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BT ^Tm Tin' Charlotte Observer) ? j SHr hihtoriuuH will naturally t*f I 1* **h? Us****i?atlou of Archduk* ?<' 10 . the Mr apparent to the Aua u...l hi- wife, i? n litll, K"u ,?,,, .... ? memorable day iu fr* mi I ?? the cause of tin; mighty anil (to will ?? nat S*Jmtkc wf M mht*ke: U WR8 (,,r the war, not the enuae. Ewident afforded Germany an open ? ? " war that was Interrupt ?M tl . (|i ftat of the French army IH71 jr? ycurx previously? and which 'muuv'n deal re for comment aud ^ vet uusatiafied^lier war aims on fulfilled- The Imperial Gov ' v/?.of Germguy had but been fiveu *'Se of blood and throve all the euc '<%?%** Iw a^U)f WUH .b4>C?m 72 ravenous. Germany's con. 2, of unprepared France gave her Saiy aad richer. She gained and I? fn>u. the French as German aaaetK ffresounHW Province of Alsace-Lor ;5n, and In addition to that levied in llSty upon the French government in fijj of 4.851,046,078 francs, or $070, SaOOO And German trdops Were to re 3'd in military occupation of France :.7? tho last franc of, this enormoua Idemnity was paid. To the admiration j the world, the ' French people, ww# *?*?*ful in ralsiug the last of . this ki.kkI money within the reinarkabjy hort lime of two years. It was hand Jo^ to the German Government and rrtneh noil was rid df the presence of ?b,. hated German soldiery. Th$ same pliuk manifested by the French people' ? gcttivx rid of German bondage was to cotpe Into evidence in helping to rid the world Of all danger of auoth ,r exaction by German imperialism, The war which Germany precipitated ?o France in 1870 was as inexcusable .* wa* the war which she precipitated the world in 1014. There had been 4 diplomatic meeting between Napoleon 111 and Bismarck in connection with the cession of a small bit of southern Germany to France, in which Napoleon had passed a written proposal to Bis marck. Later a dinner was arranged for Bismarck and General von Moltke and at this dinner Biam6r<?k altered the note Napoleon had left with him by ilimination so as to. make it appear that the French Emperor , bad delivered a <ltadlj insult to the Imperial Givera meat of Germany* It was upon .the strength of this gartoled note that Ger many declared the war of 1870-1871 with France, and for which, after 5d7 years, -- (Jermany is being made to pay in full and with interest. Whpn the Arch duke was assassinated in 1014, Austria at pm ?? made demands updn the little. (jovernment of Serbia. All these de mands. except one and the final demand, n-cfe accepted and pressure by England, 1 France and Iiussia were about to pre- 1 Vail upon Austria., when Germany step- j wd info object, Tho demand Serbia de-j clined. was thut the assassins of the .\rchduke be tried by a. court composed of Austrian judges in .a Serbian court house Russia was inclined to take the part of Serbia, when Germany sent her warniuj,' to keep out of the affair. While Serbia was trying to get before The Ifaaue Tribunal for Adjustment: of the trouble. (lorjpany h?w her chance. She >*nt n message to France asking what France intended to do in caae- Austria (Mated war on Russia, apd got the Im* mediate answer that France would act in accordance with what seemed to be her best interest#, Without waiting to make declnration of war, Germany at ?uee ru*hed her urmiestowardthe French border, and then began the infamous ravaRiiiR of the neutral country of Bel Rium. Germany's object in smashing lier way through that country was found in later revelations of the Dlans for t a war of conquest. Germany knew that neither England ih>r Franco was prepared for warj and it was her plan to get at France by a ?|uick rush through Belgium, bring France to terms, then hurry back and uiept the Russian Army as it made its Hair Brushes, Tooth Brushes and Nail Brushes. v GOOD ASSORTMENT JUST RECEIVED. NOT CHEAP BRUSHES BUT BRUSHES GUARANTEED TO GIVE PULL-SATIS FACTION . W. Robin Zemjp's Drug Store Telephone 30. ? LOOK FOR TIRE SHORTAGE There is going to be a great shortage i* good tires very soon ? in fact there is a shortage now. Better lay in a supply aVoraew-If^u never have some rfiftson Vve yon c?^"%nd. they do not give you the 8??ompt an<l satisfactory you expect we ?an get yo aizes. . adjustment. A full stock and, all _ V?f : ?. [ ' ? -? DlSTRIBUtOR T All Giving Universal Satisfaction < way (*? the Dtrmin border. Germany j had calculated thai who could finish the : job with Kraut** within nix wet-kn. Then ttho could almoHt as quickly settle with Ku**la. Aftyr that she would have time to glv<vi attention to Rutland, and sub jugating that country, Germany would tak^ up th?' a<svuut with the United Ktute* Whipping thin country (lit: conqueM of the world might he reason ably comddered in night for the German War Government. v?- ?, It was when the big German cau: nun began roariug at the modern forts protecting the Belgian border that the world waked t?. a realisation of the fact that Getmany bad bten apendiug all thtrae years in preparation, while 6ther countries were deeping in faueled safety, with never a Muspiclon of the breaking of the storm of war. The uu decelvlug came with a force of startling suddenness in inanuer that ahnont para lysed the souse*. The Belgian Govern ment had protected lta frontier with a jiysttin of steel aud concrete forts which were supposed to the ^Impregnable". Germany, however* knew better. The Gfcrmhu War Lords , knew of them* Jflrtu and laughed at them, but they conceal ed their mirth from the outside world. The exact location of each fort WU , a*, well known In Germany aa in Bel* atum, and for its reduction the German Government bad constructed bejhind the protecting secrecy of the Krupp shops a pattern of canuon, enormous in cali ber and carrying a ahell such as hud nfever r>ecn dreamed of. The location these kuuh should be brought up to had b<^n fixed and the" ranges had been figured out wfth mathematical accuracy ? ? and on the first round these Belgian ' forts were blown up like, toadstools, y Then another thing., was revealed to the country. The German Government, la anticipation of the coming of the day When It would launch this destrpy ing uvalarfche of war upon an unsuspect ing worldi bad established lockers In the armories and arsenals wblch_dotted its Empire, and in these lockers for years had been hanging a complete uniform, with gun and equipment for each man of military age in Germany and for ev i'cry subject of the Gqrman Government living in another country. Wach : uni form bore the name of the man for whom it was intended, and all this was I in addition to the standing Army the World knew Germany maintained. " It was in this way that Germany was en abled to rush an overpowering Army to, the front almost before the country knew that a war was in progress. But later on the world was to learn^ wine thing more, of the yearfii Germany had , rnado study fdr the effective prosecu tion of a war* that was to bring, her , WorltH'ower. In the rapine and de [ struction wrought on innocent "Belgian I people and territory, the country was j given notice of the ruthlessnesK of the ! Airfare Germany had embarked on and that it need express no surprise at any new form of barbarity that should be developed, The Zeppelin was the first cngin^ .of the gi* in the German pro gram of war of destructiveness. But the world had heard of the Zeppelins aftd their appearance did not create the degree of terror man/ ^ had counted on, Gqrmany, however, was not dis-| appointed, ^for ?be had .other surprises to spring on the Natioss banded togeth er in unpreparadness..' ' <Jermany swept V>ver Belgium and across France like a mighty tidal , wave of destruction, ?rtd this sweep develop ed the new and barbarous agency of Kas. The way in front of the advanc ing' German tfroopa was cleared by the poisoning of the air so that no soldier could exist in it: The British and Bel gians and French were pushed back not by bullet or shell or bayonet, i>ut by a now and invisible agency of which t^n world had never known. Mean time. civilisation had Received u shock ( h rough" the operation" of another agency which, 1ind been occupying the diabolical ingenuity ofc, the German War Govern ment ? the submarine. The terrors of Mir ?? lOWttH within the war aone were added ,to by the appearjkucf bombing pitmen, which soou almost en tirely succeeded the Xeppclius. Ail these dovkei for the dent ruction of Hfo *u*l |ir?HM>rl v a ml nil Hie now mounter* l? the eugiueery of war were the products of over JO fear* of applicatiou to cease - leas study ou (?art of the German uiilK tury and nftval authorities. It was to be recorded that within lea* than threo years the resourceful Hritlsh and French hud come forward with Invention* which wore capable i>t overcoming the -AO-years' devotion to the military arts by Ger many hud been able to prMuce. HUH J&ttT eaute the doited State* with ma chluery of war* aguidst which the beat that Germany had been able to produce operated as hut, toyj?.v^ in the Kixtti month after the United States got into the war, (Serniauy ha<f been brought to her knee* aud the war waa over. America had sent across an Army the like of which Germany had never dreamed aud the Americana brought along with them a few surprises which Germany had not believed possible. When the Germans met the Americaus with various forms of gas. the Ameri cans gave thtan samples of a gas of a greatly superior quality ; when the Ger man* would 4ire a big gun at the Ameri cans, the artillerymen from the United States would turn loose a shell that would wipe out a regiment of German* at a timet wheu the German airplanes would undertake tb aail over the Allied lines, a larger and faster and mote deadly fprm of bombiug plane, driven by the engineering marvel of the world ? the Liberty motor ? would set out in pur suit, a"d the German stock of airplanes was, quickly reduced to the point when It* became negligable. All the German product in destructlveness and frightful* ness which she sprung on the world as the fruits of more than 40 years of inventlpu, were nullified by the invent ive genius aud resourceful new* of the Allied Nat-toffs within* "the short time of four years, i.':- 'yV'.- ^ S" Germany's well-laid plans to rnalu) fcwlft and complete <*onq))Mt of Franco and Russia and Italy and Great Brit ain were counteracted by tbe most mag 1 1 i t i? * ? ? 1 1 1 display of bravery and gallantry by the tjefending armjes of which there is any not in history; There was quick recovery from the surprise of the re sistless momentum of the German Army, and. then Paris had been almost reached, there developed the battle of the Marn$, out of which a turning back movement started for the German Afmy to a point where the Allied forces held them while whiting for help from America. This' Country had no Army to speak of. bVit it set to work to create one, and the creation, equipment And transportation o? this Army across the sea proved the mijflt brillian accomplishment in the mil itary history of all Nations. For over three years the British, Fienda^, llcl ginns nnd Italians held the Herman a north of tfe-Marne, andheld them there whi|e<3^sK)n after division was Being bronght up from the Rnssian front to streWtheil the mightiest aggregation brute force that civilised Ar(ny ever encountered. Germany hurled more than ii million fresh troops n^ainst the en trenched Allied Armies and hurled them 4n vain. Britain and her Colonies, France, Helgium and Italy, -Held firm and it was this mntchless exhibition of determination and cuirage which made the winning of the war ultimately pos sible. These allied Nations held the en wny yntil America conld oome nnd give thefiniKhing touches. up to Juno of this year, the Allied forces wore prosecuting n defensive sys tem of warfare. It was In that month1 when Pct-shing, with only a portion of his Army at hand, asked pernilHsiotf to Strike ill on what had been regarded as. the roaHy "impregnable" portion of the German line ? the salient whieh dent ed in the Allied lines at Chateau-Thierry. General FOoh wUh inclined to remon strate- against the proposition, Jj*rt Geh Wll Pershing was insisteht. ?Ie wanted ?to put the. American Idea of warfare into immediate operation, and he was filtftlEf given , permission. With the or der for liia men to advauce. the turu fug point of the war was marked. . The American troops stormed the German po sitions at Chateau-Thierry and ? drove the Germans out of their trenches into the open, where the Kaiser's men were given their first tlosc 'frf open-field fight ing. They were routed and drlvrtl back. The Americans occupied Chateau-Thierry and then something new happened in the history of the war. The Americans held ?the place. -!3Chc Greinan expecta tion was that the tTnlted States' forces would fall back to their trenches and resume whnt up to that time had been the regular routine of warfare?to again assault aqd fall back. Notwithstanding the fnct that the Americans were prac tically fiai\ked by the Germans, they held their conquered ground. And it was from this" very incident that The Observer took counsel of It self and publicly established its conten tion that the war would be brought to an end in 1818. For, out of Pershing's capture of Chateau-Thierry, there came adoption by the Allied trommanders of the new policy of a progressive offensive. The plan of holding the Germans by u continuation of the trench; tf?*tem of de fensive fighting was then and there aban doned for good. It marked the begin ning of the general offensive by the Al lied commands and relegated the -propo sition- of holding for "a $reat Spring of fensive.".' It will be remembered' that juat before Pershing's capture of thia place, word had gone forth, from general headquarters of what was to be expected when the Allied forces should begin their "great offensive in the Spring of 1019." The performances of the Americans at Chateau-Thierry changed all that and brougtft the war. to an end in the Fall of 1018, ibatead'^f i? tha Spring oflOlO. * From the day of that performance, the Germans hare been on the losing aide. They had scqred their last ad vance in the direction of Paris and the Channel porta and every step they made at any point of the line from the North Sea to the Swiss border was backward in the direction of the German frontier. It was the German defeat by the Amer ican* at ^Chateau-Thierry that decided the fate of the German Army on ty< western front. It wai the American capture of fit. Mibiel and the oblitera tion of the formidable atlient there which nealed this fate and made more sure than ever the termination of the war in wgs along abont thia time that ther first effect oaotherTriBtfier of the German Army waa developed, when Bul garia sued for peaCe and when Turkaj was whipped to a condition of helplefca ami the touadutlon of the (ierman aillitnry struHurv iu the e*?t hrnl crum ble<l Mwtt.v. 'riitu camv the Auatrlaa llunNariMit moveiaeat to drop out* am) i h?> rod of the wur1 watt practically aw uoUQCcd whan tha Rpoparor atade formal plea for ?u armistioe aud an immediate ce*?atloa uf hostilities The "MqiMKM of eventa" i? eaidly am) unmistakably traced from the grafting of pt>rmi?tdou tu t hr \m. lican gmtrti to hurl his foroaa agniuxt the cut reached Herman*. It w?h upon the active cutranoc of GrnONU I*er? thluK'x Army Wt<> the tight ins hih! the application *>f American Idea* of i<'.? ecutLiHf a buttle that The Obaerver baAed its prediction for the wladiajc up of the win itt l!MS In this content inn Tlx- Oh nerver hod but few ?up|H>rter*. and even aiM . the surrender of Austria-Hungary the rol.ee of the nooffer was to la* heard, but iu dlmiaUhiaa wdume. The story of the Oermnu war is the ?dory of the most barharous atrocities axwinst humanity in the history of wars. On land and *ea, murder and destruction w? i? tin- main' characteristics. pil lage of Helglum, tho atrocious treatment of the Women ?t?<l children, were paral J?) transgressions to the offenses against civilization 011 the seas, although the women and children involved in the aufc* marine murders escaped with the lighter fate in that the Hun* had no opportun ity to desecrate their bodies. Their saturnalia of cxce?sea uu land went the full lengths of savagery. Not only was the very laud Itself destroyed aud laid waste, hut the homes of the people wero burned or blasted and there was revelry In the very taking of human life. Hos pitals, promoted under the rolea of in teruatlan&Lwarfare, were the special ob jects of (lermau vengeance, and doctors, nurses and wounded men alike were torn to atoms hy shells and bombs deliberate* Ijr aimed for the purpose. For the very barbarity of the war there surely must be an accounting with the culprits and there -is* a reasonable expectation, that particular offenders against the rules of common humanity, from the Kaiser to the humblest satrap, are to be delivered to the Allied Powers to deal with. =? And at the same time, there ar? oth ers who were acting the part of secret enemies and whose activities involved the Allied (Jovernments Ju much un necessary trouble aud "anxiety, whbee bringing to the bar of outraged justice is to be expected. One of the items in (Jermany's long years of preparation fo* involving the Nations l?y bloody war Which we have not included in the acr count, was the placing in the United "States and other eonntrles years back of a perfected system of espionage. In America W? had one notable spy in the person of the accredited Ambassador from Germany, The crime of Von Rern storfT is one against the civil, rather than the* military Government, but he stands convicted not only as a spy but as a trait*#1. ^Justice shall tfo astray ^iluiulfl his del 1 vera nee in to ^the hatjds of the Allies by the enemy aviir* looked incident. * The murderers ' at aea ?and oil land ? the responsible agents for the deliberate destruction of human life ? may he dealt witlY'cach and "sep arately. Th? German people wo nrt> going %?b iced und clothe until the time of their rehabilitation, for , that becomes a clv ilizt tl Nation. The incidents of the rev olution which overthrew the German throne givoH token of the determination ..of the (Jerman people- to- rid themselves from the serfdom which they have en dured finder German militarism. It de velops that these people had been /le ccived until the very last by their rul ers,, and the knowledge or the manner in which they had been duped aroused them to the utmost fury and result^! in the abdication and flight of the Ilo ^tipmsollernK. /There i* to -be no penalty upon the |>opuJace of Germany other than that which will be imposed upon them by the price of the war. Their children to the fifth generation will be paying: thin debt, and the end may not be in 'sight.' Tin" matter of 'indemnities and rep aration and restoration will probably ' 8up t-emc War CToXkuoll of the Bntente Nations and the new German Government at Vcrsailleti, and in that! event might be. Keen u case of poetic historic Justice/ for it wan at Versailles that the Ger man conquerors fastened the infamc^is tcnnH upon the French Government^ Undoubtedly the .return to France of Al*dee-Lorrnine which was confiscated by the Germans, will be one of the first i iqui r<'im;ii(s. The restoration of the ruined territory in BdgHltir and France will be an exaction Germany may not hope to escape. Germany will be iuatie to return the indemnities mercilessly ex ~ acted of Belgium ; uhe must restore the loot from treasuries both public and private and she will be bound under years' of. .humiliating obligation involved in the work of reparation and restitu tion. : ? .7~~- ----- . The arrangements for armistice are but preliminary to the drafting of terms of surrender. The Allied War Council, may not get through* the winding up task before the expiration of xeveral i weeks. The conditions upon which, ar mistice has been granted afford an in telligent index to* the character the terms of surrender wiU take. livery vestige of military power will be strip ped frojn Germany apd she will be made helpless ever again to wage war, and Into tire peace compact all Nations of the earth will be made partners, to the end that the peace which Is to -.be established will endure through all ages and to the protection or all Nations. The Supreme. War Council under whose guidance ,the peace terms will he for mulated is composed of Col. B. M. House and" Major General Tasker H. Bliss for the TTnlied State* ; Premier lAnyf George fo'r England f Oenct*M?ado??a-,-|O^J>??L mier Or?ndo for Italy ; General. Ferdi nand Focty ajjrfh'l'remiav- fijemcnc#au for France, with representatives of the smaller Powers, ? ;A large Army must be maintained io^-Ge^aMiny and other Central countries for an indefinite time, but in the course of" adjustment of the military affairs 1 somrf men will he released for the rtr tarn home, and 'we Shall shortly ?ee the inbound ships -discharging* troop* ? ' Who have served, their country who are now welcomed into the peace iM|d happiness and liberty they and their comrades secured for the world, Hie homecoming of these soldier boys will "*uarit~4L day hardly less great in the his tory of this rountffvthfln was th?g^4ay which plgaalfced the defeat of Germany. j'Tjimrj'of tbene America? soldiers will mmM -? zh\Ts yj l Ureas up for Chriatmaa this year J Good Clothea look good on you and if \tfny time is best for the "bid man" or. the young- fellow to look his beat, Chriatmaa sure ia the time. Buy here and you're SURE of a FIT, ' SURE of the QUALITY, SURE of the STYLE. What we promiae, that we do! and we , ? /? ? 1 ? promise the best suit buy you ever mad*. tf .vou come early, while the stock is full and ? ? ? . . ? . ? . 0 " complete. > Baruch-Nettles Co. CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA auk for. continuance of duty in. Vrance. (That expresfrion, "In Franco," cam? from force of habit. What we Intend* efl to' way wan "in Gerihany".) For one, The Observer will , second the. re quest. It wants thetn to have the roalhicd satisfaction of u long-felt with ? =I~Tbanksgiviug Day on tV Uhine and -a Ai ar*v Christmas Day in Ber SiLLjsi .T" ' The war is over ! It is a great day #in .the history of the world when thltf 'can be said; Well may the ^people rejoice with a great rejoicing, for the world willftmow tiio more forever the scene* through which it has been piiss iug for over four yeras of apprehen sion, of agouy and of terror. Tbo last war has been fought ?nd th* Taint hu man siii'iifii'f has been offered up to militarism. ( V Th?? Aim-rknu army had roached ? to *al strength of 3,704,677 mnn wbon hos lilitirs cciisfii a word in# to official Af* ure? nt the War Department. Of. that number 2,200,000 had been ?ent to France, Italy or Ru**i?. Tb?v remain der were under arm* in rnrapx in thin wuntry.0*"^^^ DR. R.X. STEVENSON DENTIST *? Crocker Building Camden, 8. C. Undertaker# lor Colored People Telephone 41 714 W. DeK.Ib St. r The present that gives pleasure, not merely for a ? few days, but for long months and years, is the ideal gift. , * ?' " T" '-v- * Jv" ' ^S" Designs full of the beauty of art are found in glis tening profusion here Choosing i& no longer a task, but a pleasure.