The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-06
Consider the End"


with the records Of human butchery March and April
were The enemy has begun another attack having rest
his divisions and brought up fresh reserves
the effort to break the British army The wastes that
once were Ypres are to be narrowed with shells The
dead of old battles are to be blown Of their graves
merged with newly dead battaons and rebued by fresh
explosions The German emperor Of the dead is inereas-
ing his army Of eorpses with feversh haste He will not
be satisfied it appears until he has the greater portion
Of the German armies safely under the sod.
The allies will do all they to help him. now that he
insists upon decimatng Germany They have not lost
moment during the recent breathing SPELL They have
brought up reserves and supplies strengthened rear de-
fenses increased their apane forces amagamated fresh
regiments Of Americans and Italians with the veteran
French and British brigades and redoubled the bonds
which unite the British and French armies All this is
directly in aid of the German emperors campaign for the
killing of Germans
It is the enemys hope to reach the Channel ports and to
defeat the British army That hope ardently pursued
will prove the undoing Of the German empire There is
no such thing defeat to the British army for the reason
that is is backed by ndesructbe and irresistible power
furnished by the nations of civilization All this power
not on the ground but it reazabe and in process of
application It is growing rapidly not as rapidly as the
hours needs but rapidly enough to turn the enemys hope
to despair
At the moment when Germany renews it's desperate as
saut the parliament of is dissolved be-
cause Of crisis in the internal situation The chef ally
OF Germany the verge of collapse BY reason of hun
ger and revolution The country stripped of food The
imperial food dictator, Gen Hoeer declared last Decem
Der that the empire would have to get 900 mounds
Of foodsu somewhere if it to hold out until the next
harvest This supply has not been forthcoming Ukraina
was Mother Hubbards cupboard when the Huns reached
it. In Bohemia and throughout the southern Slav regions
of Austria the peasants refused raise crops and the
shortage thus created is now acute and deadly
In the midst of this universal hunger the subject races
OF Austria straning at the leash If the great allies
would exert themselves in practical manner thew could
percptate at least three violent revolutions in Austria
hungary and thus hasten the dissolution of the Haps
burg empire Arms and ammunition should be SNUG
gled in to the subjects of The coast
OF Dalmata should be swarmng at this moment with al
lied blockade carrying fuel for the revolution in
Austria No more telling blow could be delivered at the
German power than the disabement Of Austria, and
nothing is more feasible military proposition
The Austrian navy is almost as ineffective as the boshe
v navy OF Russia Ninety per cent Of the crews of the
Austrian Savs who are waiting for an opportu
nifty to mutiny. All the maritime population Of Austria
composed Of Savs and Italians So honeycombed with
revolution is the Austrian navy that Emperor Karl re-
Gently was compelled to take over personal command az
the fleet He does not dare to trust his own officers
bold stroke by the allied fleets ought to result II the
transfer en- of the Austrian ships to the allied side
ana the more speedy occupation of all Austrian ports by
the allies Then the Austrian offensive against Italv
could be turned into enemy disaster of first magnitude
Let the German hordes on and die as they come
1t i we'll The allies winning this war In spite of
failure to seize upon many obvious opportunities to deal
wicked thrust the allies marching to the goal
The United States army is to be enlarged forthwith -
size sufficient to make the defeat Of Germany sure The
concentration OF the republics strength is coming at the
hour when Germany passes the peak Of her military
strength and when Austria Hungary suspends naraman
tary government to struggle with hunger and revolution
Those who shudder at the German assaults should =.
member that the birth pangs Of liberty are violent and
that evil dies hard Let them bear IN mind tba sav;nc
Of the wise man of Greece, Consider tho ana -
Orayely bear the burdens of today-WashingtOn Post
A STUPID PRACTICE.
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