Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-07-20
WAR WILL LAST
WHOLE YEAR YET
SAYS GERMANY

Regardless of the decision history
ultimately will record as to victor and
vanquished in the great North sea
fight OF May 81 and June /, there is
no denying the fact that the battle
brought a sudden stiffening to the So
called war party" in Germany. All
talk of Germany being willing to end
the war on basis of the antebellum
status quo ended.
1t is being given out now in neutral
Europe that Germany will require ga
slight rectifcation of her frontier at
| the expense of Belgium" 1t is further
asserted that it will be necessary for
the central powers to keep strip Of
Serbia in order that the railway to
Constantinople shall always run
through friendly country. Germany
always has maintained that her col
onies should be returned to her. It is
now added that there must be "com-
pensation for German losses in the
Congo" Something also must be
DONE" it is stated, "to keep Belgium
from being the vassal state of Eng
land"
Delegate on Peace Mission
The Rev. DR.. Charles F. Aked of
San Francisco, one of the American
delegates to the neutral conference
for continuous mediation sitting in
Stockholm, was in Berlin on mission
of peace at the time of the North sea
fight 1t is commonly reported he was
there by invitation of the German gov
eminent. At any rate, he seems to
have had no difficulty in obtaining au-
diences with most of the higher Off
Gals. The peace conference had en-
tertained the hope that Germany
would outline peace terms of char
| acter so extremely moderate as to
command immediate respect in all the
neutral countries, thus bringing about
| public opinion to which belligerents
eventually would have to listen.
DR.. Aked brought back a gloomy re-
| port. He is said to have suggested to
| officials in Berlin that the neutral ma
| tions would not look with favor upon
German retention Of any Of Belgium
and to have received the answer:
"The neutral nations are not going
to dictate to the 120,000000 of the
| central powers. We have bought the
land of Belgium with our blood. Ger
many must be protected against flu
| tue attacks. Shall we give back all
we have won at such great cost? Shall
we give up the valuable coal and iron
lands of France now in our hands? AS
to Serbia and Montenegro, they have
! had their lesson, I hope. We will
| leave Austria to deal with them"
Sees No Cessation to War
| Even the extreme pacifists in Ger
many are said to have told the ennis
the time was not ripe for overtures of
peace. Irrespective of the conflicting
claims of victory, it was said the naval
| fight had heightened the way by at
least twelve months The only thing
the pacifsts could do now was to wait
for the right moment and seize it
when it came.
DR.. Aked reported to the conference
that he found everywhere in Germany
the conviction that the German armies
cannot be beaten in the field and that
the allies cannot exhaust German re-
sources. Money and men seemed to
be plentiful, he said, and an American
living in Berlin asserted there were
hundreds of thousands of men, trained
to the minute, who had not yet been
on any firing line. Extremists of the
war party" were most confident in
their military claims. They asserted
they had no fear of the English or