AMERICAN NEWSPAPER COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume xciv, Issue 73, 24 September 1917, Page 7

AMERICAN NEWSPAPER COMMENTS

''THE DEVIL QUOTING HOLY WRIT V

ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received September 24, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, 23rd September. The New York Sun satirises the German reply, and re-writes it "as WilHelm would if deprived of his ability for lying." I ,The New York World says that the United States has already 'answered the reply by publishing the details of the German plots. The replies of the Central Powers do not change the situation. The New York Tribune says,: "The devil quotes Holy Writ when it suits his purpose. The Kaiser cynically misjudges the capacity of the civilised world for righteous indignation." The New York Herald replies : "Scraps of paper are valueless to anyone but a Junkerman. A Note of unconditional surrender must come."- The New York Tribune's Washington correspondent says there will be no further discussion of peace unless it is forced by a fresh appeal from the Pope. Officials comment on the apparent sincerity of the Austrian reply. The New York World's Stockholm correspondent says' that Maximilian Harden, in a speech in Berlin, taid he was convinced that peace-can be had this year if Germany declares she will not subjugate Belgium in any form. , The New York Herald states- that there is still a directing genius in the German propaganda in the United States, with unlimited funds.