AMERICA'S PEACE TERMS

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 11, 12 January 1918, Page 5

AMERICA'S PEACE TERMS

AROUSES TEUTON ANGER. SWELLED HEAD COMMENT. ONCE MORE TO THE HAZARD. (Received 9 a-m.) AMSTERDAM, January 1L Mr Wilson's message was either mutilated or suppressed in many of the German newspapers. The "Cologne Volkß Zeitung*' says: "In the interests of our readers we do not give the full report of that bloated individual, whose message contains impertinent insinuations which possess not the slightest value- The speech shows Mr Wilson posing as a world judge, to whose decisions every living creature is supposed to bow."

The entire German comment indicates that the Central Powers axe suffering from swelled head, the greater because of the prospects of separate peace with Russia. The High Command is determined to make one more appeal to the God of Battles, believing they will succeed. But in the event of failure the conditions of the Central Powers will be not much worse than they axe now.— (A and N.Z. Cable) AMSTERDAM, January 11. The German Press unanimously condemns Mr Wilson's speech. The "'North German Gazette" says: "Mr Wilson's 14 points are not a programme of world peace, but a provocation to endless wars." The "Taglische Rundschau - ' reproaches Mr Wilson with fanning the flames of Germany's internal differences upon which he bases hopes of an early peace. The "Vossißche Zeitung" says the speech is nothing but a well-sounding appendix to Mr Lloyd George's speech. PARIS, January 11. M Renaudel (Socialist leader) states that Mr Wilson's message makes real those problems which politicians have regarded as dreams.— (A. and N.Z.) EQUAL TRADE TREATMENT. WASHINGTON, January 11. It is authoritatively learned that Mr Wilson's reference to Free Trade in his speech vvas not intended as the desire to impose the Free Trade doctrine, but to advocate equal treatment for all nations. (A. and N.Z. Cable)