The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-02-07
THE THIRD AND LAST STAGE.

We are now in the third and last
stage of the war. This was the mes
sage recently brought to Heppner by
the Canadian officers. Captain Cook
defined very clearly these three stages
and said that We have already gone
through the first two stages.
The first stage came to an end
when the invading German armies
we're stopped at the Marne, while on
their march to Paris In Captain
Cooks mind, the critical period of
the war was over then and there.
Had the Germans been successful in
their invasion, Paris would have fal
len, England would have taken the
count before she had even time to
raise up and offer faint resistance and
then would have come the working
out of the Grmanic plan for world
dominion and the conflict would
have touched the shores of America.
Thanks to that valorous gentleman,
Joffre, and his gallant men, coupled
with the hanlful of English and the
ever harrassing Belgians, William
Hohenzollern and his bloody cohorts
did not partake of their Christmas
dinner in Paris back in 1914 and
since that time, millions of men have
been sacrificed in an effort to hold
some of the ground gone over by
their armies in the first stage of the
war, that eventful march upon Paris.
The second stage of the conflict ac-
cording to Captain Cook, was when
the Hun hordes we're driven slowly
but surely back toward that country
from whence they came. This has
been a slow game, but there has nev-
er been any doubt as to the ultimate
results. After the first apparent
deadlock between the opposing for
ces, and the inauguration of trench
warfare, the bringing up of new and
superior artillery forces, together
with fresh armies of men, England
and France were able to overcome
the deadly effect of the big Berthas"
and since that time we have heard of
the barrage fire and motor tanks,
which won for the British a memoir
able victory at Cambria
We are now entering upon the
third and last stage of the war, as
Captain Cook views it. This third
stage consists in forcing the Germans
back onto their own soil and bringing
about satisfactory terms Of peace.
The immensity of the job ahead is
fully realized by all military STRAIT
egists of the allied armies. And our
allies are looking to the United States
to throw the deciding weight into
the fray at an early date. We have
the punch that is needed to put the
Hun down and out. To the end that
we may get over there in fighting
trim at an early date, the Canadians
urge us one and all to back up the
government IN every way, thereby
giving courage and confidence to our
men and strength to our allies. AS
Major Edwards said, 1--WE have the
Hun licked, now we must kill him. y
By this Major Edwards was not ad-
vocating any German-inBelgium tao
tics, but what he did mean, was that
we must throw a sufficient force into
OUT fighting after we have crossed the
German borders, to break down the
fighting spirit of the Hun and bring
to him clearly the futility of militar-
ism and make him see that the whole
world will be ready to shake him by
the hand upon the day he signs up
for worldwide democracy and rids his
house of the whole Hohenzollern fam
ily and their intimate friends.