While dealing elsewhere with the proper answer to give to
Ger- many's peace proposals we have pointed out that the German Government no doubt hope to rally the drooping spirits of their people by indignantly denouncing the rejection of those proposals. They will be glad of an excuse to tell the nation that they must make even greater sacrifices, and that they can only save themselves from the rapacious wickeduess of the Allies by the supremest effort. That was no doubt the canes tausasa of the Note. It is also most probable that the Germans have prepared a new scheme of frightfulness on a very elaborate scale, a soheme involving worse horrors than those they have already tried. But for such outrages even the Germans want an excuse. They calculate to find that excuse in the refusal of the Allies to negotiate.
