The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-07-30
THE cI.oRIous FlFTH YFAR.

HOW IS the sheaA altnsLanolfg tne dow ne mas re-
ceiped and how viii The bOche allies meet the manifold
dfieaities that surround them7
have been forced to surrender half
Of the territory they occupied south of the Scissors
Rheims line They are rapidly refreshing from that
tire salient They are under fire on both TANKS and
from therear. Their big guns silent, being either
under transport already delivered far to the
The supplysystem Of the Germans is badly demOraliEed
and doubtless large cOntagents Of men are without food
and ammunition. AS the retreat continues it gathers
velocity Such situation quickly egenerates into panic
and rout unless superior generashp and iron discipline
can be applied. The Germans leaving gOOd-sized
forces in the rearto be Unanswered sngIy by expert
generals in such to delay the allied advance
much as possible Machine gun nests and stubborn
detachments Of hostile troops vepcaused much delay
but despite these obstacles the allies cleaning up the
entire salient and taking great quantities of material
The enemy is now more than So miles from Paris at
the nearest point and rapidly withdrawing The allied
forces are finding some difficulty, in fact, in keeping
contact with the fleeing foe The use of cavalry will
remedy this defect and probably accelerate the retreat
halt will somewhere, doubtless but everything
indicates that the enemy artillery has been moved beyond
the danger Of development in the now famous pocket"
This is military of the first magnitude, COM
ing end of four years of exhausng war; and made
possible by the appearaReeof an enemy that is more
populous than. Germany, richer than Germany more
handy with machinery than Germany has been and not
only unwearied but Astounding in the vitality and energy
that mean SO much in war What do the German people
think of this showing? With what feelings do they take
up the burden of the fifth gear,of the war; with another
winter of hunger and freezing at hand the kaisers
armies, beaten back, and the kasers armed enemies
creasing by hundreds Of thousands every month?
Despair must 'Overtake and overwhem the German
peOpewhe they see before them certain famine prva
ton and defeat. Where they to obtain help? Aus
raHungary, that rotten political conspiracy called
empire is hungry ragged and disheartened. The new
premier, Baron Hussarek typical reactionary Of
the Czernin type managed to bring tOgehera crowd OF
supersous and terrorzed clerical members of the lower
house, who voted credit of 600O0OO,OOO kronen fol
the next six months. The sounds large, but il
amounts only to 6OOOOO000in real money That
expenditure Of 500, 100000 month"; as against ar
expenditure by America alone of half that every
day AustriaHungary, in other words is bankrupt ant
must drop out. AS for Bulgaria and Turkey, whose
scOundreIly governments now fighting each other
being unable to remain faithful any alliance whether
goOdsor bad The chief of the bandit crew, Germany
is hard pressed by the allies that there is no oppor
tunity to take Bulgaria and Turkey in hand The prob
ability Is that the two Balkan thieves will make war il
earnest to the great benefit of Greece Serbia Roumans
and the enslaved Armenans.
7 The king of the Hedjaz has cut the railroad in Arabs
and reclaimed the major portion of the country from thu
Turk The British army is steadily advancing in Meso
potamia and Palestnez Thererwsbe no retreat as thu
British have built railroad in Palestine as they hav,
advanced hence the desert has no terrors for them
Germany cannot get food from Russia, as the Szecho
hold all strategic railroads and have shut off traf
fc on the Voga Germany cannot get military help from
Austria Hungary, whichahas just suffered defeat and
licking its wounds Bulgaria and Turkey are liabilities t.
Germany, not assets.
Thus the wargOes we'll for the allies The fifth year Of
hostilities bids fair to be glorious with victories