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Show FALSE HOPES. Herman discontent with the military situation on the western Iront has been admitted by Count von Hertling, the imperial chaneel'ior. but he rleelares it is not justified. We doubt if he will be able to ealm the public mind, after admitting that the situation is very grave, by pointing to the peace treaties with Kussia and Kumania, both of which will be abrogated when the sword drops from the hand of the Hun. Tlie German people know that Kussia hns been humiliated because of the treaolierv of the BolshcviUi. and the' nl.-o know that Rumania was forced to make peace when her great ally fell into the hands of the anarchists who stabbed her in the back at Brest-Litovsk. But they also know that on the western front their armies are faced by French, Knglish and American soldiers, who have already proved their superiority in generalship and fighting ability. So it is not probable Count von Hertling will be able to allay their fears or inspire in-spire them with any great amount of confidence in the outcome of the war. t is easy enough to tell the Germans to keep on fighting and that Providence will save the empire. But Providence, a.-fording to the Napoleonic theory, always al-ways fights on the side of the heaviest battalions, which means victory for the 1'nited States and the entente nations. The; Russian folly was a great blow to thr -allies and a distinct help to the central powers, but it has been more than offset by the entrance of America into the war, and the German people are too intelligent not to know it, now that the First army under General Pershing Per-shing has shown what it can do by driving the Huus out of the St. Mihiel salient. The Germans may fight on, hut they will not be fooled into the be-jief be-jief that they can win. The Cologne Gazette show3 the great- est anxiety over future developments, and gives General Foch full credit for the successes already achieved. This influential German paper concedes allied al-lied superiority in men and material bv saying: "ffe have already pointed out the enviable secrecy ol ic:ed in the manufacture of ai-nored tanks and the I training of their crews, which now number, num-ber, not thousands, but tens of thousands. thou-sands. To thee must be added the increase in-crease in the number or gun?, mine ; throwers, flame projectors, machine j guns, gas and fog ammunition and air- ' planes of all kinds. German industry j is unable to accomplish this in similar quantities. ' ' The admissions made by the Cologne journal will havo vastly more influence upon the public mind than the address of the imperial chancellor, for thev confirm con-firm what tho German people have long j suspected. Jn the face of such out-s out-s oken declarations, why should Yon "Hertling endeavor to raise false hopes lrgarding the future? Surely ho does not believe the nations now battling against autocracy will consent to peace without victory after reading the reply of President Wilson- to the Austrian proposal, for that would be very foolish. fool-ish. From the kaiser down to the hum-bicst hum-bicst private, the German army knows that it is beaten, the statesmen know it and the newspapers are boldly proclaiming proclaim-ing it, so it is worse than useless for Von Hertling, the reii hstog leaders and the military chieftains to make anv further fur-ther attempts to disguise the fact. Let them hold out if they arc noj, vet satisfied. satis-fied. There are millions of people in this country who hope the war will continue con-tinue until Germany' iM invaded and its territory devastated in return for the havoc wrought by the Huns in Bel-' 'iuni pnd northern Frame, j |