recuperate her exhausted military strength for a future attempt to make I herself master of the world Democracy's security will be assured ind nd 8 ma may be altered as conditions In ogress of or the kaisers kaiser's efforts to save save il II all the offers are in peace will not IS 8 to her ller fate Cate It If th the German lle people leople orm arm of ot government no written peace pea co of ot the world from ostracising he world will try to forget torget of ol democratic formulas True Truo gna Charta the Declaration of Inde- Inde ermany Jermany cannot be fully admitted to toto toto to match these insignia of the faith |