Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-03-22
ALLIES TO CONTINUE
FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
SUPREME WAR COUNCIL DE.
cLARES LAWLESS FORCE
MUST BE SUPPRESSED.
Condemns German Political Crimes
Against the Russian and Rumanian
People and Refuses to Ac-
knowledge Peace Treaties.

London.-The supreme war counc
of the allies issued statement o.
March IS condemning German politica
crimes against the Russian and tn
Rumanian peoples and refusing to &C
knowledge Germany's peace treatie
with them, and also declaring:
I'VE are fighting and mean to con
tinue fighting, In order to finish ono,
for all with this policy Of plumber, anC
establish in its place the peaceful
reign of organized Justice"
The councils statement, which is Is
sued through the foreign office, says
"The prime ministers and foreign
ministers of the entente assembled in
London feel it to 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 a mood of singular credulity, ex-
pected to obtain by persuasion that
democratic peace which it had failed
to obtain by war.
Perfidy of Teutons.
1.-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 en- masse to
the western front and so weak did
Russia find herself that she dared to
raise no protest against this violation
of Germany's plighted word
What followed 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 rleans of defense and the or
ganizahon 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
sible found diplomacy impotent. Their
were compelled to pro- |
lain that while they refused to read |
he treaty presented to them they had |
10 choice but to sign it; so they signed |
t, not knowing whether in its true
ignifcance it meant peace or war, nor
measuring the degree to which Russian
Iational life was reduced by it to a
hadow.
Pledges UntrustworthY.
"FOr us of the entente governments,
he judgment which the free peoples
( the world will pass on these trans
ctions would never be in doubs. Why
Taste time over German pledges when
re see that at no period in her history
f conquest-nOt when she overran
iIesia nor when she partitioned Po-
lnd-has she exhibited herself so Gym
ally as destroyer of national indie
the implacable enemy of the
gifts of man and the dignity OF civ
lied nations?
Poland, whose heroic spirit has sur
wed the most cruel of national trag-
lies, is threatened with a fourth par
ton, and to aggravate her wrongs,
evices by which the last trace of her
is to be crushed are
lsed on fraudulent promises of free
I'm.
what is true of Russia and Poland
no less true of Rumania, over
helmed like them in a flood of merci-
SIS passion for domination.
'Peace treaties such as these we do
II and cannot acknowledge Our own
IDS are very different. We are SIGHT
e, and mean to continue fighting, in
der to finish once for all with this
'licy of plumber and to establish in
place the peaceful reign of organ
I'd justice. 4
"As incidents of this long war I'M
II themselves before our eyes more
"a more clearly do we perceive that
e battles for freedom are everywhere
that no separate emu n
,ration of them is needed and that in
cry case the single, but all-sufflcient,
peal is TO justice and right
Are justice and right going TO win2
SO far ms the issue depends on bat b
$ yet TO come. the nations whose e
te is in the balance may surely put
Fir trust in the armies. which even
der conditions more difficult than
; present have shown themselves G
re than equal to the great cause en- f.
listed to their valor'
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