Show PEACE TALK IN III GERMANI ENDED WAR PARTY STIFFENED AFTER NAVAL BATTLE AND WILL FIGHT TO BITTER END will expect to acquire more territory when peace settlement comes and will ask for compensation for losses in congo stockholm regardless of the decision history ultimately will record as to victor and vanquished in the great north sea bea naval fight of may 31 and june 1 there Is no denying the fact that the battle brought a sudden stiffening to td the so called war party in germany all talk oi of germany being willing soend to end the war on a basis of oc the antebellum status quo has ended it Is being given out now in neutral europe that germany will require a slight alight rectification of her frontier at the expense of belgium it Is further asserted that it will be necessary tor the central powers to keep a strip of serbia in order that the railway to constantinople shall always run through friendly country germany always has maintained that her colonies should be returned to her it Is now added that there must be compensation tor for german losses in the congo something also must be done it is stated to keep belgium from being the vassal state of 0 england the rev dr charles F aked of san francisco one odthe of the american delegates to the neutral conference for continuous mediation sitting bitting in stockholm was in berlin on a mission of peace at the time of the north sea fight braked dr aked brought backa back a gloomy report there seemed to be no thought anywhere that the war would end within another year the new statement of 0 peace terms that would be demanded by them the now dominant war party coupled with the governmental announcement that peace could be had bad only upon a basis of consideration for the military situation of the opposing armies and without consideration or discussion as to the cause of the war appears to have chilled chille deven even the most ardent of the peace advocates abiding in in the swedish capital |