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Show ENTENTE ALLIES TO CONTINUE FJGHTSNG 'Ipreme War Council, ' Which Met at Versailles, Ver-sailles, Sees No Hope for Peace After Considering Consid-ering Speeches of Count Czernin and Von Hertling. STATEMENT WILL BE GIVEN OUT SOON Complete Unanimity of Policy on Measures to Vigorously Prosecute Operations on All the Fronts; Delegates All Satisfied With Results. LOXDOX, Feb. 3. The supreme war council, which met at Versailles, finds i no approximation in the German chan-. chan-. cgfand The Austro-Hungarian for-i for-i -i?n minister's speeches to. the terms of j - the entente allies and has decided to - .continue the rigorous prosecution of the "a.il p-eace can be obtained, "based on the principles of freedom, justice1 and rtx:-ct for it: terra tioial law. Official Statement. The txt of the official statement on the Versailles conference follows: Meeting's of the third session of the supreme war councii, held at Versailles, Ver-sailles, January CO and 31 and February Feb-ruary 1 and in addition to the members of the supreme war councii itself, namely. Monsieur? Clemenceau and Pichon for France. Mr. Lloyd George and Lord Milner for Great Britain; Professor Pro-fessor Orit-.i'do and Baron Sonnino for Italy, and ihe military representatives of the suvrme war council. Genera's Gener-a's Y.'eygar.d, Wilson, Cadorr.a and Biiss. there were also present for the jrreater part of the purely nulirary discuEsions the French and British chiefs of general staff. Generals Focli and Robertson, the Italian minister of war. General Alfieri, and the commanders-in-chief on the western front, Petain, Haig and Pershing. A. H. Frazler, first secretary of the United States embassy at Paris, wss present during the political discussions. dis-cussions. x Co-ordination of Efforts. The decisions taken by the .supreme r council in pursuance of this" contingent con-tingent embrace not only a general military policy to be carried out by the allies in all the principal theaters of the war, but, more particularly, a closer and more effective co-ordinal ion under the council of ail the efforts ef-forts of the powers engaged in the struggle against the central empires. The functions of the council itself were enlarged, and the principles e unity of policy and action initiated at RaDallo in November last received still further concrete and practical development. On all these questions a complete agreement was arrived at "HJfter the fullest discussion, with re- rd to both the "policy to be pur- 5?nd to the measures for its execution. ex-ecution. L nder the circumstances the supreme su-preme war council decided that the only immediate task before It lay 'n the prosecution of the war with the utmost vigor and the closest and most effective co-operation of the nr.Utary effort of the allies, until such time as the pressure of that effort shall have brought about in the enemy en-emy governments and peoples a 'hange of temper which would Justify Jus-tify the hope of the conclusion of Pace on terms which would not involve in-volve the abandonment, in the face of an aggressive and unrepentant militarism, mili-tarism, of all the principles of free-m, free-m, justice and respect for the law of nations which the allies are resolved re-solved to vindicate. Hope of Peace. The supreme war council gave the most careful consideration to the recent utterance of the Get-man chancellor chan-cellor and the Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign affairs, but was unable to find in them anv real an-Proximation an-Proximation to the moderate conditions condi-tions laid down bv all the allied governments. gov-ernments. This conviction was onlv Jieepened by the impression made bv jne contrast between the professed realistic aims with which the central cen-tral powers entered upon the present pres-ent negotiations at Brest-Litovsk and uieir now openly disclosed plans of conquest and spoliation. Tne allies are united in heart and JJiJ, not by any hidden designs, but y their open resolve to defend civ-U'Zation civ-U'Zation against an unscrupulous and orutal attempt at domination- This I unanimity Is confirmed by a unanim- ! 1 no Iesa complete, both as retards military policy to be pursued and j regards measures needed for its execution, which will enable them to Jet the violence of the cnerr.Vs on- wi.KW1uh firm and uiet confidence. i'.n the utmost energy and with the n??u?se that neither their strength ! nor their steadfastness can be shaken. ine splendid soldiers of our free mocraeies have won their place in ?y their immeasurable valor ' zT their magnificent heroism, and i no less noble endurance with rluch our civilian populations are (Continued on Page Two.) 1 ENTENTE ALLIES TO CONTINUE EIGHT! (Continued from Pare One.) bearing their daily burden of trial and suffering, testifies to th str'f-rh i of those principles of freedom which ! will crown the military success 01 the allies with the glory of a great moral triumph. 1 - The supreme war council was convened con-vened last Tuesday at Versailles, France, under the chairmanship of Georges Clemanoeiui. premier of France, and ended end-ed Saturday. It had been forecast that the council session would be important and that al it momentous decisions would be reached, both as regarded the prosecution of the war and the possibilities possibili-ties of peace. The United States , was represented in the council bv General Tasker H. Bliss, chief of staff of the American arm v. For Grea t Britain the representatives were Premier Lloyd George and Major General Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, sub-chief sub-chief of the British general staff; ltaiv, Premier Orlando. Foreign Minister Son-nino Son-nino and General Cadorna. and for France. Foreign Minister Piehon. General Gen-eral Ferdinand Focht chief of the ministry of war, and General Maximo Wevgaiid |