Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-21
Gem Maurice, However.
Warns Against Pressing
War for Vengeance
THINK MORE OF VICTORY
Danger in Relaxing Efforts
Before Enemy's Military
Strength Is Smashed
BY MAI. GEN. SIR FREDERICK B.
MAURICE


London. Oct. II.
The lesson of the week was very clear
~ put before us by Lord Milner IN th'
Interview which he gave on Friday 20
representative Of the Evening standard
We need, he saiG, to think more of Vie
tory and less Of vengeance, He might
have added that we need also TO be
as suspicious Of Dame Rumor as IL she
were a Hun, which she very often Is
Peace talk in tn, midst Of any war Is
cnervating. and In the ffth year Of such
terrible struggle as that through which
we have passed and are passing -
highly dangerous both for US at home
and for the men at the front
The most serious risk which confrontS
US at the moment is that we may miss
part at least of that for which we have
been fighting. by relaxing our efforts in
4. the belief that the end is coming at once.
BY all means let US hope that il Is
coming at once, but until 1t has ac-
tually come let US go on with all the
energy we possess 50 much for Dame
Rumor and her ways
xx,,,an .iimaed ,h,, ,,a ron,on,bsring ali
the horrors and bruta!itics which the
Hun has perpetrated. regard the Whole
German nation as an accursed thing to
ne destroyed root and branch. That is,
halia,,o tho ono thing which the prus-
ssan m,Iitarist desires more than any
thI,v aIse at this rnon,ent IIe sees that
III. ona cha ncs .of salvation is for us TO
,.,.,,o ,ha c.orr,a, neopIa desnera,e so
49,, a. Gle -sasorso ,be,, ,viu no forced IN
-. o,,,,J htr.
'".ry .'' - .,,.,,,. - -oo-
"a. a.,drn,ined 70 resist to the last are
- -, lot n, ,,.ha, France did
i, ysTo after the whole of ber armies
,..,' 49, dostroyed how Gamhet,a raj
lied the people to him and in a peoples
war not only covered France with un-
diving glory, but gave the Prussan war
lords al the height of their success a
fright which all but caused them TO
mack up and abandon the siege of Paris.
look how the Beers rougtt against us
sfter Rloemfontein and Pretoria were
In our hnnds: how Lee and the south
erners fought on when their cause was
u,terlv homeless We have thus to be-
ware NOT only of slsckening our efforts.
hut Of giving the enemy the courage OF
aesnair by clamoring for vengeance.
some "ermans hoa'he Mihtar'sm
Lord Mlner mentioned his expert
ences In Germany at the time of the
K Zabern incident, when he found vide
spread Indignation against the regime
OF the Junker and Jackboot ] can CON
ffrm his statement that love of militar.
f3m is by no means universal in Ger
many I was travelling in South Ger
many. few months before the war, and
there made the acquaintance OF a
major in the Wuerttenberg Artillery
He said to me one evening:
..you have no idea how we Ioathe the
Prussian The Prussian is a brute and
a bully. but, alas! we cant do without
aim."
wau uo hs,.a :, baI, ,,a,,, ., 4,
~r,,ho,,. ~, and ,ra ar ,roII 90 81.
-, - .ha, ond
Ths .est of the ,uiad co.,..r,,,,o,,,s .
=, nj, ,In,a 10 r,oro difHc,,lt tha,, =, No.,
.vsr heen during the war Tho, bawo
As Lord Miner put it, the enormous
rsnponS'olil'S Vi ueeiulns now coI'lp,e'e
ND,y ean oe !" 'Ilc snor tes .
pcss'o,S ti','e anu |'tn 'iIe lUNest COST Oh
nIe. ne uest' anu ,,'ueeu l"e ohis way
r Up .'eIn - I" carr
49,, hat@.a ,,',i, aoa',liae ,,t,, .''e 50 50
s o;.d - ~ ,,,''. 'i ui .
essa.. 'ee -. -. 80, "r u'Iils tI
s.. "'e
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S-.s g. ~. 60 90 49, -. ~,
- unn ,hare WsII Voc "a 80 80. ~
4 .evac, IN Germapv and ra o. 80, -
49, ,ts effec, ON tbe ws.,s-n 80, an.
,rourtrai Tourcoinr Roubaix ana ns.
t.nd are ,ba ,,rnredia,a ,r,t,, =, ~.
( Md Agh,,ne NJ our ,,en On ,ha tIir,.x,,
hurp line and of tha American, tur,h..,
+ .oufb of 'tha Krien,hiId IIne
Nv thai hehtine the enemy has h:er
40 weakened that he has been fo,ccd
10 abandon large stretches ~ Frsrcn
Flanders and OF Belgium Tbe-e a-s
more fruits vet 10 come.
I believe the enemy H. already in r.-
treat to shelter himself behind the Chen,
canal and the Scheldt. a retreat u,hic,,
viii release the whole of the industriaI
and coal area OF northern France
roe MUST shorben front
Sir Douglas Haig is pressing the
enemy so hard on the Selle and Genera
Pershng. in desperately severe fighting
Is wearing him down so effectively
astride the Meuse, that I don't expec
him to make more than temporary halt
even behind the Scheldt He cannot af
ford to risk British break-through int,
the valley of the Sambre or an Amer
lean break-through TO the Metz-Valen
ciennes railway at Longuyon, while hi
center Is still bowed westward between
Le Cateau and Rethel As he has not tn.
troops to Withstand these fierce attack
s and at the same time to hold the re
nainder Of his line firmly, he must g