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Show FRENCH HOPES BASED 01 11TEQ STATES Heartening Impression Is Made by Report of Colonel House to President. By International News Service. I'AKTS, Jan. 6. America's part in the war fairly monopolizes editorial discussion discus-sion in the rYench. press. A particularly heart i-'nii if? impression, haa been made here by Colonel House's report on the .u-hie ement.s of the American mission, .o Uapelle says on this subject: "V'The report of Colonel House wipes out completely the idea that President Wilson, and with him the American nation, na-tion, face with indifference the preat-neH preat-neH ;i'id d iff icul tics of the task before t la-it i. They do not underestimate t ho .strt-nth and the power of the central Kuioj ean bloc. They are not caressing the foolish iiope of heating the central po'veiH to their knees within a lew months. The military effort which is in dispensable fur victory will he made by A mcrica, no ma tter how formidable that effort must he." The Kadiealc discusses at lensth the efficacy of l he "economic army" of the allies. "We must make Germany realize," real-ize," says this newspaper, "that she will lie shut off of supply of materials. This meniK-e roj 'resents the life and cleatn in test ion of German indusi ry. t iermuny will not bo able, a fter the cessation of hostilities, lo produce rubber, cotton, or tho.se minerals her native soil cannot produce nor the lubricants heretofore imported im-ported by her from her colonies. "These ma tcrlals, without which her industries cannot exist, Germany must i't from the entente. The latter t bus command the rlcei.sive means to defeat the enemy. This is not an exaggeration. The Germans themselvos realize these facts ami manifest the k'rea test anxiety on this score. "It Is no I impossible lo practice this rcunnmir policy. President Wilson has nut hesitated to foreshadow the rupture of economic relations with Germany if that should becomo necessary, hiuI four Kndish statesmen, Ponar Utw, Sir Walter Wal-ter Uuncinian, Dr. Addison and .Sir (-M-j-d Carson, have declared with emphasis empha-sis that llit; entente must eventually inale use of its monopoly of raw materials." |