Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-12-28

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another and more terrible war when
ever in the future Germany may be
ready again and when in its opinion
The Day" has again arrived.
AS to the military aspect of the
situation today; we find that Belgium
is almost entirely over-run by the
Germans; as is Rumania. Montenegro
no longer exists nor does Serbia. A
large portion of Northern France is
still occupied by the Germans as is a
large part of Northern Italy also Rus
sian Poland and vast areas of north
west Russia, the Italians appear to
have suffered a further reverse and
the Germans have, in a measure at
least, retrieved their recent defeat by
General Byng in the Cambria sector.
Russia, which modified fourteen
million men when the war began, is
out of the War. When autocracy in
Russia was overthrown, the pendulum
swung too far the other way and, the
government now appears to be in the
hands and under the control of the
Bolsheviki element, the doctrines of
which appear to be-essentially and al
most identically the same as those of
our own I. w. w. Liberty" suddenly
thrust upon an illiterate Russian
people. entirely unprepared to govern
themselves, has been confounded with
license and Russia has thereby
seemingly fallen under the domination
of few extreme demagogues think
ing only of thmselves; and perhaps,
if not probably in the pay of Germany,
and unhesitatingly jeapordizing
their countrys destiny and progress
and happiness to serve their own
selfish purposes. Russia appears to
be most emphatically "out of the run
ning'' at the best; and at the worst |
may become an active ally of Ger |
many. Its detection releases over |
a million German troops heretofore |
on the Russian front, to be |
used against the Italians and the
French and British, together with vast
Quantities of ammunition and guns, and
is soon as the unquestioned German
genius for organization and efficiency
De applied to the situation the trans
systems OF Russia will be
e -habilitated and. the almost limitless
ood supplies of that country be made
,pcesSa hlo tO Gerp1anv. tbuc ,,,,llifv
ng a large mHasure the effect of
he British food bloclage of Germany
which as endured for over three years.
We may further expect that the
russians will rlease to Germany ap-
a million German prison
RS of war now in Russia and it is
more than likely that if conditions
ontinue as they now are in Russia,
hat Germany will acquire vast guam {
tiles of arms munitions and supplies ,
ow in the possession of the Russians. ,
Germany is untterly unscrupulous
ntirely without honor or shame. What c
he needs she takes and whether or !
OF she takes that to which she has !
o right is entirely and exclusively
question of how badly she needs it. c
ye can hardly imagine that Germany :
ill hesitate at anything in the last
and so we may watch the :
ituation in Switzerland with some
nxiety. F
Switzerland, we know, is bounded S
n the north by Germany; on the east
y Austria; on the sounth by Italy and
n the west by France. Neither
rance nor Italy are strongly forti-
ed along the Swiss frontier. Both h
rance and Italy are bound in honor Il
md their national traditions teach us b
lat this obligation will be respected) T
respect Swiss neutrality. r,
VIII Germany respect Swiss neu- v
ality in the last extremity? If Ger n
an troops were swung through v
the French line on the
est Front would be out f1anked. If r
srman armies could be flung through
vftzerland into Northern Italy the
allan lines would be assailed from 81
E. rear. If Northern Italy falls M
der the domination of the Teutons p'
ey will acquire a submarine base ei
the Mediterranean at Genoa or 1cS
ewhere which would jeapordize Oh
es Of coPmunicatson between Great %
itain or France and Solonika, Egypt, as
,sopotamia, Palestine. the Suez SD
naI and thereby India. p'
rhe territory of the Entente Allies cn
present occupied by Germany has 90
population OF forty-one million sh
,ple and we know that Germany na
Lies the entire population of oc- io'
,ied enemy territory in It's own in
stries and in any ,other manner
t will release its own people for
itary DurDOSes so that tn all in