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Show GERMANIC KINGS" UOLOJJ SWAY Americans Were Driving Up Meuse and Moselle When War Ceased. By the Associated Press. Victory and peace. After more than four years of struggling, strug-gling, the rights of mankind are served. The greatest day in the history of nations na-tions has dawned. The German militaristic militar-istic classes arrogant beyond expression expres-sion are in defeat. Kaiser and crown prince are in flight refugees in an alien country. Germanic kings and potentates no longer hold their sway. The allied arms are triumphant. Imperialistic Im-perialistic Germany has met the fate that ultimately must come to any country coun-try that seeks to rule the world. Deserted by her allies. Germany, on her knees, is accepting terms of capitulation capitu-lation which amount virtually to abject surrender. Except for actual hostile military mil-itary invasion, the once great European power, whose monarch's ambition was to dominate over all, is in complete defeat. Beaten on the field of battle, the edict of the allied chief command is that the German armies shall retire into iheir own homeland from all Invaded territory. Impotent Im-potent as the German armies shall be, as impotent also shall be the German fleet. Colonies are lost, and the hand that sougrit to reach out and attain additional territory Is withered by the ruling of the supreme war council at Versailles. Reparation and restitution, in fact full compensation of all kinds, is to be made by Germany for all the disaster that has followed her armies and those of her allies al-lies throughout the world war. The handwriting was on the wall for Germany. Her troops had fought val-ianty val-ianty throughout the more than four years of warfare. But what had been considered In Germany as an invincible army wus beaten In feats of arms by the allied powers. Even before Germany's allies deserted her, the strength of the J entente allies had become apparent. Un- prepared, they had risisteii for more thai, three years the assaults of an enemy who had been preparing for combat sinc-i the Franco-Prussian war. With a determination that could never recognize defeat, Belgium, France. Italy 'and Serbia were overrun. Hard days were experienced by the allies, but the smile of hopefulness of sa tit-fact ion in ultimate success never faded. When finally the United States was drawn into the war by Germany's continued violations viola-tions of international law and of the precepts pre-cepts of humanity, the gleam of the dawn of victory for world democracy rose in the sky. On the field of 'battle in France and Belgium the Germans were fast being defeated when they flew the white flag of submission and asked for terms of peace. Everywhere, from the Belgian coast to the Moselle river, the allies were pressing them, it was only a matter of time when their armies were to be decisively de-cisively beaten on the battlefields. Their great fortlfieil lines of resistance had cru mbled successively under the impetus of the attacks of their foes. They were being harried everywhere from pillar to post. Even the great Rhine fortifications, fortifica-tions, it was foreseen, would prove no hairier to the onward rush of the victorious vic-torious armies. Hence Germany, deserted de-serted by her allies, recognized that defeat de-feat stared her in the face, and capitulated. capitu-lated. May Prove Salvation. For Germany, as a nation shorn of her imperialistic and militaristic powers the defeat may not prove in the long run of disadvantage. Already the l evolutionists evolu-tionists throughout the country are tending tend-ing towai'd democratization which may prove the salvation of a country once controlled by war lords. Fighting on the battlefronts ended at 6 o'clock Monday morning, eastern time, in the Lnited States. The armies of the alied forces at that time even to the second were hard harrying the enemy. The British troops were fighting their foes across the Belgian frontier in Belgium. Bel-gium. The French had all but cleared the Germans from northern France. The AmerL-ans were driving northward up the Meuse and Moselle rtverp, threatening threaten-ing the enemy with capitulation by envelopment. en-velopment. The hostilities ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1 91S. The American infantrymen, infantry-men, in true sportsmanlike fashion, kept the time. Their eyes were on their wrist watches as they ad vanced up the Meuse and Moselle sectors in the fear that they would fiie a shot after the stipulated time for the cessation of hostilities arrived. ar-rived. Not one whit less exact in their sportsmanship were the American artillerymen artil-lerymen behind the lines, who awaited to the second the time for the calling off of the fighting and then loosed from their big guns a thousand of them a rain of shells as a parting salute to the defeated foo. I |