The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-11-09
WINDING up The war.
GERMANY FORCED TO- ACCEPT
DICTATED PEACE NOW.
Or Hazard Everything On Hopeless
Fight TO The Finish With the Ger
tainty OF More Drastic Terms at
The End.


The End.
With Germany's allies vanquisheo
and forced to accept terms for a ces-
sation of hostilities against them
tantamount to apject surrender the
die is now to be cast in front of the
Hohenzollern dynasty. The inter
allied conference sitting at Versailles
has drawn up the terms under which
Germany may have peace and the in
dications are that these terms will be
no less hard than those imposed upon
Austria Hungary, Bulgaria and rur-
key.
Forsaken by all her allies, Ger
many, the power that hoped to be
able to dominate the world by force,
is at the threshold of acknowledging
defeat by capitulation or continuing
struggle which means her ultimate
defeat
The terms accepted by Austria
Hungary, Bulgaria and ,Iu"..:@ ::::ave
shorn all these states CT 20 49,: Il 'S.
imposed upon Germany surel: -. d:
no less severe in rendering that couG
,Ty powerless TO resume hostilities
even in the far distant future.
Meanwhile pending the presenta-
ton of the dictum of the allies the
German armies in Belgium anc
France are the only ones left of the
Teutonic allied group which are un-
der attack. And they are being severe
ly tried. In the Italian theate. ths
Austro-Hungarians Utterly crushed
having lost thousands Of men killed
and 100000 taken prisoner, ars
standing bewildered before the vic
torious Italian, French, British, Amer
lean anda aCzecho-Slovak armies. Re
spite from further punishment Wa
given them Monday afternoon at .
o'clock Northern Italy again is ital
ian and Trent, Trieste and othe!
places which the Italians always navt
claimed as their own are dominate
by the Italians and fly the tri-colo:
Of the kingdom.
About all of the Adriatic coast lin:
is now in the hands Of the Italians
and Albania is all but cleared Of tn
defeated Acknowledgements Like
wise eastern Serbia is freed of thu
enemy and few days more doubles:
will see the remainder of the strae
Cling Hungarians making their wa;
out of the western part Of the king
dom across the Save River into the.
own territory AS for Bulgaria ant
Turkey, they no more are menacing.
Over q front of 80 miles in north
western France, Field Marshal Haig'.
armies have delivered mighty bloN
against the Germans and torn int.
their positions over wide fronts cap
turing important strategic points O
the enemy line and taking more thai
10,O0O prisoners. Of particular valu,
in the general plan Of driving tho
Germans out of the invaded regior
was an advance Of more than thre5
miles across the Sambre Canal. which
leaves Field Marshal Haig's men Sc
upon good ground for further dasl
eastward.
Meanwhile the Fench and Ameri
cans on the southern part Of the lina
are keeping up their intensive opera
tons in the great convergjng move
ment which, if its progress continues
is likely to end the battle before the
Germans are able to reach their bcr
der. Particularly notable have been
the new gains Of the Americans ives.
of the Meuse over their entire front.
Opposite Stenay in the Meuse vale
they have an excellent footing for fur
ther progress up the river toward tbs
important German lines Of communi-
cation in the north. In the center tnt
American lines now stand IL miles
south Of Sedan. In the latest opera
tons large numbers of additional
Germans have been made prisoner
and many villages have been liberat-
ed. The Anglo-American guns are
now dominating the Thionville-Mont-
medy- y-Mizieres-Hirson Railway. the
cutting Of which will rob the Ger
mans of their main line Of commu
nication from the south and place III
jeopardy the large number Of the en-
erny troops inside the big sack. The
strong opposition which last week wa
imposed against the French anG
Americans has died down almost cold
pletely and rear guard actions or the
part of the enemy predominate.