Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-08
FRANCE IS UNITED
FOR PURSUING WAR
Germany Is the Only Country
Where Peace Talk Is
Heard.
ALLIES WELDED TOGETHER
Determined to Continue Until
Prussianisrn Has Been For
ever Crushed.
ALLIES WELDED TOGETHER
by GEORGES DUFHESNE.


PARIS. August How we'll re-
member this day n year ago. when the
preparedness Of Germany for war down
TO the smallest detail began 10 dawn
upon us while tried 10 make our
selves familiar with the thought that
II was only question OF time when
our government would have To leave
Paris to It's fate and when We should
have to face "A long Siege we were
not downhearted then, but. or tho,
other side. were by no means so sure |!
OF final victory az We are to-day, when !
France Is unanimous in her desire to |
continue the war until the enemy has
been crushed. and this unan!mity In |
shared by all our allies. In Russia I
the Gear expressed the Interchangeable |
determination of the Russian people a |
Few days after the loss of Lcmberg. |
In England. Asquith. shortly after
wards. in his Guildhall speech said |
that Britain would fight to the last
drop Of blood and the last farthing.
Serbin's determination has never
~avered. and Italy, whom GcrrnanyI
now hates more than she hates any
other nation In the world. fully real
ICES that the poison fangs OF Germany
must be drawn before we can have
lasting peace
IN the meantime. unanimousness has
departed from Germany. In Germany
alone VIC hear talk Of peace I, is the
Socialists who have started II. but they
arc really tools In the hands OF the
Kaiser.
The situation is ably summed UP in
the Italian paper. Popoio d'I,alia.
which writes: People arc ask!ng Why
Germany should wish 10 make peace
to-day? Her territory has not been
invaded to any extent, she won VIC
tories In Galic!a, she holds the Brit
!sh navy In check. she still holds back
the French invasion and she occuries
Belgium.
But this is exactly why she does
want TO make peace. because peace 30
day would mean v!ctory for Germany
that would be able 10 dictate the CON
oi'ions. while in near future every
thing might change.
IF GermAnys position Is GOOD rho
position OF her enemies Is better
Russia remains formida hle ms ever
England and France are Mt the heiRh,
OF their strength. and Italy Is advanc-
ing slowly. but surely. Tomorrow IL
may be 900 late. to-day it is victory.
This is why the imperial Socialists
have been modified"
PIECES ARE FORBIDDEN
TO SWISS BANDS
II has been announced that the Swiss
military bands will no longer be able
to play the "Sambre ct Meuse" the
Marche Lorraine" and the ''Troinpeter
Won Saeckngen." 1t is not the first
time since the war began that the
"Sambre ct Mouse" has been forbidden
in Switzerland. But in this matter the
swiss censorship can be accommodate
Ing at times. A concert was given at
Bex-les- Bains. and the march was
played and much applauded /, was in
dicated In the program as the 'Rhln ct
Rhone." The conductor OF the or
chestra had simply changed the title
OF the march.
AS for the ''Trompeter Won Saeckin- |
gen." written by the German poct. |
Victor Won Schefel. IL has been for
hidden because OF the refrain, NAV
God keep YOU II might have been too
beautiful; may God keep you, the thing |
has failed" 1t appears that the Ger
mans saw In the ironical fashion in |
which the refrain was sunk in certain
Swiss districts an allusion TO the march !
on Paris. the march on Calais, and so |
many other German enterprises which !
terminated IN a complete fasco
the recent combats report singular de-
tails which their officers gave them of |
tho battles in Galicia and Poland The |
men were told that Warsaw had been
taken by assault. that the Russian !
army was annthilated. and that the !
Grand Duke Nicholas was taken
prisoner with 100000 men
These tales were told the soldiers in !
order to revive their dropping spirits !
Recently trainload of prisoners taken
in the Arras district passed through
Paris. At suburban station n rail
way Official questioned a Wurtter-
berger. and received this reply: What
does 1t matter II we have WELDED n
little ground? Now that Russia is
crushed and demands peace. linden
burg is coming with 100000 men to
fight the French"
On hearing these words, the wurt.
tembergers comrades became angry
and told him to hold his tongue. Not
all the German soldiers believe the
stories told them by their officers. Dur.
ing the early stages of the war prison.
ers never showed any desire to hear
how the operations were going on
Now a s soon as they are captured thny
ask for news. They realize that IL 10
from the enemy they can learn the
truth.
BURDEN OF MUNITION
FACTORIES UNDERESTINiATED
How greatly the French military an.
thorities, like the English. under
estimated the magnitude imposed upon
the munition factories Of the country
is revealed by La Matin. one of whose
correspondents writes from lie Crcusot:
"Creusot. in popular imagination, is
Frances great civil arsenal. 1t does
not begin TO compare with Essen, in
Prussia but 1t is the center Of an i'm
mense factory organization founded by
the Schneiders in various places. In
time of peace 1t employed $4,000
workers AT lie Creusot alone there
,uere 120OO when the war broke nnt