Show Germany Wants ants a Buffer Buller r ERMANY'S NYS L. offer of peace f to weary var ar and battle battle- vJ G GER torn tom Belgium is to be regarded only in ill the light of insult added to injury Having ing despoiled her homes t raped her women disemboweled her chil children and en enslaved en- en slaved her workingmen in the tho ho interests of military necessity Germany would now nO use Belgium as a buffer against ng the tho powers demanding righteous s retribution Her ller offer is not noL made in sympathy for Belgium for if there were n a spark of sympathy in the Hun lIun brute the s sufferings suf sf f- f f of Belgium would long ago have e awakened it The peace offer offe i is solely in iu tho the interest of Germany a movement to use the tho ruins of her exploits as a n buffer huffer to complicate the problems of the allies who have 11 pled pledged ed ith their ir lives their property aid u their fortunes to bring punishment to the Hun lIun hordes which reduced Belgium to her bel present plight The tones of the German note are so cold cola so treacherous treah erous erous and so offensive that they can only awake a greater determination in iu the allies allies allies' to run these brigands s sto to earth In the name of military necessity Germany violated every light right of the tho Belgian people an and not content con con- tent tens with that heaped upon the women and aUlI the chil children ren renI in fiendish delight Her lIeI peace bait hait conies comes I from the same vessel and no doubt will ivill be shunned as evil il beside winch death is sweet Germany has mon mon- monI I rated st-rated in Belgium that treaties do not stand in the way of her military machine but she still believes in tint tini integrity of the allies when treaties and neutrality arc are areat at issue I Belic Believing ing in this honor of the allies Germany now now would restore to lo Belgium her political independence to lo th end of the war nr if in return she will promise to remain neutral B By this means she would make make of Belgium 1 a buffer huffer against the oncoming allied military forces Convinced that she sho cannot hol hold the despoiled territory of France against the tIre allied drives dd Germany I sees herself being driven cross across the Belgium territory I she so recklessly ruined four years scars ears ago With y th these evil il forebodings in mind Germany would divorce ce Belgium froni rom the allies an and establish her as a n barrier to allied 55 p pogress in iii Europe Her scheme to today ay is less subtle f and nud just as vile Bc as her invasion of r m four y years ais ago Belgium cannot give serious consideration t to the German lea pease peace e offer because it carries no insurance for forthe forthe forthe the future and makes no amends for rOt the past The I I German promise o is the the only backing hacking given ivell the peace note and this tins is IS subject to withdrawal the tile minute that I 1 Belgian neutrality ceases to serve servo The 4 past i is ei evidence ence that Belgium is made of sterner stuff than and we 10 do not expect that she will betray herself impossible on a prem premature aUl peace 01 |