The Cordova daily times., 1919-03-08
GERMANY BEATEN AT LAST.

For the first time since the armis-
 tice terms were signed it looks as if Germany were really defeated. The
 original armistice left the world in
 but the latest terms place the German
 people in position of feebleness and inferiority that would seem to make
 the revival of militarism impossible.
 That is why the militarists are more fiery than ever in their denunciations
 of the government at Berlin.
 The new terms require the Germans to diminish their army until they have only 250,000 armed men and only war
 supplies for that number. Moreover
 the allies will supervise the produc- tion of Germany's intuition factories
 and thus render it difficult for the Ger
 mans to maintain a military force greater than is stipulated in the cov- enant.
 When the militarists heard of the arrangement they began to foam at
 the mouth. After all, Germany was de-
 feated. By no treachery would she
 be able to free herself from enemy fet-
 ters and strike deadly blow before or after the signing of the treaty of peace. The military leaders of Ger
 many had looked forward craftily and
 hopefully to the round table confer ence They anticipated that at some time during the discussions there would be line of cleavage and then distinct split in the entente bloc. Or, if not at the peace table, then later some nation-say France-would be isolated because no longer in alli- ance with Russia and because the United States and Great Britain would be 10th to resume hostilitiest especi- ally if in the meantime, they had come to be on more less friendly terms with France.
 Nor had Germany given up her am bitions for Mittel Europa and a road to the east. Her parliamentarians talked of annexing German Austria Hun troops waged war against the Poles. On the other side Poland were the Bolsheviki, a German creation, launched with German cash and still fostered for German purposes. With Poland crushed between the upper and neither millstones the road to the east, by way of Russia and Siberia, would again be open. Ukrania, too, is a Ger man creation. The population of that great region is largely German. Ukrania, the Bolsheviki and Germany have been waging war against the Poles for months. Although the war was supposed to be at an end Germany | has been trying to crush her neigh bor immediately to the east, as she had hoped to crush France.
 By the new terms Germany must l withdraw her troops and cease to fight the Poles. No wonder the Huns winced and cried aloud in rage and | grief when the were required to give up some of German Poland, al though they had less right to that | part of old Poland than trey had to | Alsace and Lorraine. At robbers division of spells with Russia and Austria in the eighteenth century Ger many obtained what is now described as German" Poland. The Germans are still in possession of most of that region, for it includes not only the province of Posen, about which we hear so much, but also West Prussia. The province of West Prussia was old outlet to the sea. It prob ably will be detached from Germany and added to Poland, and inasmuch as East Prussia, in that case, will be iso- lated it might be we'll to give that region also to Poland.