The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-05
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Of Marshal Foch's hammer strokes, and 50 uniformly
have the German armies reeled under Them that the
opinion has been current that the allies rolling the
enemy back with comparative ease.
1t too bad that such misapprehension should pre-
vail It prevents the people of the allied nations from
seeing the truth and thus there dsocation of sen
and effort between the boys at the front and the
supporters at home.
The naked truth that the allies Americans included
are driving the enemy back only by tremendous
tions which swell the casualty lists to almost unprece
denied proportions.
The tendency among too many Americans is to gener
aze and jump to conclusions. This is harmful prac
tice when applied to struggle the ocean, filled
with factors which must be utterly unknown to Amer-
The experience in this ought to have taught
persons of hasty judgment that is extremely unsafe
jump to conclusions Take the detection Of Bulgaria. for
breakdown of the Central Empire and the early surren
der of Germany But Russia broke down utterly, with
out forcing the surrender of the allies to Germany I'm
doubtedly Bugarias breakdown is heavy blow to Ger
many but it is too to predict that Germany will be
unable to recover from the blow If the allies do not
follow up their advantage it is probable that Ger
many will form defensive line in Bulgaria and carry
on the fighting without regard to the Bulgars.
No doubt the morale of the German army is lowered
by the sedge-hammer punishment it has received and
the retreats it has been compelled to make No doubt
the German people are sick of and are suffering
to the relative strength of Germany and America and
are beginning to understand that they must alter
their hopes Of easy spos Yet with all these setbacks
the German empire remains terrible enemy to cvilza
ton, enemy that is far from hopeless of wning i'm
mense advantages from the allies in the final adjust
ment.
If any presumes that Germany is on the verge of
suing for peace let him pause and ask whether the Ger
man people willing to withdraw from all occu-
pied territory surrender all their colonies turn over
their army and navy welcome an allied army of occu
patton and debt of $4,000 100000 as partial
to countries that have been ravaged by
Germany. If Germany not ready to do approximately
this much she is not ready to sue for peace She still
needs the chastisement of fire and sword The world
will not let Germany remain intact with army and
navy at their present size. Either the German army
must be turned to the control of the civilized world
or it must be knocked to pieces. Since Germany long
cast the die for supremacy or annihation there
ground whatever for presumng that the thus
far suffered have destroyed the German will The allies
would not surrender under adversely but would fight
on and it is only reasonable presume that Germany
will do the same to point where surrender alone will
avert humiliation
The allied armies fighting nobly, gloriously and
at great sacrifice They must not be weakened by the
of will at home No ofhand assumption that
victory is just around the will help the boys in
France What they need is the help of every individual
in the United States, in constant stream of moral and
physical assistance and encouragement with every as
surance that this help will not fail for moment until
the German empire is laid low This is the critical time
when the allies have the enemy on the hip. This is the
time for concentrating all the determination all the
strength, all the of the United States in con-
slant flow of force to help the Americans and the other
armies Of liberty that trying to give the enemy
his death-blow.-W Washington Post