The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-15
TOP DOGS ARE
READY FOR TRUCE
All Peace Suggestions Of Last
Week Have Been Com
ing From the
Germans
ARE not ENCOURAGED
Past week ia European War Has sl-
- se-n markes BY Efforts
10 Draw Bulgaria


United Press.
NEW YORK, ang. Efs--psace SIG
gegfions have been persistent throzagga
OFT tfts week They have al o-7gs1A'
y. frorn German and vatican sources
and have nset with 10 s1cou1a geE-a en-
from the gasz6-upls entente = 4 sar
ssarezs tta- the tesstOuac powers DFf1s
top dogs IN continental Europe, age
willing enough 20 agree to trace
bat tits Cffer beliigsrents % no1 -
g5ssye terms can yet big arranged IL
sny wsy satisfactory 10 themselves,
II wo1Id s>s mistake 10 sgEzIe
fhas Germ aryg peace orertu,es inoi-
cate zgproaGhfnz exhaustion Of the
tesatcu.c countries Nevertheless the
ether extreme as well mist be elm
mated.
German success 81 Rnssfz do Lot Ia
srsre the thrills Of emotion znong
nvgtsnderx thar usually follow q fEar
rcn and 6ec1EsTe rictory. me cost 70
GERMANY among her ycung men Is 800
great al q tIrs when Germanys sest-
er-s rfTafs are conserving tasir own
Ea1es.
While the Germans are top dogs on
tie faod. thgsr grip is TOO uncertain
for their offer 70 discuss peace a.
ccnapersr9- There are AZ yet no coz
quercrs anywhere,
Cosncsdeasly with the weeks peace
taxi. the allies have redorEisd tnesr
ersrts 10 plrsnade Bulgaria to 1oin
them in tne campaign against Coz
stsntfnopie. The half fin the Constsn,
tfnopze eznpal ign. 81 fact, Is probably
the rsose important single reason why
the allies will ACCEPT 70 peace 10,
the present Ccnstznttnopjs miE!
fail first to prsssrye z proper military
psszne4 Is Europe.
BULGARIA is willing 70 declare war
against the TURKS IL Serbia restores
10 her Serbian Macedonia, Inhabited
LARGELY ov gufg2rs Serbia wants
northern Albania fn exchange. with
an outlet on the Adriatic. This Italy
RAG not yet agreed to; and go has be-
gun the intricate play Of nztionsa
t.aIovzies which viii become muci
more acute when detailed peace pro-
pcsaIs fer ending the war are In u =
stated, Tfps quadrupie entente has not
yet failed TO treat Serbia as fun
sovereign power. The Serbians are
not being ccerced into granting Bull
xarfa'g demands. and although Ser
bias present obgtinzcy Is detrimental
70 the interests OF the powers. the pre-
cedent of YsithiegEneGs established N
Belgium, has not been followed BY u z
allies at sigh.
The tsutons have adyane.i dIr'n@
the week against the Russian center
east oil warsaw, but no progress his
besa made along the napEs. Tca
giay3 are holding fast aga'nzt Marsh
al Won Mackensen in tie Goth and
Marshal Won 4.infenDurg in tins north
The success Of the Russians In check-
ing Won Hindenburg has been yefY
etrskSng. Won Hindenburg's mead
quarters during the present operations
were revealed this week for the first
time. he has played no part in the
actual capture OF Warsaw. but is d.
1acting the northern ofTenEige. Early
in tie week ne was mentioned as
blocking q Russian advance toward
RIA and Mitau; LATER he had been
compelled 10 move further south and
direct the assault being made on the
fortrcsg OF Koyno. It ig probable Won
15fndenburg has been given the most
difficult task OF all IN the present
supreme efort--to force Russia 70
agree to separate peace. Also IL is
apparent as yet he has failed to &C
cernr,Ifsh anything OF major import
ance. His efforts to turn the Russian
flank have failed and his own flank
is In a danger zone OF its own There
seems no doubt but that the teut rs
are now facing an ammunition short
age, and their Russian plans in coz
sequence are not developing as they
ought.