The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-01
UNITED FOR TRIUMPH.

On one vital point the allies and Germany
are agreed-that there will be no peace until
There is victory on the western front. Germany
is trying to win great German peace by at
lacking the three strongest powers in the world,
which draw their resources from the ends of the
earth. Knowing that he cannot win if the strug-
gle is prolonged until the United States has de-
ilivered in France an army commensurate with
the resources of this nation the enemy is strik-
ing now, while he is at the climax Of his powers
as result of the Russian collapse. He is using
the only possible method available to man or
La nation that must break through ring of en-
emies; that it. he is opposing his flesh and steel,
hoping that the violence of the rush will carry
him through before the slaughter becomes total.
Germany knows that the present battle is
crucial and cilmacteric. Hence the fury that
marks the German attack All that has been
gained is nothing if Germany loses now. All the
blood of Germans spilled. all the booty captur-
ed, all the conquered territory occupied. all the
crimes committed profit Germany nothing un-
less the great allies are beaten. The spoils of
Asia might be piled upon the loot of eastern and
southern Europe and Russia, and the name of
Germany might be terror from Belgium to
Bangkok, but it will be emptiness and vanity if
the three great defenders and avengers of civil
Iization are moving against Berlin t. demolish
the throne of the Hohenzollerns Thus upon
this battle hangs all that has gone before.
The allied powers are acting in better har-
mony than ever before. The terrible menace of
the German has compelled them to throw away
all other considerations for the sake of common
victory. The fact that they have done this, that
they have arrived at this. conclusion, is double
insurance of triumph. The message delivered
by Gen. Pershing to Gen. Foch expressed the
fixed purpose of the nation that draws its
strength from the illir1itable resources of the
New World President Wilson's congratulations
to Gen. Foch breathe confidence in victory
through unity of the allies. Under command of
the strategist, who was Gen. Joffre's right arm
at the battle of the Marine, the allies are now in
position to cut to pieces the enemy force that
occupies the territory between st. Quentin and
Montedidier.
Bad weather has put a damper upon the fight
ing, although both of the huge antagonists are
carrying on operations that would be called
battles in ordinary times. Whether the Ger
mans will persist in trying to bore their way fur
ther toward Amiens, in spite of their horrible
losses, or whether they will mark time there and
seek to make new nroads elsewhere, they are
in for checks, reverses counter attacks and
eventual defeat in either event. Their lines are
stretched out so far that their transport diff
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of the protection of their heavier guns, and un-
der the accumulated fire of allied guns. So
have the Germans tried to break
through that they have wasted the bulk of their
reserves The allies have saved their reserve
army and can now employ it to deliver sledge
hammer stroke at the enemys' weakest point.
Gen. Foch may be depended upon to find the
enemy's jugular vein.
A few more days and the world ought to be
free from the possibility of a German victory.
On the heels of that welcome news will come
the successive announcements of German re-
verses and the inevitable defeat. The hours
are big with fateful events The decisive mo-
ment when the German food is to break against
the rock of civilization is seemingly at hand
Days and weeks may pass before the flood is
lower, but the allies will surely feel
in the tension of the battle, just when the eli
max has been reached and passed. From that
it will be the task Of the trustees Of lib
erty to thrust back the deflers of France and
Belgium; to beat them down to exhaustion and
surrender When the Hun finds he is beaten
he win assist the allies to make the collapse
complete for he is yellow at heart, worshiper
of brute force whose religion leaves him in the
lurch when he is overmatched When the Ger
man force begins to collapse look out for an epi-
demic Of suicides, from the emperor down to the
sergeant