The Colorado statesman., 1918-11-23
Germany Signs Armistice Which
IS Unconditional Surrender.
=R WILHELM ABDICATES
OF World Conquest Ends in
Feat and ReVolut.on-Flight
From Justice Of Criminal
Against Civilization.
BY J. D. SHERMAN.

mas been signed. IhiS means no less
than unconditional surrender" For
the terms of that armistice deprive
Germany of the means of resistance.
Germany must accept whatever peace
terms the allies dictate.
The kaiser-F'rederich Wilhelm Vic
tor Albert. Emperor Wilhelm II? He
is a fugitive in Holland from Justice
the justice of his own people as well
as of the civilized world; the red flag
flies over the throne he was COM
PEELED to abdicate. His fate hangs in
the balance. II extradition for pun
ishment is demanded, his fate lies
with Holland.
The great war began June %, 1914,
with the assassination of the Austrian
Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sara
jevo, Bosnia, by Serbians. This was
the beginning, because civilization
holds the kaiser guilty of seizing it as
a pretext for the world war which he
had long been secretly planning to
carry out his purpose of world con-
quest. He and his tremendous war
machine were ready, Impatient. eager
for action. Here was the program, as
the kaiser planned it:
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 well knew that German intrigue
had already prepared the way in ad-
vance for the ruin of the unhappy land
of Czar 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 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 America-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 2, A. d.
1914. Then, with huge French In
demnity and control of the iron and
coal 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 Frightfulness.
So, posing before the world as an
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
frightfulness which, under the guise
of warfare, despoiled Belgium; laid
waste northern France. depopulated
Serbia shot the English nurse, Edith
Cavell; sank the Lusitania with her
freight of women and children; mas
sacred, ravished and enslaved non
combatant civilian populations-fright-
fulness which has caused more than
25,OOO,OO0 casualties and the expend-
iture of billions upon billions of money
-frightfulness which instead of fright
ening the world into submission has
arrayed in arms against her y civil
lized nations : frightfulness which
now makes the name of Germany
household execration among most OF
the peoples of earth.
At first the kaiser's program went
along without check or pause. July
% Austria declared war on Serbia.
Russia went to the aid of Serbia. The
other nations promptly fell into line.
Declarations of war came thick and
fast. BY August 4 the stage was all
set for actual fighting August the
Germans ands Belgians fell to on the
Belgian frontier. The German march
to Paris was on
But as everybody knows, Wilhelm
III did not enter Paris in triumph
September .. Why? Because little
Belgium, martyr Belgium, shNeu "'iS'
She fought. Her brave little army
did not last long. But it lasted long
enough to give the French time to dig
In" The Germans thereupon found
the road to Paris n series of trenches
that must be taken one by one. The
schedule was soon hopelessly behind
time.
Likewise the heroic resistance of
Belgium brought Great Britain 1orth-
with into the war. And though the
British standing army was not large, 1t
went to the front, died in the last ditch
and still further delayed the German
march TO Paris. Moreover, Great Brit
aims colonies from all the seven seas
went hurrying to the front. And Great
Rxatsin,a fleet promptly forced the Ger