Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-18
ARM|ST|CE, TOO SOON,
ARGUES A DIPLOMAT
Marshal Foch Has Warned Against
Dangerous Premature Demo
blization of Armies.
Attache' in Baltimore American

X-AttaChe" in Baltimore American,
II Is tn be feared that the grant oi the
armlstice was premature. II should not
have been ccded or signed anyw here, by
our tieneralissimo Marshal foch, save at
Berlini That would have brought home 10
the German people that they had been
defeated IN the titanic struggle OF the lasf
four wears or more We are now IN the
third month since the grant of the armis-
tlcc Its stipnlations have not been com
piled with hy the enemy, who has sought
To eyade them with characteristic leuton
bad faith 1t is no exaggeration 90 state
that We are more remote from hnai and
conclusive peace than ON the day when
the armstice WAS signed. The Germans
under the shrewd direction ot Hueto9,
have had time to SOW dlssenslan among the
Allies In spite of all the censored cable
dispatches to the contrary there Is ass
union among them today than there was
two months ago. 1t rs impossible To close
one ) eyes TO the fact
Meanwhile, Teuton-engineered agita-
tions are IN progress III Great Britain, in
France, and in the United States, for the
undue Fastening Of the demohilizatIon Of
the army. and of the war Industries
Through German agencies. military and
industrial disturbances are being or
ganlxed to force the various governments
concerned, into undue precipitancy IN the
matter Indeed, il looks very much as
though by the time that Prince Buelow
has brought about the restoration OF the
monarchy at Berlin, and the rcvlva! OF
the Hohenzollcrn dynasty rs a military
and economic power. the Entente govern
ments by reason of their premature mill
tarv and industrial rehabilitation, will
find themselves IN the predicament of
beng no longer IN a position to speak with
adequate weight and authority IN dealing
with Germany.
Marshal Foch, by common consent the
greatest soldier Of our tIrne, has solemnly
warned the nations 0i the Entente
against what he dcplores as dangerously
premature rehabilitation, pointing ont
that the war IS merely suspended. hv
means Of an armstlce, but not as vet con
cluded He makes no secret of the fact
that he foresees possibility of a resump-
tlon Of the fighting under FAR less adj
vantagcous circumstances than those
under which he drove back the Ieutons
beYond the Rhine IN the beginning OF
November 1t Is on the cards that the
Entente governments sooner than gong
10 the length Of remobllizing their armies
ana lfEFii Atl UtIuStilt@9 anu tiiN
fighting, will prefer To come 10 some agree
ment with the enemy by which the terms
Of the armistice will be extensively modi-
fed, and We shall be robbed of ali the ad
yantages, material and moral, to which
we were entitled as victors. robbed, Iii
fact, Of almost All of that for which we
have been fighting.
That Is what Prince Beulow and some
of the ablest captains OF industry and
finance who are associated with him In his
plot to restore the monarchy, have had IN
view all along. 1t must not he forgotten
that Buelow, through his mother, IS con
nected with many OF the great untitled
patrician. commercial and financial dy-
nastics Of the free city of Hamburg,
whence his very large fortune Is derived.
through inheritance from a maternal
uncle.
Probably the most disquieting feature
Of the entire situation Is to be found In the
sentiments with which plenipotentiaries
of various Allied Powers are approaching
the table of the International Congress
at Versailles. Like so many international
congresses of peace, 1t looks very much as
if the meeting would develop a preg
nancy of war, and wind up IN a sort OF
Donnybrook Fair. Most OF the censored
cable dispatches which are allowed by the
censors abroad to reach the Western
Hemisphere are pure camoufiagc. Glenn
enceau and Lloyd George arc still pulling
together in close union, and seeing eye to
eve with one another But Italy, whose
claims to the eastern shores OF the Adriatic
conflict with the pledges OF France and
Great Britain to Serbia and to the Jugo-
| Slavs, threatens to prove disturbing
element at Versailles, IS already in full
| opposition TO the newly organized con
| federation Of Balkan Powers, comprising
Serbia, Greece, Montenegro and Rumana,
| formed by the Hellenic Premier Nenizelos,
and is endeavorng by all the means in her
power to win the support of Woodrow
Wilson to her pretensions.