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Show CRUSH KAISERITES, IS SENATOR'S DEI1 No Peace Until Germany Is Defeated, Is Sentiment Expressed. WASHINGTON, July 25. Possibilities of a peace offensive were discussed in the senate today at the semi-weekly session. ses-sion. All senators who spoke declared the crushing defeat of Germany was necessary nec-essary before peace negotiations could be considered. Senator Lewis of Illinois, Democratic whip, warned Americans against "new professions of peace and false propaganda" propagan-da" from Germany. "We are not allured by it or deceived by it." said he. Senator Sherman of Illinois, Republican, declared peace could come only by a' victory vic-tory that would sweep tho kaiser and his counsellors out of power. That another peace offer from Germany is en rou te through Italian sources also was stated by Sen;i tor Lewis. "There is information in this community." communi-ty." said Senator Lewis, "that suggestions have been made t h rough Italy and soon will be made known through proper diplomatic dip-lomatic sources." If allowed to hold the eastern peoples in subject ion, Senator Lewis said, Germany's Ger-many's plans involve raising an army of stupendous force to assail the United States t:om the Pacific in a new war. "The' United States would be the first to pay th" penalty." he said, "of yielding to the artful .sntjirostions from Germany." Senator Sherman criticised what he termed nn unof;i'ja "mysterious" commission com-mission reported irathcring information to be used in the pacp conference. These men. he said, are the president's personal per-sonal envoys. Senator Lewis jmc-iresfod that the commission com-mission is merely collecting and transmitting transmit-ting its information to the president for future use. Senator Thomas of Colorado, joining in the peace dicussinrs. said "German peace propaganda is a W-zht intermit tent fever; it comes wilh every disaster to the German Ger-man arms." |