Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-11-15
Crushing Defeat Of Germany's
War Machine May Prove
Blessing to Nation.
SOCIALISTS Ar: BUSY
Radical Party Controls Fourteen Of
the Twenty.six States in the En-
pire and Republican Form Of
Government May Follow.

London, Nov. 12.-After more than
four years of struggling the rights Of
mankind are served. The greatest
day in the history of nations has
dawned. The German militarist
classes-arrogant beyond expression
are in defeat.
Kaiser and crown prince are in
flight, refugees in an alien country.
Germanic kings and potentates no
longer hold their sway. s-
The Allied arms are triumphant.
lmperialistic Germany has met the
fate that ultimately must come to any
country that seeks to rule the world.
Germany on Her Knees. 10,
+ Deserted by all her allies, Germany
on her knees, is accepting terms Of
capitulation which amount virtually
to object surrender. Except for &C.
tual hostile military invasion the once
great European power, the ambition
OF the monarch of which was to dom.
Mate over all, ia in complete defeat. >.
Beaten on the field of battle, the
edict Of the Allied chief Of command
10 that the German armies shall retire
into their homeland from al invaded
territory. 1mpotent as the German
arms will be, so impotent shall be the
German feet The colonies are lost
and the hand that sought to reach out
and attain additional territory is with
cred by the ruling of the Supreme
War council at Versailles. sr..,.s,. -.
Restitution 10 Promised.
Reparation and restitution, in fact,
full compensation Of all kinds, Is to
be made by Germany for all the dis.
aster that has followed her armies
and those of her allies throughout the
world war. @#' ,,5,ts
Defeat May Prove Blessing.
For Germany 40 nation-shorn OF
her imperialistic and militaristic pow.
ers-the defeat may not prove in the
long run Of disadvantage. The revolu.
lions throughout the country are tend.
Ing toward Decentralization which may
prove the salvation Of . country once
controlled by war lords. x I
Fighting on the battle fronts ended
ct 6 o'clock Monday morning. Eastern
time In the United States Tie armies
Of the Allied forces at that tin, e-even
to the second-were hard marrying the
enemy.
The British troops were fighting
their foes across the Belgian frontier
In Belgium. The French had all but
cleared the Germans from northern
France. The Americans were driving
northward up the Mouse and Moselle
rivers, threatening the enemy with
capitulation by development.
~ Germany is still dominated by the
revolutionists, but reports indicate
that the Socialists are rapidly assum.
ing control of the governmental func.
lions. Fourteen out of rs states in
the empire have been seized by the
Socialists, following the raising Of the
red flag at Kiel.. The IL small states,
which apparently are not affected, can.
not hope to stay the triumphal pro
gress Of the Socialists, 1t Is believed.
Republic Being Favored.
Already the Raichstag independents
and the Socialists are planning co.
operating in formation OF stable gov
eminent. With republics set up in
Saxony, Baden, Wurtemburg, Bavaria
and Schleswig- Halstein, the Socialists
appear to be drifting towards repub.
lie for Germany.