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Show TWO NOTABLE MEN HOPEFUL OF END i 1 San Francisco, March 25. The German drlvo has awakened ihe west to a realization of the seriousness serious-ness of the war,, said T. P. O'Connor, O'Con-nor, noted Irish journalist and member mem-ber of the British parliament. Ho spoke before the Burllngame Country Coun-try Club. "It was especially gratifying to me to see the universal interest shown throughout the west in tht story of the battle," Mr. O'Connor said, "Gratifying also was the undisguised undis-guised anxiety of the people that the allied forces should win. "I havo not the smallest fear that the Germans will produce n decision, for a decision means the wholesalo destruction by death and surrender of a great portion, if not tho wlioln of an army, such as occurred, for instance, at Sedan. "To mo tho most hopeful fact of tho situation is that this looks llkf a last desperate gamble of the German Ger-man commandors to anticipate tho arrlnl of tho American troop3 by tho (IpbIi notion of tho Prcucli and tho British. It is a gamble which Is I costing hundreds of thousands o' I llvo.s In a nation ahead dopiosscd by tho over receding prospect of sue- I cebs, and which must oxerclso n pio-l 1 found influence on the German people. peo-ple. The kaiser and Junkcrlsm are throwing, all their stakes, on the table, ta-ble, andunless they win their loss must be decisive." |