Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-26
WAR TO END IN YEAR,
SAYS SENATOR LEWIS
Will Be Complete Victory for
Allies Unless Russia
Helps Germany.
MAY EMBROlL OTHER POWERS
Declares Spain Is Ready to Send
Forces Against
Prussians.
MAY EMBROIL OTHER POWERS

LONDON. August 25.-'"rhe war will
end In year with complete victory for
the allies unless Russia, by giving sup
plies and men to Germany, prolongs
the struggle
Senator James Hamilton Lewis, Of
Illinois, made the above statement to
a Universal Service staff correspondent
in an exclusive Interview tonight
The first moment that Russia en-
ters into the war on the side of Ger
many" he continued, "the people of
Spain will come out with the allies,
see the necessity of Joining the allies
| to prevent Germany and Russia from
taking Sweden and Denmark from it's
people.
knows this and will not dare as
nation to join Germany. This fact
when f, Germany Is convinced OF It
that Germany will seek peace on the
allies terms
As TO the progress of the war. SEN
ator Lewis has this to say:
Pershing: visited the British and
rons there F Is
allied commanders OF early victory.
While Premier Clemenceau is re-
L
expression to me as to victory as mean
ing in one year when he meant TO
use the French phrase meaning that
in the year victory would be appar-
ent to the Germans the lesser com
manders in France are open in their
statements that as the Germans have
forty miles from the line they had
held, 1t was a proof that as against
joint offensive the Germans cannot
withstand the movement OF the allies
toward the Rhine.
The spirit of the French is as one
The British hI feel the the vigor % Of of" new life,
from the American entrance into the
struggle.
fighting that Germans say they fight
"barbarously."
Senator Lewis consented to write the
following Impressions exclusively for
Universal Service
ny SENATOR HAMILTON LEWIS,
United States Senator From Illinois.
tcopyrIght. 1918. by Universal scrv!ce.l
LON ON, August 25.-Unstinted:
praise for the American soldiers is
heard everywhere on the front from
the lips of allied officers.
l must pay tribute TO the men from
Illinois. l do not take credit away from
any other units, but our people must
know that the French concede that it
was where the Illinois men went in
They broke the German advance as
counterattack and drove the enemy
to retreat. That was the first humiliat-
ing defeat for the Germans.
AT the British front, at Chipilly
southeast of Albert, where the Ger
man right held out longest against the
British onslaught at the opening of the
NEARBY drive). it was the Illinois men.
the First and Second Regiments from
Chicago. that led the victorious attack.
Under Colonel Sanborn. they took the
high ground right under the noses of
the German cannon. They captured
these cannon and made hordes of Ger
man prisoners.
So magnificent was this American
dash TO victory that the English com
mander. a veteran of the East Indian
and Esyptian campaigns. said to me:
that attack II seemed impossible to
take the hill" Sanborn was breveted
brigadier. general and given medal of
nigh distinction by Great Britain.
wonderful. noble spirit lives in
these boys from Illinois. / visited them
and mingled with them on every front
dugouts.
They make you think of fellows
camping cam out preparatory, to hunt for
every comfort and better food than we
obtained in city hotels. They are given
every care.
ALL WOUNDED ARE
ANXIOUS TO GET BACK
cared for as il they were in their
homes. They recover rapidly. and ali
are In great haste to get back to fight.
They cry out as slogan:
Hell, Heaven or Hoboken; then par
adise-illinois!"
The names of our young men are
heard everywhere. Colonel Robert MIC
Sormic6, Joe Medill Patterson, Colonel
Reilly, and Captain johnson, of ReiI-
battery are with the hundreds
or others setting an example of yalor
and noble conduct.
Illinois can be proud of her fighting
men in France.
Even the Australians pay the tribute
that the Americans "go IL too rough
and xiii everything at once"
The Germans fear defeat and disaS-
ter German prisoners confess that
their commanders say the result lies
with America. and that Americas
fighting will change all previous esti-
They admit further. tha; 1t is neces-
sary to recover from the defeat in
ficted on Germany in the, very first
test or the Americans. or the German
people will be crushed in spirit
They had been taught that Ameri-
cans could not be reckoned with as
an independent force. but merely as
Servants OF the British"
The present drive and it's success
will. IL continued by the increase of
American soldiers, lose Germany every
inch Of ground previously gained in
France and will mark the beginning
cry of the American soldier at the
front is:
"On to Berlin"
The most noticeable thing to me is
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