Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-11-04

delay of 10 days ensued before instruc-
tons could be issued respecting the
name in which the minister should
discuss the disposal OF Italy and Hol-
land. in the meantime Castlereagh
arrived from England and British di-
plolnacy tied up the allies in one un-
compromising attitude. 1t has been
maintained that Napoleon was insin-
ccre iii mis- announcement that he would
treat at all. but there seems to be no
doubt that C~oulaincourt was instructed
to use every effort to detach Arusria
from tho coalition.
Wanted to Detach Austria.
"Only gain the Austrians." he is re-
ported to ave said to Coulaincourt on
sending him to Chatillon, i'and the
mischief is at an end"
The Austrian emperor sent Prince
Lichstenstein to Napoleon and ar
ranged for a conference at Lasigny on
February "a. But Napoleon did not
cease for a moment his operations in
the field. He was winning victory aft
er victory at about this lime and on
the night of February %, the evening
before the day arranged for this con-
ference at Lasigny, the French bonn
barded Troyes and entered this place
the next day. The congress at Cha
tlllon continued to sit, with Coulain-
court amusing the sovereigns and the
British minister, Aberdeen, with one
discussion after another. but having
secret Instructions from Napoleon, it is
believed, to sign nothing. On March
I, acting under British home office
suggestions, the allies at the town of
Chaumont signed a treaty pledging
offer giving to anc her ancient
limits of the Rhine had beer condi-
tlonal on acceptance by March IS. The
time expiring. the compromise broke
up. 1t is said that as Coulaincourt
left Chatillon ar offer arrived from
treating. but it was now too late. The
allies could not act separately and
England would not consent.
~E.ngland's attitude in 1914 was eX-
pressed in the determination to put
down the intolerable military domi-
of Bonaparte." The language
has a striking likeness to the deter
mination expressed recently with ref
erence to the kaiser. Lord Castlereagh,
in recounting h aid given by Eng
land to he sovereigns of Europe in
the effort to destroy Napoleon. reclted
an expenditure of British money such
as history had never previously pre-
sented. He said that the nations of
the north of Europe We're so exhausted
by their former efforts that not one of
them could move without English aid,
and in the year alone of the formation
of the coalition England had sent to
Russia, $40, 900, 0OO; to Prussia, $780,
100000; to Austria. s5,oOo,0OO and
100000 stand of arms; to Spain, $780,
100000; TO Portugal, $1,000 900, and to
Sicily, 100000 BY this aid Russia
had been able to bring up men from
the eXtriemites of her dominions and
Prussia was enabled to put 200, 900 men
into the field. During the same year
England had sent to Spain and Por-
tugal 100000 muskets and to other
parts OF the continent 400, 900 small
arms. And after reciting the above
Lord Castlereagh called upon parlia-
ment to maintain the same scale Of
expenditure for the ensuing year. and
to continue to do so until the great
drama was completed.
In the end it was England who de-
feated Napoleon, and it is the same
England which now announces that
there can be no peace until Prussian
militarism and the kaiser are de-
Stroyed.