Sharp County record., 1918-11-22
FIGHTING STOPS
F.: GREAT WAR OVER
Germany Signs Armistice Which
Is Unconditional Surrender.
KAISER WILHELM ABDICATES
Dream of World Conquest Ends In
Defeat and Revoluton-FIieht
From Justice OF Criminal
Against Civilization.
BY j. D. SHERMAN.

Peace The greatest war of all his
tory is over.
The armistice asked for by Germany
has been signed. This 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-Frederich Wilhelm Vic
tor Albert, Emperor Wilhelm II? He
is 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. If extradition for pun
ishment Is demanded, his fate lies
with Holland.
The great war began June 2S, 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 selling 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
Afor action. Here was the program, as
1.-THE kaiser planned It:
"A He would force Austria-Hungary, his
Nally and practically his vassal, into
|Swar with Serbia.
M Russia would rush to the defense Of
n Serbia. OF Russia he had no fear. for
rho we'll knew that German intrigue
MAD already prepared the way In nd
Nvnnce for the ruin Of the unhappy land
lRof Car Nicholas.
M France, he knew, would support
Russia. France-she was really his
Immediate object. Ever since 1870
Germany has been preparing to go
oack to France. Why7 Because Ger
many failed to beggar France by the
n Naggering indemnity of 1870, because
y She then overlooked the coal and iron
N deposits Of northern France, and be-
cause she hated France and the
n NHrench, root, stock and branch And
the kaiser knew also that France was
MOI ready for death grapple with
Germany,
WNGreot Britain, he had made himself
beleve, would remain neutral. That
would be well, for he wanted to deal
VIII Great Britain later, Anyway, her
army was small AS for Amerlca-she
wpuld not fight and could not II she
would
30 his schedule, arranged to the day
and hour, called for his triumphant
entry into Paris September 2, A. ID.
lW4 Then, with huge French In.
dehnIty and control Of the iron and
GOA regions Of Meurthe-et-Mose and
hens, he would sit back, make new
wr preparations and get ready to
conquer Great Britain. Later on, at
hm leisure, would come the third war
and the subJugatlon of the United
Stutes
JN War Of Frlehtfulness.
bo, posing before the world as an
n ndvocote of peace driven to war In de-
Kenfo OF his f0thorlNnd, the kaiser
NJ went his secret, devious way to war
pfhe war Of deliberate and calculated
mtfulness which, under tho gulse
1WlNNrfare, despoled Belgium, laid
e northern France. depopulated
plni shot the English nurse, Edith
]qwll' sank the Lusltanla with her
Fe'sht or women and children; mas.
lRcEd, rnvished and enslaved non.
= omontant civilian populntlons--frlght.
rpbs which hNs caused more thnn
hVO 900 casualties ana the cYpcnd.
M OF billions upon billions of money
II MFhtfulnesa which instead of fright.
the world into submission has
ed In arms against her 20 eivl.
M nations $50 fiightfulness which
M nv mokes the nomo OF Germany
ehold oSocrOtion among most of
4 peoples of earth,
ilrst the k0iaer'a program went
nn png without check or pause. July
- fNstrla declared war on Serbia,
EARS |ssla went to the aid Of Serbia. The
ola. 'er nations promptly fell Into line,
NJ plurntI OF war came thick nnd
no BY August 4 the stage was nil
1oF uetunl fightlng, August 8 the
,osrd flnhs and Belgans foil to on the
Tous Rlon frontier The German march
,,su PuFls was on
wh ns everybody knows, Wilhelm
@ not enter Paris In triumph
AN to'nper 2, Why2 Because little
I 'iiI,sG E.Gl' 'um martyr Belgium, saved Paris,
v ~ FoNght Her brave little nrmy
llss." lssn". noF lust long, But II lNstcd long
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