Show REAL HEAL SIGNS SIGHS OF PEACE E tho the the peace rumors coming from copenhagen have been flatly dally denied and though none of the belligerents is apparently willing ot talk peace signa are not lacking that peace may come earlier than expected peace and war are not noi dictated by the will or whim of the individual diplomats or statesmen but they are arc tile the outcome of certain conditions and circumstances cum curn stances therefore the cry of each of the belligerents we must continue the war to the bitter end 1 must not be taken too seriously circumstances cum stances may arise that could compel the one or the other group of powers to make peace overtures even if there should not be an absolute victory on the one ona or tile the other side one ct cf the circumstances which may lead to peace is the growing development of an antagonism of interests between the powers ot of one ol oi the groups fighting each other altho the impress impression lon prevails everywhere that as long as the allies will operate cooperate co harmoniously they will not sue for peace even it if tile the shoud be still more victorious than they are at present but keen observers begin to doubt whether the harmonious operation cooperation co of cf the allies will last very long because antagonism of 0 interests between the russians and the english italians and serbs gerbs on tha other side is growing daily only a few days ago the russian general staff indirectly criticized the Ves vestern terii allies for their military inactivity thus making them responsible for the russian defeats the russians complain that they have borne the tha brunt of the war while the allies did not do anything top to relieve the pressure in ili the east and the allies again are not very satisfied with the military achievement of the russians perhaps because they expected too much from the russian military power nor are the french satisfied with the en english fisli military achievements and oth t english and the french are dissatisfied with italy besides there still exists tile the old antagonism of political interests be n tween the western allies themselves and between england and russia in ili spite of tile the anglo russian ailia alliance ice there is a conflict of interests between both powers in the far as well as in the near cast and the weakening of russia may also mean a future relief for england england the chief russian interest r st lit in the war wa after galicia is constantinople and everything connected with it the russians after they suffered a second defeat in the region of tile the mas alas urian lakes and were driven out from prussia all their hopes and efforts on galicia Ga icia and constantinople they thought that while they would conquer galicia tile the western allies would conquer tor for them constantinople stantin ople out but loth both expectations turned into disappointments they wre driven out from galicia and the allies have not conquered constantinople nor have they a chance to cap tur the sultans capital very soon thus russia sees everywhere defeats and nowhere gains and possible com s evors all and for this reason she cannot be interested in the war in the long run moreover many leading russians think that the allies even f they should shoud capture constantinople would not be very anxious to hand over the sultans capital to the czar nut tile the chief point is that so long as here is no chance to capture constantinople and no possibility for the rus kus ans to hat halt tile the teutonic invasion the arr with the central powers is draing meaningless to them and how long could such a war bast so 0 o far as the western powers are concerned it must be stated that the french are not very satisfied with tile the en english glish civil rule along the channel coast french coast cities like havre boulogne calais etc are ruled by english sh commanders and governors the french administration ot or these cities has been removed and the english are practically masters of these beautiful french coast towns many intelligent frenchmen have already complained that france is not only invaded by Germa germany nr by also by england and they ask what would be the fate of these french towns so im to england should the germans remain on the belgian coast will the british then evacuate these towns the french on with the amateur like display of english military force and the growing resentment because the english have made themselves masters of french towns town s cannot remain without effect onvie ft anglo french relations V imil what about the antagonism between italy and serbia in ill albania the he serbs gerbs had to quit durazzo because they were ordered to do so by italy 1 and what about the antagonism between russia italy and the balkans the tha aim of the russian policy is to slavo nizo the balkans and make tile balkan balkan powers russian dependencies while italy is striving to counteract the ilie slavonic influence on the balkans and to see to it that the balkan powers should not take tile the orders and policies from Petro gr d tile the mutual foe has compelled the ot 01 the entente to forget for a while the differences and antagonism of interests but it seems that the common foe did not annihilate thesa differences and tile the antagonism of ir interests if by a certain turn of events the internal structure of the somewhat artificially composed entente should be weakened thus reviving once more the old political differences peace could be spoken of cf without there being crushing defeats and glorious vic the growth and re vival revival of political differences between the members of the r entente are the real signs of peace WA alft MILLS |