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Show ALLIES TQ FiGHT ON i UNTIL JUST PEACE i SUCH IS DECISION REACHED AT CONFERENCE OF CHIEFS AT VERSAILLES. finds No Approximation to the Terms j of the Entente in the Speeches of Von Hertllng and the Aus- j trian Minister. j London The supreme war council, which met at Versailles, finds no approximation ap-proximation in the German chancellor's chancel-lor's and the Austro-Hungarlan foreign minister's speeches to the terms of the entente allies and has decided to continue con-tinue the vigorous prosecution of the war until peace can be obtained based on the principles of "freedom, Justice and respect for International law." ' This official announcement was made here Sunday night. A summary of the official report of the Versailles war council says : "The council was unable to find in Von Hertllng's and Czernin's recent Utterances any real approximation to the moderate conditions laid down by the allies' governments. Under the circumstances, cir-cumstances, the council decided that the only task before them to meet was the vigorous and effective prosecution of the war until the pressure of that effort produced a change of temper in ttve enemy governments, Justifying the fcope e tlje conclusion of a peace (based on the principles of freedom, Justice Jus-tice and respect for international law. , "The council arrived at a complete unanimity of policy on measures for the prosecution of the war." In Session Five Days. . . ! The supreme war council was con.' vened en Tuesday at Versailles, Prance, under the chairmanship of peorges Celmenceau, premier of France, and ended Saturday. It had been forecasted that the council session ses-sion would be important and that at it momentous decisions would be reached, both as regarded the prosecution prosecu-tion of the war and the possibilities of peace. The United States was represented In the council by Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, Chief of staff of the American army. ftor Great Britain the representatives were Premier Lloyd George and MaJ. fen. Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, sub-rhlef sub-rhlef f the British general staff ; Italy, Premier Orlando, Foreign Minister Sonnlne and General Cadorna, and fcfr France, Foreign Minister Pichou,' Gen. Ferdinand Foch, chief of staff of the ministry of war, and Gen. Maximo Weygand. |