Show yI y f T I Increasing Our Strength As AS time S-time the press gives give vent ent to the rejection of the Austrian peace pence proposal speculation is bounto bound boun to lu be he renewed as to conditions c existing in the interior of the Uie central powers There is a n note in the bark burk of the German which would in press indicate that the peace movement was designed to bolster up the waning spirit of or the forces at home As was to be bc c expected pc ted the German Ger Ger- man mall newspapers give their thew people to un understand that extreme measures hn have bce been to bring them peace indicating that the lie allies will be lie satisfied with with nothing short of tho the extermination pi Of Germany and her allies The rIbe propaganda is designed to arol arouse sc the people to greater cater action to 1 that hat savage fi fight ht against extinction V When hen W wo we think of the future of the Prussian lenders leaders who precipitated this war on the Hie world w we can stand their policy Little Little- is left for them when mih- mih 1 perishes an and knowing this they must continue I war fir so long as there is hope The pr price cc to be paid by bv the he German people means little to them foi their cause causes ml is is s bathed in in that selfishness which i precludes C consider consider- c l of f. f a people If thc they cannot have the thc r central powers cr for themselves cs they would court that extinction on with Avith which they frighten their people The longer the Prussian lenders leaders pursue this policy t the he greater r is our assurance that when peace pence comes it will willbe be lasting and perpetual It H means that the central central cen cen- powers arc to 10 to-bc to bc be reduced to a skeleton before they ther will acknowledge c their crimes before the world As a result their future becomes more insecure re reducing the tile shen strength lh which is to meet the problems of the recon recon- The altitude attitude of the inspired press of Germany Ger Ger- ermany er- er many hears bears nothing lothing- but hit good for the lime allied cause compelling com om us to fight the thc battle haUle to the thc lo cial conclusion What C A are arc to feat fear from Germany is riot not criticism criticism cism not HOt rOll condemnation of our om peace terms but movements movements lUO C move move- ments which seem scent to indicate that the central powers arc nrc about to yield to our 1 terms s. s There is so U treachery in German diplomacy t that 11 di disaster lurks in movements mo which seem to indicate a change in heart If lt the thc central powers potters come collie to u- u tr lH with the d declaration that th they are arc really ready to conform to our terms we arc are placed laced in a dangerous position because we are arc in in duty uty bound to hive give it consideration It n is then that we wc must guard agn against rist treachery So lon long as the central powers IW ur urge r their peoples to greater war we are arc spar spared d that di difficult task of If distinguishing shing b bet between the thc true truc and the false statements |