The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-05-17
CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE

CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE
Things Could Not be Much Worse.
Therefore They Ought to Get Bet
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Greensboro Daily News.
The Canadian casualty list has been
published. About ninety thousand
men from Canada have lost their
lives. or they are missing, in France.
! The impression widely prevails
that France is rapidly bleeding to
: death, and may soon die, if the tide
OF battle does not soon turn.
i The world suggests no narallel
whatsoever for the series of battles
now being fought on the west front.
For sheer horror, for death and de-
struction, the finite mind has not
hitherto conceived such thing.
! The world is restless and iii at
), ease. In many countries revolutions
are feared, and in Russia, an inter-
national riddle now as always, one has
already taken place.
The world is in dread of a food
!, famine. Millions of the people in
Europe will soon be looking to the
United States for salvation from fam
inc. And some there are who fear
that this country will not have a
bushel of wheat, corn, oats or pota-
t toes to spare.
After three years of mutual de-
{ struction, hate and strife, most OF
f Europe, more especially the highly
5 civilized part-think upon titles
. PROSTATE. Many had thought an
t other world war inevitable, and the
r several nations felt themselves pre-
: pared for it; but no man, and M
: nation, had foreseen the naked, starl
:. horror of the thing. The people O.
S England, France and Italy are toda,
=. in need of food, no less than the mil
!. lions of the central powers.
y And now our own boys are arm
: ing for the conflict, a tax levy is pro
z. burdens upon many of our people
: while the national debt will present
= ly be piling up in terms of billions.
.. In these things we find hope. w
) do not see how things could be YER
L much worse. Things ought, there
$ fore, to get better. Nor are the sign
st of improvement lacking. From NOR
re than one source the intelligence come
I'd that the German chancellor will 500
he have an important announcement t
y make upon the subject of peace: W
Id suspect that this report is we'll fount
ed. Following the defeat of the Ru!
s. sian and Roumanian troops, and tt
lie capture of Bucharest, the German
n felt that they could approach the sui
~ 10 fo.
C. the charge that they were doing s
es as a defeated nation. In the we
u the German line holds,or at all event
is of the line. On the east front tt
op German and Russian troops are fir
in ternizing. In Italy, no less than
Russia, war conditions are far fro
in satisfactory. from the point of vie
o. of the military leaders. The peopl
Ise. declares the New Republic, are n
ly- being told the truth about the
nd things. On the high seas the U-b boa
nd are destroying a vast amount of to
b. mage.
,ar The Berlin government will Their
ty. fore feel that it can again approa
be the subject of peace without bell
nd misunderstood, or is in position
of set up the claim that it is not ia
ing defeat. All the military critics
icy all TIE nations freely admit that t
try war has resolved itself very large
ere into a race between the U-boats a
the shipbuilders of this country a
ep- England, unless our inventors a
as scientists find it possible to accol
try plish something worth while with
the the next few weeks, in the way
nat checking the ravages of the submt
ro- sibies. The Scandinavian countr
to are bringing pressure to bear up
ro- Germany, to state her peace tern
nty since the people Of those countr
APP are also threatened With hung
m Many Germans desire stateme
hey CT such terms, W ie Berlin
les. course hopes that Russia, after a
hey lbs al of such terms, will no Ions
the see any reason for continuing the c.
of flict.
ped Surely, then, there is ground
OBJ hope. The assumption is safe tt
leir the people of the central powers,
will survivors, really desire peace. Sure
me- therefore, the forthcoming statem'
will offer some reasonable basis
negotiations.
S If the peace move is not made,
is going to be a world filled "
Egg woe by winter. There will be n
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