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Show COPENHAGEN FILLED Wmi" FOREIGN HOST Belligerents and Neutrals Represented and All Are i i at Peace. SEEKING TO END WAR People of Europe Become Surfeited of the Senseless , Slaughter. BERLIN, Dec. 9. A nentraj correspondent corre-spondent of the Vossiche Zeitung writes from Copenhagen: ! Is this still war, or has a delirium of blood engulfed the whole world? In the allegedly neutral capital of j Denmark we listen to every breath of insane Europe. The city is filled with strangers representing all belligerent bel-ligerent and most neutral nations. Russians, Germans, Britons, Frenchmen French-men and Italians meet here peaceably, peace-ably, and there is a sprinkling of ! Bulgarians, Turks and Japs. Every arriving transatlantic steamer brings a few dozen Americans, who generally leave for Germany or Russia Rus-sia after a short stay. - The only question moving all of us is: How long is this murderous war to be continued? Those of us who understand more than one language lan-guage devour all newspapers arriving arriv-ing here from the belligerent countries, coun-tries, but we can see no ray of hope on the horizon. In fact, we do not even know how the war stands. From the French and Knglish papers we learn that the Germans have been crushed on the Somme, "while the German press tells us that the gigantic efforts of the allies did not even dent the German line. The Russian papers assure the world that General Brussiloff's offensive is continuing victoriously, although the German and Austro-Hungarian reports agree that the advance of the legions of the czar has been stopped completely. Tired of Slaughter.' 7 Rumania, according to the German Ger-man and Austrian claims, is nearly crushed, but the allies insist that the little kingdom has only started to fight. It is almost impossible to obtain a clear idea of the war situation from these conflicting statements; but one thing is sure, all of the bleediDg nations of Europe want " peace. They cry out that this terrible terri-ble holocaust must be ended before the last remnant of civilization is destroyed. Since I arrived here I have talked to many Frenchmen, Englishmen, Russians and Italians, and I can say that there is no greater lie than this talk of a fight to the last man." In Paris, Premier Briand appeals to the French" nation to ! make still greater sacrifices; in the German reichstag the chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, speaks bit- . ter words against England, and in London( Lloyd-George, in the slang of a prize-fighter, calls for the last clerk of the city to fight against the "Huns"; but the nations want peace. The people hare had enough of this senseless slaughter, which has destroyed the lives of millions of the best men of all of the fighting fight-ing countries, made helpless cripples of others and sent hundreds of thousands thou-sands to the insane asylums. ; Women Cry for Peace. Millions of mothers, wives and children, throughout Europe cry for peace, but still the nations are urged to fight on by their governments, who know that neither side can win a decisive victory. France fights to free her soil from the invading army with a bravery which is admired ad-mired by every German. Russia stoically sacrifices millions of men and England still hopes to be able to starve the German nation. The entente powers continue the war because be-cause they are firmly convinced that Germany and her allies must break down sooner or later. They do not deny that so far the Teutonic nations na-tions show no sign of exhaustion, that the Germans and Austrians are still strong enough to take tho offensive, of-fensive, but they hope that their superiority in resources will win in the end. The allies will not understand under-stand that hunger and misery are 'liable to exhaust them quicker than the highlv organized German nation, which still has very large reserves and an unimpaired industrial strength. Nations in Despair. ' 'mA The wholesale murder goes on, and no statesman is now able to stop it, even if he should want to to do so. Rivers of blood will continue con-tinue to flow, and the mountains of corpses will be piled higher and higher, until all of the belligerents are totally exhausted. The European nations are despairing despair-ing of themselves. They see no escape es-cape from this orgy of blood and misery. Is the intern1 music of this dance of death not heard, across the ocean? We know that the American people are great, well-meaning well-meaning and noble, but they do not . seem to understand what the destruction de-struction of civilization in Europe means to them also. .Some of them are blinded by racial hatred and the enormous profits they make out of the war. British censorship keeps the truth from them, becanse if they knew how things really stand they would use their power to enforce peace, and save what is still left of the manhood of Europe, |