Show Germanys Germany's One Olle Hope HopeD HopeB HopeB B D UT U one hope remains to the Huns Although fully conscious today that military y victor victory is impossible they st still ll hope by hy m menus magus us of their own o cunning to so 60 I fool the people of allied nations that the latter will relinquish relinquish ro- ro re re- linquish at the tine peace table what the they have so dearly won von on the battlefield Certain elements clements in all the allied countries today are aro ready for a n. peace that would mean m a tremendous victory for Germany These clements elements ele cle- dc- dc ments meats are arc now note in iii the minority But should the they as asin asin asis in is Russia Russin gain the upper tipper hand Germany would certainly certain certain- ly be the tho winner in this war These elements arc are repeating the made German-made I phrase H peace peace without indemnities or annexations It was wao one of the phrases repeated by Germans and osten ostensibly os- os ten ibl approved b by the o that induced the Russian soldiers to lay n ay down their arms Then Germany exacted lark large e indemnities from Russia and nel annexed thousands of f square miles of Russian ten ten- territory tory ha would be he the meaning of a peace without annexations an annexations annexations an- an or indemnities 7 First the tho ruin of France And it was primarily to accomplish the tho ruin ruin of France th that t Germany e nany s started the wa war It Jt would mean the rum ruin ot or 11 trance e I because has lias many I hundreds of millions of dollars' dollars worth of loot from the occupied territories and has destroyed what she could not carry a away secondly because the war has hns been much less costly to Germany than to France Germany German having b been full fully prepared while hc her r victim was not So great an m advantage did Germany gain by her preparedness prepared prepared- ness thai lint to date the war Avar has cost the l French rench more for each carh man woman and child than it has cost the Germans This difference in war expense were it to I stand says Andre t the he great French economist economist economist mist and statistician would alone suffice to accomplish accomplish accomplish the irretrievable ahle irretrievable ruin rain of or l France lanee Pea Peace o without annexations would mean that France would would be robbed permanently of Lorraine Alsace and that Germany would bo he permitted to retain control over colonies which she sho has horribly misruled But it would oula not mean that Germany could not practically annex Hungary Austria n lJ Bulgaria arin and Turkey which she has hag made oracle her vassals Controlling countries she would obtain direction of or all their military forces totalling totalling total total- ling thirty million men With such an army she could eventually conquer the world A German peace drive is at hand The Huns arc are about to make n a most seductive o offer to their worn war enemies Their terms will Avill appear reasonable to the thoughtless s. s But Bitt they will Avill nevertheless be he German terms If they are accepted the militarists who ho started this war Avar will Avill be able ahle to say that they have a accomplished what they set ct out to accomplish A worse orse calamity could not befall the tho world Pa J a |