Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-10
ASTOUNDING END
OF THE GREAT WAR
A Man of Gentleness Visits
Mysteriously With Rulers
of All Warning Nations.
HIS MISSION IS PEACE
By A. R. GROH.

he talked with the king and with
Lloyd George.
His presence in the city caused a
curious feeling. People talked Of it
in hushed voices.
Why did the presence of this one
man have such an effect?
No one knew. No one even knew
his name.
Then from Berlin came news that
the strange man was there. He had
been to the palace and the kaiser had
received himl
Again came word that he was in
Petrograd. People shook their heads
He could not travel from Berlin to
Petrograd, they said.
But the news was authentic He
was there and he had seen the car
The next day it was announced in
the dispatches he was in Rome! And
then in Paris! He had been received
by the king of Italy and the president
of France.
'Impossiblew They Say.
People said it was impossible. He
was in Rome;T they pointed out, the
day after he was in Petrograd.. This
was clearly impossible.
One night ship left Dover and
headed for Amsterdam. 1t was said
that King George was on board. The
same night mysterious train de luxe
ran through Germany. 1t was whis-
pered that it had come from Petro
grad! Soldiers told how they had laid
rails across the trenches to carry the
train from the Russian tracks to the
German.
Another train, the same night, came
up through Austria. People said that
one car bore the royal arms of Italy
Still another train ran from Paris IN
through Brussels and on into Hol.
land.
How could a train run from Pari,
to Brussels? the people asked o.
from Petrograd through Germany
Of from Rome through Austria? |,
was ridiculous, Only another of those
war rumors which. like all the world
seemed to hang by the nose.
Peace is Here.
And then came the great denou
ment, the astounding answer to al
these strange events. The tele.
graph wires buzzed with it. 1t was
sent humming along the cables in the
oceans bed. 1t was hurled through
the air on the wings of the wireless
The papers told it in six-inch Jet.
tiers, The newsboys shouted it; PEG.
pie read the headlines; they rubbed
their eyes; they read them again.
1t couldn't be, they said. No
They had gone mad. Those head
lines weren't there 1t was impossi
Bile. 1t was some gigantic hoax.
Others there were who believed
they danced about; they waved thei,
newspapers; they cheered till the,
awere hoarse.
> Unbelievable" they said. "Per.
haps. Fastastic? Unheard of? Posi-
bly,. But this whole war was unique
in the worlds history. Why shouldn't
its ending be as startling, as amazing
as its beginning and its prosecution
These are the astounding word:
they read in the newspapers:
THE WAR IS OVER!!!
Entente and Central Power Rulers
Meet at The Hague and End
Great Conflict
"HURRAHl HURRAH! HURRAH
King George, the Kaiser, the Gar
King of Italy and President of
France Make Peace"
For Humanity's Sake.
Then followed detailed account
OF how the rulers had met, how the
kaiser, with tears in his eyes, had
embraced King George and the car
how they had kissed and called each
other Cousin" how the king OF. Italy
and the president of France had
joined in the glorious meeting.
Leading generals and government
officials accompanied the sovereigns
A remarkable thing was that none
of the rulers had a guard. They
came as friends and brothers, trust.
full, unsuspicious. There in that room
they met. There, after the first
greetings, they sat down to simple
meal, and there they pledged eternal
fealty to the cause of humanity.
Fear and distrust were gone. En-.
nifty and envy had departed with
them. There was only peace and
good will.
The effect of this on the world car
be imagined.
Men and women sobbed and
laughed by turns. In Berlin a great
mass meeting was called and speak.
ers lauded the English and the
French and the Russians. In Lon.
don vast crowd gathered in Hyde
park and sang "Die Yacht am
Rhein."
Soldiers Embrace.
The news ran along the trenches
like fire. English and French and
German troops jumped up from Their
burrows, unarmed. They charged
each other. But not with weapons
They embraced; they patted each
other OH the back; they sat down and
ate together. "Hoch der kaiserr'
the tommies shouted. viva la France
and "Rule Brittania" the Germans
sang.
How ,the cheering troops rode
back to their homes, how industry
began to hum, how the great world
federation was formed, how com
merce soon covered the seas again
how the great awakening came that
abolished big guns and warships and
filled the people all with love and
understanding for each other, there
is not room here to relate.
The gentle-faced Man Who visited
the capitals of Europe disappeared
as mysteriously as He came.
But the strange influence that He
spread among rulers and people con.
tinued. 1t continues today. And