Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1917 — Terms Are Not Sufficient Says The Allies [ARTICLE]

Terms Are Not Sufficient Says The Allies

Great Britain and France respectively, through their prime minister and minister of foreign affairs have made known to the world that the tenrts under which the Teutonic allies seek a general peace are not sufficient. And, backing their prime minister, thS British proletariate represented by a national labor conference has reaffirmed, without equivocation, that it is the determination of labor to ,? continue the war in order hereafter to make the world safe for democracy.

Fortified by the known attitude of President Wilson as to the requirements of the United States if the war is to end, and a peace concluded, the utterances of Premier Lloyd George and Foreign Minister Pichon and the almost unanimous sentiment of the British workers seemingly make certain that the Teutonic allied proffer, given in reply to the Russian Bolsheviki proposals, will go for naught unless it is materially added to and brought into line with the demands that the United States and the entente allies have laid down as the concrete basis for the discussion of peace. Nevertheless the Bolsheviki element in Russia apparently has not lost heart that something may come from the Czernin proposal for the Brest-Litovsk peace conference, at which it was made, has taken a recess until January 4, and meanwhile Trotzky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister, purposes to send a note to the entente allied embassies in an endeavor to have them participate in further peace parleys; and also in drafting a note to the peoples of the world. Inside Russia the situation still remains obscure, owing to the various reports concerning the movement of the Bolsheviki and counter-revolu-

tionary forces. On the fighting fronts Palestine again has come to a position of first importance owing to the British having inflicted another severe .defeat upon the Turks near Jerusalem. North and northwest of the Holy City General Allenby’s forces have made an advance of about two and a half miles on a front of nine miles, after having repulsed a Turkish attack. The Turks suffered heavy casualties. Artillery duels are in progress along the entire northern front in the Italian theatre, the infantry of both sides apparently being inactive except for a few encounter of minor importance.