Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-24
OUR ENEMIES DIVIDED

The peoples Of Austria-Tuugarr. whose
place among the nations VIC wish 10 see
sateRuarded and assured. should be aC-
corded the freest opportunity Of autouO-
nous development.
THIS was the tenth of Mr.. Wilson's four
teen conditions for IA just and stable
peace laid down at "thc moral climax of
this the eliminating ana final war for
human liberty" They seem TO have been
words Of flame for they have been caught
up by the rebellious subjects Of the Haps.
burg, and by the press of neutral coun.
tries are declared 60 be one of tho potent
factors in the present revolt,
II is entirely credible that German and
Austrian troops nave fired upon each other.
for the greatest mystery Of this war has
been that such dissension did not start
sooner. Germany has heaped every hu.
initiation upon her ally. Her press las
Knocked at Austria FOR military failures
logical enough failures for a nation which
in all its history never on Il war. II has
demanded for Germany food supplies that
naturally would have gone to the Dual
Monarchy. and starving folk have seen
grain from Rumaniu. meat from Turkey.
pass through their land on its way to their
masters master I'm Berlin. The Berlin
tO-Bagdad project has been flourishcd In
their faces as If Austria did not exist Their
Kaiser is helpless. His challenge to Ber.
lin would mean the annexation of German
Austria by his ruthless ally. And in peace
and war, in prosperity and adversely, the
poIygot peoples whom Mr.. Wilson's words
have SO encouraged have demanded au.
y,l ha
Turkey, threatened from five directions.
is tottering. It has long b,en considered
by some TO be a hazardous adventure of the
British to penetrate so far into the Sultan's
domains. What If the Germans hurled a
great army at Alenby's columns? The
answer is at hand. The British evidently
had reliable information about affairs in
Turkey. The German general Falkcn-
hayn. had indeed planned to recapture
Jerusalem. but Il Is reported that 900
Turkish troops deserted him. This is doubt.
less an eXaggeration. But il can be no
| cNaggeration that typhus and other dis
eases have played havoc in Turkey; it
would be amazing IL It were not So Turkey
| has no medical organization i'm time Of
| peace to stop epidemics, and the first duty
Of Christian missionaries is always to fight
filth and infection.
Granting to the Germans an efficiency
| hitherto undreamed of, they would indeed
] be supeinen if, without sufficient doctors,
medical supplies, food and clothing for
their own army and people, they could keep
| the illiterate soldiers and civilians Of Hun
| gary, Bulgaria and Turkey up to the mark!
! Five hundred thousand Allied soldiers wait
| I'm northern Greece and Serbia TO strike
| when the time comes, and the fact that
! Germanys three allies have done nothing
| against them is signal proof Of their weak
! ness.
We win win and we will make our four.
teen conditions Of peace permanently re.
move the provocations for another world
war. The enormous gain To humanity.
already In sight Is so great so transccn.
| dentally great, taxing the power of the i'm
| agination to conceive its ultimate results
that no man IN iIis senses will talk half.
measures now. Whole peoples among our
enemies cry 10 us to rescue them. We
! Will set our teeth and see this through,