Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-09-04
London Press Endorses Atti-
tude of Government of No
Peace With Germany Until
MlIitariSm is Removed.
CALLS STATEMENT COMIC
Says Teuton Demand for Free
dom of Seas Aims to Rob
England of Chief Weapon
of 0ffenSe and Defense.
CALLS STATEMENT COMIC

| Special By United Press Wire
London, Sept 4:-The London
press, almost without exception, en-
dorsed the attitude of the govern
ment that there must be no peace
with Germany until the menace of
| Prussian militarism is removed.
The German embassy's intimation
as to possible peace terms, made ex-
clusively to the United Press at
Washington Thursday. elected
lengthy editorial comment from
morning papers. They were unani-
nous in scouting the idea of an early
peace and treated with greatest
scorn the German statement that
| freedom of the sea-, freedom of the
Poles and equal rights of the Jews
were subjects on which peace dis
cussions must turn.
Statement is Comic
This statement from the German
embassy is comic in its disingenious
futility," said the Daily Express.
Before the war the seas were free
for all the shipping of the world, and
this new Teutonic demand for free
dom merely means that Great Brit
ain is to surrender the power that
comes from It's predominant navy and
to rob itself Of its principal weapon
both of offense and defense.
Russia has pledged herself def
nitely to the reconstruction of an au-
tonomous Poland, but does not i'm
ply a Poland that is a mere ap-
pendage of the German empire.
The impudent claim that Ger
many is fighting for the freedom of
Jews is evidently intended to please
the American Jewish financiers. Ger
many's patronage of the Jews is
made more ridiculous when it is re-
membered that until the outbreak of
the war no Jew was allowed to be an
officer in the Germany army"
Arms were taken up by Great
Britain, # is explained, for the purely
definite purpose defined by Premier
Asquith on Nov. 8. and no change has
been made in the British policy.
To prevent Inisconception 1t must be
definitely understood that Great Britain
will not entertain any idea of separ-
ate peace, and that anything which she
does in the direction Of peace must be
done In concert with her allies with
whom the reciprocal confidence Is
growing every day.
The statement issued by the German
embassy In Washington to the effect
that Germany is ready to make peace
upon the terms of freedom for Poland.
freedom Of the seas and freedom for
do IN, lrit tal
ears
Puzzled by Jewish Proposal.
Nothing Is said about the freedom of
France and Belgium, while the German
attitude toward the Jews Is regarded
as significant when 1t Is considered
that there are 100000 Jews in the Rus
sian army. and when 1t also Is taken
into consideration that Germany's at
tftude toward the Jews In the past Is
not such as to arouse confidence as to
her treatment of that race In the future
The freedom of the seas" of which
she speaks, certainly would mean moth
ing so long as the freedom OF the land
was not secure. There certainly Is a
desire for peace in England. but II
must be peace unfettered by any
menace of Prussian militarism
So far as the submarine situation IA
concerned. 1t is regarded here as a dis
tinct step In advance that Germany
should admit that she is giving up an
iliegal thing. 1t is Great Britain's con
tention that Germany's whole subma-
rine campaign is Illegal.
Reprissls Might Be Given Up.
IL Germany ahandons this subma-
rfne campaign In its entirety 1t by no
means necessarily follows that Great
Britain will give up her reprisals. be
cause II Is contended that these are
perfectly legal and that it would be
ridiculous to give up a perfectly legal
right Just because Germany is giving
up an Illegal action.
The question is asked whether Great
Britain will give up her blockade of
foodstuffs for Germany. not on the
point of legality. but on account of its
failure to starye Germany and the i'll
feeling which 1t has aroused among
neutral nations.
The answer is made that II is diff
cult TO differentiate between the food
stuffs destined for the civil population
and the armed forces. particularly in
this war, when all the nations prac-
dcaliy are armed camps