The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-04
FINAL SACRIFICE
NECESSARY FOR
ALLIED VICTORY
Recent Success Of Allies Bring
Victory in Sight, Says
Clemenceau.

PARIS, Oct. with victory in
sight the allied nations should set
themselves for the last sacrifices ne
cessary before the final triumph is Sc
cured, Premier Clemenceau declared
today in ringing pronunciamento.
The premier's words are embodied
In letter he has sent to the council
general OF the Loire. which has passed
an address strongly supporting the
governments course.
The councils representing the
people,, says the premier's response,
can depend upon the government,
with Marshal Foch and the united al
lied armies, to pursue their course
until the benefits of complete success
are wrested from the enemy The
splendid victories of the recent weeks
have definitely determined the for
tunes OF war to the stupefaction of
the enemy, who now suddenly discov-
ers that he had grossly deceived him
self.
These victories are only the first
sheaves of the fruitful harvest, Of
which the highest recompense will be
the final deliverance of the world
from the oppression of implacable
brutality and open the way for its
marvellous development Let us salute
the glorious aurora whose first rays
illuminated the victorious fronts of
the founders of the American republic
and of our revolutionary forefathers.
Obstacle Disappears.
In the abyss of irreparable defeat
the Prussian militarists will bear the
shame OF the greatest attempt at
wrong doing Of which barbaric peo-
pie has been able to dream. The SUI
preme obstacle to the reign and right
of mankind is about to disappear in
the acclaim of a victory in which it is
our duty to make effective the triumph
OF humanity.
For this let us continue to be true
to ourselves. Let us accomplish the
last sacrifices caused by the supreme
commissions of savagery. The collob-
Grafton of all in the revivifying of the
world vii achieve the work of ideal
ism toward which so many genera
tions have so gloriously sought the
way and that history reserves to us
the inexpressible glory Of realizing"
Deputy Henri Galili, who also is
president of the Paris City council, in
an interview in LaLiberte, after a
visit to the Champagne front says
that never since the war began has
he returned to Paris from the front
with such positive convictions of a
complete victory.
In the present opera tons in Cham
payne, he says, the French have car
ried positions which they could not
have taken in 1915, and their casual
ties are one-tenth Of what they suf-
fered in the first battle of Champagne
The German army today is not what
ii was in 1915. On the other hand,
the French have superiority over
the enemy in their belief in final
victory.
Prisoners taken by the French, NJ.
CALI added show signs of democrat
ization and encouragement. A young
German officer, however. told the de-
putty that while there was no doubt
the German army would not go to
Paris this year. cit will go there ten
years from now
German Line CrumbIing.
The German situation on the west
ern front Is grave, the Frankfort
Zeitung admits, adding that the Ger
man front Is gradually crumbling,
"The allied plan of attack" it adds,
sis being carried out in an extraordin-
airy manner. 1t is an awful strain on
our front The situation on the Meuse.
where the American attacks are just
beginning, is extremely critical. Part
of the Chemin-des-Dames has had to
be given up and the whole German
front is gradually crumbling away
under the allied attacks
The evacuation of Belgium is being
discussed openly in Berlin, according
to advices reaching here. Concerning
Alsace-Lorrain inc the German high COM
mand makes the suggestion that it be
neutralized and joined to Luxembourg,
thus making a buffer state between
France and Germany.
A wide retreat of the German forces
on the western front is foreseen by
the Berlin department of propaga nda.
In statement published by that bu-
reau Germany is said to be actually
shaking under the assaults of the re-
assent oiled entente forces.