Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-11-05
FOE ADMITS DEFEAT
German Socialist Paper Comedies Thai
War Has Been Lost.

:
i War Has Been Lost.
! "We have lost the war; we are con-
cu-red."
| The State Department yesterday
made public the foregoing extra:t and
tile text Of an article rejecting the
!despairln Germany from the Schwae-
o!sche Tagewacht, a leading South
German s, cialist paper.
The day brought other news OF how
; Garmany's cup Of bitterness IS fliling
IL the brim The Bolshevik govern
ment of + 'ssia, realizing the imml-
incnt defeat q Germany. has refused
10 meet the third installmcnt CT the
Rrest- Jitov@k indemnity. The Poles
are organizing = national army ana
Threatening Germany. They have DE-
n!an;ed teat Germany cease imlne-
di;.teIy thc cH2ortation Of all raw n2-
5erial fro:,: Poland.
In Bavaria, according to an o;licla!
Dispatch from Basel panic reigns. NJ
Official comn.uilique was necessary 20
quiet the fears Of the population that
arNlau BANGS Of plurderers were ap-
pearin@ in the Tyrol. The communicate
maintains that "no immediate mill
tary danger menaces Bavaria. \!
measures nave been taken. The popu-
!ation rust come to their senses and
give a :, ;endiy welcome to the troops
sent to The district for their eVentua!
protection.
The State d. partment's full text o.
toe artic!c il the German paper fol
lows:
We have lost the war; we are cen
qrered. These sitter words which we
wcra long 'elactanJ to express, now
fo:ce themselves upon the lips OF al.
.After .::cFactlcn Of Austria and Tur-
kew. cvcn the b,,;niest must see clear
y. w canrct expect Austria an!
Hungary, - rhcir present st.;te. =
reject thu same condition imposed bE
the entente on Bulgaria. The situation
is clear. Although the German ar"|
n t,c west holds its ground against
Overwhelming forces ;,-itlI great Vaior'
wv DANCE. arise CT our hitherto
safe flank. '.t'c are ccnQ1arcd ana
only ncni@r:a:.s dcasa@cgues can de-
10 try % coc"sa1 TIKI, terrible fH"..
Thrac months al war cost us 10000
mead AMI n,a@y more wounded. Moth
-. can be gained b. such sacrifice.
Il is sure; better to have popui&-
tons heretofore belonging 20 the Ger
man Enlpira rEder foreign sOV2r-
eighty thar under the sod. We have
netting /. cyp@st from turtle?
prosecution CT the war, but an enamT
invasion AKA complete internal cc!-
l2Hse. We have no alternative today.
Gut to acknowledge our defeat ana
conclude peace with tic victo.s. What
We wish is just peace, but we are
unable to enforce such peace. l.
ariversaries impose humiliating arn!is-
iice terms and entente Socialists art
reace friends cannot prevent Their:
he future will be poisoned and tn
result would be that all those who
h5ned fer rain for mankind from this
war would share defeat with Ger
many. We should have to prepare
ourselves for the fu5ure in whi.n *
could regain our liberty. But there
IS no sense in continuing the figE,
+, a~, no matter what the entente
Goes. In all probability publication
Of the ar!Distice terms wi! be tanta-
mont t. their acceptance. and peace
:.e%otiat;ons Will soon follow; they
VIII not jc broken off. but conductci
70 an issue, come what may. It will
uspani on the wisdom of the adrcr-
s..,ies whether that peace shall! be :,
listing peace or preface to ne" ard
more terrible world catastrophe.
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