Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-11-22
Germany Signs ArmistiCe Which
Is Unconditional Surrender.
KAISER WILHELM ABDICATES
Dream Of World Conquest Ends In
Defeat and Revolution-Flight
From Justice OF Criminal
Against Civilization.
By ]. D. SHERMAN.

than unconditional surrender. For
the term, OF that armIstice deprive
Germany Of the means Of resistance
Germany must accept whatever peace
terms the allie, dictate.
The kalser-Fredcrich wilhelm Vic
tor Albert. Emperor Wilhelm III He
is a fugitive IN Holland from Justice
the Justice Of his Own people as well
RS Of the civilized world; the red flag
f.u. over the throne he ri com
Irlica to abdlcate, His fate hangs In
tine balance. If ]eXtradition for pun
lsameut IS demanded, his fate Hes
with Holland.
The great war began June %, 1914,
with the assassination Of the Austrian
ArrhduEc Francis Ferdinand in Sara
jnyO, Bosnia, by Serbians. This was
the beginning, because civilization
holds the kaiser guilty Of selling 1t as
"a prctcXt for the world war which he
had long been secretly planning to
carry out his purpose Of world n
quest. He and his tremendous wal
machine were ready, impatient. eager
for action. Here was the program, us
the kaiser planned 1t:
He would force Austria-Hungary, his
ally and practically his vassal, into
war with Serbia.
Russia would rush to the defense OF
Serbia. OF Russia he had no fear, for
he we'll knew That German intrigue
Ind already prepared the way In ad-
vance for the ruin of the unhappy land
Of Car Nicholas.
France, he knew. would support
Russia. France-She was really his
immediate object. Ever since 1870
Germany has been preparing to go
back to France. Why? Because Ger
many failed to beggar France by the
staggering indemnity of 1870, because
she then overlooked the coal and iron
deposits Of northern France, and be-
cause she hated France and the
French, root. stock and branch. And
the kaiser knew also that France was
not ready for II death grapple with
Germany.
Great Britain, he had made himself
believe, would remain neutral. That
would be well, for he wanted to deal
with Great Britain later. Anyway, her
army was small. AS for A~merica-she
would not fight and could not If she
would.
So his schedule, arranged to the day
and hour, called for his triumphant
entry into Paris September >, A. ID.
l9ll, Then, with n huge French In
demnity and control of the Iron and
oOal regions of Meurthe-et-Moselle and
Lens, he would sit back, make new
war preparations and get ready to
conquer Great Britain. Later on, at
his leisure, would come the third war
and the subjugation of the United
States,
War Of Friehtfulness.
So, posing before the world as NJ
advocate of peace driven to war In de
Tense of his fatherland, the kaiser
went his secret, devious way to war
to the war of deliberate and calculated
frightfulncsS which, under the guis'
of warfare. dcspoilcd Belgium lai'
waste northern France. depopulate,
Serbia: shot the English nurse, Edit
Cayell, sank the Lusitania with he
freight of women and children; mas
sacred, ravlshcd and enSlaved nor
cOmhatant civilian populations-frigh'
fulness which has caused more tina
25.OOO.OOO casualties and the eXpent
iture of billions upon billions of none
Indebtedness which instead Of frigh
ening the world into submission ha
nrrayed in arms against her 30 civ
lied nations - frightfulness whic
now makes the name of Germany
household execration among most {
the peoples of earth.
At first the kaiser's program WEI
! along without check or pause. Jul
9S Austria declared war on Serb
Russia went to the aid of Serbia. II
other nations promptly fell into lin
2 Declarations of war came thick nj
fast. BY August 1 the stage was 4
set for actual fighting. August 5 Il
= Germans and BelGians fell to on Il
Belgian frontier. The German mar,
10 Paris was on
But. rs everybody knows, Wilhel
II did not enter Paris in triumI
September =. Why? Because lit
I Belgium, martyr Belgium, saved Par
, She fought. Her brave little arr
did not last long. But it lasted To-
enough to give the French time to 81
in," The Germans t%hereupon fou
o the road to Paris n series Of trench
that must be taken n by one. I
schedule was soon hopeleSSly behi
time.
Likewise the heroic resistance
Belgium brought Great Britain for
with into the war. And though I
British standing army was not large.
went TO the front, died in the last dill
: and still further delayed the Germ
march to Paris. Moreover, Great ii
aims colonies from all the seven S,
went hugrying to the front. And Gr'
1r,uto'> Acct promptly forced the G