The Arizona copper camp., 1919-12-06
DEFEAT 0F TREATY AFFORDS
OPPORTUNITY TO COMPEL HUNS To
COMPLY WITH ARMlSTICE TERMS

| If there is one opportunity more
than another presented by the defeat
of the peace treaty, it is the clear
field which is opened to amend the
Previous tentative arrangements to
compel Germany's adherence to the
peace terms. There is vital neces-
| sity for adequate means of insuring
that Germany will fulfill her 'promi
ses at Versailles.
Under the armistice terms, Ger
many was to deliver ordnance, air.
planes and locomotives. Last spring,
the A E. F. newspaper announced
that about three-quarters of the can
non, delivered by Germany were
either obsolete, incomplete or dam
aged Within the last four months
news dispatches announced that Ger
mans were trying to sell in England
and elsewhere the zeppelins demand
they burned a number of these craft,
| stating they had rather do so than
surrender them under the armistice
| terms Up to this summer French
railroad traffic was pressing prob
lem for lack of motive power; Ameri-
can rehabilitation was delayed and
the return of American dead had to
be postponed because of this lack. At
| that time Germany had not completed
her tale of rolling stock. Was this
ever done?
Operating under the standard Ger
man tactics, General Won der Goltz
took the crack shock divisions of the
German army into the Baltic prov
inces and used them so as to further
German interests there. The Reichs-
tag called on him to return; but no
one knows whether it did not at the
same time motion him to remain. In
any event, he stayed, for the good OF
the Fatherland.
Germany's losses in man power
were considerably less than the COM
bined losses of the allies. Noske, the
minister of defense, is maintaining
all the standing army he dares, and
is changing the personnel as often as
possible, so as to form in Germany
a body of trained men who have all
had some service in the army. Bis
marck did the same thing in the in
fant days of the German federation,
and gave Austria trouncing within
six weeks with veterans of years
service in a tiny standing army.
Noske is particularly successful in
holding the unteroffizieren or non
commissioned officers, who are the
backbone of any army.
Close observers long ago said that
the war would be won in the east.
The ieast is the single trade area
open unrestrictedly to Europe. Rus
sia is at her side, and permeated with
Germanism. If Germany can whip
Russia into line, draw from her huge
stores of raw materials and use the
manufactured product to capture the
eastern trade, she will be as formida-
BILE as she ever was.
There are those who declare that
neither Italy France nor England
could again put an army into the
field. They say the people would in.
augurate revolution rather than see
their manhood go again into the
trenches. But the large professional
soldier" element in Germany would
go, gladly: And the rest of her man
hood would follow, for che has every
thing to win and nothing to lose, and
a small, picked army might make
excellent headway against weary, re-
bellious troops.
These observers go on to say that
Germany never will pay any appreci-
aEle part of her indemnity, but will
eventually refuse to do so. If she has
by that time been able to tap the Rus
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