The Arvada enterprise., 1918-03-21
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 New. Service.

War Council of the allies issued
statement condemning German polit.
ical crimes against the Russian and
Rumanian peoples. and refusing to
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 In
London feel 1t to be their bounden
duty to take note of the political
crimes which. under the name of Ger.
man peace. have been committed
against the Russian people. Russia
was unarmed. Forgetting that for
four years Germany had been fight
ing against the Independence of ma.
tons and the rights of mankind. the
Russian government, in a mood Of
singular credulity. expected to obtain
by persuasion that democratic peace
which it had failed to obtain by war.
THE results were that the interms-
diate 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 to
raise no protest against this destruc-
ton Of Germany's plighted word.
What followed was OF like character.
whom 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; 30 they
signed 1t. not knowing whether in its
true Significance 1t meant peace or
war. nor measuring the degree to
which Russian national life was re-
duced BY It to . shadow.
For Us Of the entente governments
the judgment which the free peoples
Of the world will pass on these trans.
sactlons 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
silssia nor when she partitioned Po-
land-has she exhibited herself 80 Gym.
ically - . destroyer Of national indie
pendence. the implacable enemy Of the
rights Of man and the dignity Of civil
ICED nations.
Poland. whose heroic spirit has sur.
vived the most cruel Of national TRACE
dies, Is threatened with fourth parti.
ton. and. to ssgravate her wrongs.
devices by which the last trace af her
independence 10 to be crushed are
based on fraudulent promises of free
| dom.
what 10 true of Russia and Poland
Ia no less true Of Rumania. over.
whelmed, like them. in . flood of mer-
CHESS passion for domination.
Peace Is loudly advertised. but un.
der the disguise Of verbal professions
lurk the brutal realities Of war and the
untsmpered rule Of lawless force.
Peace treaties such ~ these we do
not and cannot acknowledge. Our
known ends are very different. We are
fighting. and mean to continue fight
Ing. In order to finish once for all with
this policy Of plumber, and to estsb
lish In its place the peaceful reign Of
organised Justice.
AS Incidents of this long war un.
roll themselves before our eyes. more
and more clearly do we perceive that
tn, battles for freedom are every.
where intcrdependent: that no separ'
ate enumeration OF them In needed
and that In every case the single. but
ail.sufficicnt. appeal 10 to Justice and
right.
Are justice and right going 20 win?
Insofar A. the issue depends on bat.
ties yet to come. the nations whose
fate Il In the balance. may surely put
their trust In the armies. which even
under conditions more difficult than
the present. have shown themselves
more than equal to the great cnus. On
! trusted 10 their vnior."