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Show PEACE TALK IN GERM ENDED WAR PARTY STIFFENED AFTdR NAVAL BATTLE AND WILL FIGHT TO BITTER END. Will Expect to Acquire More Terrl-tory Terrl-tory When Peace Settlement Comes and Will Ask for Compensation Compensa-tion for Losses In Congo. Stockholm. Regardless of tr,o do-cislon do-cislon history ultimately will record re-cord as to victor and vanquished In the great North sea naval fight of May 31 and Juno 1, thero Is no denying deny-ing tlio fact that the battlo brought a sudden stiffening to tho bo called "war party" In Germany. All talk of Germany Ger-many being willing to end tho war on a basis of tho antobellum status quo has qnded. it lsTboIng given out now in neutral Europo that Germany will requlro "a slight rectification of her frontier at tho cxponso of Belgium." It Is further assorted that it will bo nccossary for tho central powers to keep a strip of Serbia In order that tho railway to Constantinople shall always run through "friendly" country. coun-try. Germany always has maintained that her colonies should bo returned to her. It is now added that thero must bo compensation for German losses in tho Congo. Something also must bo done, it 1b stated, "to keep Bolgium from being tho vassal state of England." Tho Rev. Dr. Charles F. Aked of San Francisco, ono of tho Amorlcan delegates to the neutral conference for continuous mediation sitting in Stockholm, was in Berlin on a mission of pcaco at tho timo of tho North sea fight. Dr. Aked brought back a gloomy report. re-port. There seemed to bo no thought anywhere that the war would end within another year. Tho new stato infint of pcaco terms that would bo demanded de-manded by tho now dominant "war party" coupled with tho governmental announcement that peace could bo had only upon a basis of consideration for tho military situation of the opposing armies and without consideration or (Usciisaioii ns to tho cause of tho war, appears to havo chilled oven tho most ardent of tho penco advocates abiding In the Swedish capital. |