GERMANY-AND PEACE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 61, 9 September 1914, Page 8

GERMANY -AND PEACE

A BERLIN VERSION. [ A comment, inspired from Berlin, was published in various German newspapers during the last week of July. Here are the words, which contrast peculiarly with events which rapidly followed : — "Several well-known Paris newspapers have appealed to the German Emperor and the Imperial Chancellor, in tones to which they have liitherto been strangers, and with an appreciation of His Majesty and the Chancellor which we have until very recently vainly sought in those journals, to exert their inliuence on behalt of the peace of Europe. "This appeal is unnecessary. The German Emperor and the German Imperial Chancellor are always concerned for peace, 'as is proved by the whole past of the German Empire for more than torty years. At this moment, too, they are concerned for peace, and that is all the easier to them, as Germany has nothing to gain in case of war, and has no gain in prospect. Austria-Hungary, too, is now only seeking protection against a danger threatening the existence of the Empire," and aims at no territorial conquests. "This French appeal for the preservation of peace is, therefore, directed to the wrong address. There is no action of German policy which has threatened peace, but if it should prove true, as is announced in various places, that Russia is mobilising part of her army, that, as things stand, would be a most serious threat to European peace. Then let all those, such as these Paris newspapers, to whom the peace of Europe is dear, address their wishes and their representations to Russia and her ruler, in whoae hands the decision of peace or war in Europe actually lies, to the ruler who fifteen years ago issued the noble summons to the first Peace Conference."