In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 81, 4 August 1915, Page 5

In the West.

POPE’S PEACE APPEAL.

UNITED EPISCOPAL ACTION.

r.N'TTRi) Phkhs Association'. Loudon, August 2

. Tlu> Times points out that tin* Belliii corresponlent of the P'wnkiTirtin Zeilnng, whose information almost invariably emanates irout tin Cernian Covernment. foreshadowed the Pope’s appeal on Tuesday, forwarding to his paper a summary of a letter published hi Madrid imm a correspondeut in Koine stating tli.it Cardinal Casquet had disclosed the fact that the Pope, notwithstanding the failure of former suggestions, was engaged in the preparation ol an action in which the whole episcopote of the belligerent countries would cooperate in a united and organised manner, aiming at arranging a truce.

The Pope Inis repeatedly pleaded iOr peace since the beginning of the war. The Pontificate, in alleged interviews with Americo-German and French journalists, has seemed to push his spiritual neutrality to the point of ignoring the German atrocities. He expressly condemned the violation of Belgiail neutrality, protesting against the ill-treatment of tile Belgian clergy.

The Itnliiin press generally approves of the I’ope’s letter. Imt La Tribnna says that the appeal does not distinguish between the attackers and the attacked. The paper says that the Pope blesses the hand which first extends the olive branch, but we wish the olive branch to be genuine, and not to represent ’ pro-German strategy.

BERMN BLUFF. CHARACTERISTHJ "GERMAN IMPUDENCE. PRETENDED DESIRE FOR PEACE (Received 12.20 p.m.)‘ ~ London, August 3. A (iiorniun wireless message .Si’z£ll:(3‘S: The Tages Zeitung says that no country would receive the Pope's proclamation with greater re:sp<-(rt and less proju(li<:e tlum G€‘l‘llH.lll_V. She would ncreept‘. reawiiuble peare conditions in :l('(‘.()l‘(lfll1CG with the even lmlance of pi-(>g‘i'ess' and the -safety of‘ all ‘ nations, l)(’(‘a1lS€ she is zibtaclce(l by an o\‘el'\\'llelllliFlg coalition, whose sole aim is Gerlnany’s destruction for reasons \\'lll(‘ll are vulgar, :Iv:iri(-ions, and (-ommrm to the eneniy. A YEAR OF WAR. EOREIGN PRESS’ COMMENTS. AI1(ll|dUll'. ;\ug'u.<t :2. g —'|.‘he Paris press (l(=\'<)tos «.-olulnn.s' to the first year of \\’ll.l‘, and eloqliently e:\'px'ossos. the l‘(.‘S()ll1‘ul()l1 of the I*‘:-em-11 ‘lbo zitmiii victory. ‘

American papers contain general recognition Unit Germany lias scored heavil yon land, Imt tins is set oil' by a generous acknowledgment ol the part the British fleet has played.

The New York World says that except for the British Navy the Germans would be masters of the world, and paper after paper maintains that the United States depends upon the thorough defeat of the Germans. COWARDLY INSINUATIONS BY GERMAN AGENTS. SOWING SEEDS OF DISTRUST. I’etrograd, August .‘I. The Novoe Vienna draws attention to Germany’s efforts to sow mistrust among the Allies, and says Paris and London are swarming with the Kaiser's secret agents, Vlio are assiduously pouring the poison of distrust and suspicion into the niiud of the people in France. The agents say that a year has passed and the English are still only preparing for war. Out of 900 kilometres on the I rout they hold only a laughable section of forty or fifty kilometres. Sneb agitation is clumsy, but the agents are busy producing a certain impression that hitherto the Russians have borne the major portion of the burden, and that the losses sustained by our Allies are smaller than those of the Russians. The cowardly insinuations of the German agents regarding the disloyalty of the Allies might produce a greater impression in Russia, but they have failed; they only (ill Us with the same contempt for German intrigues as our Allies feel. REPORT FROM THE VOSGES. The High Commissioner reports:— London. August !! (-).oo p.m.) In the Vosges on Monday evening there was a violent attack on the French positions at Lingo. Three attacks at Barrenkolf were repulsed.

DETAILS OF THE FIGHT AT HOOCE. ENEMY USE FLAME PROJECTORS » - - S (Received 9.3 u a.m.) I Paris, August ‘3. ' The British wounded give details «l the light at Hooge. The enemy attacked a little before dawn ond were thrown hack thrice, but* advanced again, and after an intense fight managed to obtain a somewhat insecure footing on two of our first line of trenches. Kre long ,a/ number of Territorial Regiments Phased the Germans out of the position at the point of the bayonet. Then the Germans psed flame projectors. About forty per cent of the wounded arc suffering from hums, but the percentage of deaths is exceedingly small. BEFORE THE WAR. PROOF OF GERMANY'S DESIGNS ON BELGIUM. (Received 9.20 a.m.) Havre. August 3. A Belgian Grey Book has been issued containing a letter from Mr Byron Beyers, who was then Belgian Minister in Berlin, proving that four months before the war General Von JagoW proposed the partition ol the Belgian Congo, and the suppression of Belgium from the list of independent nations.

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