"PEACE IN AUTUMN."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 19 August 1916, Page 4

"PEACE IN AUTUMN."

The "Welt am Montag," a widelycirculated weekly JJeriin journal, publishes an article headed "Peace in Autumn," dn which tlie following passage occurs:—"The great council recently held in Paris, according to the unanimous reports of British, French and neutral .newspapers, not only decided to exercise a sharper pressure on neutral trade, but to prosecute a co-ordinated attack on all fronts with all the means at their disposal. We have a right to be somewhat sceptical with regard to these reports. 'Wolf, wolf!' has been cried too often. But this time we expect something. In the nature of the case, and under existing circumstances, the English troops must soon come into action, and the noticeable silence prevailing on this point strengthens our belief. The conference at Paris," says the journal, "and the speech on peace conditions delivered recently by the Chancellor lead us to suppose that we stand before the decisive last phase of the war. \Ve must brace ourselves up for a last attempt, especially of our Western enemies; also, perhaps, for an advance of the armies at Salonika. Should it really be true what Is said about the enemy conference at Paris, we may reckon that the summer will hring with it the military decision ■andi .tittle preliminary {rtnditkms of peace."