Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-01-25 | Page 4 | No Advance in Peace Attained

NO ADVANCE IN PEACE ATTAINED Washington Officials See No Substantial Step Toward Ending World Conflict. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.Based on tho short cabled, outlines of tho German Ger-man and Austrian premiers to their respective parliaments, tho opinion Is expressed by officials hero that no substantial advance towards tho final peace sought by all belligerents has resulted from these declarations. It is true that expressions of Count Czer-nin, Czer-nin, the Austrian promlor, appear to be )!(.. nrv In tnnn tV.nn -.-m.- lous utterances from that quarter but boyond vaguo statements thta tho possibilities pos-sibilities of peace negotiations are contained in tho addresses of President Presi-dent Wilson and Premier Lloyd George there is no suggestion of surrender of any of the extreme contentions of the military elements in the central slates. The renunciation by Count Czernln, tho Austrian premier, of any claim against Russia for any indemnity 01 annexation, it is nouccu, aoes not extend ex-tend to the other nations. Considering that Germany has undertaken to dominate the Russian Baltic provinces and that the central powers already have recognized the independence of Ukraine, thus constituting a buffer state botween Russia and Austria, in largo part it is easily percoived that Austria is making-no special sacrifice in this renunciation. As for Poland, the declaration that the population would decide its own fate is rocclved 1 here with skepticism in the light ofl tho action already taken by tho, central cen-tral powers to set up a sham kingdom king-dom of Poland which in reality is nothing noth-ing more than a dependency of Austria Aus-tria and Germany.