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Show MM PEOPLE ! BUILD HOPES DN THE ARMISTiGEj They Are Also Confident of Success in Offensive in the j West, Believed to Be Impending. MOVE PREDICTED BY MAJOR MORAHT Newspapers Predict Victory in the War; Great Britain Believed to Be Weary of Struggle. LO(NE)ON", Dec. H. A generally increased in-creased confidence in. Germany, based . on the Russia armistice and other obvious factors, is shown in extracts from the latest German newspapers telegraphed from Holland. Travelers arriving m Holland from Germany are quoted as saying that the German people peo-ple arc building great hopes on a great offensive in the west, which is regarded as certainly impending. Major iloraht, a newspaper critic, predicting such a move, writes in the Tagcblatt: "Whenever Germany's supreme war lord or Field Marshal von Hindenburg promised our Austro-Hungarian allies assistance against .Russia's mighty forces it has been promptly assembled, powerful blows delivered and the .Russians .Rus-sians driven back. We really do not need to doubt that this time also deeds will follow words." The Koelnische V olkszeitung says that the only battlefield remaining is the western front, "toward which the hands of the clock of destiny rapidly are advancing." , "Our enemies also recognize this," it adds, "and are crying out for American help. No matter.' Justice is about to end the war." The M'eser Zeitung says: "Events show us distinctly, as in pictures, the path we must tread. Peaco jn the east and battle in the west until i we have achieved there the foundation of the complete quality of British and ! German positions the world over." |