Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-11-22
HAPPENINGS IN
THE "FATHERLAND
News of Interest Gathered In
Germany and Austria.
TIRE OF WAR; sPURN PEACE
Teuton Political and Military Officials
See No More Definite Plan Than
at Outset of War.
TIRE OF WAR; sPURN PEACE

at outset OF War.
with a keen longing for peace has
come persistent speculation in tho
central states MS to the manner in
which this blessing may be secured.
But all thought on the subject remains
what IL has been for nearly two years,
the substance OF the PERSONS own
wishes. Political and military circles
Today arc as far from seeing Il definite
pian for the cessation of the war as
they were when the catastrophe first
overwhelmed Europe. In Berlin and
Vienna they continue setting rheir
teeth when the word peace is men
toned, not because war is wanted. but
TOR the reason that up to this moment
thc entente governments have shown
no ~n:!inatio to entertain n meeting
under existing conditions. If the fear
prevailed in the central states that q
peace with honor. and possibly profit,
could not be secured owing to military
md economic weakness, then thought
might rum in Il different hannel But
that the entente has not shown that 1T
ultimately can realize it's own hopes is
tina universal view held in Germany
and Austria-Hungary and their allied
countries. The offensive on the Som
the the Russian attack in Bukowina
and in East Galicia. the entry into the
wal ol ItuilanId anu ltS immediate
consequences. the campaign of Sarrail
from Saioniki n the eXertions of the
Italians all have contributed toward
tho feeling in the central group that the
resistance met by the entente may yet
open the eyes of those who first an
nounce that they will be satisfied with
a peace whose terms will have been
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF central Europe as a
basis. The central governments. SO
mucl. may be said. are ready today for
a peace which would leave Europe very
much as before the war. with the ex-
ception that Poland must be an au-
tonomous state. and that neither Bel
GUM nor Serbia again can trouble. in
hocently or ~purposely. the quiet of Eu-
rope. There Is not the faintest indi-
cations that h entente is inclined to
enter negotiations on that basis. That
being the case the end Of the wal
seems as far off as ever. In Vienna
and Berlin nobody yet can see why
the central group should make con-
cessions. since they claim to hold
trumps everywhere by the occupation
OF enemy territories SO large that the
rev advantages OF this orders gained
by the entente can hardly count. Had
the summer operations driven the GEN.
trai troops out of France and Russia
things would be different. AS 1t is the
Somme offensive has merely shown,
according. to tho people Of Germany
end. Austria. that the steel wall of the
Germans in the west may be bent. but
cannot be broken. while the troops in
the a 8 have been able to resist the
Russians in a splendid ann num-
bers considered.
German Story Of Raids.
A semiofficial news agency at Ber-
lin has issued reports of witnesses on
the results of the las Zeppelin attacks
on England. I'm the aid OF September
0Y nNInN inn 1pri11{~er r., ,,,1,o l,-~ -
aged or partly destroyed" the state
ment says" with an estimated damage
of more than $10,0 900. 900. A British
cruiser at anchor on the Humber was
hit and co men killed. Two other war
ships were badly damaged. Regent
street, London, the main artery of COM
merce in h metropolis, was mostly
laid in ruins. In a southern London
suburb one ammunition factory was
blown up. The Liverpool street station
q the bridge and tracks were so de-
vastated that it will be impossible to
use them for a long time. Near the
Thames seven benzol tanks were de-
stroyed. The rice sheds of Denny SONS
were destroyed. At Grimsby the bar
were hit and over 400 soldiers
Kllted. AT Hull some quarters were
completely destroyed. only the walls re-
naming. At Leeds heavy damage was
gone ammunition factories and railway
VAlSAlAoulu inc alCOlOl |
factory Of Pink & Son and the sheds Of
fiikers 4 Eye were hit and II cars
ioaded with horses destroyed, one dock
damaged and railways cars exploded"
Would Hold Land Won.
German socialists back from the hor-
rors OF h estrenches will never consent
20 the evacuation Of French and Bel
gan territory for which they paid their
price in bold, the socialist
Die 'il0cke. declares. Die Glocke die.
agrees with Philip Schiedemann, social.
le94er. Who said In q reichstag
fsarconsth13 France could see her soil
{ no that OF Belgium freed Of German
guld!ers without shedding another drop
~ Oi0Od II h would consent to peace.
u newspaper reminds Schiedemann
shat socialist soldiers are not apt to
0e moved by theoretical International
socialistic ideas.
Moro Nsutrats Involved.
Norway. Holland and Spain now ara
PAVING leading parts in Cermanv,s
.ntetnau0nal submarine problem Ia
tne eQOordtnatiOn OF the United states
which go long and 30 often has nan
center OF the stage. In an inter-
view Dr. Alfred Zimmerman. under
secretary Tor foreign affairs, Indicated
inst h tables had been cleared ana
mat no negotiations were in p~rorress
eef43E az the United States was con-
He outlined developments re-
ssratng other n~outrals. The case Of
kd0tland y easy. Il concerns only the
RlOOmersdijk. which was sunk OF the
New England coast OF the IJnifeS
3tatee ~ the German submarine U-ks.
2eF5napy - unwilling TO accent the
version II the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS