PARTIAL IN CHARACTER.

Northern Advocate, 15 October 1918, Page 3

PARTIAL IN CHARACTER.

SOME CLAUSES DISCARDED

UPPER ALSACE EVACUATION WANTED. LONDON, Oct. 13. Germany declines some phases of Mr Wilson's proposals. Sir Douglas Haig, in an army order, warns officers and men against the false rumours circulating of peace being at hand, the evident object being to discourage .the troops and divert them from the great task of overthrowing their enemies. Sir Douglas Haig urges the troops to realise that now more than ever it is necessary to concentrate their energies on the great goal which all hope to reach, namely, tho attainment in the near future of a decisive and happy result. Berlin semi-official messages assert that the question of evacuation of occupied territory depends on the high command's opinion whether the Allies will agree not to overstep the frontier, whether France will evacuate Upper Alsace, and whether the troops are incapable of fighting in the improbable event of a breakdown of the negotiations. The solemnity with which the conference between Ludendorif, who was summoned to Berlin. pnd the politicians was announced, shows that the Government is deeply impressed with the seriousness of the moment. It may be a mere coincidence that the rumours of the Kaiser's intending abdication are synchronising with the summoning of the council of German monarch*, bur ii' he Ademis to abdicate, such a council would be :an almost necessary preliminary, Tlw w.-M-informed centrist newspaper "Germania" in this conned ion mat" . Urn -AaAicant observation: "Nothing is more uncertain at this moment than tne future of the House of Haps"burg and also of another house."---AouA. - The "Daily News" states that Austria has warned Germany that Austria -Will conclude a separate peace unless the collective negotiations quickly jßUCoeedi—A. and, N.Z.