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Show H Teutons and unless the obligations of the league are the obligations Hj of air alliance the French will not be content. How can France join Hj in the general disarmament unless all the teeth of the Teuton monster j are pulled? Unless the United States and Great Britain are ready at Hi all times to protect France against German aggression France will be M ' forced to maintain a big army. Hi By the use of a few words in Article VII any hope that Ireland H may have had of being granted the liberty which will be accorded H Poland, Bohemia and Jugo-Slavia is swept away. The constitution H requires that "the states represented in the body of delegates shall be H limited to fully self-governing countries, including dominions and H colonies." H Apparently the peace treaty will establish a certain set of self- H governing countries and the League of Nations, will maintain this es- E tablished order permanently. Any country which fails to attain its H independence now will have little chance of attaining it so long as the Hj league exists. Ths suspicion flashes across our minds that President H Wilson has formulated for the world a policy which, a few years ago, H he attempted to apply to South America. Few of us will have forgot- Hj ten . excitement he created when he proclaimed it as a United M Stat Micy that revolutionary movements in South America should B be discountenanced and discouraged and that established government H should' be supported. M The League of Nations, once established, cannot listen to the M voice of the oppressed within any self governing country which is a M member of the league. The Irish question, for example, will be con- B sided internal. Similar questions, such as the Polish or Bohemian e; questions, will be settled before the league is in operation. These M countries will be given their freedom and then the door will be locked m against all other countries which happen to be designated as "domin- H ion and colonies" of the "self-governing countries" recognized by M th6 treaty of peace. H The hopes of the league lies in the establishment of justice the v world, over. But if ancient injustices are confirmed by the league how B can its founders hope that it will endure? H During the war Great Britain annexed Egypt and the peace con- H gress, we make no doubt, will recognize the annexation as valid and H will consider Egypt henceforth as a dominion of Great Britain. H LIGHT ON WAR PUZZLE. H rp HOSE of us who followed the war moves with unflagging interest H 1 early in the struggle will not be surprised to hear that the Ger- I mans regarded their drive through Belgium merely as a feint. An I American' who was shut up in Strasbourg during the entire period of ' the war declares that German officers frequently assured him that the I dash into Belgium was a feint and that the real blow was to be deliv-H deliv-H ered westward from Lorraine against Nancy as a center. Speaking Hj to a correspondent of Leslie's this American said : I "At the outbreak of hostilities the plan of the German High Com- j man was not to strike France through Belgium. The peoples of the I Allied countries have long marveled at the phenomenal and heroic re- Isistance of the tiny Belgian army of 80,000 or so men against the vast Hun hordes. I would not minimize the great achievement of the Belgians Bel-gians nor detract one single mite from the glory which is rightly 1 theirs. But I believe I am right when I say that the blow at Belgium was merely a feint. I have heard this said hundreds of times by Ger- ' man officers. "The plan of the German staff was to feint through Belgium in I order to draw the French army and the British 'contemptible' little j force as far north as possible. Meanwhile they had concentrated about about one million and a half men in Lorraine east of Nancy ready to break through and end the war at one blow. They got al- most as far as Luneville, and the Kaiser even had his white charger , and gold helmet ready for the grand entry into Nancy. But Jbffre discovered what the Germans were up to, and he struck a tremendous ( whirlwind blow in this direction before turning all his efforts against Von Kluck on the Marne. That was what saved France." ( It was the drive through Belgium which brought the Germans i close to Paris and earned for them repeated victories until they ar- rived-at the Maune. The observer was. amazed that General) Joffre kept sending heavy re-enforcements to the Lorraine regions ast of Nancy and Verdun. At that time it seemed as if the French commander com-mander were suffering from a strange obsessjon. The tyro in military mili-tary affairs kept saying to himself: "Anyone with half an eye can see that the Germans are trying to turn the French left flank by go- ing through Belgium." ' And the tyro was confirmed in his view by the fact that the Germans Ger-mans actually did smash the French and British left flank and penetrate pene-trate as far as the Marne. But now we are assured by one who assumes as-sumes to know what the German high command was planning that the French ivere clearly informed all the time concerning the German purpose. It would be interesting to ascertain how the French came by this information. One is tempted to believe that their spy system was more elaborate and more successful than is commonly assumed. In the rush and din of the first Marne battle the public, so to speak, lost sight of the pivotal battles in the Verdun and Nancy rejft' gions. Had these pivots been shattered the battle of the Marne never would have been fought. The Germans would have penetrated quickly to the heart of France and thence to Paris and the south. The combat designated as the battle of the "Grande Couronne de Nancy" was one of the mightiest and most sanguinary of the war. It was fought and won by the French under the leadership of General Castleneau. If the American in Strasbourg was correctly informed the decisive battle of the war was won before the battle of the Marne was at high tide. Usually, however, the two battles are regarded as one and are included irithin the designation "Battle of the The Marne." GOVERNOR, ATTENTION! UP to date Utah has welcomed home with celebrations not more than 500 of its returning soldiers although 25,000 went away to war. Not all of them arrived in France and fought in those final battles bat-tles which brought triumph to the cause of liberty, but many of them did. Some never will return, for they sleep in the fields of France. There are, however, hundreds and thousands of battle-scarred heroes coming back. Scores of them are wearing decorations for heroism. Shall we limit our approbation to coffee and doughnuts at the railway rail-way station or shall we do something substantial to show how much we appreciate their services in behalf of humanity, of their country, of their state, of us. There should be a general celebration either on July 4 or July 24. Probably greater numbers from all parts of the state would be drawn to the city on the latter date. It is to be a state-wide celebration to which all the inhabitants of Utah should be invited. ' Naturally Governor Bamberger is the one who should take the lead and we suggest that he prepare the way for one of the grandest celebrations in the state's history. Let him appoint the committees as soon as possible, for we need time to prepare to do justice to the occasion. With the committees in being an organization can be perfected per-fected carefully, suggestions can be sifted and the best adopted and all the details can be worked out satisfactorily. The soldiers themselvof1' will have due notice and will be ready to participate as principals in the great parade and whatever other form the celebration may take. n Vfi P P Sixty of our sailors remained in Constantinople after wedding Turkish women. Something yellow about those sailors. A contemporary, says that the highest-elevation at which wheat is found is in the Andes. It is pretty high right here in the good old U. S. A. ' Production qf salt from sea water is said to be meeting with sour? I success in Norway. ThQ ocean is trying to compete with the Great Salt Lake. ? i ' In Russia bricks made of coal dust, combined with molasses and resin are used for paving. If the Bolshevists continue in power the Russians soon will be eating the bricks. I Any vaudeville program would bo i graced by the Five American GirlB, who are singers and dancers, as well as instrumentalists. Their act is ex- T . tremely entertaining and gains a good -i iljjshare of the applause. W ' Comedy of the side-splitting variety is offered in "Behind the tfront," M . ', which ia most capably presented by the'Tinhey Players, comedians of the first order. Field'-and Wells cdtch the house with their line of smart patter pat-ter and breezy tunes, which are cleverly clev-erly put over, while Henry and Adelaide Ade-laide have a novel dancd offering . that is vastly entertaining. A now film comedy that is a riot of fun, pleasing orchestra numbers by Eddie Fltzpatrick nnd the Pantagos orchestra orches-tra top the bill. This show runs through Tuesday nigjvt, with a new bill opening Wednesday afternoon. 0 There are a lot of choice acts her alded to appear on the new bill, chief among which is "The Cannibal King," a riotdus musical feast with a lot of v girly-girlies to make things lively. Other features will be Eldridge Barlow Bar-low and Eldridge in "A Rural Deliv- j ery;" Jones & Sylvester in "The Huckster and the Actor;" June Mills and company in a frolicsome comedy; Stephens and Brunnelle in a spicy singing and talking act; the Act -w"- 'Beautiful, a presentation of animal J' posing and a new-photo comedy. |