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Show NOT READY FOR PEACE The expected has happened The , German ka ser whose troops are still dr vmg the Muscovites before them has made a proposition to the czar of all the Buss as to arrange a treaty of J) peace without reference to the other R nat ons in the quadruple entente It ' will be remembered that the govern ments of Great Britain .France and I Buss a solemnly obligated themselves not to make peace separately Evident ! ly the ka ser views th s compact as a ! ' mere scrap of paper or mere moving ! of -the lips The czar howe er has somewhat different notions and will keep faith with his allies Consequent ly he refused to d scuss peace at th s time ' The Buss an, army has been driven , from post to p liar for several weeks past and even now there is great dan ger that part of t will be captured There is also danger that the new line i will not hold and that the grand duke ' w 11 be Compelled to continue his retreat The situation s really desperate If the czar were inclined to be-treacher ous or if he could be induced to believe that Great Britain and France were playing him false and were not doing their share of the fighting he might take a d fferent view of the war and consent to an arrangement tinder the terms of which Bus a would withdraw from the conflict and leave the ka ser free to make an attack in great force on the- west front But the German emperor has reckoned without his host h s proposal has been definitely rejected J and Bussia will be in the war to the end The Austro German drive on the east front cannot continue much longer When it ceases the Bnssians will reor ganize their shattered army gather stores of ammunit on and resume the offensive It may be weeks or it may be months but the Russians will come back In the meantime there will be desperate fighting on the French fron tier and in Belgium The Brit sh should have a suffic ently large army on the line of battle and enough ammunit on and artillery to withstand any kind of a. shock The French army is in the i best possible condit on and the handful of Belgians are ready to fight to the death in an effort to free their country from the invaders It s no sure thing that Germany and Austria could wm even with Bussia out of the way While the ka ser has been tmng to make peace v th Eusia the allies have been negot at ng with Bulgaria and it is said Serb a has consented to cede Macedonia to the Bulgars in order that a way may be found to harmon ze all interests and bring Bulgar a into the war upon the side of the all es If th s plan is successful Constantinople will soon fall and the Turk be ejected from Europe The Germane have also mada offers to the Bulgarians contingent upon final victory and a dec s on in the mat tor o ght not to be long delayed If Bulgaria goes n Bumania and Greece will probably do likew se although King Constantine of the latter Country still ins sts upon preserving the strictest neutrality The entrance of the Balkan states into the war upon the side of the -all es would hem the central emp res n and destroy their laBt hope of success B t J even f the Balkans should rema n neu tral Italy with one of the best equipped armies in Europe would have to be 1 whipped before the kaiser could give his undivided attention to Great Brit ain and France As de from the pro posal of the German emperor to the czar and the poss bil ty of other Euro pean states taking up arms the fact remains that the Teutons are more than holding their own and that no man is rash enough to make a pred c tion as to when the end wtll come The general op nion is that it w 11 con twue until one s de or the other is practically anmh lated and that there will be no peace treaties signed by indi Mdual nations |