Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-09-20 | Page 15 | Failures Are Not Curing Kaiser

HE SALT SAt T LAKE TELEGRAM FAILURES f AUf ARE I I N NOT T CURING L AI f fG Ga G Gambling With Reserves I He Hc Is b Trying to Hold Fast I By J J. J W. W T. T Mason U United Press Pre War Expert NEW YORK ORK Sept 20 20 Von Von Hindenburg's HInden burgs burg's stiffening of his defenses I 1 in western France coincides with a re renew renewed renewed re- re new e effort ort on the part of or Austria Austria- Hungary to secure consideration of the i Hapsburg plea for a pea peace e conference It Is evident that t at the k kaiser has ordered or oro de dered ed a fresh supply ot of manpower inthe Inthe in inthe the despairing hope that Austria- Austria Hungary may yet accomplish h the plan and Germany be able t to steal eal into a peace congress from the conquered fields of France and and B Belgium The kaiser laiser is an inveterate gambler with The crushing tan failures res of the su submarine campaign and of this years year's b bloody offensives do not seem to have cured him He lie has returned to the tables tables' for another throw RESERVES ARE RE PAWNS He lie is now gambling with his re re re- serves Instead of moving slowly backward backward backward back back- ward and conserving his manpower forthe forthe for forthe the defense of German territory and the Rhine he is trying to hold fast at any cost while whilo Hungary Austria-Hungary re repeats repeats repeats re- re peats her appeal fog foe peace It is a highly dangerous p position for the German German German Ger Ger- man army but the have become more than graspers after straws The strong opposition of the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans along the Hindenburg line during during dur dur- ing the last three days contains no no strategic value for themselves The line is doomed if the war continues continues continues con con- and only the central powers have any idea that it may not continue When the retreat to Belgium is again resumed the Germans will discover that the chief result of of r the Hun Austro garlan garian peace overture has been to beggar beggar beggar beg beg- gar still more the falling failing supply of German reserves ALLIES CAUTIOUS The Vienna statesmen are are now novi trying try try- ing inS to Intimate that If only the allies ames will enter upon a confidential discussion discus discus- lion sion of terms they will be astonished at the liberality of the central powers There is no hope of the making any kind of impression by this kind of argument The allies cannot be bo Inveigled Into a secret conference by any such camouflage The only peace terms that can make the world safe for democracy are not to be given to the world in a spirit of liberality by the Te Teutonic tonic militarists They are terms that must be forced on the mili mm- to fo de demonstrate militarism's defeat de de- de deI I feat C