Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-20

In this war it was impossible to
distinguish where the sphere of the
army and navy began, and that of
the people ended. Army and people
were one The world witnessed the
war of nations in the most literal
sense of the word. The great powers
of the earth faced each other in united
concentrated strength. And not only
between the armed forces did the
combat rage along those huge fronts
and on distant oceans; the very soul
and vital force of the enemy was at
tackled in order to corrode and para
lyze them,
This world war OF nations
made enormous demands on us Ger
mans on whom its whole overwhelm-
ing burden fell. Every individual had
to give his very utmost If we Were to
win. We had literally to fight and
work to tn. last drop of blood and
sweat and with It all maintain our
| fighting spirit and above all our
| confidence in victory; hard but inn
| perative necessity. in spite of the
dearth of food which the enemy in
flicted On us, and the onslaught of his
propaeanda. which was of amazing
force, il unobtrusiye.
| Our army and navy are rooted in
the nation. as is the oak in German
soil. They live. upon the homeland,
and from it they draw their strength.
They can keep, but cannot produce,
what they need and can only fight
with the moral material and physical
means which the country provides
These means make possible victory;
faithful devotion and unselfish self
sacrifice in the daily contest with the
miseres of war.
i They also could secure Germany's
final success. With them our coun'
try waged the titanic conflict against
the world, even allowing for the as
sistance of our allies and the exploita.
tons of occupied territories as far a.
the laws of land warfare permitted.
The army and navy had thus t
look to. the homeland for It's constan
renewal and rejuvenation in morale
numbers and equipment,
It was essential to maintain thu
morale and war-spirit of those a
4 home at the highest pitch. Woe t.
/ us if they, should fail The longer tn,
, war lasted, the greater were the dan
! gers and the difficulties, and -th
more imperious grew the demand
Of the army and navy for spiritua
and moral reinforcement,
The very last resources. both II
men and material, had to be mad
available and devoted to the prosecu
ton of the war.
Il Hard work and an unflinching de
, termination, helped by the Russian
revolution, had enabled us to reliev
the military situation in 1917. Blu
meanwhile, as had already been tn
case in AUSTRIA Hungary, the break
ing up of the united will of the Ger
man people, under pressure Of thi
lupheayal and of economic privation'
combined with the growing influenc
. L of enemy propaganda. was to brin
/, about events which steadily lowere
the fighting strength Of both the al
lied states and jeopardized our mill
tary gains.
From this time EDWARDS the hope O
|, the entente for the inner collapse Q
their enemies was continually fec
Peace would be imn1ea surably NOR
difficult, an dthe end of the war wa
o postponed
Chancellor Won Bethmann an
!. Count Czernin were both completed
obsessed by the influence of the Rus
81 sian revolution. They both feared
q similar catastro nhe. IN tier own conr
.Itries. and thought Of nothing hut pos
sfhi'ities Of peace, which had unfortu
T tnatelytsrecedad into the dina dtstanc'
whereas until peace had beef. attalne