HINT TO PEACE MEDIATORS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2320, 30 November 1914, Page 5

HINT TO PEACE MEDIATORS

GERMAN MILITARISM MUST BE CRUSHED (Rec. November 28, '4.30 p.m.)' \ London, November 27. The Paris "Figaro," dealing with recent rumours concerning the intentions of neutral nations to intervene to promote peace, says: "How much truth there is in these we "do not know; all offers of mediation, all attempts to conclude hostilities will be in vain and useless until the Allies have the .German Empire at their mercy. Neither France, Britain, nor Russia, will consent at any price to conclude a precarious peace which might allow German militarism to raiso her head." . (Rec. November 29, 3.30 p.m.) PariSi November 28. President Poincare has visited headquarters and decorated General Joffre with a military medal, which, he said, was the emblem of the highest military virtues, which a general of a private might wear with tho same pride. Ho pafd a.glowing tribute to General Joffre's powers for organisatin, the cool and calculating foresight which always found him prepared to deal_ with the unforseen, a strength of mind which nothing disturbed, and a serene cheerfulness which everywhere diffused confidence and hope. President Poincare added: '.'France knows that in order to prevent a. recurrence of the present catastrophe, she must, in agreement with her Allies, finally abolish its causes. Indecisive victory and prccaritms peace would expose French genius to fresh insults from the refined barbarism which assumes tho mask of science in order to better state its domineering instincts." HOPE FOR BOHEMIANS. ■ (Reo. November 29, 3.35 p.m.)' New York, November 2S. Bohemians in the United States have started a- movement for a free Bohemia in the dual monarchy, and propose to ask for representation at the Peace Conference in order to plsice tbeir 'skims jt,b,§ Powa.