EARLIER MESSAGES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13730, 19 March 1915, Page 5

EARLIER MESSAGES.

FAILURE OF GERMANY'S SCHEMES.

NECESSITY OF AN EARLY PEACE

London, March 16

The military correspondent of "The Times" says: "If the submarine blockade has proved practically valueless as a means of coercing England, if the Austro-German eastern offensive faih . the enemy mußt admit that prolong, tion of the war will be. without objec.. since it will make Germany's situate worse instead of better. The Germs Navy has lost more tonnage than ours we are therefore relatively in a botte situation than in August last. Th< Germans would like to discuss terms before their military machine begins to wear out and while th6y are still in possession of Belgium and West Poland, and a nominally unbeaten fleet."

In Berlin it is officially reported that the- German Governor-General of Belgium has introduced compulsory schooling.