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Show CommuniccUion 7 Tnnve. Just' finiPlied L-diior Tribune. ' ! t ' -Troublous readme; your. ,c .'t'Trihuno under Tunes.'; appear u , r 1 o mc R (s! date o: tne simIi "m . j.lU,11?sl, imis-' imis-' "Bi to' n mind a .-onvcr- oner short y a ue, the "'.e hl) iev;:;-h:;!;en;,e;:;: -,-.!ee,annMei ! he he u1o.il; with about 50U other . ' surrendered to tne British in lne la t e narl of Oeiober, I VIS. without re.s.Ma at PJ.U the Urn. l'saw hl,n about two after he surrendered, he riu nt lo ok like he had been iu any war, sueh as the one 1 had teen in. or 1"' s? ,,,Tnv himself up for the occasion, like so inai Gorman prisoners have done, so I at-Kti him whv he and tho other prisoners h d given themselves up without some so t of converted resistance, whereupon tame back at me as quick as a Hash ami said: "That is a secret. . , . I pressed him tor some reason and .old him that I didn't believe, thai it was yep s soldierly to give up without tie lm resistance and that I believed lie had dona something no real American would ever do. , . , "Yes." he said, "that is probably tine., vou are good fighters, but you are stupid, you don't understand; we have a purpose in this." ,, . lie then went on to inform me that Germany's only apparent mistake in the war was made when she incurred the displeasure dis-pleasure of the American people, ana tiiiit, since the yanks had gotten into the war in such a miraculously short time an din such numbers, tho only sens -lie tiling for Germany to do was lo unit and iet the Americans go home, for Gel -many never could win with them against her. lo went on and told me that the reasons why Germany didn't 1 1 u 1 1 soonor was because, she couldn't find a good place to quit; that, she had to wail for developments; that tho psychological moment mo-ment had to arrive; that by waiting Germany Ger-many had something to gain and the allies al-lies something to lose. .My informant forecast thai our senate would never ratify the peace treaty, no matter what the terms and conditions of the treaty may be, and that the recent election had conclusively confirmed his impressions in that particular, and that it would eventually even-tually be nece.isary to conclude a separate sep-arate peace with Germany, and In this separate peace, he went on to explain, Gernianv will tie America up with provisions pro-visions against, war, so that, when the next war does come, -which won't be very long, the neutrality of America will he definitely assured; and, with civil war In Italy, and the reaction that this war will necessarily bring in America, Germany will make quick -work of England and France. He said Germany knew her strength now, but she didn't know it in iSH, and that she had been selected uy Gocl to rule and govern mankind, as mankind man-kind has been , selected to rule and govern gov-ern the lower animals, and that this mission mis-sion would be slow and painful, but that Germany was capable .of the task. and. with the assistance of God, she would fulfil ful-fil Iter mission to the very letter. That this fellow was sincere there Is absolutely no question in my mind. And there ,1s no question about the sincerity of some of our senators. But these senators sen-ators and the IHeinie are wrong. There Is no question in your mind, Mr. Editor, that the Ileinie Is wrong, and there is no question in my mind that "the senators who oppose the treaty are wrong. Every soldier, T believe, who has seen service in France, wants the present treaty reconsidered and ratified. We, who fight for our country's honor, instead in-stead of staying home and boasting about "fighting to the last man" and "the last dollar," like some we know, want the treaty of peace in its present form ratified. rati-fied. If those -senators, who are so bitterly flghting the treaty and the league of nations na-tions covenant, could only have gone through a little of the misery and hardships hard-ships that I have gone through they wouldn't be long about a reconsideration and a prompt ratification. To live and sleep in mud for weeks at a time, with millions of cooties on your poor, grimy body hanging with you like grim death, with nothing but death and desolation on every hand to. cheer you tip and remind you 0f ., ,si' home, will soon eonvl lov'i -league of nations r-ovefe, 5 honest effort to put or right and proper " erid lrj J We want this treaty reservations, when , , It ever does, to internr,,1'?' our people will rise Z . lh t magnanimously hand ' they have (Tone in (;n, St,' Prd and justice to ail the same time, take t"-- interests. A,"i o! , 1 The secret or 80;u,i0n ,' Hon ot war is a smp, " ' "'thy, may he that Mr. yL ' prevention. .And win- .h,! like the soldiers, stand ,J V1' - 1 forts to bring about a nut !"' :' a,ud to panoply the. .,' or conditions that will v. i i '-' wiih any other hvnothi.i ''', permanent peace, " l.rothe.l 1 'i and tho freedom of tl e T. i pRivATv (Formerly) C comisinv u C:-,l ' nal battalion, A. E p ; . t December 0. ' ' |