Evening star., 1920-12-19

cording to the calm. careful reports
of French officers of control in the
occupied territory, Germany regards
it thus. and even now prepares for a
new warfare on gigantic scale.
Il know whereof l speak, and de-
clare that Germany makes no prepar-
ations to meet the penalties imposed
on her for causing the great war. In
stead she spends her money and her
energy. her best thought of her best
men on mapping out another war. and
preparations for this at the present
moment are we'll under way. -
"Did she actually lose the recent war?
Who can say she did? She would have
lost 1t had the treaty been enforced: if
it. be; not enforced and drastically,
she will have won it.. She fought for
Berlin to Bagdad; it may. be that she
won. far more than that. 5 fs,*, y
Talk about the poverty of. Ger
many is camouflage and propaganda.
Germans may have suffered because
they would not bend to honest work
as the French population went to
work. after the Franco-Prussian war.
But the agents of the German gov
ernment have money in great plenty
for preserving for the time the disin-
tegration of Russia. for conducting
propaganda in all parts of the world
and for preparations for new war;
fare.
Inc son OF a IeTndn count is, dI
the present moment, in the United
States, with millions ready for the
purchase of material with which to
re-eQuip his country for air raids
such as those with which she dis
graced herself and civilization during
the last war.
Under the terms of the peace
treaty Germany is forbidden to build
these things, and an attempt at it
in her eown territory would be cer-i
tain Of discovery. Yet she can have
parts built for them elsewhere. parts
for them and vast airplane feet
built here and shipped over for as
semblage when the time comes.
That course she is now pursuing
not only with regard to airships. but
with regard to other engines of de-
struction. She is building submarines
upon the bottom to- await another
tag her government well knows.
Germany has not abandoned war;
fare. She prepares, prepares. ] hope
and trust that the United States, that
citizens of the United States, will not
permit themselves to be employed as
innocent agents of her new plans for
to be avoided. as the term tworln
conquest includes America, and your
west coast is vulnerable. '.Gerfhanyss
new plans and secret agreements are
more inimical to the United Statfs
and France than anybody else.
France has learned to have no IL
lusions with regard to Germany. The
United States and Britain should learn
likewise. Britain perhaps has. been
the greatest sufferer from recent
German propaganda. Ireland and
India Egypt and Mesopotamia re
veal this. y
To-day Germany is ready for such
manufacture of aircraft as the-world
never has dreamed of. An important
officer of the French army, whom /
know well and whom know to have
investigated, declares that as soon as
the allied period of control enda
there will be in Germany a literal
explosion of activity in the fabrica-
ton of all kinds of war material. He
has proof. That period of control will
end when Germany succeed in
convincing the arlies (already fooled
so many times) that apparently she
has executed the terms of the peace
treaty. In the meantime no restric-
tion lies upon her manufacture in any
part of Russia. She is manufacturing
there,