The Washington herald., 1918-11-05
CONQUERED"
FOE ADMITS
German Socialist Paper
Comedies That War Has
Been Lost.

I'VE have lost the war; We are con-
quered."
The State Department yesterday
lmade public the foregoing extract and
the text of an article rejecting the
despair in Germany from the schwae-
/ bische Tagwacht, a leading South
German Socialist paper.
The day brought other news of how
Germany's cup Of bitterness is filling
to the brim. The Bolshevik govern
ment of Russia. realizing the immi-
nent defeat of Germany. has refused
to met the third installment of the
Brest-Litovsk indemnity. The Poles
are organizing a national army and
threatening Germany. They have de-
manded that Germany cease imme-
diately the expectation of all raw ma
terial from Poland.
In Bavaria, according to an official
dispatch from Basel, panic reigns. An
official communique was necessary. to
quiet the fears of the population that
armed bands of plunderers were ap-
pearing in the Tyrol The communique
no
tary danger menaces Bavaria. All
measures have been taken. The popu-
lation must come to their senses and
give friendly welcome to the troops
sent to the district for their-eventual
protection
The State Departments full text of
the article in the German paper fol-
lows:
We have lost the war; we are con-
quered. These bitter words which we
were long reluctant to express, now
force themselves upon the lips of all.
After detection of Austria and Tur-
key, even the blindest must see clear
ly. We cannot expect Austria and
Hungary, in their present state, to
reject the same condition imposed by
the entente on Bulgaria. The situation
is clear. Although the German army
in the west holds its ground against
overwhelming forces with great valor,
new dangers arise on our hitherto
safe f1anks. We are conquered and
only mendacious demagogues can dare
to try to conceal this terrible fact.
Three months of war cost us 100 900
dead and many more wounded. Moth
ing can be gained by such sacrifice.
1t is surely better to have popula-
tons heretofore belonging to the Ger
man Empire under foreign sover-
eighty than under the sod. We have
nothing to expect from a further
prosecution of the war, but an enemy
invasion and complete internal COL
lapse. We have no alternative today.
but to acknowledge our defeat and
conclude peace with the victors. What
we wish is a just peace, but we are
unable to enforce such a peace. II
adversaries impose humiliating armis-
tice terms and entente Socialists and
peace friends cannot prevent them,
the future will be poisoned and the
result would be that all those who
hoped for gain for mankind from this
war would share defeat with Ger
many We should have to prepare
ourselves for the future in which we
could regain our liberty. But there
Is no sense in continuing the fight
now, no matter what the entente
does. In all probability publication
of the armistice terms will be tanta-
mount to their acceptance. and peace
negotiations will soon follow: they
will not be broken off. but conducted
to an issue, come what may. 1t will
depend on the wisdom of the adver-
saries whether that peace, shall be a
lasting peace or preface to new and
more terrible world catastrophe.