Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-21
10 CHANCE THAT FRANCE
WILL CONSENT TO PEACE
ct Until Beyond Possibility OF Fur
Their German Aggression
VIII War End.
light is AGAINST GOVERNMENT
Baron D'Estournelles de Constant
Declares 1t Must BE Struck Down
Before More OF Jts People Are Led
To Slaughter.
BARON D'EsTOu.NEiIEs DE
CONSIA NI.

FARlS, April 20.-Attempts have
'een made recently from Zurich To
est the French opinion on the peace
question. My reply Is that there In no
nance that France will consent to
,eace as yet. Not until we have put
ourselves beyond the possibility of
'urth"r German aggression will the
Sar end.
We. who have always wanted peace.
are now reproached because we wish
% push the war TO the bitter end hut
I lis just because We are looking 10
the ultimate and complete peace of
Europe tina, we don't intend to let the
German government profit by
patched-up peace to strike another
blow few years honce II even she
could not succeed then os now, she
could. nevertheless, Kill many human
bcinga and destroy our wealth and
masterpieces of art.
We are compelled to strike down
tho German government, to reduce II
to powerlcssness. and we Frenchmen
will do 1t in the interests OF peace
The German government seeks TO CON
vince the neutral powers that we are
warning on the German people. Tina,
Is lie. Franco has never warred on
any people. She has warred on a gov
crnment that has exploited the Ger
man people and led them TO slaughter
10 satiate it's pride and ambition
The German government regards It's
people as q slcdEe hammer. and this
sledSe hammer obeys the swing Of the
arm. The German government, has
smitten the children of France, Bel
GUM. Serbia. England and Russia with
the German renple:: we must at all
costs tear the arm from its grasp.
GERMAN PEOPLE WOULD tsE $50
THE FIRST SUFFEHERs
II the French pacifsts did consent
to a premature peace. the German poo
pie you'd he tho first sufferers <om
this weakness. for they would be fatcd
10 be sacrificed 70 the future ambi-
ton. Of the military caste who would
teach the new youth OF Germany that
IL was their patriotic duty to Kill IN.
youth Of France for the glory Of The
German government
The statement has been made that
Russia is not free. The reply is that
Russia was no: thinking OF war and
was less ready for IL th:tn England and
France. Tolstoi's influence dominated
there. while Bernhardi and Trietzchlc
were the German prophets
II is also said that the lin. viii
Come when tho German people viii
not consent 10 hc led 70 the slaughter
reply that the German people are not
free g long as their prescn. form of
government stands. Even IL the Ger
man people summon ed the. Encourage TO
revolt. they would be massacred by
the nastersrthey hlvs hitberto-csheyed.
and the machine EunS ard cannon
which the government would take
back from the trenches. IL we signed
peace now, would immediately nc
tnrhcd against the people in order to
maintain discipline. The government
wopld be moro than ever tho con
ancror OF the German reople
our duty as Frcnchmen I" design
durable peace is 70 fight German milf
tarism 10 the bitter end, and In. day
German militnrism ceases 10 exist,
thfr" VIII he no reason why any Other,
country's militarism should continue to
csia: