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Show Give Germany a Taste OLThis War Bef ore Peace, Gry of Soldiers By C. C. Lyon N. C. A. Staff Correspondent With Par.hcns'a Army. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Oct 12. Germany is on her last legseind would be Rlad to quit this war tomorrow if she could do so and save her prestige. But our side won't let her quit. ' 1 Nowhere among the allies on this side of the Atlantic have I found the least inclination to be lenient with Germany, now that she is Teeling and wobbling under the sledgehammer blows of Foch, Haig and Pershing. I On the contrary, the united sentiment is to give her a knockout nunch a blow that will shatter her militarism forever: brinr about battle haa never deserted us. A never ending stream of Americana haa coma on, and at last our side haa the permanent per-manent ascendancy. After four years, our day has arrived. And tha bully begins to see It. He knows that he can't win. So now, like every bully, he wants to quit. Like the yellow, craven coward that ha la, ha Imagines Imag-ines ha can escape punishment by throwing up his hands and crying the overthrow of her Junker clans; lay waata some of her cities and towns in ravenga for tha atrocities committed by her In Belgium and Franca; and perhapa throw tha kaiser himself from the throne and put him and his whole family in some place from which they cannot again Interfere In world affalra. IT'S LIKE THIS. A British colonel, who had Just returned re-turned from a furlough In Kngland, epitomised tha situation when ha said to me: "Here's a dirty bully. For mora than I forty years he domineered over weaker nations with his vast show of military preparedness. Ha grabbed territory where he could and signed treaties expecting ex-pecting to break them when It aultad'. his ends. He preached world peace to his neighbors, but all tha time he waa building up a military machine to crush them. 'enough. WE HAVEN'T HAD ENOUGH. "Germany may think aha haa had enough, but we have not had enough!" Perhaps statesmen snd politicians don't see it, but the overwhelming sentiment sen-timent In silled countries. Including America, la for revenge, now thac the final doom of Germany Is certain, She must be given a taste of her own medicine. In no other way can tha Oerman people be made to realise the depth of their own military depravity deprav-ity and the consequences of their national na-tional attitude of trying to dominate peace-loving nations by force of arma, They must feel the horrors of war In other way. besides going without food and clothing. The war hiis not been fought on German soil, and unless un-less It Is brought home to them In sll Its hldeousneaa, they'll surely begin preparing for another and even greater war after this ona Is ended. The whole French nation applauded President Wilson's declaration In favor of a "decisive victory of arms," because be-cause In Krsncs thst Is tsken to mean only one thing tha beating of Germany. Ger-many. Therefore, we're likely to see silled troops marching through ths streets ot Berlin before pesos Is declared. nnin ne mougni ne was ruuy prepared pre-pared to whip the world, he started the war. Hla adversaries were 111 prepared to meet his blows. Naturally, Natur-ally, early aueoesses wsre on his side. And. ss he saw world domination almost al-most within his grasp, his military rxressse leaped sll bounds, snd on the slightest provocation he killed Innocent In-nocent WfMStea, children and old men, murdered wounded otdlera, rased eltlea aad towns, and earned young girls away Into while slavery. "He said God waa with him. But we knew better, stu, after four years of bUaedaheel. tkte world waa stIU un. whipped. Aad sll the time the giant bnliy kept getting weaker snd weaker, aithouaa few aaabltiua te rale Ike world waa JuM as straeuy as aver. AMERICA OMIl IN. "And then, eee day. America same late tbe war, with everything needed te whip this bully snanpewar, money, ships, food and mualllona The time came, during July, when - the bully waa almost within striking diatance of Palis, when American divisions wsre strong enough to turn tha tide of battle bat-tle agalnat the bully, and the allies sent him scurrying back toward his own borders. , "Blnce that July day, success In |