Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-19
ALLIES TELL
 ABOUT TEUTON
 PLANS IN EAST
Allies Tell of Teuton Perfidy to Slavs While Pfoclaiming Peace Desires Toward Peo- pie of East.
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 LONDON, March 1S.- The foreign office tonight issued a statement en- bodying a protest of the entente pre- miers and foreign ministers assem- bled in London against Germany's ac- tion in the name of German peace, to- ward the Russian people. The protest concludes:
 Peace is loudly advertised, but un- der the disguise of verbal professions turk the brutal realities of war and the untempered rule of a lawless force"
 Peace treaties such as these we do not and cannot acknowledge
 We are fighting and mean to con tinue fighting. in order to finish once for all with this policy of plunder and to establish in its place the peaceful reign of organized justice.
 Battle For Freedom
 As incidents of this long war unroIl themselves before our eyes, more and more clearly do We perceive that the battles for freedom are everywhere in terdependent; that no separate enum- eration of them. is needed and that in every case the single, but all-sufficienI appeal is to justice and right.
 Are justice and right going to win? In so far as the issue depends on bat ties yet 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."
 The councils statement which is is- sued through the foreign office, says. -----.-asass coEzcil,s s-atsa.ssst .-l'ss "The prime ministers and foreign minister of the entente assembled in London, feel it to be their bounden da- ty to take note of the political crimes which, under the name of German peaca. have been committed against the Russian people. Russia was un- armed. Forgetting that for four years Germany has been fighting against the independence of nations and the rights of mankind, the Russian government, in mood of singular credulity, expect ed to obtain by persuasion that demo cratic peace which it had failed to ob- tain by war. What followed was of like charac- ter, when the German peace was translated into action. It 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.
 Tell of Coercion Meanwhile, these 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 significance it meant peace or war, nor measuring the degree to which Russian national life was reduc- ed by it to a shadow. For us of the entente government the judgments which free peoples of the world will pass on these transac- tions would never be in doubt. Why waste time over German pledges when we see them at no period in her his tory of conquest-not when she over ran Silesia nor when she partitioned Poland-has she exhibited herself so cynically as a destroyer of national in- dependence, the implacable enemy or the rights of the many and the dignity of civilized nations?
 Poland Threatened
 Poland, whose heroic spirit has sur vived the most cruel of national trage- dies. is threatened with a fourth par tition and to aggravate her wrongs, devices by which the last trace of her inepdendence to be crushed are based on fraudulent promises of freedom.
 What is true of Russia and Poland is no less true of Rumania"