Evening journal., 1918-11-12
TOTAL CASUALTIES
SET At 27,S75,O0O
Expenditures in Worlds
Greatest Conflict Aggre-
gates $249, 900, 900, 0,000
UNITED STATES
MIGHT DECISIVE

The war so gloriously ended yester-
day by the surrender Of Germany en-
dured four years. three months and If
Teen li.567) days Of carnage. cruelty
sacrifice, suffering, heroism and hign
purpose such as the world had never
known.
1t -besau July 2S. 1914, when the
military masters OF Austria-Hungary,
spurred on by the military masters OF
the German Empire, coldly and con-
femptiously rejected all peace over
lures and declared war against Serbia.
|. ended November 10. 1918. hereafter to
be civilizations great holiday. when the
last prop OF organized evil collapsed
and the emissarles OF the German Gov
crnmcnt accepted from civilizations
Captain-General, Ferdinand Foch, the
deliberate terms which disarm mill
tarsm.
4. S. strength Turned Tide.
4 swift survey Of the whole tremen-
doas period, a period so tremendous IN
deed that persons now living will prob
ably never be abe TO realize and COM
prehend all Of its movements ana
phases, discloses the Teutonic allies
Germany, Austria. Turkey and Bulgaria
victorious as the military map was
painted until the middle OF the summer
of 1918. Until that hour of reckoning
when the strength of the United States
began solidly 10 be felt, the Teutonio
alliance had triumphed from the mill
farv standpoint. Germany had held
a wide strip OF northern France and al
save 400 square miles OF Belgium; had
o,errun all Poland and northwestern
Russia; had conquered Rumania, serbia
aud Montenegro, an dhad made good, so
rar as the war may revealed, the Pan
German dream Of Mitteleurops.
Austria held Galicla and had inflicted
a friehtful defeat upon the Italians.
Turkey. though worsted in the Pales-
tine and Mesopotamian campaigns
nevertheless displayed, specifically, a
strong front. Bulgaria, having seized
immense territorial loot seemed to IN
fernose a solid wall against the allied
forces based upon Salonica-
And then, almost overnight the whole
immense structure Of Teuton military
strength tottered, swayed and fell into
ruins. A great German offensive on
the western front in the.middle OF July,
1918. was converted by the genius OF
Marshal Foch into an irresistible allied
sweep.
on July IS, 1918, the entire allied line
began 20 move forward The Germans
were driven from lines they had held
for more than four years. They lost the
Hindenburg line and were hammered
out Of the great bases of Lens. Lille'
Laon, Quentin and Cambria. Brltlsh'
French. Americans and Italians strlk-
ing necessarily from the North sea 10
Switzerland humbled the boosted
strength OF the German military ma
chine The day Germany bowed TO the
Inevitable her armies were everywhere
In rout. her autocrats were fleeing her
borders and riot and revolution were
down politlca, and social bull
warks sacred for centuries.
Austria Smashed BY Italians.
In this same period Austria had oeen /
smashed by the Italians and in short,
swift campaign lost 10000 men, an IN
,alculable amount Of war material ana
he very territorial possessions, Trent
and Trieste, that she had been DEFEND
ng successfully for four years. Her
on November 4 preceded Ger
even as Bulgaria's and Turkeys
had gone before her own, Bulgaria. was
The first Of the Central Powers to sur
render, having been smashed by the
French Greek drive from Salon
lea. and almost before the Hapsburgs
that Serbia was lost TO them
and that the door was open to Hungary
Bulgarian emlssaries on September 80
were humbly accepting from Gen. Fran
chet d'Esperey, the allied commander /
IN the Balkans, the armistice terms |
which utterly disarmed the Bulgars. !
Turkey. crushed in Palestine and Me
sopotamia, quit the war on October 81
when Aleppo fel; and permitted an al
lied feet TO pass through the Dsrda-
nelles and TO garrison Constantinople.
Nothing could have been more
astounding than the piled up events Of
the past three months allied victory
following allied victory; the wholc
monument Of Teutonic strength falling
like house Of cards; revolutions I'M
or actually In progress in all OF
the defeated nations; the sacrossant
abdicating and in furtive
Night: Ferdinand, Czar OF Bulgaria,
lbdicatIng; Charles, Emperor OF Aus
helplessly Witnessing the
OF his ancient empire;
herman kingdoms turning swiftly into
epublics; Hungary proc.aiming a re-
ublic; Turkey kicking out Enver
'asha and Talstt Pasha, the Young
turks leaders that had been her evil
enIuses: and finally, in Germany her
eli, red revolution, mutiny. threats to
be Kaiser and abject surrender.