The Dermott news., 1915-04-08
Believe War Will
 Be Ended By June

De EnIeu Dy June l
 The following article, written by the Washington correspondent of the Ar kansas Gazette. under date of April 3, at least sounds encouraging:
 The belief is becoming widespread in Washington and the East that the European war will be brought to close by June !. The quick absorption Of BIO Ooo. 0O0 in German government treasury notes recently by Philadelphia bankers presa@es an early peace in Europe. Nearly E per cent of this en- tire loan was hurriedly grabbed by Quaker City financial interests and none of the notes k for public sale. a syndicate having taken all it could get.
 The Philadelphia bankers, 1t is re- ported acted on inside information that the great European conflict would cud within 30 days Just how PhiIa- delpha bankers got this tip and where 1t came from is mystery, but bankers n New York and Washington have also received the same information.
 Another reason for believing that the war will be of short duration is the fact that Lloyds. in London, have re- gently offered two to one that the war ends by June.
 BELIEF Is GENERAL
 4 Washingtan banker said today that he had heard the rumor of an early ending of the var and that 1t had come from q source which was worthy of credence 1t Is said the information m the hands of American bankers has not come from German sources, but there is an unmistakahie air of opti- mism now prevailing in the East that there will soon be general handshak- ing in Europe.
 As a man who has had long expert ence in diplomatic circles said today; Men fight hardest when there s a big crowd looking on This applies to rulers and prime ministers as well as the men on the street. There is no crowd looking on in Europe. They are ali in the fight. and Europe ia rapidly awakening to the realization that she is damaging herself only. The United States is the only big disinterested on booker
 GERMANY LOOKING TO PEACE?
 It Is rumorei that the sale of German government treasury notes, maturing January 1. l9l6. is only the beginning oi huge German financial plan for quick resumption of trade when peace finally comes. The loan is not for am manton, b.. ,s simply to insure Ger man credit m this country when the war ends in order that tha, nation can go quickly into the market and buy at the early and low price,
 The present European war has been one for commercial supremacy rather than conquest. and the nations engaged m the bloody conflict which has been raging since last summer, it is thought, ate beginning to see the error of their ways Germany, in the opinion of the Eastern bankers. i5 merely taking time by the fore-loek as part of a we'll laid p,an to have huge credit established here 20 that she can purchase great stores of needed foodstutfs and supplies when peace comes, Germany stands in great need of cotton. copper wool, beef and grain. and 1t looks as though she were trying to steal a march upon the allies in being first in the American market when the war ends
 F. Tennyson Nicely, world traveller and lecturer in Washington this week, just back from the war zone. says the world war will have come to an end within the next 60 days.
 Others believe that with the fall of Constantnople will come cessation of hostilities,
 SOUTH WILL PROSPER.
 If the predictions of an early peace prove true. the South will profit to a greater extent probably than any other section of the United States. as mar ket will be found for the millions of bales of cotton now in storage awaiting market. With cotton again bringing a profitable price. the South should be the first to feel the effects of the new prosperity that would come Gold has been coming to this country in large