The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-24
T[UTON ARMY
LEFT With BACK
TO FROZEN ALPS
RECIPROCAL NEWS SERVICE
From ~, Queen Annes Gate. London
Relayel by *. G Office
tBy II. WALTER


many has achieved military victory
that Is "A political failure. Even II ven
ice Is again outraged by Austrian occ''
ration, there can now he little rejoicing
IN Vienna or Berlin. The purpose OF
the Germans high command has faieu'
Italy will not collapse. peace has peeh
brought no nearer by this supreme
effort
Two main results of the Ital'an oHen'
siye were clear; II has fused the union
of the Allies and IL has lett great
Teuton army with its back to the tro'
zen Aims The Teutons won victory.
thanks 10 the Generalization of part OF
t,,e Italian Army. but il has left them
ir , dangerous position. They did not
Sc, ont TO conquer Italy but to w'n
peaoe. They have faied ant they
know they have failed.
The above summary of the situation
As not based on British OPTIMISM ~ Is
made after reading number OF Ger
man papers and weighing their evf
dence of the impression made by the
:, Itsaian campaign. The military eN-
merits cxult, of course. but iI,htical
ere, turn away TO look for greater pro
mise In Russil. On the brightest oay
of the advance into Italy the Beriiner
Tagebiatt is already more concerned
with Lenine's offensive than with that
of Won Buelow Can Lentns' hold out
until agreement has been reacheas And
A a,ludes to the necessity Zoe ascer-
aiming the views of distant countries in
terested in the war. mentioning Brazil
"a N hone
in the meantime Kerensky and Korni-
loft will not contriye to enter the WIN
ter palace with the assistance OF mac
hine guns" II is not too much to say
that the German press is more stirred
by the apparent opening OF a Russian
road to peace, than by the crossing OF
the Alps to victory. Ia Vienna on
November II there was mass meet
ing Of $4,000 people; they met. not to
rejoice over the invasion Of Venetia.
but TO demand that the Central Powers
should recognize Lenine as the ruler OF
Russii and make peace with him.
The Italian campaign. in fact. hav-
ing failed of its political purpose is
nothing more than sortie from be-
seiged fortress, and a sOrtie that neith
seiged armies nor brings relief to the
civilian population. The German peo-
pie now do not want victory; they want
peace and food. Significant vital statis-
tics are given by Leipziger VolkZeitung.
In Leipzig in the month OF september
there were 49S births and I'll deaths,
not couating army. crsnastses, whereas
in 1917 births exceeded deaths by, sixty
stx per cent The RDesiast health. re-
eort Il better than. ts,is. but gives the
information that out of 8Os births fS5
or rs per cent, were illegitimate Hun
cry typhus has been spreading 70 such
an extent that it has called for official
denials Of alarming figures quoted by
rumors. Berlin goes unwashed Tor
lack of hot water. owing to the coal
shortages from the same cause Ham
burg newspaper offices close early in
the evening for want of gas; the dye
ing industry. pride of Germany's' com
merce, is suffering SO badly for the
same reason that thirty out of thirty
four Berlin dye works are TO be closed.
The Italian victory cannot ease the
economic situation. nor does 1t seem 10
have favored political unity anywhere
except among the Allies. The growing
dispute between Austria and hungary
and Bohemia daily comes nearer to
the danger point. The appointment of
Hertling as chancellor has raised
storm among the German parties
which may reach a crisis any day. The
Aildeutscher Blatter Is furious; the
chancellor, it says "is stained with
guilt as no o,h.r chancellor before
hinr" and secured his appointment by
means of mortal political sin" The
Reichsbote reviles him as Roman
Catholic: other papers see ia this a
hope for making better use of the
nope Won Tirpitz seems 20 trke this
view Germany has interest in the
papai see being rendered wore secure"
he said in campaign speech. Not
that The father of submarine piracy
openly advocates peace. he has aband-
oned his hope that England can be
apurl,s versenkt but looks TO the per
manent annexation of Belgium as an
stternatiye menace to England The
lea that submarines would prove a
sufficient protection against England
was = great mistake. some effective
counter weapon was bound 60 he dis
covered" therefore Germany must an
mex Belgium. The military victories OF
She day seem propitiOus to the Old
pirates new scheme But the German
people are awakening to the fact long
recognized by their enemies. that al
though Germany can still win victories
sbe /, steadily losing the war