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The Irish Bird. ;
‘"0;0'3 Dangerous Condi
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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
ktheir eyes.”
England, of late years, has tried
to make the 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
\.!ng all she can to pacify her people,
"ahutting out importations, to give
her people work, grabbing whatever
she can to bring wealth to her is
lands. An extremely intelligent
(American observer, a business man
of large interests just returned from
England says:’
“England 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
bor 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
Jlives would not be safe. All of Eu
‘mpe, 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
less tglephone 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 deciphering
r'strange speech from other worlds?
The Women’s International Con
ference for Perminent 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 919 world un
comfortable.
You may have millions dying of
famine in China or India. Those
regions do not read and they
stopped thinking a thousand years
ago. The people of Europe are dif
ferent.
b, ——
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
eomes 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
gnod Yankee punch in the jaw.”
Th's also is based on patriotism.
.- But the country must be run ac
cording to dull law, or it must be
run on the romantic firing squad
and “punch-on-the-jaw” basis.
Wh're vou allow the hastily or
ganized firing squad and the punch
to take the place of judge, jury,
constitution, etc., 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
.cax:ded for the punch only after
sreasonable 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 Wwashington County, near
this city, figured prominently in the cas
uwaity list, and a large percentage of their
young soldiers.lost their lives in the war,
The small town or Edmunds, cighteen
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 gold stars
The . Pagssamaquoddy tribe of Indians,
&ive miles away, furnished 29 soldiers and
¢ gold stars were recently added to their
pervice flag. but several of the tride had
enlisted in the Canadian armies and a few
in the United States navy.
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YOL. Y 1 -NO. 7.
Texan Who Killed His Wife and
Colonel Butler Gets
New Trial.
KILLINGS STIRRED STATE
Spannel Acquitted of Slaying
Wife, but Given Five Years
for Butler’s Death.
(By International News Service.)
BROWNWOOD, TP;XAS. May 24.—
The famous Spannel case, in which
Harry J. Spannel, wealthy Texan, is
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charged with the killing of his wife
and Lieutenant 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,
youth 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 ear and Spannel drove.
When several miles from the city
Spannel stopped the car and accused
Colonel Butler of wrecking his home.
Body Left in Reoad.
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
of his wife in the car.
The 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 t\ad 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 testimony 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. ;
May Be Acquitted.
The court overruled ‘the plea and
Spannel was given five years in the
penitentiary. He appealed the case,
and, pending the decision of the Court
of Appeals, was released on $5,000
hond. One of the judges of the Court
of Criminal Appeals held that the
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killed his wife and Colonel M. C. Butler as they were riding in %
an automobile near their home in Coleman County, Texas, in
1916. Mrs. Spannel was known as the most beautiful woman
in the Southwest. Spannel was acquitted of killing his wife,
but was sentenced to five years for Colonel Butler’s death. He
: appealed, and a new trial will be held at Brownwood, Texas,
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(By Internatienal 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 encounter
with a porcupine. It happened on the
Windsor estate of Mr. Crane, who took
the dog with him while he went to inspecl\
some new blue ribbon cows he had recently
bought. ‘
“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 Bishop
(By International News Service.)
KNOXVILLE, TENN., May 24—" We
must face this atmosphere of Bolshevism‘
which is fast permeating the whole world;
we must have men to meet and combat its
forces,” says the Right Reverend Bishop
T™iomas F. Gailor, of the Episcopal dio
cese of Tennessee, who 'is conducting a
campaign for a $1,000,000 endowment for
the Unijversity 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.” i
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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
river was a Red Cross hospital, packed
with German wounded, and there he was
carried. When he died, the next day, he
was buried in the little village churchyard
The wounded enemy soldiers in the hos
pital chipped together and bought the
wreath that now lies on his grave
plea of former jeopardy was = well
taken - and should have been sus
tained. The other,said the plea was
well grounded, but’ that certain facts
should have been proved at the San
Angelo trial or at a subsequent one.
Finding that a 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 acquitted. 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 I rded as one of the most
beautiaglawomen 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 Com
pany F, 104th Infantry, made his will on
two sheets of Y. M. C. A. paper, which he
mailed to his mother two days before he
was killed.
Beginning the will, Mierzyowski wrote:
“We are in such a place thag# 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 then you will get
$5,000.”
The court disallowed the will because of
technicality. The mother, Mary Mierz
yvowski, will, however, receive the insur
ance by regular payments, K
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Yanks Back From War
Best Grocery Clerks
(By International News Service.)
TOPEKA, KAN., May 24.—Soldiers back
from France make the best grocery
clerks. At least George Denton, city food
inspectors, says so, He is in a position 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 ghort of
help and couldn’'t keep the place looking
as neat as usual.
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Predigals Sent Home
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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 repliel in the affirmative
“Then they can kill the fatted calf for
you both,” said the Mayor. "The scntence
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,—1n honor of the sol
diers from overseas who fought for fthe
liberty of the world in the great war a
special thanksgiving seryice was held to
day in the old church of St Clement
Danes, Strand, under the auspiwes of ‘the
Overseas Club
The church was lent fdr the occasion
by Rev. Pennington Bilckford and the ser
vice was conducted by Bishop Frodsham,
The band of the First Australian Contin
gent supplied the musiec and the service
was most impressive, the echurch being
crowded with men from overseas, AMONg
them being a large number of Americans,
officers and men 1
ATLANTA. GA. SUNDAY, MAY 25 1919
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80,000 Letters Must Be Read
Every Day—Ton of Matter
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(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
postal system 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 handle
the delivery and collection of this vast
amount of mail requires over 100 em
ployees. 1
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 the
bureau are delivered at once. The
greater part of the mail, however,
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 process.
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 text of the letter where it
should bé Teferred and thfire 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
visiong 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
by the reader
Thousands of the letters which are
received contain remittances for in
surance premiums and for refunds on
overpayment. These remittances
come in money orders, checks and
currency, and it is necessary to take
the greatest care in order that none
of them may be lost.
When letters are received that do
not give sufficient information upon
which a reply 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 so
that they may indicate a correct for
warding address for letters which do
not belong to the bureau., More than
half @ hundred letters of this sort arve
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 IPederal postoffices,
Special units are providid to handle
registered and foreign mail. Although
the bureau uses the Government
granking privilige, its cost for post
age amounts to nearly SI,OOO 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
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" ani soon thire were a lot of
big brothers in the company
STOLE FOR “MAN IN FRANCE.” ‘
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., May 24.--Ballie
Beard explained her action in visiting sev
eral downtown stores and taking silk
shirts and other goods: by saying she “had
a man in France and' he'd be home soon
and need them.' 3 ’
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To Fight Leninism
British A\linisim'»«; \\—u_’m;\ms England to
Feed Germany and Prevent Bolshevik Union
Against League of Nations. :
BY THE RIGH';“H;N_ Wgn;;l‘;)_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 atroclties 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 remein- |
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
German 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 parallel in the history of
the world.
There are still Russian armies in
the field, under Admiral Koltchalk
and General Deiken, whe have
‘never wavered _thei \ith nd
Toyalty to the Ailied causé, and Sho
are fighting valiantly' and by ‘no’
means unsuccessfully against that
foul combination of criminality and
animalism which constitutes the
Bolshevik regime. We are helping
theése 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 fleople 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 2 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 foe,
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.
[ am in favor of making peace
with Germany. After the war is
over, after the enemy is beaten,
after he has sued for mercy, 1 am
in favor of making peace with him.
Just as in August, 1914, our duty
was to make war on Germany, so
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now our duty is to make peace with
Germany,
Making peace with Germany does
not mean making friends with Ger
many,
Perice, 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 atoenement,
I do not think we can afford to
carry on this quarrel, with all its
apparatus of hatred, indefinitely.
1 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 democrjncy.
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 10 seoure victory is to feed
‘Geérmany, to supply Germany with
faod and the raw material necessary
for them to resume their economic
life. ¥
But the sftuation in Germany is
grave. The Socialist government
of Scheidemann and Ebert and
NosKe is tottering, and if it falls no
one knows what will take its 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 bramehes
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 power
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 China.
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
sia 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 food 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 shall 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 wg@ll have been
created that terrible balance of an
tagonism which was the prelude to
the explosion of the great war five
years ago. g
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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.
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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 complete 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
ipation 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 fallure 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
ficlals 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 European 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 report, and resent
ment in Congress over the unappre
ciative attitude of the Allied powers
wili be further inflamed.
America lgnored.
Under the caption, “The Emd of the
War,” Field Marshal Haig says in his
report:
“If the views set out by me in the
preceding paragraphs are accepted, it
will be recognized that the war did
not follow any unprecedented course,
end 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 vear 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 situation is
cocnerned, in spite of the great acces
sion of strength which Germany re
ceived as the result of the defection
of Russia, the battles of 1916 and 1917
had so far weakened her armies that
the effort they made 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 German
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
April, 1918."
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 have 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 ahle to make an
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