Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-07-29 | Page 11 | Old Time Punch of Huns Lost Forever; Peace is Only Hope

THE SALT LAKE LAKE- TELEGRAM PUNCH OF I HUNS 1 LOST FOREVER FOREVER- PEACE IS ONLY Y HOPE IW B By y Wll William I lam Philip I Ip S. S Simms Imms United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE July 29 Barring the worst hard luck imaginable for the allies aWes the German Germa I armies never never again will vill be able to drive f forward with with the e punch 1 they carri carried d' d when they opened their series of 1918 drives last March Today the starting point of the fifth year of the war it seems to me meto to be m merely rely a question of time before a forced retreat to defensive positions will wl have to be carried out by the boche in the hope that it will be possible to obtain peace before the stream of arriving Americans so swells the forces of the allies that an an unconditional surrender will be forced GERMANS IN DIFFICULTY TV foreseen in the hope of bringing about secret here here that it Is an early peace are beginning to feel It is an open t they have been betrayed Opposition on becoming increasingly difficult tr to fill m is growing to the giving up of remainIng remain remain- the German field depots Boys of the Ing lag sons for cannon fodder younger German classes cannot be CONFUSION SPREADS counted in the s same me class with the A sergeant recently captured d de declares de- de clares dares drafts rafts are being filled with tl the e Americans who are daily arriving in utmost utmos Rupprecht Rupprechts s difficulty Prince such numbers as to completely nullify army is practically the only fit reI reserve re re- re- re I Germanys Germany's new crop The serve left on the west front PROTEST KILLING BOYS I crown prince It it is declared has only Documentary evidence in the hands five first class divisions left pf of the British army shows that General Gen Gen- Confusion exists behind the German I eral fears political results lines There Is indecision everywhere at home from too quickly shoving boys Manifestly 1 there Is a question of I into battle The German people who whether Germany is not now putting reluctantly consented to the participation up a colossal bluff while trying to pation in battle by these youths to hide e hopeless conditions behind a wall I I I gain the tile promised victory that was hId of Imitation steel a. a