The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
be.iious the people at large may grow. but I believe that the time will surely come
 THEN BREAK WILL COME

hesiiouS the people at large may SF0Ws puA
 I believe that the time will surely come
 THEN BREAK WILL COME
 when the officers themselves will turn
 against their government.
 There may be two revolutions. The
 civilians, consisting of women, old men
 and youths and others who have not been
 called into the army, may rise up, but
 their effort will be in vain. The defeat
 of such an uprising, however, may be the
 signal for a greater one in which por-
 tion of the army itself will take part,
 and then civil war will result which will
 have no counterpart in the worlds his-
 tory.
 The basis for this belief lies in the fact
 that the officers of the German army
 realize the extent of the distress prevah-
 ing throughout the country. Their ram
 flies, as well as those of the rank and lie
 are suffering from under nourisnment ana
 privations, and they know, even better
 than their interiors, the extent of the re-
 verses which the German army has sui fered and will continue to suffer and how the government has misrepresented ac-
 tual conditions.
 If the German officers consisted en-
 tirely of men of the old school-men Who
 were willing to fight for fightings sake and who would rather continue the war
 until the last German had dropped thah give in-we could not look for much lh this direction.
 But the ravages of war have disposed or a large percentage of these bred-in-t the bone officers and their places have been taken by civilians who have been raised from the ranks. Therein lies the nope Of successful revolution.
 When these civilian officers, who at heart are still civilians, and despite thelf exalted positions are no different esseh- tially from the men they lead, peeoile convinced that the German cause IS hoe only wrong but hopeless, they are apt 10 listen to the grumblings of their men and side with them Then the break VIII come.
 I will not venture a guess as to when that will be, but I feel sure that It VIII certain come about. Fortified by iaisc portion of the army, the German people will at last turn on their rulers and ae- stroy the throne and the whole Honehzoi- Tern regime. In this connection I recall prophecy made early in the war by an honoreo colleague of mine of Dresden, an Amer ican dentist who had lived and practlcsu in Germany for 70 years and understoou | the German people and their rulers as well. perhaps, as any man alive. lie Mas a leader of his profession and man n whose judgment on all things was nus .,s | accurate. He was in close contact Wltn many leading figures of the German ho- bility. k. "Germany will lose the war because heT Ter cause is wrong" he declared. She WI fight it through to the bitter end un,ii tne foundations of the empire are apsoiuteis destroyedn .,,.,,sr, The foundations of Hohenzollernism will be destroyed. no doubt, but when the l German people fealize what dupes they baI,a been and reveal a desire to em- brace the blessings of democracy It ls ! possible that the world at large may pc ! willing to accept Germany again Tn the l family of nations.
 Germany's deliverance lies in the hands ! of the people 1.-The truth shall make l them free"
 (The end)