AMERICA'S ANSWER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14711, 17 September 1918, Page 3

AMERICA'S ANSWER.

FORCE WITHOUT STINT UNTIL ENEMY SURRENDERS. \

(Australian and N.Z. Cable- Association.) (Received Sept. 17, 9.^5 a.m.) \ NEW YORK, Sept. 16. The Tribune, commenting on the peace offer.- sa^s : The answer to Austria is ready m President Wilson's speech when he said, "Force, force t6 the utmost, without stint or limit." y ■

A large majority of the press comment throughout the country may be summarised as follows : Austria and Germany and their ajlies must be beaten until they surrender unconditionally. The Times' Washington correspondent says : Force without stint until victory is achieved and a rejection of the. Vienna overtures will ba America's response. Washington officials are. awaiting the receipt of Austria's message before commenting.

A majority of the members of Congress, interviewed, said: This is no time for peace conference. The Central powers must be forced to unconditional surrender. ' V.

The New York Timeis, commenting on the Austrian peace offer, 'says : The offer comes m a form which the Allies may honorably accept m the confident belief that it will lead to ;the end pf the war. Tlie practice and custom, of nations demand that this invitation be received with tho most serioitf. respect and attention by the Governments to which it is addressed. \ The Herald says: The peace offer comes sooner than was expected. Austria is the catspaw-: of Germany. The Allies' answer will be a decisive negative. A peace conference is possilVe only after ifche Central Powers are decisively defeated

The World declares : Vienna has sent the. proposal for a peace* conference which will not be more favorably received than previous proposals. Negotiations are impossible while the responsible leaders of Prussian militarism are ahnost as boastful and false as ever.