The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-19
GERMANY WOULD REJECT
PEACE OFFER r O CAR
sur" correspondent Finds Berlin Determined to Con-
tnue war Against Combined Allies-Food Sup
ply Sufficient to Last Till January.
By a StoG Correspoudeut

By a Sto0 Correspondent.
LONDON, July 6-Berliners do not
ak about Smith. Lloyd, Love or what
ever mis- real name may be and how
ANY brides he may have killed I'm the
oath, neither do they talk about the
horrible injustice of stopping racing.
'nus interfering with the indisputable
right or an Englishman to witness the
Derby Instead they talk about war
ana agriculture. principally agriculture.
III Is a most amazing change in psy-
choiosy TO hear Berliners who formally
talked OF brightness and lo%veliness and
gayety of German character to hear
them now seriously discussing crops
and rainfall. 1T Is a beautiful day.
You say. "Ah." says the B%erliner.
Beautiful, warm. sunshiny. But how
viii this affect the crops?'
AS you sit on the terrace of a res
'aurant in Inter den Linden enjoy ing
every apotheosis of starvation. your
most. ignoring the passing OF woundcd
soldiers and the parade march OF the
white trousered guard who goosestep
at the approach of an officer. says 10, =
fully "Hurrah! There is Il cloud in
the Ky. means rain and rain
means our salvation"
Then one realizes how intimately
agriculture and its successes have en-
tered into even the mind of the
Berliner. To such an extent have
the Internal necessities and econ
omies of the nation reached even TO
the city that knows no war ave By
newspaper reports that in the suburbs
former tennis fields have been trans
formed Into potato patches. Signs
which formerly asked passersby to pur-
chase building lots are now obscured
by the rising fields ~ budding wheat
that rave been utilized for war pur-
poses.
Rcsents starvation Cry.
Starvation Is a cry that Germany
resents. II may have been different
until Germany statistically knew her
resources. Now, as she knows them,
she laughs at starvation. She has suf-
ficient wheat. meat ana other staples
OF food to last her until the end OF
January even II the present harvest
should prove an absolute failure, hut
rain has come and the harvest is Sc
cured. according to German authority.
Nv ~ lb'HAloh - 'AN ""AN ~
mediately presented itself.
Millions of Germans are now at the
front. How can German crops be
reaped? Are your women sufficient TO
do the work of the ahsen. men, THE
L correspondent asked.
The smiling answer was given:
"Our salvation or that proposition
happily has been rendered by our enc
mics. The enormous number or Rus
sian prisoners that We have taken. in
stead Of being. as was at first supposed,
n danger to our food supplies. have
proved not only a salvation TO our
labor and agricultural situation but also
proved ~propagandists OF German democ-
racy. The Russian prisoners that re
nave taken are OF the lowest Asiatlc
and peasant class. They have been
ground down in their native country TO
such an extent that the kindness ana
the rations of the ordinary German SOL
dier which we serve them have been
like an entrance to Paradise
They work in III fields with de-
light. \ German soldier with n bay
onet which he does not use To their
minds is infinitely better than a Rus
sian officer with a knout. Every Rus
sian prisoner. and there are more than
n million. IL filling our soil, making our
harvest more ccure and In addition
is becoming a propaganda FOR Ger
man,'s cause in Russia"
Here II may he well to state the views
that responsible German statesmen take
in regard to a separate pace win
Russia. Without question the Grand
Duke Cyril, whose wire was a naive ot
Cohurg, has during the last few weeks
wandered in and wandered out of the
German Foreign Office In the Wilhelm
strasse. This has led 10 the belief that
even official denials have not been sur
fci.n, to destroy the belief that Russia
was seeking a 5 parate peace with ter
many. \ section OF the community
would welcome any sort or peace win
honorable conditions. but the majority
of the reject any idea of a
separate peace with Russia.
II was astonishing ~ find that a
country with its back to the wall fight
ing every other big nation in Europe
should at an opportunity to make peace
with one of its strongest opponents say:
No separate Peace.
NO. We are a white race, Peace
with Russia means, or must mean. an
alliance with the Tatar and the Jap
anese. II must mean the su~bjugation
of the white race. Therefore We Ger
mans. to whom the yellow peril Is not
"A mounting. hut an actually and a
reality, say NO We will have no
separate peace with Russia"
Along this line THE Sun correspond
ent was extremely surprised TO find how
converging were the ideas OF peace in fhe
German Foreign Office and he British
Foreign Office He was frankly told IN
the German Foreign Office that there
was not one single line in Eng
land would insist upon for peace that
Germany could not meet. The annex
alton of Belgium was as far from
the German mind as from the
English mind. The military party