Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1915-08-04
Nothing but Victory Will Stop War
All Claim TO be Right and All Will Flight to
the Bitter End.

the Bitter End.
London, July 81 -Sir Edward
Carson, Attorney General in the
Aequith Cabinet, has prep ared for
the Associated Press 9, signed
statement giving a broad outline
of the first year of the war from
the British stand point, together
with expressions of the unaltsr.
able purpose of the British Gov.
eminent and people to carry on
the wal to a successful conclusion.
In it he says:
"How long will the war last,
and what will be the result? TO
such questions as these, any Bril-
slsh subject can give but one
answer, and that is that the war
will last until the cause of the Al.
lies has been brougt to a success
full issue aud Europe and th~
world have been relieved from the
ideals involved in the aggression Of
Prussian domination. The word
peace does not enter into our vo-
cabuIary at the present time"
London, Aug. 1.-Emperor Will.
liam has issued a manifesto to the
German people, which says:
zone year has elapsed since I
was obliged to call to arms the
German people. An unpreo-
edented time Of bloodshed has
befallen Europe and the world.
before Gcd and History my
conscience 10 clear. did not will
the war.
"After preparations for a whole
decade the coalition Powers, to
whom Germany had become too
great, believed that the pomeLt
had come to humiliate the Empire
which loyalty stood by her Austlo.
Hungarian ally in a just cause, OF
to crush it in an over he lmilg
oolhlct. No lust for Conquest, a.
| already announced a year ago
has driven us into the war.
"When in the days of August
all able.bodied mon we're rushed
to the colors and troops we're
marched into a defensive war,
every German on earth felt, in &C
oordance with the unanimous OK
ample of the Reichstag, that it
was a fight for the highest good of
the Notion, Its LIE, it's freedom.
What awaited us if the enemy
forces %soooeeded in determining
the fate of aur people aud of Eu-
rops has been shown in the hard
ship enduEsd by my dear province,
East Prussia.
Berlin, Aug. by wireless to
Ssyvllle, among the news item 8
given out today by the Overseas
News Agency was the foil owing:
"Reviewiug the first year of the
wsr, the Berlin newspapers point
out that the territory of the Cen
tral Powers is free from invaders
exoept for small strips in Alsaoe
and Galicia, while the German
armies in the West occupy 5000
square kilometers IA kilometer is
two.thirds of a mile) including
Belgium and the most valuable
part of France. In addition to
this territory the Austro- German
Allies occupy 100. 600 square kilo.
meters IN the East including the
Govsrnments of Kovno. Suwalkj,
Courland, L. MIA, Plock, Kalicz,
P%iotrkow, Radon and Kielce, as
we'll as large parts of the Govern
ments of Warsaw and Lublin. The
total conquered territory is twice
the area of the Kingdom of Bava.
ria"
Petrograd, July 3l.-From a
person who although not connect
ed officially with the War Depart.
mont, 10 in close touch with the
governments officials and ls we'll
acquainted with the military stu.
alton and the Russian state of
feeling, the Associated Press has
obtained the following review of
the first year of the war:
1.-THE end of the first year OF the
war finds Russia's potential fight.
ing ability undiminished. Hell
armies are intact, her resources
virtually untouched and the de-
termination of her people, the
morale of her troops, have only
been deepened with the growing
realization of the enemy'sstrsngth.
This determination is expressed