The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-02-14
GERMANY STILL
IS CONFIDENT OF
WINNING BY WAR
CONTINUED From First PaEsl


soctate ourselves as equals with ma
tons which pretend to accept Presl-
dent Wilson's IA principles, but in tact
France, Britain and their associates
are not seeking a Just peace. Ihey
are seeking to take our money, our
resources and our provinces for i'm
perialiStic reasons n to destroy Ger
many, The great indemnities they
would levy are unjust burdens they
are seeking TO place upon our backs
TO their own economic profit, We alone
accept President Wilson's doctrines as
he meant them; we alone ask a heal
ing peace. We are a new, pure demo-
cratic nation"
Hope to Escape.
1t is as if a murderer suddenly got
religion and demanded that all his past
crimes be forgiven and forgotten, since
under the shadow of the gallowS he
had embraced the true faith, not only
with readiness, but with obvious en-
thusiasm. The Germans see clearly
that this is their single avenue of
escape. They can still win the wal
il they can escape paying for the dam
age they have wrought and leaVe devas-
tated and crippled France TO pay notN
alone for the cost of defending herself,
but the price Of German devastation
in all regions Germany occupied and
ruined.
The German policy must be clearly
understood. The Germans have stripped
France and Belgium as far south as
the Somme n Marine Of all machtn-
cry, not only machinery of factories,
but even farm implements; they have
destroyed cities and hamlets; they nave
paralyzed French and Belgian industry
for decades railways and canals, eV-
erything is to make, and, having done
this, they will profit completely If they
can escape paying for what they have
done, Nor is his all, or half. The
collapse of the Hapsburg empire has
made 1t inevitable that six or seven
million Germans in Austria proner "vill
be united to the German empire. This
means that even with Alsac~-LUrro.le
lost, Germany will gain at least 5000, 900
people and an area several times as
large as that of the Rhine land. she
will acquire more territory and larger
increase of population than Prussia
ever gained by successful war.
Ally of Russia.
In addition, there is the Russian field.
The allies have abandoned it, they have
declined a task probably beyond their
resources of reinforcing the elements
Of order and organization in Russia.
They have a reCourse to the trans
parent device of the principe confer
ence, which means in fact that they
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left the way open to the Germans to
ally themselves with conservative and
ane elements in Russia, and thus to
reorganize n exploit the vast Russian
empire when peace at last comes.
Those who appealed to the western
powers to save them, from Lenine and
Trotzky will now have no choice but to
throw themselves into the ample arms
of Germany.
Thus we have in three months a
mighty and appalling transformation.
Germany has already escaped from the
first paralysis of defeat, the danger
that the danger that the empire would
shall shall seq ee II S5,oo0,ycSSNo Germans Germans Ti11
the future instead of 10, 00O, 900. We
shall see a greatly enlarged German
empire. including Vienna, touching the
middle Danube, EMBEDDING the new
Bohemian state in its deadly embrace,
and today threatening to prevent that
Polish renaissance which has been
rightly recognized as the cornerstone
of a just and permanent settlement in
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