Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-27
BIG ALLIED WAR
COUNCIL PLANS
TO CRUSH FOES
Aeroplanes Guard Leaders
of Seven Nations From
Zeppelin Raiders
ENGLAND PLEDGES FUNDS
Italians Reveal Attempts by
Germany to Win Her Away
From Entente
PARIS. March q.


Vast plans by which the Entente Pow.
ers hope to end the war before the end
Of the present year are being made by
the Grand Allied Council Of war which
began here today.
The first session was opened at the
Foreign Office at 10 o'clock with repre-
sentatives OF seven nations present.
In connection with the Council of Wa
office. discussion of economic matters will
be held during the week
Extraordinary precautions to guard
against great Zeppelin raid on Paris
while the council rs in session. were taken
by the French military authorities today.
The greatest fleet of aeroplanes that ha
rnaneuvered above the capital in many
months took the air promptly at dawn u
patrol the skies. Lines of air scouts eN.
tended far outside the city. over the north.
ern suburbs Relays of aviators kept
constant watch for zeppclins from the dis.
trict north Of Compiegne.
NATIONAL LEADERS PRESENT.
All the nations represented and those
representing them follow:
France Premier BRAND, Genera
Charles Rouues the Minister of War
General Castenau, Chief of the French
General stan. and General Joseph Joffre
the French Mnister-in-Chief.
a.ngland-Premier Asquith, Sir Edward
Src.. the Foreign Minister Lord kttch-
,ner, Secretary of State for War: General
SIR Douglas Halg, commander of the
sritish troops on the Continent. and Cen
~al Robertson, chief Of the British Cen
er.i Stan.
Russia--M. Iswolsltv. Russian Ambas-
sador TO France. and General Gilinsky, !
aide-de-canip TO Gear Nicholas
rtaly~-rPemier SalandTa. Baron Son !
tttao ha EDraiRn Minister. General Dali /.
'Oliu Minister OF Munitions and Lleuten- !
ant General Count Luigi Cadorna, chief .
of italian General Staff.
Belgium-Baron Broqueville. Premier /
and War Minister and Baron Beyens. For
eign Minister.
Serbia--Crown Prince Alexander and
Premier Pachitoch
Japan-Baron Matsu, Japanese Am
bassador to Paris.
The chief aim of the war council. II
is believed. is to inaugurate general Of
fensive against the German Allies in an
effort to deliver Il finishing blow.
SO confident are the Allies of scoring !
decisive victory over the Central Powers
that the delegates to the economic confer
ences are looking beyond the end Of the
war to the readjustments which will fol-
low peace.
England. it is said has pledged herself
to furnish money to any of the Allied
countries WnlCn is nl<ley 10 De HaIlpeTeu
by lack of funds in preparing for general
offensive.
Germany has been making desperate
efforts to detach Italy from the ranks of
the Allies. This was learned today when
the War Council met
ITALY REVEALS ATTEMPT.
Information came from a most reliable
italian source. The Germans II was
learned, planned by shrewd propaganda
and by triumph at Verdun to create
such dissatisfaction in Italy that the
help CLOSE the steel ring" around the
Central Empires by joining in the Paris
program for concerted action.
The Germans. the United Press was in
formed learned of plans for the super
war council several weeks ago. Alarmed
at the prospects that the Allies would !
frame a program for the closest military
diplomatic and euunomic collaboration for
maximum offensive efficiency, the Kaiser |
decided on an attempt to take Verdun. |
believing the moral effect OF such a defeat |
on the Allies would halt the conference.
At the same time he sent a shrewd band |
of propagandists into Italy and began a
campaign designed to foment trouble in
Italy, In the German newspapers The |
Germans particularly feared that an inn
portant result of the Paris conference
would be the appearance OF Italian troops
on other fronts, knowing that the noun
famous nature of much of the Austro-
Italian front prevents the use OF all Italy's
forces
The Italian Government was on the
alert and took quick steps to counteract
the effect of this German propaganda The
Germans failure to take Verdun dealt
final blow to the scheme, one of the most
ambitious attempts to create a breach in
the ranks of the Allies since the beginning
OF the war.