Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-03
Hour Fast Approaches When
Democracy Will Reign Su-
preme in World.
BRITISH SUCCESSES MAKE
PORTE'S ACT NECESSARY
New Way Opened for Rejuvenation
of Russia by Overthrow Of
Bolsheviki.
AUSTRIA Is DISINTEGRATING
Armies Suffer Disaster in Italy and
Peoples at Home, Forming q.
New Governments.
IS DIsINTEGRATMG
BY OLIVER OWEN LUHN.

IN ii S"AIiy app Oe'Nii>~
when principles of democracy
shall reign supreme throughout
the world, when all peoples
shall have proclaimed their in
tegrity and raised their voices
in their own self-government
that moment when there shall
Icy before them, stark and cold,
the grim remains of what was
once mighty giant, but a ruth
less one-German mi1itarism.
The emancipation of the world
from the horrible specter OF
many decades will be complete.
The new era of international
rectitude and square dealing,
with safeguards against repeti-
ton of the orgies which the
world has passed through, will
begin. The doom of those ele-
ments which have menaced
civilization has been writ large
in the past seven days-the most
momentous week since the
period of carnage was ushered
in by the very elements which
at this moment totter under the
weight of their own bloody
sword and from wounds in
tlicted by a keener blade welded
in righteous might and with
ardor inspired by the principles
OF justice.
K X
During the past week Turkey STEP
ped out of the struggle, cursing the
day she was led
Turkey Steps into it through
Out Of Struggle. g ena 'In,aipuI 5 OFF Of
Teutonic war lords. Events, fast
crystallizing, indicated the immediate
fall OF fhe Hapsburg dynasty in vi
emma. with consequent division of the
dual monarchy into numerous states,
each voicing it's own will to do or not
to do. And, in this trend of events,
Germanys future was made plain.
Germany may resist for another
twelve months through the shortening
of battle lines and extreme concen-
tration of military sinews, but that
Germany. hemmed in on all sides,
must eventually capitulate is certain.
And with the fall of Germany will
come the fall of those evil influences
which have made the name Germany
an orge throughout the civilized
world.
At Mudros, on the Island of Lemnos,
an armiStice was signed between rep
resentativeS of the Turkish govern
ment and Admiral Calthorp, repre-
senting allied governments. 1t would
appear that Turkey after the fall of
Enver Pasha and Halaat PaSha en-
tered into secret negotiations with
the allies covering period of two
weeks before the terms of armistice
finally were agreed upon. The Turks
distrusted the German interests still
remaining in Turkey and as a conse-
quence is declared to have adopted
this course. Turkey facing invasion
from the north through the capitula-
Iion of Bulgaria and continued inva-
sion of her territories through Mes
opotamia and Palestine had no other
course to pursue.
Through the agreements reached
with the allied governments the OAR
danelles will
Al1ioc Han pa&%ar he omen TO the
Help the Russians. forts along
the Bosporus and Dardanelles will
fall into the hands of allied forces.
The allies thereby gain access to the
slack sea, where they may wipe out
the German 'war vessels assembled
there and carry on such operations as
may be planned looking toward the
rejuvenation of Russia and assistance
of Rumania in case the latter little
nation once 'more plunges into the
struggle against Germany.
The main result to be achieved by
the opening of the Dardanelles, how
ever, is the assistance that may be
given to the Russians in their efforts
TO unfasten the grip of the bolshekik
interests in Moscow. With access to
diately can set into motion move
mentS from the south of Russia and
much speedier results can be achieved
in the custer of the bolsheviki and
the establishment of a thoroughly
representative government than if the
allies were to continue operations
through Archangel and from the ST.
berian regions.
The announcement of the retire
ment of Turkey from the struggle
followed close upon the heels of the
tremendous military reverses suffer
ed by the Turkish armies in -Meso-
potamia and Palestine. Continued
British success threatened to wipe
out the Turkish armies throughout
the near east-at least to make it
plain to the Turkish government that
continued resistance would be futile
in the extreme.
The successes scored by Gen. AL
1enby in his northward march
through Syria from Palestine brought
immediate menace to the Turkish
armies operating to the east. On last
Saturday Aleppo, the famous Syrian
city, 1855 miles north of Damascus.
fell into Allenby's hands 1t is at this
point that the Constantinople-Ba gdad
railroad branches. one line going to
Palestine and the other to Mesopo-
tamia- AS il had been the Turks chief
line of communications ever since
the Mesopotamian campaign began
there was every reason to believe
that the striking power of the Turks
in Mesopotamia will be crippled as a
result. Furthermore, Gen. Allenby, by
moving q little farther northward,