The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-02
THE cRuMBLINc OF EMPIRES.

crushing IN all sides. The Hohenzolerns hapsDurgs
and Ottoman Turks see their empires crumbe and blow
dust before the guns Of the allies The events Of
teraay alone are sufficient to fiji volumes Of the con
Guiding portion Of the history Of tyranny Turkey and
Austria hungary virtually surrendered and thereby faci
itated the downfall Of the German empire. Within
few days. from present prospects, the civilized nations Of
the earth will have the fate Of Germany absolutely IN
their hands. The German people win then pass through
the fiery rdeal Of examination to their participation
in the horrors that have stupefed the world pre-
minary to the melting out Of punishment to all guilty
persons aud nations
There win be reckoning with persons well with
governments. The fends bearing human shape who
drenched the world in blood must pay for their crimes
with their own blood. "BlOOd will have blood" The
civilized nations acting for humanity the agents Of
God They will deal out the vengeance that belongs to
God
Humanity rejoces in the news from Italy, following
upon that from France Belgium Serbia, Palestine and
Mesopotama The enslaved are made free by the vaor
Of their compariots AItays sudden offensive has de-
veloped scale employing in various ways
at least 100000 against still larger Austro-
Hungarian force The italian forces actively engaged
number nearly 100000 and the allied contngents as
sistng the Italians number about 100 600 There are
more Italians in France than there are allies all COM
bned, in Italy Therefore the credit for Itays won
derful overthrow Of Austria belongs principally to Italy
herself.
The beginning of the Italian offensive was mOdesty
described local operation and for several days the
italian public Of the tremendous sweep Of
their army the Pave toward the Tagamento and
forces cut in two by the taking Of Pontenea Alp
At any rate the enemy demoralzcd beaten and des-
peratey endeavoring to retreat The request for an
armisce has been refused very properly and it would
not be surprising If the Austrian retreat should become
panic fight than the Italian break at Caporetto
year ago. The Italians fell back upon united nation
while the Austrians falling back upon starvation
revolution and anarchy.
The reports from the interior of Austria while they
must be taken with reserve are doubtless faithful
indications of the anarchy to come Foreign Minister
Lammasch's statement in the rechsrah concerning the
that army discipline will collapse and that the soldiers
will back from the front bowling and starving
mob In that the anarchy that prevails in Russia
would be mild in comparison for the Russians are saved
from the horrors Of massacres which are sure to
come if the peoples Of AustraHungary once escape from
the iron hand Of the central government In the mean
ime the skeleton Of the Vienna government is vanly
trying to arrange armisce and throw itself upon the
mercy Of the allied powers So much for the Hapsburgs
AS for Turkey, the world cannot but rejoice at the
developments which are the forerunners Of unconditional
surrender The entire Turkish force opposing the Brit
sh army on the Tgrs has been captured the British
forces are within 40 miles of Mosul, and Turkey has
signed armistce which opens up the Dardanelle to
he allied fleets
| There is strong allied naval force in the Aegean,
he Adratc and the Mediterranean This force can now
AXE command of the Black Sea and the ports Of Odessa
md Constanza. Within few days the foundation of
;orce and fraud which Germany laid at Brest-Litovsk
and Bucharest will be blasted away by the guns of the
lied fleets Germanys hectic dream Of absorbing Rus
sa passes away, while Roumanias nightmare Of bondage
is succeeded by glad awakening. Allied troops are
even now on Roumanian soil. Within a few days or
weeks Roumanian force should be in Pennsylvania and
Bukowina, taking that part of the new obsolete
Hungarian empire which belongs to the kingdom
Of Roumania As for Ukraima, the people of that So
aed republic need not organize further to repel the
German hordes seeking wheat The Germans will have
business elsewhere when the allied feet appears at
i Odessa.
Thus from every side the monstrous growth Of blood
md tyranny called Mteleuropa coIlapses before the
runs of civilization and nation after another leaps
% freedom Let the great nations keep their hands off
he armies and the fleets! Let the flags go forward
without parey armistice. Let the guns speak and
batter pathway through enemy ruins for the sword Of