New Britain herald., 1917-06-14

man military statesmen had reckoned with ell that and were ready to deal with 1t in their own way.
 ''And they have actually carried the greater part of that amazing plan into execution. Look how things stand. Austria Is at their mercy. It has act ed not upon its own initiative or upon the choice of it's own people, but at Berlin's dictation ever since the war began. Its people now desire peace granted from Berlin. The so-called Central Powers are in fact but single power. Serbia is at it's mercy. should its hands be but for moment freed. Bulgaria has consented to it's will, and Rumania is overrun. The Turkish armies, which Germans trained, are serving Germany, certain ly not themselves, and the guns of German warships lying in the harbor of Constantinople remind Turkish statesmen every day that they have no choice but to take their orders from Berlin. From Hamburg to tho Per sian gulf the net is spread.
 Germany Easy to Understand
 els it not easy to understand the eagerness for peace that has been manifested from Berlin ever since the snare was set and sprung? Peace, peace, peace has been the talk of her foreign office for now a year or more; not peace upon her own initiative, but upon the initiative of the nations over which she now deems herself to hold the advantage. A little of the talk has been public, but most of 1t has been private. Through all sorts of channels it has come to me. and in all sorts of guises, but never with the terms disclosed which the German government would be willing to ac- cept. That government has other val- uable pawns in it's hands besides those I have mentioned. It still holds a valuable part of France, though with slowly relaxing grasp, and practically the whole of Belgium. It's armies press close upon Russia and overrun Poland at their will. It cannot go further; it dare not go pack It wishes to close it's bargain before it is too late and it has little left to offer for the pound of flesh it will demand.
 ''The military masters under whom Germany is bleeding see very clearly to what point Fate has brought thAm. If they fall back or are forced back an inch, their power both abroad and at home will fall to pieces like | house of cards. It is their power at home they are thinking about now more than their power abroad. It iS that power which is trembling under their very feet; and deep fear has entered their hearts. They have but one chance to perpetuate their Inili- tary power or even their controlling political influence. If they can secure peace now with the immense advan- tages still in their hands which they have up to this point apparently gained, they will have justified them selves before the German people; they will have gained by force what they promised to gain by 1t; an immense expansion of German power. an imense enlargement of German in- dustrial and commercial opportunities. Their prestige will be secure. and with their prestige their political power. If they fail. their people will thrust them aside; a government account able to the people themselves will be set up in Germany as 1t has been in England, in the United States. 1~ France, and in all the great countries of the modern time except Germany. If they succeed they are safe and Germany and the world are undone; if they fail Germany is saved and the world will be at peace. If they suc- ceed, America will fall within the menace. We and all the rest of the world must remain armed, as they will remain and must make ready for the next step in their aggression; if they fail the world may unite for peace and Germany may be of the union.
 New Use for Pawns.
 ''Do you understand the new in- trigue, the intrigue for peace. and why the masters of Germany do not hesitate to use any agency that promises to effect their purpose, the deceit of the nations? Their present particular aim is to deceive all those who throughout the world stand for the rights of peoples and the self government of nations; for they see what immense strength the forces of justice and liberalism are gathering out of this war. They are employing liberals in their enterprise. They arc using men, in Germany and without, as their spokesmen whom they have hitherto despised and oppressed. using them for their own destruction, socialists, the leaders of labor, tho thinkers they have hitherto sought to silence. Let them once succeed, and these men, now their tools, will be ground to powder beneath the weight of the great military empire they will have set up; the revolutionists in Russia will be cut off from all succor or cooperation in Western Europe and a counter revolution fostered and supported: Germany herself will lose her chance of freedom; and all Europe will arm for the next, the final struggle.
 ''The sinister intrigue is being no less actively conducted in this coun-