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PREPARING A PEACE OFFERING When Potsdam Is not deceiving the German people with news of submarine successes Himlenburg victories and peace offensives the lies factory is manufacturing ersatz news or news substitutes for allied consumption Tims the world gets via Holland tidings of the sickness breakdown and even death of Ilindenburg anything which will tend to make the Allies believe that something is wrong with the German military machine and cause them to be less active in pushing on their own prepara ¬ tions The idea that there are several loose screws in the machinery of the Central Alliance is en ¬ couraged by news of Turkish and Bulgarian dis ¬ putes and we are permitted to hoar that Ferdinand has left his capital because of the prevailing po ¬ litical unrest unrestThe The latest item which has been allowed to come through via Denmark is that Turkey lias broken with Germany This should be received with the greatest caution Turkey through the upstart Enver and the unspeakable Talaat has been handed over as an appanage to Germany The Ottoman army is mainly officered by Germans Ottoman bureaus and businesses ore almost completely Teutonized in fact German soldiers and civilians aro every ¬ where In Turkey Unless hoaded by the Young Turk party the country lias broken away completely from Enver and his gang and lias strong army sup ¬ port it is most unlikely that it will escape tmndage to Germany until the hitters defeat by the Allies is certain and decisive decisiveDoubtless Doubtless Turkey chafes under the Teuton yoke and the masses know that they have boon betrayed Doubtless too the Bulgars realize the selfish aims of Germany and that their country is as much a pawn in the game as Belgium and Serbia Thoy also soe the allies advancing along the Albanian and Macedonian front and know that Austria is power loss to help for that country is fast falling to piccos The whole Central Alliance is in fact crumbling and no one knows this so well as Ger ¬ many But something can be saved from the wreck ¬ age while the war fronts are as they are So news is coming through Germany in forms which suit her purpose and will liolp a now i eace offensive offensiveTills Tills It is expected will come by way of Rome through Switzerland The Vatican is Germanys last and host friend It cannot permit Austria the only Catholic power in Europe to be disrupted and destroyed which Is what must happen if Ger ¬ many is iMaton to the dust Therefore the way IK being prepared and Germany who knows that she is defeated in the west is permitting news of her own troubles and those of lior allies to get abroad the Turkish rumor of defection whether true or not Iwing part of the plan Next will follow peace proposals from the Vatican Will the president and the entente governments full for them We fancy not New York Herald
