Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1917 — Germany’s Peace Offer All “Bunk” Washington View. [ARTICLE]

Germany’s Peace Offer All “Bunk” Washington View.

Washington, Dec. 27.—Germany’s proposal to the Russian Bolsheviki envoys through the Austro-Hungari-an foreign minister for a basis of peace have attracted little more than passing interest here chiefly because the attitude of the United States government has not changed in any degree since President Wilson told congress that the word of the present rulers of Germany could not be accepted for anything worth while. Moreover, officials here think the very conditions imposed by the Teutonic plenipotentiaries stamp their promises of no annexations and no indemnities as insincere. It has been assumed from the first that the object of the Germans would be to keep the Russians talking as long as possible, confuse the situation in every conceivable way and thereby gain time for further troop movements in France, while impressing their people at home with the idea that the kaiser really wants to make peace.