The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-03-16
AMSTERDAM DISPATCH SAYS
GREAT WAR IN EUROPE HAS
NOW REACHED LiST >iIss

Peace Without victory is EXpec!c0 10
Come by Observation-Disclosures
Hunger, Exhaustion and Disillusion-
ment of Masses in All of Fighting
Lands Soon hill Force End IT,
slaughter. Central Powers Rely
On Unity and Organization to Stav;:
>Om Rebellion Longer Than Entente.
Amsterdam. March 12.-The grea1
war has reached it's last stage.
Ominous symptoms naring up on the
horizon of embattled Europe, impair,
tally read from this neutral sea nT
observation, allow of but one conclu-
sion:
That the peace which is expected to
come, at the very latest, in mld-suln-
mer, will be indeed peace without
victory, that neither set Of belhger-
-eDts will have crushed the other Dy
that time. but that hunger, exhaus-
Sjon and disilusionment of the masses
in all the fighting lands Will nave
forced the end of the slaughter.
The governments of all the bellig-
rerents know this. Each side is eas-
>eyly, anxiously, waiting for the hour.
where will the masses rise hrst?"
The first nation to be disabled as an
active belligerent because OF rebel
.ilon at home will throw the balance.
The Central Powers, organized and
centralized to the nth degree, rely
upon their very unity and organiza-
sion to stave of a rising from Win
IN longer than the allies.
The allies look toward America as
5he saving angel. American entrance
into the war on their side, they trust
will be such a powerful moral impetus
10 the entente peoples, and its reaction
ppon the masses in the central Euro
Dean nations will be so tremendous
that it will kindle revolt there Whlle
pacifying and calming the people at
home.
Meanwhile, the crisis draws nearer
every day-everywhere.
Cabinets are tottering. The spectre
of hunger looms larger and blacker. IN
every land.
In France, the BRAND ministry IS
making a. last, faint struggle 1or lts
sife. It's overthrow is looked for with
un a few weeks, perhaps days.
In England, Lloyd-George faces a
nowerful onslaught by the Liberals
and labor pacifsts led by the man
whom he forced out OF the premier
ship few short months ago-Asqulth.
Hand in hand with the attacks from
this quarter will come the tlercest
fight yet launched by the Irish ma
sionalities.
In Russia, the cleavage between the
government and the duma is daily
widening, and while the politicai
y,sankse goes on food riots are grow
ing in number and violence.
In Italy, the Socialists and paciflsts
steadily are gaining in strength. The
German U-boat campaign is cutting
italy off from its food supply and
from the much needed English coat
shipments.
In Germany, the food problem grows
more and more menacing and dis
aeontented voices in the representative
bodies are becoming louder ana
louder The empire however, believes
j. can hold out until the next harvest
and trusts in the U-boats to force the
allies to their knees.
In Austria-Hungary, political un-
rest is reported to be increasing ana
she overthrow of the most powerful
statesman. Count TIA, premier OF
Hungary. is rumored near.
AS to political upheaval. the sltua-
ton appears most serious for the mo-
!oent in France. Tomorrow's sitting OF
-she chamber of deputies will go q
Bong way toward deciding just no"
long the BRAND ministry can last be-
tore it is nagged to death by the varl.
ens committees. An Interpolation VII!
be introduced by Deputy Petl]ean
asking the government for comics,
sion of faith. The high command ol
The army, already criticized IN numer'
ous secret sessions of the chamber
and senate, as we'll as the mllltar!
expedition in Macedonia, will be
among the chief subjects OF DEBATE
J II IS not the membership OF tht
chamber that is causing BRAND his
endless trouble, but the various com
g,sttees, which for months have peer
engaging in a policy of nagging, oe
ynanding explanations on Thousand
and one details, and after these nave
been given insisting on "eXplanatlon'
of the explanation"
BRAND today faces much the sam
situation that confronted him in 1914
when he lost the premiership under
similar conditions.
Perhaps the only thing that has
STAYED off his overthrow this long Il
the fact that the opposition seem
unable to agree on a successor. A
present the most plausible candidat
appears to be Paul Deschanel, recent
w reelected president of the cham
Der.
The stormiest days of his career ar
ahead for LloydGeorge.
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