Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-14
"Wednesday, August -, 1918.
Shall peae. Come too Soon!

- lad ,,d rover hunger
-. ,f,,,tob Post saws that "un-
,si,, ao.s not describe the food
situation: that chronic famine
would ho nearer the truth. Already
Berlin ard Bavaria are quarrelins
over alleged favoritism in the alot-
r-sr' ~ food. while Germany aliies
arc well aware that Y any people /
s,arvo ~ vii not be Germans nn'ii
all her allied tools have succumpeo'
Grrr'a1v ia starving There are
m younE men on the streets OF her
ciues. Np' Tho manned and the olind'
Tho rest ~ the population, OUTSIDE Oh
crs arc cmaCiatod Old people ana
children This grim picture Oh civil
lfc ir 'hf halser'S empire was
Trough 20 an Atlantic port MONDAY
hy TWO American women refugees
flom me enemy country, arriving
ABOARD a Norwegian American inner
They said CONDITIONS IN HermahE
are frightful beyond descrlp'lon'
starvation IS everywhere
A new peace offensive is at hand;
not nc Prussian bombast variety OF
hlnf and pre'enso, but an attempt by
Teuton educators and Roman Catno-
lie bishops who would save the
masses from the sure fate or ex-
termination BY epidemics due 70 lack
Of rourishment. u IS hopeless task
unless me lunkers rave come 10 their
senses and are ready to help save
what IS left ~ the German people.
America would carry a giant pur-
dcn in rescuing the German people
from the folly and crime OF their I'M
piinoipled rulers. but the world can
never make peace, arrange interna-
tional Jaws or do business with men
who turn war ipto rampage OF muir
der. rape and robbery. That much
has been settled by four years OF
world defense against this gang of
iawless and consclonceless maraud-
ers.
The Huns will never give I'D until
they are convinced that the last hone
FOR then, is gone. They are fighting
for existence. without hone in other
than victory. They can hold out" as
;onr ne the German poople and their
moor dune allies will stand the cost in
Mood treasure and misery. There
to,o We must nrov,de tho conviction
on.s
7. ,s IN "a .,er,ca "a Iift NOW as
r.vor h.,o,. u-o r,,e, 70, ro,ay -,
irresistible army Tor the war mas
t.r. - GEE - M, fool wo ,,us,
- -. ,uioa go .,od .,o,, Il,
pouri.bn.n. We mus. nrovtde such
u,r funds az never nictured in the
widest dreams Of var makers We
r,u.+ o.re.d M for every hour
r,,ar. reecued nfe IN E,,rone
Fvo, when .he lac, ere,, hattie 10
tough. when the raid,ne is over and
SHINING has c.ased whom trenches
,-e l.vel.d and coil !. +,,Iea IN Elan
ders p,rardv ard ~ yerdun. when
po,son gas "a made only for rovaI
palaces. and when baby murderers
and hospital destrovers arc awaiting
the verde, NJ world cour.-tber
90 mus, have nirhtv army for 49,
oun,,,on ~ Germany and NJ otber cot,
where tho lurking gas If Hunisr NAV
cling 70 tho low nl,ces We rust
complete tho construction ~ tho
mighty army even II It Is screamed in
few months along with other
armies and navies TO be needed no
wore
on. do not croak that old excuse Of
II. devil. that the making of war
Impossible is impossible; for If the
war does not last until II accom- :
Wishes its own eternal end then i,
viii have ended too son and The
waste Of life and treasure viii, have
been in vain ~ PEACE is reached
before the great nowers arc readv for
World Cour, world po,,oo 80 VIOLA