THE GERMAN PEACE MOVES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 59, 3 December 1917, Page 6

THE GERMAN PEACE MOVES

NO CHANGE IN ALLIES' AIMS.

Reuter's Agency was recently given to understand that the following may be regarded as the view held in wellinformed British quarters with regard to the attitude of Great. ,Britain and her Allies towards the recent general, but often contradictory, statements in the enenjy Press concerning tho foreshadowed intentions to make "concessions" in Belgium and elsewhere. Thesc| have not passed unnoticed. There is, however, in the Allied Governments no failure to appraise thein at their true value and to realise that at bottom they are an expression of the fact that Germany knows sho cannot win the war. It is perfectly well understood that Germany is now seeking, in view of recent events on the Ndrfji-Eastern front, to imnress upon her own public that her military position is now such that she can suggest in some 6pecious fashion a plan of action that would satisfy the Pan-Ger-man'publio and might also appeal to pacifist sections in Allied countries. It is therefore just as well that those in the Central Powers who are organising this so-called peace movement should realise that their machinations in no way deceive the Allies, whose views and determinations as to the kind of peace they will accept have undergone and can undergo no modification whatever.

So far as the Allies are concerned no end to the war is possible until the end for which this terrible conflict was commenced and has endured for over three years has . been attained—that is. the final disappearance of Prussian militarism.

Only those possessing; . Prussian mentality can regard without horror the terrible loss of life and treasure deliberately brought about by Germany in this war, and in this sen*e it is true that the Allies would welcome pence, but enemy efforts to befog the real issue are as hopeless as they are characteristic. .