Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-07-20 | Page 6 | Watch the Effect

WATCH THE EFFECT. ' , 1 The reverse suffered by the kaiser's armies, whether great or small, is sure to stimulate tbe desire for peace in Germany. Ger-many. It will be taken as a sign that the militarists have been unable to fulfill ful-fill their promises and must not expect to be trusted longer. The kaiser has been pictured as playing off one faction fac-tion against another. It was said when Von Kuehlmann made his recent speech that the kai9er permitted the speech so as to test the sentiments of his subjects. Finding that, on the whole, they favored fa-vored a prosecution of an offensive campaign, he made Von Kuehlmann the scapegoat and dismissed him. Now the situation is changed and the Itaiser must seek a new orientation. Much will depend upon the temper of his people. Should they stubbornly refuse re-fuse to accept the decision on the battlefield bat-tlefield and demand still greater efforts, ef-forts, the emperor no doubt will be glad to. follow the course they indicate. But all Bigns point to a precisely opposite- disposition. Realizing that the turn of the tide has come, they probably will be eager to obtain peace by negotiations negotia-tions while the German armies are still on foreign soil. One seems to detect a change of front already. The Arbeiter .eitung or. Vienna Vi-enna is allowed to print the fact that 1,000,000 American soldiers are in France. It alludes to the subject in a roundabout way by declaring the transportation trans-portation of 1,000,000 men to be a wonderful won-derful feat of organization. In this way an Austrian admission is made that the men arc in France and the people will be left to their own conclusions. It is possible that the junkers have decided to use the presence of Americans Ameri-cans in the battle as the alibi of defeat, but so far the official reports have not even mentioned the Yankee armies. The world will watch with interest the effect of the latest developments upon German morale.