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WAR IN 1915 HOPELESS DEADLOCK%L; WITH 'BRITISH FIGHTING GRIMLY Ambassador Page Fore- cast to President Wilson Long Struggle. British Leader Discusses | Peace Offer and De- mands of Nation. * Xote: Thie is Yote: Jh the it ? Ambases Wilson. i They will continge EDITED BY BURTON J. HENDRICK. TELEGRAM TO THE OF STATE. London, January 13. Secretary of State: I lunched today came here secr war. He talkes ound confidence. _Me said the military tion is a 4 The Germans cannot get or to Cslais. On the other will take the allies a ears. and an incalculable to drive the QGermaus um. It \\'ould tale per ECRETARY | 1915. 9 p. with Trenéh. who for a council of of course. in pro conquest of Germany. v hipped Austria and will w lev. But ke hopes for lit m her, * ¢ Speaking only for iself and in | ‘oundest conildence. he told me of | » peace proposal which he said the | President. at Germany’'s request. has submitted to England. He tells me | *hat thie proposal is to end the war on ondition that Germany give up lgium and pay for its restoration. ench’s personal opinion is that #ingland would have to accept such n oifer it it should be accompanied with additional offers to satisfy the other allies. Such. for example, as *he restoration to France of Alsace- Lo c and the agreement that Rus- sta 1l have Constantinople. T had an agreeable and friendly ac- quaintance with Gen. French before the w nd he has sent me several nersonal messages from the front. But 1 cannot help suspecting that he had a further purpose than a mere friendly 1k in telling me these things. He -med so much surprised when I con- essed that T had not heard of such a sroposal. that T felt that possibly he “ald back something else for the President that he had it in mind te <ar. He was solicitous to find out my opinion whether this peace pro- nosal had heen made in good faith or whether it was probably a German ove to affect public opinion in the T'nited States. Col. Squier had an interview today with Lord Kitchener, whose military optnion coincides with Gen. French's. AMERICAN AMBASSADOR, London. | move TO THE PRESIDENT. American Embaesy, London January 12,192 Dear Mr. President: There is no such thing as fair in- \ernational reporting of documents nr speeches—there isn't often even ntelligent reporting. The condensed form of our note to the British gov- ernment which was telegraphed here ve an impression of bumptiousness that was. of course, wholly absent from the note when it was read iIn full. They've got over that, however. But yestorday afternoon and today a #aw sentences are published from your Tndiana speeches which seem to make vou intimate—not quite, but intimate ~that you must be called in to settle 1he quarrel. This does no positive harm; but to euch persons as may helieve that vou said what these de- ed sentences hint that you said (which T'll bat principalities and pow- i | Whose services gium were highl sador Page. s praised by Ambas- plete restoration of Belgium: sight. und that i 5 to say, as ¥ how to pull & bulldo; The doctors in the huspitals say crman knows he's go rotions all break forth and he weeps pitifully: a Frenchman Ls for his mother; but s i he had Whether Tumm et with the Almighty. the war office or in the ad- r in the trenches, he surely is the least communicative of men when he becomes desperately in earnest. A few wecks ago five members of the staff of one of the English gen- erals were killed one afternoon by a shell. The survivors a few hours afterward sat down to dinner as usual and made no reference to their five | Very Desirable Store Building For Lease For Term of Years 1323 Conn. 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