Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-19
Fearful German Orgies of 0p-
preston and Broken Pacts
!, Make Allies Cautious.
;P0PE'S PEACE PLAN
is LABELED GERMAN"
Teutons, War Weary, Hope to OBJ
9 tain Some Idea Of En-
- tente Terms.
IRE TO FEEL IRON HAND
Believed That Austria, Knowing of
: Huge Cost Of Continued Fealty
/. to Berlin, Will Bolt Alliance.
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

ming. German nlilitarism, the twentieth
century Moloch. more murderous in
heart, more seditious in character and
having far more tangible being than
that strange diety worshiped by the
-Ammanites, drew the sword in 1914
against what was destined to be almost
Tho entire civilized world. In one
band was the scimitar, in the other
the brand. 1t marched ruthlessly over
san innocent people. Women or all
ages. elderly men and even children
were slaughtered as rats worthy of
ssuch a punishment. after the valiant
Armies of these peoples had been
re@ement-
Arson, rapine reigned forthe hour.
Blood lust of this enemy Of all civiliza-
ton developed into frenzy with
sSrgies which wereh justified under the
name of n certain s'kultur.~ Immense
-levies were placed upon already stricken
peoples. Official might was impressed
on the helpless; homes were burned,
syoung girls pushed into a living death
CLERGY were tortured and sweet souls
= on errands of mercy stood before stone
walls and their bodies riddled with rifle
bullets World famous cathedrals were
Targets of this moloch, who laughed in
.frenzied glee at the agonies written
ION the countenahces of the down
strodden-
: Food of millions of people was con-
FOR this terrible representative of
.frightfulness. More innocents were per-
united to slowly die from the gnawing
pains of starvation. Others were sent
behind giant invading military ma
schines to do mental tasks in bondage
Priceless treasures of another land.
next visited by the wrath OF this
relic of barbaric systems. were stolen;
;immovable stores turned to ashes.
Everywhere wanton destruction
-reigned, merciless torture condoned.
Still another nation dared oppose the
bloody course of this monster. Its
women violated. it's fathers beaten,
broken and bodies tortured with all
the modernized tools Of a develish
human ingenuity
of military might went mad through
out Europe, crushing, Staying and yok-
ing peoples to forms of slow death
Late IN 1916 and in 1917 the CORY ad-
vancernents of a lust weakened demon
were curbed by an aroused world
Terrible punishment in sight, this
war-mad figure now begs that the old
order of things be restored
But the world il not ready to forget
the things that have passed i'm this
struggle.
The world is not once more ready to
TRUST the spoken written word of
eraz.a power without FIRST forever re-
moving the implements of terror which
if has been made to feel
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There is no question that Germany
today weakened by the rigors and de-
mands of the
Peace Foundations. present world
Germany Laying least Gar
many which realizes that aspirations
as dreamed of early in the world con-
Mig can never be realized. is laying
the foundations for an end to the
present order OF bloodshed and chaos
throughout the world agents in the
pay of the Teutonic nation have sought
to spread the gospel of peace through
tie fundamentally of the very peoples
* war with Germany. These subter-
fsnean maneuvers have brought forth
-fr1it in possibly a half dozen nations
x<rayed against the central powers.
! through demands of more radical ele-
Nents that peace terms be stated.
Through these Germany may get a
$ne on the mode of punishment which
the allies win insist upon when arms
-nse laid down and all beIligerent ma
Mons take their seats about council
boards to effect the final reckoning.
Germany also has worked and Is work.
45E TO crack the solid front Of the entente
@b5 separate peace with Russia. In this
she has failed so far.
She proposed the Stockholm peace
conference some months ago that the
might be induced to demand the wars
end on pain of Internal discord- She
z4ailed In this particular instance.
,83andishments have been used in all
directions with the net result that the
1(kstente powers are stronger than ever
"a their stand that there shall be Sc
~ereiy defeated Germany.
During the week just closed Pope
&enedfct in Rome issued an appeal to
<ran warning nations to lay down arms
ana usher in an era of peace. that
gtrfcken nations might be rehabilitated.
His proposals were that Serbia, Ruma-
mia and Belgium should be restored !;
that there should be no indemnities.
no territorial rewards; that the ques-
Gettled about peaceful council boards:
S mat there should be freedom of the
seas: that future wars be avoided
= fhrough the instrumentaIity of an in
the fine hand of Germany is indirectly
reen. for the pontin requests that en-
fente nations agree to the return of
all German colonies His whole pro-
gram has been pronounced an appeal
Tor status quo ante And this would
be German peace" for. in future
years, Germany, the greatest disre-
spector of verbal and written pacts in
the history of the world. under the
fway of her militaristic ideals. might
again set forth on her orgies of death
and destruction and oath breaking.
The entente powers do not trust Ger
many as long as she retains her pres
emit weapon. The weapon must be
1aken away and forever concealed II
tfe entente powers resume peaceful re-
Nations with Germany.
There is growing belief that the
Pope. who maintains close friendship
with the
Germany Hopes Catholics OF
to Learn Foes Terms. son,h anu
Germany, has been Influenced indirect.
~ to promulgate and announce the
very terms which Germany most de-
wires as a basis of ending the present
struggle. Defeated. Germany does not
expect to obtain all of them. But Ger
many. through the announcements
which surely must come from entente
governments in their replies to the
pontif, viii learn whether or not these
Terms are in the least acceptable, and
81 not, to what degree Then Germany
Father than be defeated without any
8 gains whatever may revise her terms
E,ore in accord with those of the allies
IS has been repeatedly stated III
fs.i eEtf capitals and by highest of al.
lied oflicialdom, there can be no tenn.