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Show GERMAN PRESS IS PREPARING PUBLIC FOR NEXT MOVE People to Be Gradually Brought to Knowledge That High Command Has Failed to Conquer World and Peace Must Be Brought About and Justice and Other Good Things Proposed. I I AMSTERDAM, Oct. 11. German newspapers received here reveal a number of long articles apparently intended in-tended to prepare the public for a further fur-ther development of the peace move-Jment. move-Jment. ( Theodore Wolff's article in the Tageblatt takes the form of an Imagl-'nary Imagl-'nary appeal to President Wilson from some friend familiar In Europe, for I example Henry Morgenthau, former 'ambassador to Turkey, painting a picture pic-ture of Germany misled by the false . prophets but loving peace with Its (whole soul and having learned its Ics-' Ics-' son, now ready for a Wilsonlan peace. Professor Gravenltz in the Vossischo j Zeltung reviews' the events which 'gradually alienated the United States I from Germany whilo President Wilson I was trying to bring about peace, his I efforts, however, being nullified by the I German military party. "Today," the i professor concludes, "we have a government gov-ernment strong enough to assert its ', will for peace and It Is again the presi- I .Innf'c turn The Socialist Vorwaerts prints an article seeking to show that the German Ger-man people have confidence in President Presi-dent Wilson's Ideals and sense of justice. jus-tice. Comment on Peace Note. BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 11. Com-i Com-i menting on President Wilson's response re-sponse to the German peace note, the Strassburg Post says: "Tho ray of peace has not yet disappeared dis-appeared but It is enveloped in a thick fog. The only hope lies in the fact that our note was not entirely rejected. re-jected. Whatever our desire for peace may be, however, Ave cannot bo satisfied satis-fied with the conditions under which It can be realized." Prince Telegraphs Poland. AMSTERDAM, Thursday, Oct. 10 Prince Maximilian, the German imperial imper-ial chancellor, has telegraphed to the Polish regency council, now meeting at Warsaw, assurancp that he "is firmly resolved to shape tho relations between be-tween the German empire and the newly arisen kingdom of Poland in a spirit of justice and understanding of the vital interests on "both sides." Saxon Council Calls Landtag. COPENHAGEN, OcL 11. The working of tho new leaen in Germany is illustrated by a decree of the crown council of Saxony, summoning the landtag to convene on October 26. The decree directs .the minister of the Interior In-terior to draft a measure which shall substitute for the franchise now obtaining ob-taining for the landtag's second chamber cham-ber a franchise based on a broader foundation. Saxony has today a franchise sys- torn of four complete classifications. Prussia's system has three classifications. classifica-tions. Polish Regency Issues Manifesto. i AMSTERDAM, Thursday, Oct, 10 The Polish regency council at Warsaw War-saw has issued a manifesto in which, after referring to the peace principles as set forth by President Wilson which "will lead to the creation of an independent inde-pendent state, comprising all Polish districts," announces that the council; has decided : I First, to dissolve the state council. Second, to summon immediately a government composed of representatives representa-tives of all classes and political tendencies. ten-dencies. Third, to impose on this government the obligation in conjunction with representatives rep-resentatives of tho political groups to work out an electoral system for a diet based on broad and democratic principles princi-ples .and within a month at tho latest to lay this statute before the regency. imiucuiaieiy auerwarcis u wm sum - mon the diet and submit for its decis ion the question of the further establishment estab-lishment of a supreme state authority t in whoso hands the regency council in i conformity with its oath, has to place its authority. Emperor Charles to Issue Proclamation. BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 11. Emperor Em-peror Charles of Austria will soon issue is-sue a proclamation dealing with the ; right of the different nations of the! empire to decide their own futures, ac- I cording to Vienna advices to the ! Frankfort Zeitung. Tho Pesti Hurlu of Budapest claims : the right for Hungary to be represent-1 ed at the peace conference by a spec- j ial delegate and suggests Count Albert) Apponyi. j AMSTERDAM, Thursday, Oct. 30 ! j Count Apponyi, the opposition leader! in the Hungarian parliament, has ap- : proved of the peace proposals of the Central empires, according to a Frankfort Frank-fort dispatch to the Nieuwe Courant of Rotterdam. "It is not we who bring about the fall of the dual monarchy." he is Quot ed as saying. "It has collapsed of itself." it-self." Peace Moves to Continue. LONDON, Thursday, Oct. 10. According Ac-cording to a Copenhagen, dispatch to tho Central News, President Wilson's reply to the German peace proposals was published In the newspapers of Berlin last evening. The official North German Gazette says: "We have reason to believe that the peace step which has commenced will be continued." |