THE COMING PEACE "DRIVE"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 195, 7 May 1918, Page 5

THE COMING PEACE "DRIVE"

MAINLY AGAINST BRITAIN GERMANY SCHEMING TO GAIN TIME ♦ London, May 5. Lord Robert Cecil, in tn "nterviwr, said ho expected that a ugorous German peace campaign would 'hortly be opened directed mainly tgainst Britain. In view of tho fact that l'rinco Liclmoweky's disclosures had, in tho pinion of many, acquitted Britain of complicity in starting tho war, Gonnauy would probably make olfers particularly tempting to Hritain. Such a peaco movoment, in view of tho situation on the West front, would be mainly for the purpose of homo consumption, for, 'should Germany's 1 failure on the West front • ontimio, it would become manifost to (he German people that botn Gormany and Austria nave their hardest time ahead. The main, object of Germany «as to gain time. IGermany (was evidontly dieupl- - regarding supplies from the Ukraine, and had started to establish martial law, hoping by thai means to extract from tho peasants by tjorco food supplies she was otherwise failing to acquire. This in a countr.y tho size of tho Ukraine was a big job. Germany had to havo time in order to acquire domination over Russia to the extant she desired. She might have the idea that; with tho resources of Russia fully at her disposal, she could afford, comparatively speaking, to ignore the West front, and make a stand <.gainst the world for an indetuii'-o period.—"The Times." ■ FRENCH PREMIER'S v'IEW. London, May 5. "Tho Times" state that jr. Clomoncoau informed tho Foreign Affairs Committee that at no time has a real possibility of peace existpd, and that tho Austrian attempts could never havo been taken Keriously.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.