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Show ALLIES PREPARED 10 GO 10 BERLIN . . FAILURE OF GERMANS TO SIGN PEACE TERMS WILL MEAN OCCUPATION. Take Treaty or Leave It, Is Position of Victorc, Who Are Prepared to March Into Hunland If Necessary to Enforce a Just Peace. London. Should the (iennan.s refuse to sign Hie peace treaty, which does nut .seem probable, according to the lutest advices received here, they can expect the allies to at once begin a march upon Iicrlin. And there will be many enthusiastic wearers of the uniform uni-form who will be glad to complete the journey they began before the collapse of the Hun fighting machine. Jt is declared that all military arrangements ar-rangements have been made for the allied armies to advance in exactly the same way as they would have done had Germany not accepted the armistice terms. According to a dispatch from Cob-lenz Cob-lenz the impression gained by American Ameri-can officers through talking with Germans Ger-mans regarding the peace terms is that many of them are bitter and sullen, but are inclined to resign themselves to accept any terms, no matter how harsh. No concrete plau of action has been suggested in the event the German Ger-man delegates at Versailles refuse to sign the treaty. American officers say the common people in the occupied area have widely wide-ly divergent views, but that as a whole they appear more or less stunned. Many of them seem crushed, but others oth-ers are showing a spirit of bravado. One American who had' circulated freely among the civilians reported that none of them expected that Germany Ger-many would accept the terms. They said they could not see how the people would be able to pay the indemnity demanded if their commerce was restricted re-stricted and all their colonies confiscated, confis-cated, and, in addition, Germany had to cede territory belonging to the mainland. main-land. IJut there is one thing the Germans can bank upon. They will either sign the peace terms or face an invasion by the allied forces, who will take charge in Germany and force a just peace should the Huns decline to accept the terms offered. |