Evening star., 1918-04-07
Allies Realize Military Victory
Must Be Scored, and Settle
Down to Task.
FURTHER GERMAN GAINS
DANGEROUS TO TEUT0NS
Allied Safety Rests in Reserves.
Huge Enemy Losses May
Stir Reaction.
RUSS AID IS UNLIKELY
RUSS AID IS UNLIKELY
Ienine and Trotzky Must Be Over
thrown If Slavs in Anywise Assist
Enteute-Ho1land in Ship
Protest.
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

The kaiser's sword is nicked,
but not broken. 1t must be shat
tered to bits.
This in brief recapitulates al
most universal opinion in regard
to the situation on the western
battle front, where for more than
two weeks the legions of Germany
have been hammering the French
and British armies with the hope
of smashing the enemy line and
working their way either to the
channel coast or to Paris.
The great struggle has not
ended. Neither has it been de-
cisive. 1t will go on with the
days, weeks and months until
some definite result has been
achieved.
The Germans are not expected to
give up their idea of smashing the
allies and bring
German Armies Will ing about a Ger
Keep Up Drives. reutonic
peace. There are many reasons Of
political as well as military nature
which will spur the Germans to the
battle. Should they tarry the allies
win in turn resort to the offensive in
the hope Of forever breaking Germanic
military power and for all time dis
abusing the Teutonic mind that 1t can
inflict its ideas Of world civilization
upon both hemispheres.
blood ON the western front during the
fAteful weeks just closed. there Will
be infinitely more.
President Wilson has declared. and
rightly. that this is to be the year OF
decision. 1t has been made plain that
there can be but two ways Of obtain
ing a decision In the present great
struggle-one by means OF military
victory over the central powers, the
other by means OF their economic coll
The question of defeat Of the allies
does not enter into the equation. The
allies will not be defeated. They are
In this war to the finish and are going
to see to 1t that the scourge of mill
tarism, as practiced by the kaiser and
his cohorts, is forever eliminated as q
world menace. The allies have re-
sources ten to one now held by Ger
further great sacrifices ahead They
are willing to mako them.
With tho idea of economic collapse
Of the central powers more or less
~
powers have ceased to count upon such
contingency and. really. for the first
time since the war started. are center
ing their whole attention on the task
Of licking the Teuton and licking him
good. The governing heads Of entente
powers refuse for second to be turned
away from the mission at hand. Peace
talk Is laughed at. Teutonic wiles and
GUS nations arrayed against the central
powers are proving fruitless. Every
move the enemy may make In order to
gain peace will continue to be frowned
defeat. the only way that Bermany as
The leaders Of the entente firmly are
convinced, owing to German treachery
IN the present war. and. conditions
the paramount position of the pan-Ger-
mans. that the only way Germany can
be made to feel the bitter sting of
defeat. the only way which Germany as
udllOn CdH DC Drought TO u DSttSE
understanding of what is right and
Just from an international standpoint,
will be decisive defeat on the field Of
battle.
Germany must be shown the i'll ad-
visedness of her policy Of militarism.
The breaking Of the heart and shat
tering Of the spirit of militarism def
fnitely will prove to the German people
that they have been following false
standards, and until this condition
comes to pass there Is little hope of
fehabilitating world affairs on a>safe
and sane basis. The allies realize the
immensity Of their task, and, further
more. know that IL military decision in
the present struggle is to be reached 1t
must come to pass on the western
front
Thus It may be seen that the real Ger
man reckoning is yet to come.
To punish Germany as Germany must
be punished the allied ARMIES must
and will do more
Much May Be Done than content
in Seven Months. rema,ninS = on % the
defensive. Seven months of excellent
fighting weather remain in the present
year. Within that period the allies not
only have It within their power to frus-
trate all Germanic purposes in the west
but have time to strike back and with
such power as to easily convince the
kaiser and his cohorts. as we'll as the