Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-26
Declared Diplomats Seeking to Bring About Interven-
 tion of Pope. :.
GERMANY CANNOT
 LONG HOLD OUT
Former Member of Reichstag Declare That Berlin Realizes Limit of Re. sistance Has Been Reached, Hence
 Appeal for Peace.
(By International News Service Cor
 reSDOndentO

II Paris, Dec. 24.-French newspaper correspondents at Lucerne state that the German ex-chancellor, Prince ven Euelow, whose attempt to keep Italy neutral failed has lately been ex- ceedingly busy working for peace in Switzerland. AS his task of creating a public opinion in favor Of peace on the easiest conditions possible 10 Germany was intended to be kept ab- sclutely secret the prince has been very much annoyed that his state search of rest was not taken at it's face value.
 The difficulty of believing the prince is easily understood in view of the fact he is the chief of an my of diplomatists whose presence in town of the size of Lucerne could not possibly pass unnoticed.
 The reason why Lucerne has been chosen for these prospecting opera tons is clear enough. In the heart Of Switzerland, about half way be- tween the German and the Italian frontiers, Lucerna is in direct and easy communication by telegraph, telephone and rail with Berne, the seat of the German legation to Switz- erland, as also with Lugano, in the southern part of that country, where the German ministers to the Holy See took refuge when they had to leave Rome because of Italy's entrance into l tine war.
 While Prince and Princess von Bue- low have rented comfortable villa | just outside of Lucerne on the shore 0. the Lake of Four Contons, Herr Frzberger, the Catholic member of the German reichstag, and Herr l Ctockammer, former councillor of | legation to the German embassy at Rome, are at Hotel Schweizerhof. where the first secretary of the em- tassy, Baron von Berchern, has also taken an apartment.
 At Lugano are Baron von Muehl- berg and Baron von Ritter, both formerly accredited to- the Vatican as German and Austrian ministers, res pectively. The staff of the formerly modest German legation at Berne has been materially increased by the arrival of number of very impor- tant personages. They are now all eagerly working to bring about the intervention of the pope. whose special envoy. Monsigner Marchetti had a long conference with Prince von Buelow. Marchetti is we'll known here in Paris as we'll as in Rome as 9 warm friend and admirer of Ger many, where he spent several years cs Papal munico to the Bavarian court at Munich.
 Among other high ecclesiastes who are working very hard in the inter- est of the kaiser are Father Ledocko- Wski, the new head of the JesAits, V ho has received special permission flom the Swiss government to remain in Switzerland during the war, the little republic having otherwise closed it's frontiers against the Jesu- its. and the Austrian prelate, Dom von Stoszinger, general of the bene- dictions, who lives at the abbey of Einsiedelr.
 It was at Ensiedeln, in the inn 'Gasthaus zum Pfauen" that the peace conspirators of the kaiser met the first time as the guest of Prince von Buelow and. were joined the Polish delegate Count Skirmunt, who was formerly the agent of the Austrian government at Rome.
 During the luncheon at the 'Gasthef gum Pfauen," the evesdrop- ping reporters say they caught sen tences lige "Mit der Bewerbung beim past"( to influence the pope) and "die schrittla die der vaticanunter- rommen hat" (the steps which the vatican has taken) which left o doubt as to the true object of the meeting of all these tourists" The lunch lasted until o'clock and a.terward Prince von Buelow visited the abbey of Einsiedeln whose foun- der, the hermit Saint Meinrad, born in S2S. was an illegitimate son of Perthold von Hohenzollern, one of the kaiser's ancestors.
 Germany Must Soon Admit Defeat.
 Abbe Wetterle. until the outbreak ct the war a prominent member of the reichstag and of the chamber of Alsace Lorraine, in Paris paper gives some very interesting figures concerning Germany's probable military strength at the end of the year.
 Easing his figures on official Ger man statistics, he arrives at the con- clusion that Germany at the begin ring of the war was able to call to tie colors for active military service $500. 900 soldiers between 19 and 45 years of age.
 The official Prussian casualty lists which are always several weeks be- hind time, admit a loss of more than two million and a half in killed, wounded and prisoners. but these lists do not include Babarians, Sax ons and Wuerttembergers who con stitute about one fifth of the German