The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1918-04-19
Description of Great
Western War Front.

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peal, in its last Sundays editoria
articles on The Week in the War,
gave a description of the Western
front on which big things have beer
happening in France and Belgium
since the 21st OF March. 1t says
Imagine a four. sided figure, the tor
being 40 miles, the West side 4C
miles, the South side SO miles and
| the East side 80 miles" The 80 mile
side is the present line between the
Germans and the English, the North
side the line from where the trench
es touch the North Sea, along
through Calais to Boulogne, the
West side is the coast fromBoulogne
to where the river Somme empties
into the sea, and the South side the
line of the Somme river from the
sea back to town of Amiens over
to the German line. AT that time
the Germans were fighting des-
perately to swing their line around
so as to cut off Bouloene and Calais.
The English Channel from Dover to
Calais is netted and war ships and
submarines, as we'll as supply ships
can pass through this part of the
channel undisturbed by German
submarines, but if the Germans
were to take Calais and thus com.
mand the channel, England would
have to bring supplies into France
at more Southern port and across
a sea that is not netted against
the German U-boats.
In the same editorial it was stated
that the Germans have already been
talking Of the peace terms they in
tend to make, the balance Of the
world accept they viii make FIN
land independent (of all nations ex-
cept Germany, give Siberia to Ja-
pan, give South Russia to Austria
and keep the North for themselves,
and make England and France
cough up twenty-five billion dollars.
Then they will take over the Brit
ish navy and If we do not knock
under" they will come across and
raid our shores. A prospect mighty
pleasing to the Huns - but one never
to be realized so long as white men
have red blood in their veins and
dollars to equip soldiers to fight.
After whole year in the war we
are JUST FINDING OUR SOULS
we are just getting out of money
making as first consideration, with
fiddling, dancing and fooling as we
were doing before the war, for we
are coming to realize that if we
should lose this war, we would not
need any farms which many are
now begging that the boys be al
lowed to stay at home and work
and the money which some are so
reluctant to invest in bonds and to
contribute to the Red Cross and
other war causes, would not be
worth the paper on which it is print
ed. The negroe who wants to plant
food crops is held up as a better cit
izen than the white man who in
sists on his tenants planting all cot
ton-such landholders being pictur-
ed as enemies as infamous as was
Benedict Arnold and more selfish
than any man born in Germany
and now interned in this country.
A tribute is paid to the 200 to 800
women of the Red Cross, in Mem
phis, who have been working day
and night for three weeks, without
pay, ard asks if anybody has seen
that many men, laboring for even
an hour to help the government in
this crisis, The people of the Mem
phis territory owe the Commercial
Appeal much for its splendid Sun
day editorials always under the
same caption, The Week in the
War"