ALLIES HOLDING THE KEYS OF THE SITUATION.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14657, 11 March 1918, Page 7

ALLIES HOLDING THE KEYS OF THE SITUATION.

GERMAN PEACE HUMBUG

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

London, March 8. Mr A-squith, in a speech at Cupar, Fife, said that the two. keys of the world position, command of the.-seas and the West front, both remained in the Allies' hands. The submarine inroads on the mercantile marine and the collapse of Russia presented formidable dangers, but did not fill us with apprehension.. The so-called peace negotiations were an instinctive contrast tetween Germany's pretensions and intentions. Wlile Hertling was professing, acceptance of President Wil"spn's ; ,four principles, welcoming a. co^rtofr international arbitration and 'approving:.of•;the League-of -Nations, to which the-bulk 6F us here and in America looked as the only effective safeguard, his subordinates were writing in terms not of»a treaty, but of a capitulation as harsh and humiliating as any in history and ruthlessly and recklessly mutilating a great national unity, which, if carried out, would sow seeds of conflicts and the nations for generations.