Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01
SUBMARINES HAVEN'T
HAMPERED COMMERCE
Russia Will Fight, Says
Nicholas, It'll Light
DispcIs the Gloom
"We Will Not Conclude
Peace Until the Enemy
Has Left Our Country"

| PETROGRAD, July 3l.-(Via Lon
| don, p. m IA hereby solemnly de-
clare we will not conclude peace until
| the last enemy soldier has left our
! land"
These words Of Emperor Nicholas
of Russia, uttered at the winter palace
on August /, l9ll, are reproduced in
the press of Potrograd on the anniver-
sary OF the war.
| A message in the Bourse Gazette
today printed in all the languages OF
| Russia's allies says:
For a year past the enemy has
| been threatening the freedom of tho
world, We deeply appreciate tho
self sacrificing aid of the allies In ex-
| erting combined pressure on him on
all sides.
"A firm confidence in victory in
community Of worldwide interests and
In the final triumph OF right. fires the
spirit of the nation. II has been our
guiding star throughout this year OF
| bloodshed. Ii will serve us in tho
| coming months maybe years Of this
I terrible struggle.
Russia greets her allies, France.
| Great Britain, Belgium, Serbia, Mon
tenegro, Japan and Italy. All hail to
their heroic loyalty and firm deter
mination TO stand by her to the end,
III IBHl ulSptiH lllt blppiis
7 ONDON. July 3l-Sir Edward
l. Carson, attorney general, has
pre- pared for the Associated Press
signed statement outlining the first
year OF the war from the British
standpoint and expressing the unalter-
able purpose OF the British govern
mcnt and people to carry the conflict
to a successful conclusion The state
mcnt follows:
'IIow long will the war last and
what will be the result?
"To questions such as these any
BritOn can give but one answer and
that Is that the war will last until
the cause Of the allies has been
brought to "A successful issue and Eu-
rope and the world have been relieved
from the ideals involved in the ag-
gression Of PrusSian domination.
The word peace does not enter into
our vocabulary at the present time.
1t is banished from our conversation
as something immoral and impossible
under existing circumstances. And
yet we are the most peace loving peo-
pie In the world, a nation which
throughout the globe in its many
dominions has inculcated good gov
ernmtn mt and social and industrial
progress and the free exercise in its
widest sense Of civil and religious lib
erty.
Time Devoted to Progress
Rightly or wrongly, we have in the
past devoted our energies and our in
telligenCe. not TO preparations for war
but to that social programs which
makes for the happiness and the con-
tentmcnt Of the mass of our people.
And this, no doubt. is the reason why
other nations imagine that we, as a
nation Of shopkeepcrs, are too indol-
ent and apathctic to fight for and
maintain these priceless liberties won
by the men who laid the foundation
of our vast empire.
but they are entirely mistaken.
Great Britain hates war and no ma
tion enters more reluctantly on its
horrible and devastating operations:
but at the same time. no nation when
II IS driven TO war by the machina-
ttons of its foes who desire TO fitch
from II or from its CO-champiOns OF
liberty, any portion of their inherited
freedom is more resolved to see the
matter through, at whatever cost. to
a successful issue.
Lands English Navy.
"A year Of war has transformed
hardly speak. II has upheld TO the
fullest extent the great traditions
which fill the pages of history in the
past. il has driven its enemies off the
seas. II holds vast oceans free for al
most the uninterrupted commerce OF
neutral powers and it has preserved
these highways for its own supplies
Of material and food almost without
interruption.
IL do not minimize the peril of the
submarines, which is In process OF
being dealt with through the careful
and Jealous watchfulness Of our adj
miralty, but while the submarine has
enabled the Germans 10 commit saw
age and Fhumane atrocities contrary
to the LAWS of civilization and against
the settled rules Of international law.
It has done nothing to affect the wash
commerce of our empire