New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-03-22
FIGHT TO FINISH.
SAY PREM|ERS
WAR COUNCIL AGREES THAT
VOWS OF TEUTON'S CANNOT
BE TAKEN.
DEN0UNCE SLAV PACT
STRUGGLE MUST BE CONTINUED
UNTIL THE LAWLESS FORCE
is ENDED,

western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, March 19.-The Suprem,
War Council of the allies issued
statement condemning German polit
ical crimes against the Russian an,
Rumanian peoples, and refusing II
acknowledge Germany's peace treaties
The councils statement, which il
issued through the foreign office
says:
The prime ministers and foreign
ministers of the entente assembled II
London feel it to be their bounder
duty to take note of the politica
crimes which, under the name of Ger
man peace, have been committed
against the Russian people. Russia
was unarmed. Forgetting that fol
four years Germany had been fight
ing against the independence of ma
tons and the rights of mankind, the
Russian government, in a mood o.
singular credulity, expected to obtair
by persuasion that democratic peace
which it had failed to obtain by war
THE results we're that the interme
date armistice had not expired be
fore the German command, though
pledged not to alter the disposition Of
its troops, transferred them en- masse
to tie western front, and so weak did
Russia find herself that she dared tC
raise no protest against this destruc
ton of Germany's plighted word
What followed was of like character
when the German peace was trans.
lated into action. 1t was found to In.
volve the invasion of Russian terri
tory, the destruction or capture OF all
Russia's means of defense, and the
organization of Russian lands for Ger.
many's profit-a proceeding which did
not differ from annexation because
the word itself was carefully avoided.
meanwhile, those very Russians
who had made military operations i'm
possible. found diplomacy impotent.
Their representatives were compelled
to proclaim that while they refused to
read the treaty presented to them, they
had no choice but to sign it; so they
signed it. not knowing whether in its
true Significance it meant peace or
war, mol measuring the degree to
which Russian national life was re-
duced by 1t to a shadow.
"For us of the entente governments
the Judgment which the free peoples
Of the world will pass on these trans.
sactions would never be in doubt. Why
waste time over German pledges when
we see that at no period in her history
Of conquest-not when she overran
Silesia nor when she partitioned Po-
land-has she exhibited herself so Gym
ically as a destroyer Of national indie
pendence, the implacable enemy of the
rights Of man and the dignity Of civil
lied nations.
Poland, whose heroic spirit has sur
vived the most cruel Of national TRACE
dies, Is threatened with a fourth parti-
ton, and, to aggravate her wrongs,
devices by which the last trace at her
independence Is to be crushed are
based on fraudulent promises of free
dom.
What is true of Russia and Poland
Is no less true of Rumania, over
whelmed, like them. in a flood Of mer-
CHESS passion for domination.
Peace is loudly advertised, but un-
der the disguise of verbal professions
Turk the brutal realities of war and the
cntempered rule of a lawless force.
Peace treaties such as these we do
not and cannot acknowledge. Our
known ends are very different. We are
lighting, and meal to continue fight.
ng, in order to finish once for all with
his policy of plumber, and to estab-
ish in its place the peaceful reign Of
organized justice.
"As incidents of this long war I'M
oil themselves before our eye more
md o clearly do we perceive that
he battles for freedom are every
where interdependent; that no separ-
tie enumeration Of them is needed
md hat in every case the single, but
Insufficient, appeal is to justice and
light.
Are justice and right going to win?
as the issue depends on bat
les yet to come. the nations whose
ate is in the balance. may surely put
heir trust in the armies, which even
nder conditions more difficult than
he present, have shown themselves
lore than equal to the great cause en-
rusted to their valor."