The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-08-26
STRIFE MAY END
N PRESENT YEAR
SAYS HAM LEWIS
Should Russia Enter
Against Allies Spain
Will Turn on Hun.
SPIRIT OF FRANCE
fUnstinted Praise for the
American Soldiers by
Officers Heard
Everywhere.
SPIRIT OF FRANCE
{By stan Correspondent of Univer-
sal Service.)

{By a stan Correspondent of univer-
sal Service.)
London. Aug. 25.-'"The war will
end in a year with complete victory
for the allies unless Russia, by giving
supplies and men to Germany. pro-
longs the struggle"
Senator James Hamilton Lewis. OF
Illinois, made the above statement TO
a Universal Service staff correspondent
in an exclusive interview tonight
THE first moment that Russia en-
ters into the war on the side of Ger
many" he continued. the people of
Spain will come out with the allies.
and Sweden and Norway vii. at once
see the necessity OF joining the allies
to prevent Germany and Russia from
taking Sweden and Denmark from
its people. -
as a matter of self protection. Rus
STA knows this and will not dare as
nation TO join Germany. This fact
when Germany Is convinced of tt
will win the war. 1t win be then that
Germany viii seek peace on the allies
terms"
war Program
As to the progress Of the war Sena-
tor Lewis has this To say:
Under thA SUPERVISED Of GENERAL
perSAing. visited the British ana
French fronts, Everywhere there 10
absolute confidence on the part OF the
allied commanders of early victory.
while Premier Ciemenccau Is re-
ported as saying, that I construed hts
expression TO me as to victory as
meaning in one year when he meant
TO use the French phrase meaning
that in the year victory would be sap-
parent to the Germans, the lesser
commanders in France are open In
their statements that as the Germans
have been pressed back from twenty
to forty miles from the line they had
held. IL was proof that as against
q joint offensive the Germans can
not withstand the movement OF the
allies toward the Rhine.
The spirit of the French is as one
new born since the Americans came
The British feel the yigor OF new life
from the American entrance into the
struggle.
so wonderfully are the Americans
fighting that Germany says they fight
'barbarousiy.'
senator Lewis consented to write the
following impressions exclusively for
Universal Service:
BY JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS.
<CopyrigH 1918 by Universal Service.)
Praise for Americans.
London, Aug. s5.---Unstinted praise
for tn American soldiers Is heard
everywhere on the front from the lips
Of allied officers.
must pay tribute to the men from
Illinois. ! do not take credit away
from any other units, but our people
must know that the French concede
that It was where the Illinois men
went in. that victory began At Chateau
Thierry.
They broke the German advance as
q counter attack and drove the enemy
to retreat. That was the FIRST humili-
Ating defeat for the Germans.
At the British front at Chipiily
{southeast Of Albert, where the Ger
man right held out longest against the
British onslaught at the opening OF
tho Picardy drive) 1t was the Illinois
men--the first AMI second regiments
from ChicaKo--that led the victorious
stack.
Under Colonel sanborn they took
the high ground right under the noses
OF the German cannon. They cap
tured these cannon and made hordes
OF German prisoners.
30 magnificent was this American
dash to victory that the English COM
mander. a veteran Of the East indian
and Egyptian campaigns, satd TO mo:
II wouldn't have sent my mon into
that attack. 1t seemed impossible to