The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-10-24
Germany, Admittedly Defeated,
Is Now Squirming to Pre-
vent Utter Disaster.
GREAT CIVIL UPHEAVAt ON
Austria and Turkey Ready to Quit
Huns, Forced by Allies, Begin Gen.
eraI Retreat From Belgium
Still Resisting FierceIy In
Champagne.
BY EDWARD w. PlckARo.

Squirming, lodging, wailing, the
ierman imperial government seemed
asst week to be on it's last leg. Thick
and fast came the rumOrS of uncOn-
ditiOnal surrender and of the abdica-
ton of the kaiser, and though these
were uncOnfirmed or cOntradicted as
fast as they came out, enough au-
thentic news Seeped through the veil
of secrecy to show that things were
in desperate state in Germany. It's
peace trap was sprung harmlessly by
President Wilson when, in reply to
what ut first glance looked like full
acceptance of his terms, he told the
government fatty that only absolute
c:pitulatiOn would he considered and
that the allies would not listen, at all
while the Huns occupied allied terri
tory and continued to perpetrate out
RACES on land and sea. Any persons
who may have had doubts concerning
the firmneSs of the presidents will and
purpose were jOyfully reassnred, and
the answer created CONSERVATION in
Berlin. The German press admitted
that 1t was a great blow to their rising
of the empire began to try to find
some other way of escape from the
desperate situation. AS a preliminary,
some demOcratizing amendments to
the constitution were adopted or pro-
posed, notably one taking from the
emperor the right to declare war. The
power of the junkerS was Slapped, to-
gether with tIat Of their war lord.
There was, indeed, evidence that
civil upheaval of extraordinary pro-
portions was beginning which. even
more than the great military reverses,
would bring on debacle for Germany.
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The governments, the fighting forces
and the civilian peoples of all the al
lied nations made it absolutely plain
that Germany could not obtain the
''reace without humiliation" which it
is seeking. Nowhere among them Is
found any sentiment of pity for either
the brutal sOldiery that has ravished
the earth Or the people who have sup
ported and rejOiced over the inhu-
mainly of the armed forces. The de-
n,and for exact justice is universal
would not he in the least surprising IL
the prediction made in these columns
many months ago were fulfilled, name
~, that one of the conditions of peace
Will be that Germany surrender the
kaiser and other instigatOrs and per
petratOrs Of frightfulness for personal
punishment. With this spirit prevail
ing among the now victorious allies,
what chance has Germany for peace
without humiliation?
The abdicat1On Of the kaiser, which
after all would be but incidental, was
considereC likely. and it was reported
that he Intended to step down in favor
of Prince William Frederick, oldest
son Of the crown prince, who is only
twelve years old.
President Wilson delayed his reply
to the peace proposals Of Austria-Hun-
gary and Turkey, probably in order
that the truth about their hopeless SIT
uation might soak into their minds,
and reports showed they were really
ing the facts and beginning to act ac-
COr@ingly. The breakup of the dual
kingdom became more imminent, the
Hnngarians openly declaring their in
tention to separate from Austria, the
Poles. Croats and Bohemians boldly COM
ing out for independence. The govern
ment made despair;ng plans to hold
the empire together in the form OF a
confederation of the various nationali-
ties, but this did not seem to interest
the neoDles who have suffered so long