Show WARNS tARNS I Ii i I I WORLD F FACES AGES CATASTROPHE I PARIS March I 1 doubt It if America has begun to comprehend the seriousness of the appalling situation which confronts Europe and the wreck which the whole fabric of civilization civilization may be facing said Frank A. A to the Associated Press Wednesday I America w s once told there might bo be peace without victory victor he continued con con- I What we have hav Is victory without peace Production has cease ceased and unless production can an be speedily resumed ones one's imagination cannot comprehend the chaos which may ensue L I Theris There Ther is nothing to be gained by stopping tv to question who Is to blame or by finding fault with the way events have been guided The great productive machine ot of Europe must be started or the world will be confronted with wit a disaster such as no experience lS lis recorded Here in France everything everything every every- thing waits walts on the settlement of the thi question or of indemnity and the progress ot of events in Germany Each day I makes the prospect of Indemnity less l possible I SEES UTTER WRECK I have seen se-en something of the utter wreck which the central empires Inflicted inflicted In- In throughout the war zone It is complete no words can picture trulY I how complete it is That wreck however how how- ever covers only a strip from how I the channel to the German border There i is possible a wreck that will cover all Europe If 11 production Is not resume resumed the horrors of war may he be exceeded by the horrors of this after period which is neither war nor peace but a breakdown of the machinery of In the face of such appalling appalling appall appall- ing disaster every partisan consideration tion every unessential difference of opinion and every personal ambition should be instantly forgotten BOLSHEVISM RAMPANT Unless terms ot of peace can be b bs s seedily agreed upon and unless these terms are such as will permit the resumption of something approaching ap- ap normal Industrial life there Is not merely a chance there Is a strong probability of Russian Bolshevism overrunning Germany I The first essential step is fixing the terms of peace The danger from I dela delay cannot be overestimated What can America do There Is IsI certainly ono one thing that cannot be bedone bedone I done an and that is to withdraw Itself to rest in the belief that this chaos Is remote and that America can avoid playing her part in International re- re We must think in international international inter inter- I national terms as We never thought before The gigantic strength of our ourI own position will not keep us free from I the effects ot of events here There Is IsI isi I no time for narroW or provincial views s |