Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1915-04-22
ALLIES SHUN PEACE UNTIL KAI.
Err HAS BEEN BEATEN
Determined to Allow No Pressure to
Interfere With Their Resolution to
Crush Germany's Power and to
Settle with Austria.
Ffepeh and British Armies Declared
To Be Near Efficiency Pitch.
Total Fighting Front Now
Stretches Out 1,66S Miles.

Paris, April 17.-After having
sounded persons In official and inau-
entail circles here regarding the peace
feelers that Germany is now putting
out, notably in the United States, /
am able authoritatively to state that
the Allies position, after eight months
Of warfare, is as follows:
France and England are fully aware
Of Germany's preparedness to sign q
peace which shall leave Europe
precisely as it was in last July, with
no territorial changes and no agree
ment regarding the limitation OF ar
mament.
France, England and Russia, how
ever, are more than ever determined
to persist In their resolution formed
last September to remove Germany
from her position of military domi-
nance. They hold unflinchlngly to
their plan of shattering Germany's
striking force. No peace pressure ex-
erted through neutral countries, direct
or indirect, will be allowed to lafiu-
ence their resolution.
Why Allies Oppose Peace.
Germany's readiness to call the great
war draw and revert to the status
quo ante-bellnm meets no favorable
response in France, England or Rnssias
for the following reasons.
ma sDrftfsh and French armies
wiil reach their h'gnest pitch of efi-
Giency as offensive force, during neat
r,onib, during the very moment the
weakening of the geeat German war
machine is expected to le>oine most
apparent
2. Germany's methods Of frighsful-
ness on land, on sea, AMI In the air
have removed all ideas C Icnienty
from the minds Of the Allies.
3. Since the scissors episode Ger
many has utterly failed to make a Sc
rious offensive effort ON the western
front, while the force OF Marshal vcn
Hindenburg's sledge hammer blows on
the eastern front has expended Itself
before 1t produced the required strate'
gical result, thus denoting significant
feebleness in attack quite foreign to
the Kaiser's army In the first months
Of the war.
4. The Allies could tolerate no peace
which would leave the Kaiser In the
position to say, my armies have rre-
ser-ed my territories inviolate. We
fought where my staff wished and If
the result is not to aggrandize my
empire, its inherent internal strength
Is not diminished"
Next months hostilities may be ex-
pected to lead to considerable short
ening of the battle front.
Fighting Front Of l66S Miles.
BY careful computation find that
the warning nations are HOW fighting
over an area Of 1,66s miles, divided as
follows:
Russian front, $50 miles.
French front, 544 miles.
English front, 80 miles.
These figures do not include the
vague lines in the Caucasus and in
Egypt.
Hundreds of miles Of fighting front
may suddenly disappear If Austria
Hungary gives up. I learn semi Off
cialIy that Austria would eagerly
grasp the chance Of accepting defeat
on the basis Of yielding Calica to
Russia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
to Serbia, but would insist uIon the
Allies providing guarantees for her
conservation of TrentinO, Trieste, Is
tria and Dalmatia.
Peace at Years End, Says Pau.
The only step france hnd Great
Britain so far have ltaken toward
peace is the disposition they are now
showing to agree in the principle of
peace with Austria worked out on the
above basis with only minor modifica-
tions
Louis Applet, Of Manning, owner
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