The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-10-16
END OF THE WAR is FAR AWAY.

END OF THE WAR is FAR AWAY
Dispatches today indicate that Ger
many is far from yielding to the terms
which must be met before the war ends
The announcement that the supreme
command will meet in Berlin the last of
this week to arrange to mobilize and
concentrate the nations strength and
raise the military draft age" is signifi-
cant. 1t means that Germany is going
to make last desperate stand within
her own borders before surrendering.
From England comes the statement
that it has been learned authoratively
that Germany is preparing to renew with
greater vigor and recklessness than ever,
the submarine warfare Every effort
will be made to check the flow of men
and provisions from the United States
to the battlefront With more than two
million American soldiers to be supplied
with food, clothing and munitions and
our allies to be fed and clothed and
more soldiers to be transported, Ger
many is going to concentrate all. of her
energy, strength and desperation on cut
ting off this source of supply.
Z A high British official, whose knowl-
edge of conditions is highly regarded by
those in power, predicts that the Ger
man submarine menace will reach its
greatest efficiency during the coming
winter and that the danger to the allies
is grave.
{, Anti submarine craft is needed in UNI
limited quantities to fight this menace.
The great Ford motor works have ceased
to make automobiles and is devoting all
of its great plant to the manufacture of
the 'Fagle" submarine chasers with
which to .thwart the Hun plans, for de-
stroying our ships. conveying our SOL
diers and their supplies.
If we fail to raise the required money
m Liberty bonds the nation will be I'M
able to fight the submarines successfully
and our own sons and brothers and
friends, who are being called now to be
sent across the ocean in the next few
months may pay with their lives for our
owe of money, which prevents us from
helping the nation to protect them.
President Wilson has pointed out that
here is the gravest danger is the United
States falls down on this loan, which is
,nly half raised and there are only four
laws more in which to raise the other
'alf.
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FRANCE SHOULD DICTATE THE
VICTOR'S TERMS.
The one nation that should say, or at
east have the most to say, whether Ger
many should be permitted to have peace
n our terms, that is, unconditional sur
ender, is France Serbia and Belgium
ext, but France first
More than England, Italy or the
United States, even more than betrayed
elgium or assassinated Serbia, Francel
as the right to stand in judgment upon
ermany and to pronounce the verdict
f humanity France was felled by the
ap of the German beast in 1870, when
ismarck by lying provoked the Franco
russian war, and France was robbed
two members of its body. France,
hen Germany brought about this war,
IRE the brunt of the first assault and
we'd civilization at the Marine and at
erdun France has for four years
,ured forth its blood and treasure with
it stint or grudging in defense of hui
anity.
What Greece was to the ancient world
rance has in great degrees been to the
odern world. Ancient Greece and
odern France have given men light
ID yet more light. Harnack of Ger
any, as great a scholar as could be
ed, himself said years before the war
at during the middle age every great
eative and progressive impulse of
yilization was originated by French
m. That is too sweeping but it con-
ms great measure of truth. The
rid is debtor to France for immensely
IRE than is commonly appreciated.
France today stands erect with head
,ody but unbowed" 1t is due to the
,reme champion whose military genius
winning the war for freedom and
hteousness to let it declare what pen
! Germany and Austria Hungary
,uld -Spokesman-Review-