Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1915 — TALK Or PEACE IN GREAT FOREIGN WAR [ARTICLE]

TALK Or PEACE IN GREAT FOREIGN WAR

Underground Rumbling Indicates That Terms Might Be Arranged i If Property Offered. (While the European war continues .with unabated energy and while plans of the eoirib&fcants are being made to push it with renewed vigor as the spring opens up and while the discussion of the right off the sea is a great problem tnvolving the United States there is jUsta little indication that terms off peace might be accepted by the boaribatants if properly presented. Leaders can see the great waste in lives and the terrific drain on resources and it is suggested as a possibility that the time is neamg when the United States can again proffer it good offlees to the eontenderts and suggest that they get together to discuss their differences. In England it is announced that only on et hard off the flighting strength has so (far 'been employed in the war. From Germany comes the threat that as a protective measure the waters of the English channel may be mined unless England lifts the ban against the shipment off food to Germany. 'Holland has protested against the extension by Germany of the war zone. The protest also includes a note to Great Britain protesting its action in dominating the sea® and holding up cargoes shipped to neutral countries. iMany of the dispatches from the (front show the prejudices Of the place .from which they are sent and consequently they are not very reliable. There have been no decisive results on either the eastern or western fronts and unless terms of peace can be arranged the war is quite sure »to go on for a long time.