The Robesonian., 1918-11-14
VICTORY AND PEACE
After More Than Four Years of
Struggle the Rights of. Mankind
Are Served-The Greatest Day
In the History Of Nations Has
DaWned.
(Bv the Associated Press

VlcCOTy anu peace.
After more than four years Of
struggling the rights of mankind are
served. The greatest day in the his
tory of nations has dawned.
The German militai istlc 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.
The allied arms are triumphant. Inn
perialistic Germany has met the fate
that ultimately must come TO any
country that seeks to rule the world.
Deserted by all her allies, Germany, !,
on her knees, is accepting term OF
capitulation which amount virtually
to abiect surrender. Except for ac-
tual hostile military invasion, the once
great European power, the ambition
Of monarch Of which was to dominate
over all, is in complete defeat.
Beaten on the field Of battle, the
edict of the allied chief command IS
that the German armies shall retire
into their own home land from all in
vaded territory. Impoteat as the Ger
man armies shall be also as impotent
shall be the German fleet. Colonies
are lost and the hand that sought to
reach out and attain additional terri
tory is withered by the ruling of the
supreme war council at Versailles.
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.
The handwriting was on the wall
for Germany. Her troops had fought
valiantly throughout the more than
four years of warfare. But what had
been considered in Germany an in,
vincibfe army was beaten in feats OF
arms by the allied powers. Even be-
fore Germany's allies deserted her the
strength of the Entente Allies had be-
come apparent. Unprepared, they had
resisted for more than three years the
assaults of an enemy who had beer
preparing for combat since the Fran
co-Prussian war.
With a determination that couid
never recognize defeat, Belgium
France, italy and Serbia were over:
Yun. Hard days were experienced
by the Allies. but the smile OF hope
fulness-of satisfaction in ultimate
success-never faded.
When finally the United States was
drawn into the war by Germany's con
tinued violations Of international law
and of the precepts of humanity the
! gleam of the dawn Of victory fol
world democracy rose in the sky. =
/ On the field Of battle in France anc
Belgium the Germans were fast being
defeated when they flew the white
flag Of submission and asked fol
! terms of peace. Everywhere, from
the Belgian coast to the Moselle rlve1
;! The Allies were pressing them. L
was only a matter of time when thei1
:. armies were to be decisively beate1
on the battlefield. Their great forti
fled lines of resistance had crumblet
successively under the impact of th'
: attack of their foes. They were be
!, ing harried everywhere from pillar t.
post. Even the great Rhine fortified
:, tions, it was foEeseen, would prove ~
barrier to the onward rush Of the vic
, torious armies. Hence, Germany, de
), serted by her allies, recognized tina
, defeat started her in the face and ca
!, pitulated.
For Germany as a nation-shorn o
llef lHpofldllSClc anu WlllCdTlSClC pow
ers-the defeat may not prove in tn
long run of disadvantage. Alread,
!, the revolutions throughout the count
try are tending toward democratiza
tion which may prove the salvation
, of country once controlled by wa
lords.
Fighting on the battle fronts ende,
: at o'clock Monday mornin, Eastern
time, in the United States. The arm
les of the allied forces at that time
even to the second-were harryin,
the enemy.
The British troops were fightin,
their foes across the Belgian frontie
in Belgium. The French had all bu
cleared the Germans from northern
France. The Americans were drivin,
northward up the Meuse and Mosell
rivers, threatening the enemy wit
capitulation by development.
j. The hostilities ended on the elev
enth day of the eleventh month O
1918. The American infantrymen il
true sportsman4like fashion, kept tn
time: Their eyes were on their wris
watches as they advanced up tn