South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-13
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS
MAY END WAR.

a fortnight.
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS
MAY END WAR.
In the same fashion political developments between
November and March may make further lighting un-
necessary Germany may surrender; she may her
the proposals which have been accepted BUI
garia and she may be forced offer such -
of internal conditions. concerning which
best only inperfectly informed Again it seems to
that such surrender is almost out Of the reckon
ing but not quite, and OF course if Germany surrenders
there will be more hghting.
have TO face the situation which have
deliberately created As a nation we have said and
We have meant, that short Of German surrender we
viii make peace with Germany We have clearly
demonstrated that to continue the battle until
the capacity OF the German army Tor resistance Is eX-
hausted, until the German people compelled to rec
that the doctrine OF force invoked by them
at the outset altogether false that their army cannot
conquer the world that it is not strong enough
to defend Germany herself against the collective
strength Of aroused civilization.
This means means anything. short OF
destruction Of German military power by victorious
the unconditional surrender of the German people to
the will OF the nations which with them
a complete resignation OF al power resist, an
qualified consent to accept when their armies have
cuated the decisions OF their enemies in the matter
payment for past crimes and the guarantees for
MUST RESIGN PLACE
HELD IN WORLD.
In sum- Germany must resign merely
grandiose dreams of Mteleuropa. merely her
ination of Russia still continuing but she must resign
the world for the present, that position which has
been created by long series Of aggressive and
Brest-Litovsk dominate European counsels. She
must see the economic edhce which she created in
and out of it at the expense of her neshbors
and by the use Of threats and blackmai propaganda
and corruption. demolished She must TO
turn many Of the conditions existing before the
Prussan war. politically. and
m!cay. and she consent have her future dur
ing the period OF the settlement determined by the
nations whom she has attacked This is what surrender
1t that the German must submit his will
that of civilization and take his chance
Now, does the military situation warrant the expeca-
q
campaign? Let analyze the facts. We have by
OF July deprived the of the initiative
the time being. but for the balance the
by August Onensives turned him of
the lines OF 1916 on which hs accepted battle We
are a the present moment sweeping him OF the
Hndenburg line. already clear that he will
the campaign at the Meuse and the Belgian frontier
and ne has months and a half more
quarter Of million prisoners, nearly four thousand
guns and war material without measure
on basis OF what has happened since July IS.
front, justified in demanding and
pectng that Germany Will consent to evacuate the rest
o France and all of Belgium. abandon all claim for
indemnity cor the of any of her lost colonies
the east. the victory OF the OF the
orient has eliminated Bulgaria and broken the Ger
edihce Of Mitteeuropa into framents Coincident
with this disaster the defeat OF Turk
Palestine and the creation Of situation which must
ineNoraoE lead 10 the surrender or Turkey on Bull
garian and the final Liquidation the of
Germanys eastern slles on the terms of Germanys
allies
SERBIA soon
WILL FREE.
Al no distant date all OF Serbia will be free all Of
Bulgaria viii be hands
rendered be AZ mercy; Mitteleuropa which yes
terdav reached the uphrates and the Jordan will end
the Carpsthians and the Danube Germany has only
her Russian conQueSts left and upon these her hold
precarious. while she her Aus
trian ally AGAINST Roumanian well allied attacks
al the south. And unless she do this she
pect Austria distant time make a separate
peace or fall into anarchy and ruin
tho present moment, then. Germany and her
trian ally must and unQuestiOnabv Will make peace,
they the basis dt We Of US
America and Europe agreed that the basis Of 1914
be restored. 10 erect stronger
Roumania Serbia. bar forever Teutouic
pansion toward the south. we have recognized the
-zecho- Slovaks IN Bohemia. given unmistak-
able pledges with respect 20 Poland. have a
large measure committed ourselves 20 a program
which. Nberatng the Slavs Austria Poles
OF Russia. nsures the dissolution Of the Hapsburg
pre and the erection Of Polish barrier Tuetonism
IN the
In the present mood Of the world seems me un-
mlstAAable that list Of conditions would