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Show -S- A-BIood-SoakecLEaw It is not strange that the people' of the allied countries, in-eluding in-eluding America, should unanimously indorse President Wilson's 5 reply to the Prussian peace proposal, especially in. view of the wan-i$ wan-i$ ton destruction now being visited upon French cities by the Muns : c as they are forced to evacuate, one after another, the various im-c im-c portant centers which they have held within their grasp for more ) than four years. 5 The Beast of Berlin, realizing defeat is certaiu, now is holding out a blood-soaked paw and is asking for an "minorablc" peace, O while in the other paw he holds an incendiary torch, with which he ; is reducing to ruins everything his band of murderers and thieves ; V cannot carry away. , V , Thus far the Hun hordes have not been deterred by the warn- ing issued by France to Germany and her allies that devastation V of territory from which they retreat "will be punished inexorably." The warning declares the German people, who share in the crimes, will bear the consequences with the aulhors,. and that those who i order the devastation will be held responsible "morally, penally J- and pecuniarily." With their usual cunning, the Huns now are claiming that certain towns were destroyed by fir caused by exploding shells - . from enemy guns, but the falsity of thi$ claim is proved by the discovery by victorious allied soldiers of fire bombs, timed to explode ex-plode soon after the completion of the evacuation by Germans, v That the Huns planned a systematic devastation of the country ,rv as they were, forced to retreat is shown by the following extract : from an editorial in the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger. Kr "The allies knew quite well that all Belgium would be burned Into a desert before the Union Jack could fly on Cplognc cathedral. Ariel if they water their horses in the Rhine there will not be one ttone left upon another in any Belgian town. All Belgian industries ' ' will be destroyed and the mines wilt be made useless, forests and ij fields will be condemned for half a centurv to unfruitfulness by the w steel rain from millions of shells. All those entrancing sermons in stone -Ghent, palace of justice at Brussels and the Rathaus at Antwerp would be turned Into ruins by English guns." r ' Any peace move by the beastly Hun is but an effort tq camouflage the hideous claws with which he is devastating France and Belgium and which he hopes to use upon all who do not! accept his rule. |
