The evening herald., 1918-03-19
RUSSIAN -RUMANIAN
PEACE WITH ENEMY
SCORkEO BY ALLIES
Supreme War Council Declines TO
Recognize the Treaties and De.
clares War will Continue Until
the Hunss Are Crushed.


London March 10 The supreme
war council of the allies issued q
statement tonight coudemning Ger-
man political crimes against the Rus
sian and tho Gumauian peoples aud
refusing To- acknowledge Germany. =
peace treaties with them ana also dc
ci1riug
We are fighting and mean to cpu-
uluc fighting. IN order TO flash once
Cor all. with this policy ,t rlundc-
aud establish in is place the 'a,ciul
reign 90 organized Justice
The councils statement which i-
issued through the foreign Office.
says
The prime ministers and foreign
ministers Of the entente assembled in
London feel IL To be their boundeu
duty to take note of the political
crimes. which under the name of e.
German peace. have been committed
against the Russian people. RUSSIA
was uuarmed Forgetting that for
four years Germany had been iightiaS
against the Independence Of nations
and the rights OF mankind. the kus-
sian government iu mood Of singu-
lar yreduli;y. expected To- obtain ul
pcrsuasiou that democratic peace
which it had failed Go obtain 10y war
I;rokc Nrmisticr Terms
"Thc results were that the inter
mediate armistice had not expired be-
fore the German command though
pledged not tu alter he disposition nl
its troops. transferred them rn mn~-e
To- the western front ana so weak did
Russia find herself that she dared t."
raise no protest against this dc~lru'-
zion OF Gcrmany's phghted word.
What followed was of Ike char2 b
ter. when the German peace was
translated into action. u was iou' -
TO involve the invasion OF Russian
territory the destruction or capture
OF an Russia's means Of defense. ana
the organization of Rus'ian lands for
Germany profit \ proceeding whica
did not differ from annexation he.
causc the word itself was CAREFUL,
avoided.
Meanwhile. those very Russian
who had made military operations
impossible found diplomacy impotent
Their Representatives were compelled
20 proclaim that while they refuse
10 read tho treaty presented to th"n'
they had no choice but TO sign 10, s1
they signed it not knowing whether
Bro jus true significance Il meant pea @
or war. nor measuring the degree 10
which Russian national DO" was re-
duced hy IL 20 a shadow.
Hun Pledges No Gond.
Fo, MS Of the entente government
the Judgment which the free people,
ol the world will pass on these trany'
actions would never be iu doubt. Why
waste time over German pledges WHOM
Wr see them at no period in her his
tory OF conQuest-not when she over
ran Siloaia nor when she plrt.tlOneC
Poland-has she exhibited herself sc
cynically as a destroyer of national IN
dtpendence. the implacablo enemy oi
this rights OF man and the dignity Of
civilized nations9
Poland whose heroic spirit hos sur.
yIved the most cruel OF national trag'
edics Is threatened with a fourth par.
tition ana 20 aggraHate her wrongs
devices hy which the last trace q
her independence rs 20 be crushed ar.
based on fraudulent promises Of free
dom
what Is true % Russia and Po
land SIS no less true of Rumania. over
whclmed like them In a flood OF mcr
cIless passion Tor domination"