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The Irish Bird.
Europe’s Dangerous Condi
tion,
A Voice From the Sky.
“‘Punch in the Jaw’' Rule.
-~~~ By Arthur Brisbane ~—-
INAR LAW, speaking for the
British Government, says
that Mr, Lloyd George in
tended to receive Irish delegates
from this country to make them
realize how nicely things were ar
ranged in Ireland, “and thus open
their eyes.”
‘ England, of late years, has tried
to make e Irish, asking for in
pendence, accept something else
*“as good.”
You see a bird in a cage with
plenty of bird seed, comfortable
swing, cuttlefish bone on which
to rub his beak, sand on the floor,
gilding on the wires. Still the bird
would like to get out. That is how
it is with the Irish, and how It
has been for seven hundred years
and more. They do not want the
cage fixed up, they want the DOOR
OPEN.
England has good reasons for do
ing all she can to pacify her people,
;huttlng out importations, to give
her people work, grabbing whatever
she can to bring wealth to her is
lands. An extremely intelligent
Ameyrican observer, a business man
QT large interests just returned from
lingland says: .
“Eflgland is hanging on the edge
of a labor revolution, and the big
men know it. They are afraid to re
fuse labor anything. They would
not dare, in England, to jail a la
hor leader or other radical leader,
as we jail Debs and others. It would
give them civil war in 24 hours.” |
Other countries are in positions
as bad, according to this clear-eyed
Western American observer,
“In Amsterdam,” said he, “there
are 85,000 men out of work. Con
ditions the are close to anarchy.
Policemen stand on streets in
groups, never alone, as alone their
lives would not be safe. All of Eu
-Irnpe. conquerors and conquered, is
in a condition of dangerous unrest.
Conditions are made more difficult
by the fact that workers, exhausted
by the war, demand their full share
of government, highest wages, and
at the same time the right to do less
ard less work.
A man in a flying machine, 3,000
feet up, delivered a lecture by wire-
Jess telephone to the Institute of
Electrical Engineers gathered in a
hall in London. There is, indeed,
a voice from the sky, the last word
of scientific achievement. How long
will it be before voices actually
come from other planets and philol
ogists are put to work decipherini
’ strange speech from other worlds?
The Women's International Con
ference for Permanent Peace at
Zurich, including able women from
the United States, says that the
“peace terms with Germany “con
demn one hundred million people in
Central Europe to poverty, disease
and despair.”
If that is so, the world will soon
knw it. A hundred million people
will not long endure poverty, dis
ease and despair without making all
the other people in the world un
comfortable.
You may have millions dying of
famine in China or India. Those
regions do not read and they
stopped thinking a thousapd years
ago. The people of Europe are dis- |
ferent. |
~A well-meaning, prosperous young
author says the I. W. W. movement
should be met “with the firing
squad.” His suggestion is that
members of the I. W. W. should be
stood up in rows and shot down,
and respect for law and order thus
increased. This is doubtless a pa
trintic suggestion.
Another patriotic suggestion
comes from a newspaper said to
be published in the interest of the
soldiers. The editor, a very brave
man. tells his readers if they hear
a man make a speech and don't like
what he says, not to trouble a po
liceman. but: “Give the speaker a ‘
enod Yankee punch in the jaw.” |
Th's also is based on patriotism. |
3ut the country must be run ac
cording to dull law, or it must be
~un on the romantic firing squad
and “punch-on-the-jaw” basis.
Where you allow the hastily or
ganized firing squad and the punch
to take the place of judge, jury,
constitution, ete., you make a rad
ical change.
So far, human .beings have in
clined to the idea that law, impar
tially, strictly and justly enforced,
is the only permanent remedy for
social troubles. This has been the
prevailing opinion ever since the
days of thoughtful Hamurabi.
The old system should be dis
carded for the punch only after
reasonable deliberation, extending
" over a period of several weeks, at
least.
Small Towns in Maine
Had Big Casualty Lists
(By International News Service.)
EASTPORT, ME., May 24 —Several
small towns of Washington County, near
this city, figured prominently in the cas
uzity lList, and a large percentage of their
young soldiers lost their lives in the war
The small town or Edmunds, eighteen
miles from here, had 27 enlisted men and
five were killed or died from wounds or
sickness. Eastport's large service flag
contains 325 stars and 9 geld stars.
The Passamaquoddy tribe of Indians,
five miles away, furnished 29 soldiers and
+9 gold stars were recently added to their
gervice flag. but several of the tride had
enlisted in the Canadian armies and a few
in the United Stalee =avy.
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VOL. VI. NO. 1.
Texan Who Killed His Wife and
Colonel Butler Gets
New Trial.
KILLINGS STIRRED STATE
Spannel Acquitted of Slaying
Wife, but Given Five Years T
for Butler’s Death. |
(By Internati’;r;—l‘N.ewl Service.) ‘
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charged with the Kkilling of his wife
and Ljeutenant Colonel M. C. Butler,
at Alpine, Texas, on the evening of
July 20, 1916, is to be aired again in
the courts. The case has just been
transferred here from Coleman Coun
ty and will be tried here next week.
The Spannel case is one of the most
sensational ever tried in the South
west. It has attracted nation-wide
attention because of the prominence
of Colonel Butler in the United States
army and the social prominence,
vouth and beauty of Mrs. Spannel.
Spannel was proprietor of the lead -
ing hotel of Alpine and Colonel But
ler was stopping at the house while
stationed with his troops on the bord
er. Spannel claimed that the colonel
took advantage of the youth of Mrs.
Spannel and his own experience and
wrecked the Spannel home. On the
evening of the dual Killing Spannel
invited Colonel Butler to take a ride
in an automobile with him and his
wife. Colonel Butler accepted. He
and Mrs Spannel rode on the rear
seat of the car and Spannel drove.
When several miles from the city
Spannel stopped the car and accused
Colorel Butler of wrecking his home.,
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Colonel Butler started to leave the
car. 'He was shot to death. Mrs.
Spannel was also killed by pistol bul
lets. Colonel Butler’s body was left
on the roadside and Spannel drove
back to the hotel with the dead body
offi*s wife in the car.
e first trial was at San Angelo,
Texas, early ‘in 1917. In this case
Spannel was charged with murder in
connection with the killing of his wife.
Testimony of the most sensational
nature was introduced. After 30 days
the case went to the jury. Spannel
was acquitted in less than one hour
after the jury had the case. The
judge on his own motion transferred
the case where Spannel was charged
with murdering Colonel Butler to
Coleman County.
When the case was called there
Spannel startled the judiciary of the
South by pleading former jeopardy.
He declared the killing of Colonel
Butler and Mrs. Spannel occurred at
the same time and for the same
cause, that the testiimony at the fan
Angelo trial covered both cases and
that he could not again be sent to
trial for a charge upon which he had
been acquitted. -
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The court overruled the plea and
Spannel was given five vears in the
penitentiary. He appealed the case,
and, pending the decision of the Court
of Appeals, was released on, $5,000
bond. One of the judges of the Court
of Criminal Appeals held that the
M R. AND MRS. HARRY S PANNEL and their child. The
picture was made a short time before Spannel shot and
{ killed his wife and Colonel M. C. Butler as they were riding in
an automobile near their home in Coleman County, Texas, in
l 1916, Mrs. Spannel was known as the most beautiful womang
in the Southwest. Spannel was acquitted of killing his wifv,i
but was sentenced to five years for Colonel Butler’s death. He
§ appealed, and a new trial will be held at Brownwood, Texas,
g this week.
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Pet Airedale Is Bested
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In ‘Go’ With Porcupine
(By International News service,)
LENOX, MASS., May 24.—“ Murray Ju
nior,” the airedale pet of former United
States Senator D. Murray Crane, is a sad
‘der but a wiser dog after an emcounter
with a porcupine. It happened on the
Windsor ~estate of. Mr. Crane, who took
the dog with him while he went to inspect
some new blue ribbon cows he had recently
bought, it
“Murray Junior,” on a-little independent
romping tour, met the enemy and was
his. Missed and searched for by his. mas
ter, he was found suffering acutely with
a faceful of newly acquired whiskers. Mr,
Crane rushed the animal in his automo
bile to a veterinary, who spent four hours
picking out the quills. “Murray ‘Junior’
stood the pain like a hero, but thinks the
world ought to be made safe from porcu
pines,
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Anti-Bolshevik Fund
.
Needed Declares Bsihop
(By International News Service.)
KNOXVILLE, TENN.,. May 24—'"We
must face this atmosphere of Bolsheyism
which is fast permeating the whole world;
we must have men to meet and combat its
forces,” says the Right Reverend Bishop
Thomas F. Gailor, of the Episcopal dio
cese of Tennessee, who is conducting a
campaign for a $1,000,000 endowment fer
the University of the South at Sewanee
“We must look to the democratic insti
tutions of learning for these specially train
ed men to combat the forces of Bolshe
vism,” he added, “and a university which
has vindicated its usefulness as has Se
wanee is due the support of every citizen
of the Southland.”
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First to Cross Rhine in
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Army of Occupation Dies
(By International News Service.)
' PARIS, May 24.-—The first man in the
"Army of Occupation to cross the Rhine
'died ‘the following day. He was an engi
neer who, two weeks before, was struck
‘and injured by a train in the newly es
‘tablished railhead at Coblenz. Across the
\rlvr'r was a Red Cross hospital, packed
with German wounded, and there he was
f(‘nrriml. When he died, the next day, he
was buried in the little village churchyard.
The wobnded enemy soldiers in the hos
‘]n(ul chipped together and bought the
pvn-ulh that now lies on his grave.
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plea of former jeopardy was well
taken and should have been sus
tained. The other said the plez was
weil grounded, but that certain facts
should have been proved at the San
l Angelo trial or at a subsequent one.
Finding that & new trial was com
ing, the Coleman County judge trans
ferred the case here, saying it would
be impossible to get a jury in Cole
man County. It is believed here, in
view of the opinions of the court, that
Spannel will be acguitted. However,
the entire testimony in the case will
have to be reviewed and officials are
preparing to accommodate hundreds
‘of people from all sections of the
country,
Spannel is very wealthy., His wife
was regarded as one of the most
beautiful women in the Southwest.
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Makes Will Under Fire
Two Days Before Death
(By International News Service.)
PITTSFIELD, MASS., 'May 24.—While
under artillery fire in. France in April,
1918, Private Michael Mierzyowski, of (‘om
pany F, 104th Infantry, made his will on
two sheets of Y. M. C.-A. paper, which he
mailed to his mother two d%ys before he
was killed.
Beginning the will, Mierzyowski wrote:
“We are in such a place that my head is
nearly split with bombardment.”
He enclosed an insurance card and
cautioned his mother to keep it, writing.
“If 1 do not come back them you will get
$5,000.” £
The court disallow® the Will because of
technicality. The -mother, Mary Mierz
yowski, will, however, receive the insur
ance by regular payments.
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Yanks Back From War
Best Grocery Clerks
(By International News Service.)
TOPEKA, KAN., May 24.-—Boldiers back
from France make the best grocery
clerks. At least George Denton, city food
inspectors, says so. He is in a pasition to
know. Mr. Denton says that the boys
learned sanitation while in the army, and
that it is pie’’ for them to Keep a grocery
clean after having had to keep a big
barracks clean. Many Topeka grocers
have employed returned soldiers and, ac
cording to Mr. Denton, he can tell which
stores have them. by the quick way in
which the store takes on a clean appear
ance. For months the complaint of the
grocers has been that they were short of
help and couldn’t keep the place looking
as neat as usual.
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Prodigals Sent Home
By Court—Fatted Calves
(By International News Service.
MANSFIELD,OHIO, May 24 There are
two towns in Richland County where the
fatted calf can be killed. The prodigals
will be on hand. Mayor Brunner has two
of them in his court and he knew each to
be a hard worker when at home and a
“humdinger” when away from home
“Your home town is dry, isn't it?"" asked
the Mayor of the first prodigal son.
‘And yours is dry?” he nodded to the
other.
Both replied in the affirmative
“Then they can kill the fatted calf for
you both,” said the Mayor. '"The sentence
of the court is that you go home and stay
there until after May 27, when old Ohio
goes dry.”
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A Special Service for
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Heroes in London Today
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, May 24.—1 n honor of the sol
diers from overseas who fought for the
libérty of the world in the great war a
special thanksgiving service was held to
day in the old church of SBt Clement
Danes, Strand, undgr the auspices of the
Overseas (‘lub
The church was lent for the occasion
by Rev. Pennington Bickford and the ser
i\""" was conducted by Bishop Frodsham
' The band of the First Australian Contin
gent supplied the music and the service
| was most {mpressive, the church being
crowded with men from overseas, among
lthom being a large number of Americang,
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ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1919
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Office Has Grown to Point Where
Postal System Is Biggest
of Kind.
80,000 Letters Must Be Read
Every Day—Ton of Matter
Sent Out.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, May 24-~—More
than a ton of incoming mail each
day and nearly as much outgoing mail
have made it necessary for the bureau
of war risk insurance to build up a
vostal systemn that is larger than any
other of its kind in the United States.
Eighty thousand pieces of incoming
mail each day are the average for the
bureau of war risk insurance. Of
these more than 50,000 bring letters.
There are over 80,000 outgoing letters
from the bureau each day. To h:mdlu‘
the delivery and collection of this vast
amount of mail requires over 100 em
ployees.
Mail is received every half hour at
the bureau of war risk insurance. It
is sorted immediately upon receipt,
and those pieces of mail which are
addressed to a definite division of Iha‘
bureau are delivered at once. The
greater part of the mail, hOWeV(’l‘.‘
comes addressed to the “Bureau of!
War Risk Insurance.” To deliver this
mail to its proper destination means
that it msut be opened and read. Let
ters are opened by a machine procnss,‘
The letters then are tied in small
bundles and delivered to readers. |
Reading the mail of the bureau of
war risk insurance is a task which
requires an intimate knowledge of the
various divisions of the bureau, and
the work that each division handles.
Highly trained women, most of them
college graduates, are employed as
mail readers. Each reader must decide
from the fext of the letter where it
should be referred and there are 36
diffrent sections to which these read
ers may refer a letter, Many of the
readers are capable of reading 1,500
letters a day.
Clear Files Every 15 Minutes.
After reading a letter the reader
stamps upon it the time of receipt
and designates its routing and places
it in a file which is classified accord
ing to each of the 36 routes a letter
may take. These files are cleared
every fifteen minutes and the letters
routed according to the directions of
the reader.
Many letters received contain ques
tions which concern two different di
vision¢ of the bureau. Readers indi
cate these letters as “duples,” and
'give them two indications for rout
ing. They are then copied and a copy
‘sent to each of the divisions indicated
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by the reader
Thousands of the letters which are
received contain remittances for in
'surance premiums and for refunds on
overpayment. These remitnces
come in money orders, checks and
currency, and it is necessary to take
the greatgst care in order that none
of them may be lost.
‘ When letters are received that do
‘not give sufficient information upon
}which areply may be based, the read
er indicates this and by return mail a
form setting forth all the necessary
information is sent to the writer of
the letter.
Hundreds Received Daily.
Hundreds of letters are received
each day by the bureau of war risk
insurance which do not concern the
work of the bureau. The readers must
have a knowledge of the work of
other Government departments S 0
that they may indicate a correct for
warding address for letters which do
not belong to the bureau. More than
half a hundred letters of this sort ave
forwarded each day to other Govern
ment departments and bureaus, many
of them to the War Department. °
Outgoing letters from the bureau of
war risk insurance average more
than 80,000 daily. All these letters
are sorted according to the States for
which they are destined and tied in
bundles and placed in separate sacks
before leaving the bureau in order
‘that they may be more rapidly han
‘dled in the Federal postoffices.
% Special units are providid to handle
registered and foreign mail. Although
'the bureau uses the Government
granking privilige, its cost for gost
age amounts to nearly SI,OOB a month
for the purchase of stamps for mail
going to foreign countries.
Telegrams are delivered by special
messengers.,
To handle this vast amount of mail
expeditiously there are day and night
shifts. and mail which arrives during
the night is on the desk of the person
for whom it is intended at 9 o'clock
each morning.
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Big Brothers Good as
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Dead Grandma Yarn
(By International News Service.)
MANSFIELD, OHIO, May 24.—Mans
field has a boy who has it ‘‘all over” the
voungster whose grandmother dies each
spring when the baseball season opens
The Elks were entertaining returned sol
diers and the temple was so crowded that
all except relatives were excluded But
this small boy was ready. ‘I gotta broth
er in there,”” he said, The other boys took
the “hunch’ and soon thcre were a lot of
hig brothers in the company
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STOLE FOR “MAN IN FRANCE"
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., May 24.—Salli¢
Beard explained her action in visiting sev
eral downtown stores and taking SiK
shirts and other goods by saying she “had
a man in France and@ he'd be home soon
and need them.”
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Winston Churchill
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Warns the Allies
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To Fight Leninism
British N“lli.\'l(']‘~;-»-1;A-—‘§::ll‘ Advises England to
Feed Germany and Prevent Bolshevik Union
Against League of Nations.
BY THE RIGH'I"HOI;GWINSTO’N CHURCHILL,
British Minister of War,
Of all tyrannies in history the
Bolshevik tyrany is the worst, the
most destructive, and the most de
grading. It is sheer humbug to pre
tend that it is not far worse than
German militarism. The miseries
of the Russian people under the
Bolsheviski far surpass anything
they suffered even under the Czar.
The atrocities by Lenin and Trotz
ky are incomparably more hideous
on a larger scale, and more numer
ous than any for which the Kaiser
himself is responsible.
" There is this also to be remem
bered—whatever crimes the Ger
mans have committed, and we have
not spared them in framing our in
dictment, at any rate they stuck to
their Allies. They misled them,
they exploited them, but they did
not desert or betray them. It may
have been honor among thieves,
but that is better than dishonor
among murderers,
Lenin‘and Trotzky had no sooner
seized on power than they dragged
the noble Russian nation out of the
path of honor and let loose on us
and our Allies a whole deluge of
Gierman reinforcements, which
burst on us in March and April of
last year. Every British and French
soldier killed last year was really
done to death by Lenin and Trotz
ky, not in fair war, but by the
treacherous desertion of an ally
without paraliel in the history of
the world.
There are still Russian armies in
the fleld, under Admiral Koltehalk
and General Deikeh, who have
never wavered in their faith and
loyalty to the Allied cause, and who
are fighting valiantly and by no
means unsuccessfully against that
foul combination of eriminality and
animalism which constitutes the
Bolshevik regime. We are helping
these men, within the limits which
are assigned to us, to the very best
of our ability.
Impossible to Send Army.
We are helping them with arms
and munitions, with instructors and
technical experts, who volunteered
for service. It would not be right
for us to send our armies raised on
a compulsory basis to Russia.
If Russia is to be saved it must
be by Russian manhood. But all
our hearts are with these men who
are true to the Allied cause in
their splendid struggle to restore
the honor of united Russia, and to
rebuild on a modern and democratic
basis the freedom, prosperity and
happiness of its trustful and good
hearted people.
There is a class of misguided or
degenerate people in this country
and some others, who profess to
take so lofty a view that they can
not see any difference between
what they call rival Russian fac
tions. They would have you be
lieve that it is “six of one and half
a-dozen of the other.” Their idea
of league of nations is something
which would be impartial as be
tween Bolshevism on the one hand
and civilization on the other. We
are still forced to distinguish be
tween right and wrong, loyalty and
treachery, health and disease, prog
ress and anarchy.
British Troops Attacked.
There is one part of the world in
which these distinctions which we
are bound to draw can translate
itself into action. In the north of
Russia the Bolsheviski are contin~
uously attacking the British troops
we sent there during the course of
the war against Germany in order
to draw off the pressure from the
west, and who are now cut off by
the ice from the resources of their
fellow countrymen. Here we are
in actual warfare with the repre
sentatives of a Bolshevisk govern
ment and with its army, and, what
ever views may be held by any sec
tion in the country on Russian af
fairs, we all agree that our men
who were sent there by the govern
ment have to be properly supported
and relieved from their dangerous
situation. We have no intention
whatever of deserting our lads and
of leaving them on this icy shore to
the mercy of a cruel sue.
The Prime Minister has given me
the fullest authority to take what
ever measures the grand general
staff of the army think necessary to
see that our men are relieved and
brought safely through the perils
with which they are confronted,
and so far as is physically possible
we shall take whatever measures
are required.
I am in favor of making peace
with Germany. After the war is
over, after the enemy is beaten,
after he has sued for mercy, I am
in favor of making peace with him,
Jusgt as in August, 1914, our duty
was to make war on Germany, SO
(Copyright, 1913, by the
~ Georgian Companwn)
now our duty is to make peace with
Germany.
Making peace with Germany does
not mean making friends with Ger
many.
Pesce, But Not Friendship.
Peace means—l do not say for
giveness, for after all that has hap
pened this generation can never for
give-—but peace, put at its very
lowest, means a state of affairs
where certain common interests are
recogniezd, where the beaten side,
having taken their beating and hav
ing paid their forfeit—that is a
matter which must be attended to,
and will be attended to, may have
still a chance of life, and have a
chance for the future and some
means of atonement,
I do not think we can afford to
carry on this quarrel, with all its
apparatus of hatred, indefinitely.
I do not think the structure of the
civilized world is strong enough to
stand the strain.
With Russia on our hands in a
state of utter ruin, with a greater
part of Europe on the brink of
famine, with bankruptcy, anarchy
and revolution threatening the vic
torious as well as the vanquished,
we can not afford to drive over to
the Bolshevik camp the orderly and
stable forces which now exist in
the German democracy.
All the information I receive from
military sources indicates that Ger
many is very near collapse. All my
military advisers, without excep
tion, have warned me that the most
vital step we ought to take imme
diately to securé victory is to feed
Germany, to supply Germany with
food and the raw material necessary
for them to resume their economic
life,
But the situation in Germany is
grave. The Seecialist government
of Scheidemann and Ebert and
Noske is tottering, and if it falls no
one knows what will take itg place.
Anarchy Peril to Others.
If Germany sinks into Bolshevik
anarchy she will no doubt be
skinned alive, and not only will
there be no indemnity, but we shall
ourselves be impoverished and our
trade revival will be paralyzed by
the increasing disorder and ruin of
the world.
The policy which the Prime Min
ister has consistently pursued in
Paris amid all the difficulties and
turmoil of that tower of Babel has
been clear and simple—to disarm
Germany, to feed Germany and to
make peace with Germany.
A way of atonement is open to
Germany.
By combating Bolshevism, by be
ing the bulwark against it, Ger
many may take the first step toward
ultimate reunion with the civilized
world.
Very great perils still menace us
in the world. Two mighty brawehes
of the human race—the Slavs and
the Teutons—are both plunged at
the present time in the deepest
misery. This great power which
was our foe, and the great pewer
which was our friend, are both in
the pit of ruin and despair. It is
extremely undesirable that they
should come together.
Germany is struggling against
breaking down into Bolshevism. But
if that were to happen it would pro
duce reaction which it is no exag
geration to say would reach as far
as ('hina.
March to Food and Plunder.
The Russian Bolshevik revolu
tion is changing in its character. It
has completed the anarchist de
struction of the social order in Rus
sin itself. The political, economic,
social and moral life of the people
of Russia has for the time been
utterly smashed. Famine and ter
ror are the order of the day. Only
the military structure is growing
out of the ruin. That is still weak,
but it is growing steadily stronger,
and it is assuming an aggressive
and predatory form, which French
Jacobinism assumed after the fall
of Robespierre, and before the rise
of Napoleon.
Balshevik armies are marching
on toward foed and plunder, and in
their path stand only the little,
weak states, exhausted and shat
tered by the war.
If Germany succumbs, either from
internal weakness or from actual
invasion to the Bolsheviki, Ger
many no doubt will be torn to
pieces, but where shah we be?
Where will be that league of na
tions on which so many hopes are
founded.
If that should come to pass there
will be two leagues, not one. There
will be the league of defeated na
tions and the league of victorious
nations, and the league of defeated
nations may easily be rearming
while the league of victorious na
tions is laying aside the sword and
shield.
Once again there will have been
created that terrible balance of an
tagonism which was the prelude to
the explosion of the great war five
years ago.
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Field Marshal’s Full Report Cas
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ually Mentions That Pershing’s
Army Entered Coblenz After
~ the Armistice.
American Officers Displeased.
Briton's Memory Poor, Says
One, Recalling the Famous
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Backs-to-the-Wall’ Appeal.
By JUSTIN McGRATH.
WASHINGTON, May 24.—Nothing
that has occurred since the signing
of the armistice has so tended to
excite American officers to a state
of belligerency, as the eomplete re
port of Field Marshal Douglas Haig.
Copies have just been received here.
Som of them are “fighting mad”
about it. The only mention which
Marshal Haig makes of the Ameri
can throughout the report is his
«tatement that they occupied Coblenz
after the signing of the armtistice.
He ignores the American divisions
which fought under him and which
took the lead in the final British
drive on Cambrai. Moreover, in ac
counting for the collapse of Ger
many's military power, he completely
ignores the effect of American partic
fpation in the war and the conclusive
work of Persihng's army when the
Allied arms, beaten and exhausted,
were unable to make a further stand
against the German assault.
Action by Congress Urged.
This report of Field Marshal Haig,
with its failure to say any single word
of credit for the Americans or make
any acknowledgment of the value of
America’s aid toward ending the war,
probably will result in demands in
Congress upon the War Department
for the complete record of the
achievements of American arms in
France and the complete record of
the representations made by the Al
lies to President Wilson and other of
ficials of the Government as to the
absolute helplessness of the Allies’
cause, unless America came in with
its full strength.
Senators and Representatives have
been expressing themselves for some
time, most weary of the policy by
which America was making vast con
tributions to Europeam nations, and
getting nothing in return—not even
gratitude. Members of the military
affairs committee of both the House
and Senate will, of course, get the
comment of officers of the general
staff on the Haig repomt, and resent
ment in Congress over the unappre
ciative attitude of the Allied powers
will be further inflamed.
' America lgnored.
Under the caption, “The End of the
War,” Field Marshal Haig says in his
report: 5
“If the views set out by me in the
preceding paragraphs are accepted, it
will be recognized that thg war did
not follow any unprecedented course,
znd that its end was neither sudden
nor should it have been unexpected.
“The rapid collapse of Germany's
military powers in the latter half of
1918 was the logical outcome of the
fighting of the previous two years.
It would not have taken place but
for that period of ceaseless attrition
which used up the reserves of the
German armies, while the constant
and growing pressure of the blockade
sapped with more deadly insistence
from wear to year at the strength and
resolution of the German people. It
is the great battles of 1916 and 1917
that we have to seek for the secret
of our victory in 1918,
“Doubtless, the end would have
come sooner had we been able to de~
velop the military resources of our
empire more rapidly and with a high
er degree of concentration, or had
not the defection of Russia in 1917
given our enemies a new lease of
life.
“Superior Morale.”
“So far as the military sttuation is
cocnerned, in spite of the great aeces~
sion of strength which Germany re=-
eceived as the result of the defection
of Russia, the battles of 1916 and 1917
had so far wea ed her armies that
the effort they Thade in 1918 was in
sufficient to secure victory. More
over, the effect of the battle of 1916
and 1917 was not confined to loss of
German man power. The morale ef
fects of those battles was enormous,
both in the German army and in
Germany. By their means our sol
diers established over the Germ_an
soldier a moral superiority which
they had held in an ever-increasing
degree until the end of the war, even
in the difficult days of March and
ApvilLorgign o
This was the comment made by one
of the general staff officers today on
the “reasons” set forth by Marshal
Haig for the German collapse:
“Field Marshal Haig must ha\{e a
very bad memory or else he thinks
the people of his own country .and
of America must have bad memories.
“He says that, by the battles of
1916 and 1917, the British soldiers
had established over the German sol
diers a moral superiority, and it was
because of this superiority that the
(Germans were not able to make an
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