Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-10-31
4 MILITARY CAMPAG in 1918;
WHY IT SEEMS INEVITABLE
Only About One Chance In 90 That War Will End In 1918 Says
Famous Military Expert, In An Analysis of Events on Battle
Fields and In Governmental Circles.

~ iati - eastern NE
on the terms of G~erlnany's allies.
~! no distant date all of Serbia will
pc free. all of Bulgaria will be in our
hands. the Turk will have surrendered
OF ne at U mercy; Mitteleurope,
whicn yesterday reached the Euphrates
ana the Jordan, will end at the Car
pathians and the Danube. Germany has
only her RUSSIAN %conquests left and
upon these her hold is pracarious.
Whlie n has now to guarantee her
austrian ally against Rumanian as
ven as allied attacks at the south.
ana unless she can do this she must
expect TO see Austria 1T no distant
time make a separate peace or fan into
anarchy and ruin.
AT the present moment. then. Ger
many n her Austrian ally must and
unquestionably will make peace. il
lhey can. on the basis of 1914. But
we are all OF us in America and Eu-
rope agreed that the basis Of 1914
aus not be restored. We mean to
erect a stronger Rumania, a greater
serbia, to bar forever Teutonic expan-
SION toward the south; we have recog-
hlzed the CZechO- Slovaks in Bohemia.
we nave given unmistakable pledges
WIN respect to Poland. we have in a
very large measure committed our
serves to a program which, in liberat-
ing the Slavs of Austria and the Poles
OF Russia, insures the dissolution of
the Hapsburg empire and the erection
OF a Polish barrier to Teutonism in
the east.
In the present mood Of the world 1t
seems to me unmistakable that any list
OF peace conditions would include a Po-
ana c~omprehended Posen as we'll as
western Galicia. In the same fashion
we nave accepted the view hat the
Jugo-Slays shall occupy all of the
Adrlatic Literal ave for the portions
wnich belong rightfully to Italy. We
nave determined that Alsace-Lorraine
snall return to France, and we have re-
solved that Germany shall pay dollar
Tor dollar and brick for brick for the
terrible devastations of her army in
Belgium and in France.
All q THIS means but one thing. II
nteaiis Una the Germany which energies
from mis- war will be weakened as NO
other nation at war, will be
II means that h Germans will have to
Jay aside all the dreams which thew
maze cherished for half a century.
creams OF world power, and accept con-
uillons growing out of their conduct OF
the war which will for a generation,
leave Germany crippled. I do NOT thinL
lieTe IS a single n Of the conditions
wnlch have sketched above which ia
not with the conscience and
tne sense OF Justice of civilization. I do
no! thin4 my OF them is non-assen
o,ai 10 the making OF a safe peace and
guarantee the world against another
1sassay. But granted all this, Is the
uerIhan military situation SO bad that
Germany will accept such termse
= uo not believe this is the case On
the contrary, the German armies. de-
spite great reverses. are still. numer-
GUS, powerful, capable of sustained re-
SIHlanC0. 'ThoN hovn lR---
whole winter for recuperation after q
lew weeks more OF fighting, and thew
nave behind them admirable lines ~
resistance still far outside of German
Ierritory. ~ we conceive that the
Will halt at the line of Ant
We,p-I -Mezieres-Metz, at the
end OF the present campaign. we NAV
see them standing on the far sbortar
ana stronger line OF Antwerp, Brussels.
Namur-M ezieres-M Metz in the snrinp' or
even at the line OF the Mouse from
fioiiand to the from north of Verdun
n behind this line is the line of
the Aruennes Last of all there is the
lne o1 the thine, strong, as we all
Know. and certain to be strengthened
IN the next months.
II IS not conceivable that the Ger
man general staff will calculate that It
can break the force Of allied attack
between h Scheldt and the GERMAN
lrontier by he end Of one more cam
paign and that an exhausted world
Will, at last, consent to peace by ne
EQUATION. which will save for Ger
many. not her conquests Of 1914-l91s.
but her position Of August, 1914. hev
position when she set forth on her
great and tragic adventure? As it
STANDS. peace on such terms as are
conceivable means the surrender Of all
Germany's aspirations. ambitions and
not a. few of her actual assets