Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-01-13 | Page 1 | Peace or War to Finish to be Determined in next Two Weeks, Say Experts

Peace ea e or War to to Finish To Be Determined in n Next Two Weeks Say Experts Full Text of Wilson Message Expected to Stir Sen Sentiment irn nt A Among ong Liberals in Germany e I 1 1 By Robert J. J Bender Press St Staff rr Correspondent Jan 12 W WASHINGTON tI t The possibility of peace peace V negotiations before spring or the certainty of or an in indefinite indefinite in- in definite prolongation of the war will be definitely de decided ide l within the next fortnight according to the administration view as it was as given tho the United Press today The issue will be d determined te solely by the tile effect of or the peace aim statements upon tipon liberal i political cal leaders and upon the masses es of the people In Jn Germany U up ta today there has been nothing to indicate that the time full text ted or any great reat part of the text of the presidents president's presidents president's dents dent's message has been printed in Germany or Austria Apparently Apparent ly only those parts carts c calculated ta the people to a continuation of war have been allowed to reach the tIme public To date elate the German German German Ger Ger- man press comment has baa all been most litter hitter It is said that a littie little lit lit- I tie tle later the full text of the time message mes mes- sage will wiH reach the Socialist and I. I Liberal political lea leaders ers It may mayi i nr r Some effect t then r SE G w V The rhe resident the mill mill- lh j grip on Germany German is is- ti tigi- tigi h- h I ter now flow than thap ever before In Jn addition ad- ad the statement of alii allied eel Var alms aims has made German junkers and militarists willing to go to any extreme The Time allied program if it successful means obliteration II for Cor them and for their theories I Their only possible chance lies InI in holding Germany in the time war and I making a last desperate military drive in Jn he the west west meanwhile meanwhile I hoping for another allied blunder l According to the best informed authorities in the administration I the he allies now realize a a. bad lad blunder blunder blun blun- der was made and a year practically practically practically lost by failure to reply last winter to the German peace man man- It is believed that had the time allied allied terms been heen then themi stated and had they soaked in that the state stale of mind of the time German people people peo peo- pIe would have been heen much different different differ differ- ent now no It is also recognized that full fuU responsibility for Russia's defection lion tion is is due to this failure to state the time allied anted war aims earlier together to together together to- to gether with short sig sightedness of the allied council in Paris last summer which failed to sense or play up to the liberalism of Rus Rus- sia ala All AU Information reaching the government go is that internal conditions conditions conditions condi condi- in In Germany are ba bad The Time food situation is unquestionably serious selous The lh economic situation is more mor so s 's so It is said however that the time president has not as yet seen an any indication that the increased seri seri- I o 0 01 either of these conditions condi condl- is great enough h to offset the increased ed strength of the mill mili I That strength has been baen made greater by recent German military successes It has been intensified by de of of the it junkers and n-i n militarists now aw e lo U there there- j- j i t in tUat t. t erE be beno I can n no compromise I SEE SEE LITTLE ITTLE HELP t o date there is no evidence 1 c out t of Germany tp to tp indicate indicate indi indi- cate that the Llo Lloyd d George and Wilson assaults have added materially mate mate- to the time success of the the- allies allies' political 1 offensive Unless evidence evidence evi evi- evi- evi dence tience js is soon forthcoming it is expected that this offensive will settle down to a siege to be continued continued con con- tinned coincidentally with the military military mil nih- siege of Germany German The president is understood to tobe tobe to tole be le serious seriously concerned over the time wave wave of unjustified optimism which has bas swept across the country country coun country try following the tIme peace aims alnis statements by Llo Lloyd tI George and himself This optimism has at no notime notime notime time been entertained by those people closest to the president