The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-28

council table, began with the addreS
of Count Czernin, the Austrian for
eign minister, at Brest- Litovsk, OF
December 20. The keynote of th'
address was general peace withou
annexations and indemnities.
On January 8, President Wilson
addressing congress, said that the
United States must know for whom
the German rulers were speaking
The address was a complement to
an address made on January 5, by
David Lloyd George, the British
premir.
To these addresses reply was made
by Imperial Chancellor Won Hertling
of Germany, and Count Czernin.
The latter was pacific and concilia-
tory in tone, while the former, al
luding to the good German sword"
showed he was speaking for the
militarists of the Germanic powers.
-Four Principles" Enunciated
To these replies there was re-
joindcr by President Wilson, who,
on February II, again, addressing
congress, laid down what have come
to be known as the -Four Princi-
pies upon which peace can be based.
Briefly, these principles were:
Final settlement must be based
on essential justice.
Peoples and provinces are not to
be bartered about like chattels.
Every territorial settlement must
be for the benefit and in the inter
est of the populations concerned.
All wcll-dchned national aspira-
tions shall be met with the utmost
satisfaction consistent with the fu-
turc peace.
Pope Benedict, in a pastoral let
ter issued at Easter, made another
appeal for concord among the peo-
plies of the world, but it brought
forth no tangible results. At the
Pope's behest, prayers for peace
were offered in Catholic churches
the world on St. Peters
day, June %.
In April there came revelations
from Paris that Emperor Charles
Of Austria had written letters to
Prince Sixtus of Bourbon. a rea-
i've. In these communications the
Austrian monarch conceded the |
,laim of France to Alsace and Lor-
-ane and hintcd that peace over
ures would be welcomed.
As the result of this, Count Ger
lin, the Austrian foreign minister,
vas removed from office.
The most recent addresses on the
ubject of peace have been delivered
n the German rcchstag, one by
)r. Richard Won Kuehlmann, the
oreign minister; and the other by
imperial Chancellor Won Hertling.
he formers sensational admission
hat the sword by itself could not
ring peace resulted i'll his resig-
alton, and Won Hertling's address
DICED the sentiment that as long 4
5 the allies were intent upon de S
.roying Germany the war must /
o on.
The Enemy Offensives. '
Last winter it became known that
lie Germans were massing forces
n the western front. Reports came 6
lat large units were training behind /
lie lines and that new and more |
rrible engines of war than had t
zen known before were to be used c
German effort to break the al /;
ed lines, crush their armies and /
rce them to make peace. The +
i've was well advertised and even Il
e place where it was to be launch t;
was known with comparative
rtainty. c
On the morning of March 2l the \
ermans began their attack from 81
e vicinity of Arras. on the north, it
La Fere on the south, and cen p
ring their heaviest columns Il
ainst the British forces, under !,
neral Cough. at St. Quentin. tf
Staggering before the impact of Is
e blow, the British army fell ST
OK rapidly. For eight days the fr
,rmans poured through the old
led line in an effort to crush the
itish and drive a wedge between al
I'm and the French, who were
lding the lines to the south. Then be
ne period OF reaction and the RI
rmans came to a stop. They had hs
ven ahead for IS miles, along a OF
mt extending more than 50 miles CO
ore they were halted. te
Hardly had their legions been held to
ore Amiens than a new often :
c was begun in Flanders, on i
ril ,. 1t swept the British back
ough Armentieres, but did not
ak their lines. The British with
French who were rushed up 20
front, stopped the Germans aft
they had reached the hills south
i OF Ypres. There, on April .,
Germans suffered terrible de-
that halted their offensive in
t quarter.
Foch In Supreme Command. a
n the midst of the drive in the !
tor toward Amiens the allied y
ions took a vitality important {
}. They named General Ferdi- e
d Foch. hero of the first battle -
he Marne, generalissimo OF the r
d forces on the western front,
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