Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-05
KUHN'S WAR REVIEW.
CONTINUED from Thirteenth Page,

the custer of Won Bethmann Hollweg,
block in ruthless and uninterrupted
pursuance Of the war until all mill
.ary aspirations had been realized.
These military leaders of Germany have
imbued their allies with belief in vic
tory. The Germans point out that they
hoid half million square kilometers
OF enemy territory, and this should be
ssumclent proof that the Germanic arm
les are to continue their past successes
with consequent complete triumph over
the enemy. Being a part of the anti
quated but nevertheless powerful bu-
pire. military leaders wish to perpetu-
ate all those forms which have been
SO advantageous to them personally.
They are bending the knee before the
kaiser that thrift may follow fawning.
They wish to perpetuate the present
ruler as well as that archaic system
which has SO long throttled self-expres-
sion of the German people. The kali
sers destinies and those Of the crown
prince are interlocked with the mill
tary elements. All believe they still
can s,, emerge victorious VICTORY IS
TINUE IN POWER Even the war-mad
ruler Of Germany and his immediate
cohorts undoubtedly recognize this.
There are elements at home which
are pursued. The German peoples are
becoming more enlightened and the
belief becomes more general through
out the nation that Germany is up
mean additional hardship to those who
already are doing heavy labor on in
sufficient diet. if indeed any diet is to
be had at all in any regular form.
Greatest suffering is said to prevail in
the larger cities of Germany as well
as in the southern states. Austria is
suffering terribly.
1t is but natural that a vast element
of the peoples of the central powers
should on g
Privations in Store for and even
for German Peoples. pouse the
cause of an immediate end to the
struggle. Financial conditions daily
are becoming more serious. Privations
Of the keenest sort are in store for the
war. During the recent crisis in Ber-
lin it was plainly made manifest.
through reichstag debates. that the
sentiment for peace and internal re-
forms was not to be reckoned with
mental reforms. well knowing with the
present system Of government he can
block them when they appear on eve
Of realization.
The kaiser through his mouthpieces
In Berlin and Vienna. tries to convince
the peace-seeking peoples of his own
realm that he is earnestly DESTROYS of
bringing the war to a conclusion. He
knows we'll that any peace sell iments
which he may express now will not be
received with open mind in entente
countries unless Germany is ready to
capitulate and deal with the entente
on entente terms, so consequently any
peace tenders can be interpreted in no
other way than that he is appeaiIue
indirectly to the peace-seeking peoples
of the central powers, hoping to keep
them quiet until the German military
machine can continue this ruthless and
bloody business Of war.
THE KAISER IS PLAYING FOR
TINE FOR HIS ARMIES He needs it
to save himself. But the world becomes
more convinced as each day goes by
that even the kaiser cannot perpetually
ward of the fate which is in store for
him.
Chancellor Michaelis of Germany has
been out in the various provinces of
Germany trying to reconcile those eIe-
ments diverging from the main German
scheme of things. He is to visit Mu-
mich, Stuttgart. Dresden. Karlsruhe and
Darmstadt in the hope of privately ex-