Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-03-23
ALLIES TO CONTINUE
FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
CLARES LAWLESS FORCE
MUST, BE SUPPRESSED.
Condemns German Political Crimes
Against the Russian and Rur1anian
People ana Refuses to Ac-
knowledge Peace Treaties.

| Iondon.-The supreme war council
Of the allies issued statement on
March IS. oondemning German political
crimes against the. Russian and the
Rumanian peoples and refusing to ac-
knowledge Germany's peace treaties
with them, and also declaring:
1--WE are fighting and mean ICON
tinue fighting, in" order to finish. once
for all with this policy Of plumber. and
establishs in its place the peaceful
reign of Organized justice"
The councils statement, which is is
sued through the. foreign office, says:
1.-THE prime ministers: and foreign
ministers of the entente. assembled in
London feel Tito 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 I'M
armed Forgetting that for four years
Germany had been fighting against the
independence of nations and the rights
of mankind, the Russian government,
in mood of singular credulity, ex-
pected to obtain by persuasion that
democratic peace, which it had failed
| to obtain by war.
Perfidy of Teutons.
'The results were that the interme-
date armistice had not expired before
the German command, though pledged
not to alter the disposition of its
troops, transferred them ep masse to
the western front aD1 so weak did
Russia find herself that she dared to
raise no protest against this violation
of Germanys plighted word.
what .,,llOwed was of like char
| acter, when the German peace was
translated into action. 1t was found
to involve the invasion of Russian ter
ritory, the destruction or capture of all
Russia's means of defense and the or
ganization 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 impos
sible found diplomacy impotent. Their
representatives were compelled to pro-
claim that while they refused to read
the treaty presented to them they had
no choice but to sign it; SO they signed
1t, not knowing whether in it's true
significance it meant peace or war, nor
measuring the degree to which Russian
national life was reduced by it to a
shadow.
Pledges Untrustworthy.
"For us of the entente governments,
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 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.
lcally as a destroyer of national indie
| pendence, the implacable enemy of the
rights of man and the dignity of civ
lized nations?
poland, whose heroic spirit has sur
vived the most cruel of national trag-
pdies, is threatened with a fourth par
| tition, and to aggravate her wrongs,
devices by which the last trace of 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 u flood of merci-
less passion for domination.
peace treaties such as these we do
not and cannot acknowledge. Our own
ends are very different. We are fight
! Ing, and mean to continue fighting, in
| order to finish once for all with this
policy of plumber and to establish in
it's place the peaceful reign of organ
lied justice.
"As incidents of this long war I'M
roll themselves before our eyes, more
and more clearly do we perceive that
the battles for freedom are everywhere
interdependent; that no separate emu
meration of them is needed and that in
every case the single, but all-sufficient,
appeal is to justice and right.
Are justice and right going to win?
! In so far as the issue depends on bat
ties vet to come, the nations whose
fate is 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 cause en-
trusted to their valor."
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