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Show I HOW A WELL-INFORMED MAN VIEWS WAR. Analyzing the war, Henry Clews, who is thoroughly informed on the strength of the Allies and the enemy J makes this most hopeful comment: "The drift of the war is satisfactory, satisfac-tory, inasmuch that despite progress of the enemy on the map, the Allies are making still greater progress in the matter of power. This is due in part to the rapidity with which America Amer-ica is now coming into the fight, plus the growing confidence of British and French in their ability to hold fast until un-til wo arrive in adequate force. Germany's Ger-many's refusal to admit coming defeat de-feat is quite comprehensible. Though unwilling to make the admission, Prussian leaders undoubtedly know that militarism is doomed; that the superior resources of the Allies, reinforced rein-forced by the oncoming flood of American Am-erican soldiers, will ere long destroy their power for good. They are too intelligent to really believe that in their present condition of decline they can accomplish their worldwide ambitions. am-bitions. But out. of sheer desperation they prefer the chances of ruin rather than confess defeat. They are taking the gambler's chances and plunginc with the utmost, recklessness, hoping to secure all the advantages possible and do all the injury possible before the fateful peace parleys begin The greater their winnings now, the greater great-er the chance, they hope, of using thor- winnings as an offset to the Allied terms. Of course German military mili-tary leaders will not admit such contingencies; con-tingencies; and by skillfully deceiving its civilian population and buoy ing ' them up with doctored reports of great victories, dreams of Mittel-Europa etc., they have been able to keep the war going. So the cruel game is still j on for the purpose of maintaining a inminal government which has , wrought horrors and Immoralities that I 1 stagger humanity." oo |