Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 56, 3 October 1916, Page 6

Central Powers

A PLEA FOR PEACE. CROWN PRINCE MORALISES. ■' l FOpflNC THE BILL. i! v, ■(•■'ii CAPITALIST SYMPATHIES WITH ENTENTE. r\ ./ \ MORAL EQUIVALENT FOR WAR. Press Association—Copyright,- Ails ralian and,N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 12.30 p.m.) New York, October 2. A plea for the United States to work in the ; interests of peace was uttered by the Gorman Crown Prince ir an interview with" Mr W. Halt, at the'field headquarters, a pel is published in the New York American. Mr Halt asked the Prince what wa- problem cbieflly interested him, and he, responded that it was in looking after the welfare of bis men. Then fie immediately began to talk of peace, while a papier-mache model of Verdun and its defences stared at him in the room where the interview occurred. V - The Prince ,said; Docs your head and does your heart not ache enough over, this sad region of earth? What a pitiless ill is this terrible extinction of human life in which we are mortgaging our energies and resources far into the future. It is not alone for i.ho German lives and wasted German energies we mourn,; we are well able, at least comparatively, fo bear it, but all the world) including America, which .invested in the Entente’s chances of success, must aid in footing the bill. That, of course, is one reason why the sympathies of your capitalists are with our enemies. Isn’t thare. R .'■Rook which says, “Where ynuV:• treasure is. there will your Heart be 'also?” It is a . pity your treasure is'not‘invested during these hours of - sowing/ the seed of preparation for the fruits of peace, so that jsjpur prosperity would rest in the great harvest which will follow the return to natural conditions, rather, than the unhappy and uncertain fruitage of war. I hope you have not failed to he impressed with the fact that every general,,, every, officer, and every man would far rather see all this, labour, skill,, edgy, cation, intellectual resource, and physical prowess devoted to tasks of building up and lengthening life, subduing man’s common enemies of disease and the material obstacles to the progress of mankind, rather than h*j devoted to.the destruction of other men;- I should like to know your Colonel Gcethals (engineer in charge the construction of the-Panama Canal) who has been fighting swamp fever and sliding mountains. It is in that sort of enterprise the world should find what one of your American philosophers, William James) ’ designated as the moral equivalent for war. I confess I do not see any prospects of peace. 1 tell you it is no happiness to look forward to spending the third Christmas here. I have a wife and family, as you know. THE GERMAN REPORTS. FROM ALL THEATRES. Press Association —CopyVl&lit, Austra:' lian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 1.10 p.m.) . Lomldnfi October 2. ,A Gorman communique states: Fighting on a large scale on the ThiepvaL front, we sanguinarily repulsed the Anglo-French many times. We regained the position at Graherkawhich was lost on Saturday. An enemy attack astride the Brody-Lemherg railway failed. The fighting continues east of the Zlotalipa. .. - ■ The Roumanians won ground on both sides of Kovel. North of Os sova, we wsnccqssfqlly attacked. The Austro-Hungarians ‘ captured Ohoroca height. The enemy gained a footing on the right hank of the Danube south of Bucharest.