The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-03-20
Allies Refuse to Acknowledge
German Peace PactS With
Russia and Roumania.
STATEMENT is ISSUED
Will Fight to End to Establish Peace.
fuI Reign of Justice Instead of
Teuton Policy of
Plumber.

London, March 20.-The supreme
war council Of the Allies has issued a
statement condemning German politi-
cal crimes against the Russian and
the Roumanian peoples and refusing
to acknowledge Germany's peace
treaties with them, and also declar-
ing:
I'VE are fighting and mean to con-
tinue fighting, in order to finish once
for all with this policy of plunder,
and establish in its place the peace
ful reign of organized Justice"
The document Is In the nature of q
restatement of the Allies war aims.
1t embodied a protest against Ger
many's action, in the name of Ger
man peace, toward the Russian peo-
ple-
The statement makes plain that the
Allies scorn any peace at the expense
OF Russia.
The councils statement, which is
issued through the foreign office, says
Note Grimes of Enemy.
THE prime ministers and foreign
ministers of the Entente assembled
In london feel 1t to be their bounden
duty to take note of the political
crimes, which under the name of a
German peace, have been committed
against the Russian people. Russia
was unarmed. Forgetting that for
four yooro Harnnapy hod haap Hph rim v
against the independence of nations
and rights of mankind, the Russian
government, In a mood of singular
creduality, expected to obtain by per-
suasion that democratic peace which
II had failed to obtafa at war.
THE results were that the inter
mediate armistice had not expired be-
fore the German command, though
pledged not to alter the disposition OF
its troops, transferred them en- masse
to the western front, and 80 weak
did Russia find herself that she dared
to raise no protest against this flag
rant violations of Germany's plighted
word.
Annexation camouflaged.
what followed was of like charac
ter, when the German peace was
translated into action. 1t was found
to involve the invasion of Russian
territory, the destruction or capture
of all Russia's means Of defense, and
the organization of Russian lands fol
| Germany's profit, a proceeding which
so-
the word itelf was carefully avoided
Judgment Never Doubted.
"For us of the Entente government
the Judgment which the free peoples
of the world will pass on these trans
actions would never be in doubt. Why
waste time over German pledges wher
we see that no period in her history
| of conquest-not when she overrar
Silesia, nor when she partitioned 20
land-has she exhibited herself 81
cynically as a destroyer of nationa
independence, the implacable enem.
OF the rights of man and the dignit!
OF civilized nations?
Peace treaties such as these we d,
not and cannot acknowledge. Our owl
ends are very different. We are fight
ing, and mean to continue fighting, il
order to finish once for all with thi
policy of plunder and to establish il
its place the peaceful reign of OIL
ganized justice.
Only Appeal Is to Right.
GAS incidents OF this long war un
roll themselves before our eyes, NOR
and more clearly do we perceive tha
the battles for freedom are every
where interdependent; that no sepal
ate enumeration of them is needle
and that In every case the single
but all-sufficient appeal is to justic
and right.
Are justice and right going to win
Insofar as the issue depends on ba
ties yet to come, the nations who's
fate is in the balance may surel
put their trust in the armies, which
even under conditions more difficul
than the present, have shown then
selves more than equal to the grea
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