The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 22, 1918, Image 3
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
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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.
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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*"^^^
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Undertaker# lor Colored People
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