Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Citlea and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places.

FOR WORLD SAFETY.

London, January s.—The entente’s peace terms, voiced by Lloyd George today, make these general ideas the only basis on which permanent . peace can rest First—The sanctity of the treaty must be re-established. Second—There must be territorial settlements based on the consent of those governed. Third —There must be created some international organization to limit the burden of armaments and diminish the probability of war. Complete restoration of Belgium. Reparation for devastated towns and cities. Neutralization and internationalization of the Dardanelles. “Reconsideration” of the “great wrong” done France in 1871—referring to Alsace-Lor-raine. Establishment of an independent Poland—"comprising all genuinely Polish elements, because this is necessary to the stability of Europe.” Arabia, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine —all entitled to separate national conditions. The future of Russia is left to the decision of the Russian people themselves. Inhabitants of African colonies must be “placed under an administration acceptable to themselves for the purpose of preventing exploitation for the benefit of European capitalists and of European governments.”

There is not very much to report from' the various European war fronts. The Italian army with its British and French re-enforcements, eeems to be easily holding the German and Austrian forces in check. On the western front the Germans made a little gain at heavy cost Saturday, only to be ousted in counter attacks by the allied forces. Latest advices are that the peace parley is off with the Russians, the latter refusing to continue negotiations at Best-Litovsk, and the Germans refusing to go to Stockholm, Sweden, which is desired by the Bolshevik! on account of its being in neutral territory. As a result Germany announces that peace negotiations have ended for the time being while the Bolshevik! say that the Russians will take up arms again against the common enemy.