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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. AND THE heading Td read, The Associated Press ta exclusively entitled to the use for reproduction NOT FAR away. a to It or not otherwise In The New ef all newt dispatches credited credited live. OF THE German drive, tclmlter, and ft tan the local news published hareln. FROM WHERE I e a AND I'D SUBSCRIPTION RATES By carrier, ISo par week. Be mill, poatage THERE'S A little store. getsere again. 1 month, 40c: S months. Tie: I S) 00. I months, 11.00: 11 paid, months, AND GO en months, 14.00. AND THE of It. e my Way, a keepers NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. AND THE store is still ARB A man and woman e a there. If roil have trouble about getting vour paper, call Main 459 or Mem- e a 30 AND THEY are still phis and the matter will ba given Immediate attention. AND THEY'RE both German. see there, AND BEFORE the day. AND I still pas by. PAUL BLOCK. INC., Seeelai Representative. war. AND THE vax Is done. WO . Chi- THAT WE went to Fifth Ave New York; Millers Rtiildlng. a a Little Building, Boston; Kresee Bi Jlng. kfari cago, USED to IB. AND IT'S Christmas time. 14 15 I drop a a AND BUY things from them. AND THERE'S peace) on earth, AND THE hate I AND KEPT on going. a a hat HAS BURNED Itself out UNTIL, ONE day. h a OF I FOUND I hem smiling. AND I'VE made up my mlad. THE FALLACY BEATING a a A ON TOMORROW morn, SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES OVER paper. a I'LL DROP In there AND SAW the heading, a a a AND IT was a story. AND SPEND two-b- it Every now and then some statesman, as we arc wont to A AND WISH them both. call fiur public men, described by liis critics as a crank and by 01' German victory, a a his one in of his AND BEING neutral. A MERRY Christras apologists as living advance age, usurps tbc m a a function of the takes his text from the fourth verse of BORN in Canada ) AND A New Year, cleiy, (AND e happya of a sermon. the second chapter Isaiah and preaches mighty IT MADE niP mad. AND IF thy deserve tt a few Mr. made a bid for Only years ago Bryan popularity I went THEY'LL GET what I wish. AND away, a e by petting hold of a job lot of antiquated and marked down sa- t ANli NEVER went AND IF they don't, bers, which he had molded in the image of a one Imre You v to maks Slzzr a Decipeo mofr a THEN OF course won't turning plow, upon which was inscribed an extract from the A B03lwrSS -- TRiP" THROUGH THE .SOVIH AND FOR than yar. they verse which reads: "And He shall judge among the nations, Amd Ths voire Di.scoue.RS Youft Golf I'VE FASSKD their More. BUT ANYWAY. nd shall rebuke many people; and shall beat their swords VJTH THE H ST tff YOltR eAftGAC).. AND SKEN them in ther. THEY'RE BOTH old folks, they B3 a a e a -- Y0L) ; nation DOESN KWOUJ, AS THAT into plowshares, and their spears into pruning honks shall fOT JHE T t0, AND WHENKVKU I passed. AND THEY'VE had a bad year. S a not lift sword nation, neither shall they learn war Tine 8(6 ToORMAmenT AT piMCHURST 3)ue up against VUHICH 13. KtrVCOM "O hi YOUR OulMC, MDU I THEY WERE all alonr. AND I used to like them. more," and to each of the several states he sent the rtri. ft a any governor AND IT Feemed lo me. BEFORE THE war. one of the miniature mementoes, which, perhaps, more nearly a a a AS THE months went by. AND THERE'S no war now. served to remind most of them of their youthful avocation than t a a a it did to recall to their minds the Biblical prophecy. THET GREW very old. AND THEY look so sad. And as Mr. lirvan sought to spread the gospel, so have AND I used to feel. SITTING BACK. there. - H. WAR ARTICLE in before en- FRANK SIMONDS' Other men all the him, and a arc I'D like to in. THAT I'VE to In. ages good many THAT go gota go in the same worthy enterprise at this time, without AS T used to OR FIRST I know. The go. a thing Sged we may as there is no visible Campaign of 1918 perceptible headway, say, By FRANK H. SIMONDS, Author of "THE QREAT WAR," "THEY SHALL NOT PASS." AND THEN I'd remember. I'LL BE sad like them. change in human nature as it was originally constituted. We irreme- THE SMILES I'd seen. I THANK you. may assume, therefore, that owing to the perverse and 1!US. (Copyright, MoOlure Newspaper French reserve armlss, which had been teau Thierry, where the Germans had Serbia wa liberated, Rumania rising r diable character of human nature, war, which had its origin in Syndicate, ) awaiting a German attack upon their crossea the river ana were still gain- against her Gorman masters ana aus Fverv year. since the opening of the own front at the fhemm de Darnc. ing ground, but only at great cost and tria falllnsr Into ruin and fragments. of is 1 I the genesis creation, is still with us and likely to remain wnr, have, at tin close of the season, were rushed up and thrown In. In this slowiy. In this situation Foch suddenly A final stand the Germans made in Isflrj Over a of vears to come. reviewed the military operations of the time the Herman host pushed retain struck back upon the extended and France In the last thee weeks of the quite period campaign To complete tha series. I icssly on, pnsucd the Stnnime, cross-- open flank of ijie Germans between the war behind the Scheldt from Ghent to This original opinion of ours has become a fixed conviction, shall now make a brief Survey or tho the battlefield of 19IB. reached tha An- - Marne and tho Aisne, using Americans Valenciennes, behind the Meuse and in final campaign which won the struggle cre, took Albert and aouth of the Botnine as well as French troops in Mangln's systems of defenses prepared between even in the face of the literature sent out by the to en and thus close the military Articles within 10 miles of Amiens spearhead thrust. the two livers But he Nov. 1 the Brit HEli! league approached I . The was Immediate and de- we in which have been writing during the the vital center of railway communici-tlons- result ish had forced the line of the Scheldt force peace, and, might add, spite of the German theory world war. Southward the flood reach d cisive. It was a repetition of the and were advancing upon Maubeuge and Tho of 1!1h on and Lassii;-n- y strategy of the first marne and It had the all before carried to the other but with the same ultimate campaign opened passed Noyon, toucned the was Mons, French sweeping extreme, object March 21. when the Oermnns attacked highlands and extended to Mont the same outcome. I.udendorff them from Ouise to Rcthel and the ot were so the between and dldlcr compelled to draw his beaten troops out Americans were at last final in view, when the nanus Belgian cluMren cut on British front the olae Amer- through of tkMoiWt the wun In the of disaster France of the Marne salient, pursued by German anil were for Scarpa valley and the greatest midst the icans and French. He suffered barrier streaming they could never again compel Germany to enter a defensive victory Of the whole war on tho west- and Britain, with America, decided up- great ward to Sedan, whose suburbs they out- on a momentous Gen. Vict ir losses In material, d Solssons were to war. W hue the German idea we can ern front up to that hour. At. the step, Foch, the of the enter before the armistice was is I of Marne of and territory south Aisne, entirely reprehensible, set of he operations the situation from the anf the Yser, whs was more his signed. bad-I- v called to command. He can e but what important, by not deny that it was much more practical than the processes of the allied camp was confused and supreme retreat he confessed the failure, not of And so. with the supreme disaster in analyzed. To the supremo tent of when the first fury of the Gormnn of worn In his Immediate effort, but of his whole sight, but not arrived, with their power moral suasion chamnioned by some idealistic gentlemen our the four years the nations allied against storm had Itself out. the last had shot her bolt, or resistance not enaea AX UNPOPULAR SONG. of March the Germans had finel y campaign. Germany dui approach own Germany went with only dim percep- days she had lost the offensive and it now ing its end, with their armies still country. tions of the of the peril or the been halted Just east of the main fight The good, kind friends all at the station, gravity Ahilens-F'arl- s remained to be seen whether she could ing well and retiring in good order, the gathered It is not that we would like greatness of the coming German blow. railway and Juat north hold out on until the end Germans eave It un In the first dava of And they there Just for to not to sec war banished for of the the lost junc- the defensive gathered say farewell, It was appreciated In London and Lasslgny heights, of the campaign. November and on Nov. 11 the armistice And the relatives all ever from the earth that causes us to believe Paris that the Russian collapse had tion between British and French armies became stood around quite tearful, that there will had been restored. But a tremendous On Aug. 8 Foch began his campaign. effective and the allied road to And the sorrow in no man can ennhled Germany to concentrate her He threw Rawllnsonra Fourth British the Rhine was opened without further their hearts tell. be other wars and perhaps wars. We arc no whole In the west. J'ha defeat hadr involved the loss of 150,000 or greater apologist military power and more army against the Germans holding a possinuity German resistance, such, for war. magtiltudn of this power was correctly prisoners, mainly British, from round to In brief, is the story of the Then the hero came and climbed into the Pullman. When we look about and see the and an 200 than 2,000 Taidendorff had not great salient Arras the campaign suffering estimated at some divisions, ap- guns. of 1918. e. In the outskirts of Solstons, broke in the side It hae two dlstincf phases, that When he had kissed the women folks good-by- it has it has for us an hideous mien 40 more than the allies merely regained the ground Ion thousands of of Ludendorff from March 21 to guish caused, altogether proximately of 1H17, had ap- of this salient, taking July And waved had under their hands or could con- great retreat but and then deliber- of rocn rrom to inov. 11. they their handkerchiefs as though quite cheerful We in of the derision from Amiens ajid broken new prisoners guns and is; mat July is say this spite to be expected the centrate within thrco months, but there proached ately widened the area of dislocation In these two phases there are certain But the tears they were in each eye. was little of the new ground which had not seen the Invader the army, all booted and and fountain-penne- d understanding since 19H. by throwing French armies against clearly defined periods. There are the Washington spurred Gorman tactics, a futile reliance upon September, salient ail tne way round to the heights three German blows, that of March 21 "Farewell," cried. The train from the old faith lines would not be While Foch reorganised the situation was they sped the depot. for action, that clamored for action with blood in its eye almost that In a new German blow fell In north of the Aisne. Under pressure and which a stupendous success, almost The relatives all trembled as in broken, an Insistence upon tho endur- Plcardy, losing heavily In men and material, decisive; that of May 27. which was fear. from the the was evil of divided command Intensified Flanders Falling to stir the Third I.udendorff to the old The hero sobbed and a day armistice signed. ing which held staeeered back great and hardly less threatening than took chew of Spearhead. an Interfer- British army, under livng lines of the Somme of 1910 v A that most of us have lion and by political the of Fifth and about fighting mat ot March, and finally that of ju He was going to the north woods to hunt deer. picture seen, entitled "The ence. ground north the and to make a stand 16, which ended In Arras, the Germans had turned north attempted complete German ft a a the lamb lie down showed a lion The armv at the outset of the But while he was seeking to do this, defeat three later, when Foch, the together." contented reposing, French and breaking tho front of Home's First Ludendorff was assailed north days was In far better than In held the suddenly German blow parried, passed to the of When they say nowadays that a soldier has Joined the srreat ma half on a hillside. The answer to the natural struggle shape British nrmy a sector hy of the Somme by Hyng. who turned his with asleep, grassy the British, sine Its losses and effort flowed over Into the re- fenslve and threw Mangln his do not mean he has died. he married. Portuguese, had flank, retook and forced a Franco-Americ- jority they They mean has got con- In 1917 had been far smaller than that of all the Bapaume forces against I.uden query was that the lamb was inside the lion. Any other region south Ypres, taking tirement upon the old Hindenburg line dorlft's a a a of Its comrades. It was In superb con- famous the "White-sheet- " flank and began the march fighting ground, from wh'ch the Germans had emerged which has In recent ended at dition upon which the two would lie down together for any dition, but unspeakably weary, the ridge, Paaschcndaels rlde and on March 21. And when Byng's blow days the Ken Roberts hunches us that the government has iust issued pam itraln of four years was visible In Mount the to tthine. only by allied choice, for the on of time is but a of finally Kemmel, key had exhausted Its possibilities Home, road to Berlin lies phlets the subject of "Brachyceratops A Ceratopsian Dinosaur,'' length flight fancy. the Mltitude of the troops, gallant In Ypres. lUetf with the First British army, struck open. Germany has in no minded to in- been waa between which may some quarters be regarded as a waste of white naner. Ha resistance, but longer 191 4, astride the and aotually broke conquered, conquered Strong men absorb weaker men and business consumes Once more, as in the German Scarpe November. adds that he does not - big dulge In those offensive efforts which drive waa for Calais and in a of the Hindenburg July and believe more than a half dozen of our 102,826.- had filled the of the recent years. headed through portion little business. The character of a nation is the reflection of pages the last week ot April, Halg issued a line, approaching both Cambrai ana Looking backward, how shall one as lnnamtants would suffer anv particu ar mental aneuish if the pam It was alan superbly commanded and toual. Bv the first of September scss the cause of German failure and the character of the Its were to win new final appeal to the British army "fight days phlets didn't arrive on time in the mail. Another opportunity fot people making up the nation. Weak na generals glory. ing with Its back u the wall In this was not only back In the allied success? Both sides possess The condition In the ltrltlsh army kudsndorff line, but the chance of his great commanders, the supe economy. tions yield to or are overpowered by nations un waa Tho critical situation the line held, French although a a a they stronger far less promising terrible stabll-lue- d holding the line wan debatable. of Foch Is inconiestlble. The 111 reserves srrlved, the situation rlorlty less are under the of nations losses of the Somme 1916 and of Meantime out the other end first German blow wr one of the most they protection stronger yet than Flanasn In 1!17 had milked the itself, following a bloody defeat away at They have got down to the where thev can the nub'.ic army of tho Germans on April J9, whhth. In of the front Foch threw Pershing, with perfectly planned thrusts in all military point charce either. When there is a of it can be deter of Its best human material and theae It and almost de- for except balloon ascensions. question superiority In reality closed the German offensive el the First American army, against the history. surprised everything Campaign!, splendid as they were In at St. Mlhlol, south of stroyed an enemy, who could and did mined by war. the of had not forts Flanders. German salient only spirit sacrifice, brought From April 29 to May 27 a long Verdun, and the Americans won a rely upon the fact that In four years of The world has been ruled force. It the the expected harvesi, between the lint puuse ensued Tho allies had suf swift and considerable victory, taking the warfare of positions there bad OUR ELEVATOR MAN SAYS. always by compels ish politician and llrlllsh there been no break In general fered frightfully, the British loss alone many guns and prisoners, approaching successful through th When a man marries his troubles are over. over the child to obey its and not makes for a whole- had come an unhappy division ot opin exceeded was no Metz and giving Ludendorff a new west. Ludendorff brought all Yes, all parents, infrequently ion and the British soldier had been 300,000, there still superior some observance of for in chance of taking the offensive and the cause for anxiety, sinoe at last the numbers secretly to the decisive point, place. the law, the last analysis the law compelled lo extend his front danger allies to American contribution waa becoming he won his great battle, but the battle The who husband while tho Urltlsh with uttered a despairing appeal was now young lady wants to catch an aviator for a rests upon force, the we so hear ex omiy. politician America to drop all otner preparatlona Important In numbers and failed to be decisive mainly because the should try flypaper. great respect frequently new the reserves necessary to notn tne men. destined to Increase by several hun- allied resistance continued beyond th new front The command was and send The campaign became. month. One that is pressed for the courts is but a recognition of the ability of the supreme in Llovd Georges words, a "race be dreds of thousands each calculated point and the German strik thing pretty hard to step on is a lady's skirt. axsrolasd hy a Junta, not a single gen- was Hard on tho heels of the American ina force was exhausted before the ac I believe Herbert Hoover the court the and was of co tween Wilson and I.udendorff It two decisive should really be called secretary of to punish offender, behind the court stands the eral: there lack lomplete to oe won the but not be- victory at St, Mlheil came tual knockout could be deUvered. And interior. ordination hetween the French and by former, battles In the East Allenby in Pales same Is state and the of man able to bear arms. fore September could Foch expect largo of the Flanders strike the to No man is hero to strength every Ftrltlsh armies as a result, not grow- American sufficient to tine destroyed two Turkish armies be said a his valet, for no hero ever has one. If ing out of lack of loyalty or mutual numbers, give north of Jerusalem and not merely all the navies, all the guns, all the airplanes and all the him the advantage In tnta respect In Second German blow, that above th Alligator meat makes a good substitute for beef and it is almost desire to support, but an inevitable con- to broke Turkish resistance Palestine. to in were of the divided of After a delay incident refitting and Mesopotamia, but. as ths Aisne, was less heavy, despite its Initial as hard get. pencil sharpeners Washington destroyed there would sequence system their machine, the Germans struck Syria too, wore Itself ou event proved, eliminated Turkey from success, but It, The new German government has a of marine. still be wars. If modern known the science again, this time against the French war. No in all was without attaining a decision. Again th appointed minister every appliance to The Herman was conscious of his des names and the victory history That guy will have a soft with no ocean. and had found in Luden- - at tho tiiemin again more complete and all German hopes final blow could not be delivered and snap of war were out men would turn to the bow and opportunity tvon a Immediate success. All the the were is cut in wiped arrow h to great In fell Instantly to dust and Germans suddenly confronted Everything down on account 0f the war except the holes lortr leader calculated get ihe north of Turkey In the first of June a counts or the and if those were taken the clans would or- greatest possible advantage out of the enormously strong positions ashes. days by the Swiss cheese. spear, away the Aisne were taken In a day, the In the same hour D'Esperey, In Mace- offensive recalling Joffre's momentary a peculiar Herman methods and system. Hermans south across the A lane , ganize with rock piles for arsenals. idondorff made the basis of his strat pushed donia, attacked the Bulgars and In a venture at Guise in mH, where he sua and the Vesle, turned westward and struggle almost as brief, destroyed the denly turned and won a considerate! We will take this opportunity to tell several of our numerous and But we shall none of the instruments of egy ihe fact that from the Argonita began a new drive to Paris, one flank of resistance and Still unwarned, Ludendorff put away proved to Ypres the t.ernians occupied the in- Bulgarian power victory. regular contributors that so far as this column Is concerned, the war is of a semicircle could resting upon the Marne, the other upon thereafter promptly received the uncon- pursued his strategy to the final test. over. Give us war except to substitute for them more effective. To- terior and thus the Aisne below Sulssons, which surrender of which He all on one more cal something about love, or peace, or or prunes, something strike wlH en,ual ease at any point they ditional Bulgaria, risked name, pineapples al- had retaken disappeared from the war, thus isolat- culatiug as Moltke calculated in the or prisms, or tho eternal triangle, but sob day no man can imagine an instrument of war that is not from a common (enter, while, once the A new ensued. the forget the stuff. blow the and deadly crisis ing Germany from Turkey, opening days or the first Marne, that the in in some form or other. Whenever there is Oernian fell, enemy would French numbers were failing. Ameri wav to the allied liberation of Serbia French were exhausted and the Bri ready operation be obliged lo move his reserve's to the can were In Invasion around the numbers still small, but nnd Rumania and the eventual lah out of It. And again an amaz a new there is a new invention. Imperiled point circumfer this eiocrirencv the marines and two ct ttiiiiu-nr- from the Danube. Taken German cominander-ln-ohie- f saw an en conception ence lu addition tne Hermans pre- Immediately with Allenby's Victory, that of out of the Imtile News of Memphis fTS 1 of No of is attscks not at one. but at sev- regular infantry regiments together In emy, already by all News Memphli especial gift imagination required to conceive of a pared available ere put in about Chateau D'Ksperev closed the fighting the the laws of military textbooks, return rr eral points, thus persuading both the and the roads of near East and ended all German dreams a than used in of icrench and the British ihe Thierry along north the offensive, advance, succeed. Frenc 25Y,.r.AB. IWlCe lOld I aleS 10Y.ar.Ae. gun carrying projectile larger any this war, that main the Marne lending to Paris. They were of Mltteleuropa. and liritish morale Had outlasted Ge blow would tall against themselves and for the moment the sole on a gas more deadly or an airplane that will fly farther than any them to concentrate their harrier While the news of these two victories man by July. Thereafter it was mere constrallilug the Herman road to Paris, hut the Ger- waa filling the world, Koch moved to ly a of how long German mor DECEMBER 28, 1893. we have witnessed. we arc of the resources on their own fronts, mans were with to turn the question DECEMBER 28, 1908. Already hearing stabilizer the already weary their a general attack designed ale would last in oeteat. James J. Corbett and Charley Mitch- Miss Jilted the Possessing superior numbers, efforts and In the first days of June Hermans out of their system of Of s It Is too Katherlne Elkins has which will a to be to a standstill in the central position and the Initiative, great Foch strategy early to ell, heavyweights, will fight for the duke of Ahruzzi and has accepted tn permit plane brought tha lines again stabilised themselves defenses from the sea to the Meuse. with exactness, tils method wa championship this week at Jackson- t had also the superlative ad ith Solssons and Chateau In On M he threw the First Ameri- speak suit of Lieut, Adolphus Andrews, air in the event of engine trouble or the desire to several of a new a new Thierry Sept. tho exact opposite of the Germa ville, Fla. S. N., It is drop vantage tactic, system Herman hands. can nrmv against the Germans north He did not seek lo up all his Four were killed and 1fi in reported. of attack, resting upon the lessons of Meantime to Oer- - army gather hurt riots A mine of pure arsenic, containing bombs in the same spot. - ths westward the of Vertluns, Gouraud's against anil resources ana deliver In Palniero, from re- per- the Cahral battle of the preceding au- mans in the of strove north of Chalons In Champagne energies Italy, resulting a enough poison to kill the 90,O0O.OiW first days June them single colossal blow, which if suee.es cent Fovernment tax. sons in has been Besides, the time is not for a tumn, when the element of surprise had to force therr way southward and In the following he loosed one if the United States, " propitious creating prejudice been and along days ful would win tho war, but unsu Admiral De Gama, Brazilian rebel discovered about 60 from restored, combining with this Ihe use toward with Complegne nrmv after another all tne way to tne would him for a lot sea is miles war. It have been easier had the devised Palis, the. Americans cessful paralyze chief, apparently bottled up bv coma. Wash, against might we lost it. But secret concentration by as their Immediate objective in tins sea. In the Argonne while he was h forts the llutler in his Hy this en- of German de- period reconstructing government In harbor of Rio Mrs, William H. next leading this is somewhat of Ulga campaign effort they, for the first time, broke the first system thunuerlioil. uainer nis method de Janeiro. Taft, many country proud its strength. Returning sol method troops were brought to the countered a severe Indeod. to- fenses and streamed north toward the lady nf America. Is planning the1 check, one of swift blows, each iiirnt, nut cat: Mrs. J. M. Semmes. of Memphis, yes- in House when her diers ten us are battle front by night marches, ward ths . lose of the Man-gi- n final line covering Sedan and ihe a changes the White that right and tnstice sure to prevail if sun - engagement followed promptly by another at lie terday exhibited on the cotton husband Is next enemy totally deceived as to the nio- a counter-offensiv- e on railway In Flanders the exchange inaugurated spring. started their all point, from ihe moment that I.uden floor a sample of the recent World The On was ported by the largest and best and the best sol- hielu when the blow would fall and flank which This was, Belgians and British retook the lost second Rrltlsh steamer Ta! equipped army i regained ground. over dorff lost the Marne to the fair's prize bale of cotton, grown In near hum t)ireaftr miss attack achieved Its end 4u the In thu around about Ypres, pressed the was to by Chinese cruisers diers. The nation that on 21 my Judgment., turning point t end he never able reconstruct Jefferson county, ArK, vessel has right its side may relv the The attack of March had two clear: It wa fo-l- i hills and to he plain driving Chuk yesterday because the upon oamnalgn th ,...,.. Germans and the his own armies or escape from the John P. Hopkins last was In- boat accident:, of other objectives. Selecting the point In the able faliiire of and the Inl a wedge between the of hp night sank a Chinese support nations, and, while war may not be avoided, we ljiulendorrr seacoast ana inreaceiuns niustery roehs plans, hail to augurated mayor of Chicago. ally. front where ltrltlsh and lVench armies tul return to the offensive of Foch, Iteigian meet ono thrust after con- A force of 40 met and where the actual line was eventual lolatlon. another, British soldiers, under Reports from Virginia City, Mont, luiumuc iu cxpcei tnc Triuuipn oi wnicn, attcr all inconsiderable, to be sure. was to the south and form lo his foe's strategy until his fapt. Wilson, have been annihilated bv from ea ur justice, thinnest, I.udendorff sought to drive a Another month while the Oer- - But It against was abandoned a London nnd Italy say heavy is more to be than Vith between tho two passed ih main wa.ll of the Hindetiburir line cracking army by King Ixi Bengula's band of cannibal quake shocks were felt at 4:30 o decs preferred peace injustice. wedge armies, rolling iilNin iviit-vvr- inni mreoftiu 101 ot.. en. itVIItan populace which had completely Matabeles, near Africa. the British back and It that the main blow sjaannnini Capt Town, this morning. it hw custom oi swords upon beyond was now clear, must be the final n. Sent 89 the main mass of Vltth collapse Dealing into plowshares becomes Amiens and thus out of touch with the Blow, s nco American were ar- - 15 - troops ' wlth several American divisions Tho last blow on .Tnly of Luden- general the nations it be Fienoh and wllh their own main base nv nr In ffrnt immhern the ftftnn ., .u. .,...... 1 , . at among wilj because some will be .l l available, at the moment when hT plan al Havre, P"blu u.--e despair made poaajble th9 e,nduranee devised the a Olse route to iJ$? S.fth'iV.th P"""1"!1 "Vrm;n, whole IS miles of defenses between poleon's of tho old Kuard In the was abroad. defeat or de- whereby plowshare is better implement to waa ieoommt. restive. this time! , Rnd Kt. Bv Oct. S etoaln hour of Waterloo. Had I.uden- - those who had died In fight ward until hisPaflaj coul.l on ..,,,,. Quenttn. History will. I believe, reckon that where we attacked heavy artillery Austria was thrown against Italy Mne tutrt hee left far behind, the. dorff retired lalher than advanced in this was Inst sperate defense, totai Paris into turns or surrender. PfAVfl au.rrreo a de- - t,lp war on the day the Ger- were still a small in the pouhd the and disastrous hairier to allied advanee July, regained strategic freedom by mans decided element we w" This was a great program, but for Its I. winch hud ix moral i.,t upon their submarine host when ended. But al. great effect mju none, while in rlhwrxrd the French, retreat. a. Hindenhuif had done i;i blockade of l!M7. the haltlo UUatndofff had u which the behind Inexhaustible. realisation concentrated on both allies of ih. flrlnn line. As and were U i ;. ho niit,-)- have final di- - brought us numbers ' the resources of and Rr;u,h Helgtans sweeping escaped United States Into the war. This will had been to PJL The unconfirmed ultimate Hrrmanc u mutin urn imp was ine nesTinninf ihrnuch Western HeiKiuut, clearii-- the (.er for the camnaian of liMS. Rut be reckoned aa able supply precious, rumor to the effect that the kaiser had he wus to nusa success by ihe narrow- of tho limit series ot allied successes fatal to Germanv as decisive handfuls In the Wpraj seacoui una nppruucnuia inr ocncnu. irus was his last cnance nor is it lin- - was Moscow to haps befor been assassinated created but small est margin never attain to he interrupted, but at l.ille and wun uruges ami that in doinfe this he Napoleon, Napoleon days and we were sweeping surprise. Millions of his On March 21 the blow fell. On a ttoubaiz, probable would fought one more campaign in Germany 40 German division" the moment it was the first gleam of Ostand had fallen, or were about to nave pariicipHico a collapse of tha after his Russian remnants of us w own who have been bereaved and front of 30 miles 40 Herman divisions after three months of aaony. Laon to the south had The disaster, a great who had striven vainly to check people despoiled because of hi sunlight fall. gone. German public which would have has campaign which vic- fell upon 14 British after a brief artil- on 15, Ludendorff still defense and l narrowly miasad the final act. ammtion have accounts to Finally, July flung Germans bad systems tened rather nan delayed the end. tory at certain moments, but his doom settle with him lery preparation unexampled In fury his remaining reserves against tha were tlKiiiliig wun revolution, nut it In March Ihe ftrilish vvet-- (,.. .,, In all the of and reinforced Bits shells In enor- - an was was written In the terrible events of ways campaign I9,1"!! by French and Americans holding the line was apparent to mai uie jig beaten as they have never been beaten the It was the greatest In the war In the The was whole save j previous year. beyond the nious Quantities. surprise from Chateau Thlerrv to the Arcoiine about up. Along the line, fi(ij years of history. F.ven now one resources of to of modern wnr. It had all the terrio" complete In its effect; a deprived His was to break east before ihe Americans,, where the Oer- - in France supply him with In no"01; If President Wilson were fog purpose through Judders recalling those terrible the men fascination of a battle long v a very tnan, he feel the. doomed of advan- - of i. necessary to continue his younp mipht Hfth army the and west Khetms, envelop and lake man "tip 'Yvi.w f" rmys. m May ine were beaten great Victories, and once it had the final lift of a supreme he should at a of most of Its It that town and Its defensive in u in it a dftspcrnte stand, the allies a far he suffered On side it that least have campaign to wear, as an tale preparations, positions although waller fraction o( their a real defeat ihe French de- tory. the military revl? badpe support Unas were at best in poor con-- behind, clear both hnnKs of the Marne were advancing and the limit of Gei main masses was affected. But had people the decisive contest between two gr of rank. sitlon In first at- - to halt American serted him. reir insignia and the !av of the and beptn a wide swinging advance man ability troops there been no rush of American troops it was the same military systems, each splendidly tack the line was was the final xc; within p'liiu ight. with Ludendorff But ; pierced at (our places, upon Varle. It effort to lo Rurope, becoming visible and in a He and those about resented bv a great soldier. et this da and the rexi the win the campalKti and the wnr a The closing act or the drama was now ftllelu Pleasure nwillrhle hv the ' him assured the through hy hand. In south Italians took German peer;e thrit the war could lie victory of the French sys'em 0'e,r army lOUfnt on Napoleonic victory, the "Peace Storm. ?,t tha the days of ,'une. Hie two allied won German was and the :. The New Year is almost and it , dngecd.i. retiring nn-- defeats by the lUbrnaHne and the complete here, may bring to every- sioe-iy- hut maintaining its rr,ni in- - lo How lag ihe "kaiser Battle.' lo iwe offensive destroyed .i.stris.n might have given Germany victory on armv tr.ee of Foch nver I.udendorff will neeir reststancl in a brief bsttle Which ended a br.ore America COUkl intervene, pu't one peace and plenty. tacl. the German p'lrsaes of that boast the continent, chance to write an- when America Intervened Dfj questioned. By the third day. however, th? ruin Hilt IS the supreme effort in an Indescribable rout Austria oSased other of TINit, such as Na- after the by July an of thou- treaty German campaign had failed on eea And as the war was saved was complete, the Fifth army had had failed on both sides of the city of to have army, hundreds poleon wrote in 180", after AustarUta and to m into a failed sands of men flung down their guns, Jena laud, Ihe German ieople gave it Marne in Intl.. so it seems gallant fragments, great Rhelnis, completely between and Frledland But before we up; saw America was won tho same stream The world is filled with Good Fellows, once are gap was opening between the British Rhelms and the Argonne, where clou Trieste and Trent opened then, gates gave aid our they at last correcViy at in, they Austria-Hungar- military troops supplied and tests and the French to widen ruil wstn ft netfthl,. wtetorv measure- - and y surrendered "on a moral we became a seeing, surrendered These are the supreme ffJSZ I stimulus, vast forever la tha Bisw" for several days d whUh all the ably failed between Rheuns and Cha tha battlefield. And at his momaut balance In th bank soon to become A?,r,cn., reaped where others war, memorable) r sowed, victorias were everywhere of human liberty.