Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-09-17
NO PEACE NOW
SAYS VETERAN
Force VIII Change the Minds of
Germans Declared ROselli, Ital-
ian Soldier and Professor.

There is only one way of chang
ing the minds of the Germans and
that is force. Consideration OF
peace terms at this time would IN
dermine the morale of the soldier
IN the trenches. No army Will fight
when the dove Of peace is lowering
over it. The idea of a truce is de-
struCtive OF trench warfare
With such statements did Lieu
tenant ROseIli, college professor and
soldier hold an enthusiastic audi
enCe at the meeting of the fourth
Liberty loan campaign held at the
Moline high school auditorium last
evening.
Don't let US forget that the ser
vice flags are not enough, that we
must support the service flag by
Liberty loan flags and other flags
that indicate giving on our part, >
he continued. Serving indirectly IS
being untrue to that very service
flag. Our brothers and sons can
not do our work for us.
He warned Americans against
r-euthusiasm at the victorious
drives of the American armies at
present Germany is now trying
TO stop your drive in Lorraine and
to weaken the efforts of your splen-
did American army by its peace feel
er. Don't be guilty of writing the
word peace with your boys in the
trenches. Don't write the word
peace unles you surround it on all
sides by the word victory.
vl n %
two horrible weapons used by the
Austrians against the Italians and
which he had picked up on the bat
tlefields The first was a spiked
mace which the Austrians used to
batter wounded and helpless sol
diers Twenty-fOur thousand Of
such weapons were fOunu Following
an Austrian retreat. The other
weapon was sort of a swagger stick
and was used to crush the skulls of
the wounded and helpless.
Lieutenant Roselh warned the
United States against the prO-Ger-
man propaganda, which, he said,
was the greatest obstacle confront
ing Italy during the early years OF
the war.
THE pro- German is a German
svmpathizer. not a descendent of
Germany" he stated The vast
majority of German descendants in
this country are loyal. They de
serve every consideration and re-
spect at your hands for they have
chosen between race and right, be-
tween blood and America.
The other type. those who have
4l in of
are neutral now, should he COnsid-
cred social Outcasts. There is no
such thing as "A German on the
fence It's on their side or our side.
If they chose the other side let
US give them the same treatment
that We give those on the other
sire OF our trenches. We in Italy
struggled q long time under the
weight of prO-German propaganda.
Don't make the same mistake here.
The speaker presented a strange
picture OF fighting between Italians
and Austrians We are fighting
/ ,. 900 feet above sea level" he said
Mountain warfare is almost indie
scribable. incredible. We are fight
ing war of three dimensions
are cut in perptual ice.
We are cut off from the rest of
the world entirely as though we
were atoms in Gods own world
Thousands Of feet Of perpendicular
rock are scaled under fire of enemy
machine guns. We had TO build a
cork screw tunnel two or three
miles long
The Italian people have fought
for more than three years. If It
ally had wanted to win the war and
run away with the goods. all she
would have had to do would have
been to have gone on the side of
might instead OF right. 1t wasn't
schemes but perptual
schemes Of right against might
which put Italy in the war
We had offers of territory to help
Germany, offers to remain neutral,
and offers TO betray our allies. But
the Italian people, with their own
cities reduced to a mass of hOspi-
tails, with their children starving
and everyone suffering as they are,
will fight on until right prevails, /
until Germany is decisively de
.eated.'