PEACE TALK.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16205, 7 May 1918, Page 7

PEACE TALK.

GERMAN MOVE EXPECTED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright) ("The Times.") _ , „ , LONDON, May 1. Lord Robert Cecil, Under-Secretary tor foreign Affairs, in an interview, said that he expected a vigorous German peace campaign shortly. It would be directed mainly against Great Britam. In view of the facts in the Idchnowsky disclosures opinion in many quarters had acquitted Great' Britain of complicity in starting tho war, and Germany would probablv make offers particularly tempting to Great Britain." In such a peace movement, in view of the situation on the West front, these offers would be mainly for the purpose of home consumption, for should Germany's failure on the West front continue and become manifest to the German people both Germany and Austria would have a very hard time ahead. The main object of Germany was to gain time. Germany was evidently disappointed regarding the hoarding of supplies from .Ukraine, and had started to establish martial law, hoping thereby to extract from the peasants by force the food supplies which she was otherwise failing to acquire. This in a country the size of Ukraine, was a big job. Germany had to have tune, in order to acquire domination over Russia to the extent she desired, bhe might have the idea that with the resources of Russia fully at her disposal she could afford, comparatively speaking, to ignore the West front and ™ j ? * stand against the world for an indefinite period. (United Service.) ««n. ™ A L °NDON. May 5. The Times states that M. Clemenceau informed the Foreign Affairs committee that at no time has the real possibility of peace existed. The Austrian attempts could never be taken seriously.