The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1915. PEACE TALK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 3, 7 December 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1915. PEACE TALK.

'The foolish peace talk from.'America shows at least pretty clearly that it |is engineered by pro-Germans, and i that there can now be little doubt | but that the Hun rulers realise how very precarious the proposition is with them .-The raising of "the iron curtain" ever so little gives .heartening glimpses of the true state of things to those countries now righting so desperately for the world's ' freedom against German oppression. The Socialist manifesto which, according to our cablegrams of yesterday, is being circulated in Hungary, and the reports of riots in Berlin indicate that at last these deluded peoples are awakening to. the criminal folly of their rulers, and it will perhaps not be long before they will want to turn and rend them. This war is totally different to any other war the world has ever seen, and amongst the many delusions under which Germany has been laboring, is a failure to realise this fact. Germany set, out to conquer Europe as a prelude to world conquest, and has utterly tailed in the mad ambition which, with ruthless brutality, it was sought to realise. "The belief that, at the worst, this war. like every, other war that has ever been, will be concluded in time by mutual concessions, compromises and treaties, has kept the enemy in better heart, but the reiterated determination of the Allies that only the .breaking up of German militarism will end the struggle, must be at last impressing itself on the Prussian Junkers who are responsible for this world disaster. There should be no -peace negotiations: the Allies will announce their terms and the enemy countries will be compelled to accept these terms, because they can then do nothing else. If the German pecnle will only wake up enough to knowthat every month, every week, and every day that the conflict is prolonged will make the reckoning they must pay all the heavier,- and that every chance of even a drawn game is over, fhey will speedily end the cruel slaughter by throwing down their arm-;. If these interfering Americans set out to teach the German people a few facts on these lines they might possibly ' do some little ■ good.