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Show uu WHAT THE GERMANS WOULD DO. No breathing spell is allowed the Germans or Austrians. The allies are hammering with tremendous power and the complete break down of the enc.ny Is In sight. No sooner is thoro a lull in Flanders Flan-ders than tho flames of conflict burst on the American front northwest of Verdun. . Then tho guns begin to roar around Valenciennes, and the FVench attack west of tho Argonne. Beaten, harassed, pursued, tho Germans Ger-mans face disaster. In the closing days of the war, they are feeling the sting of defeat in all its Intensity. , They are the beset, the hounded, the distressed. Wo wonder if, In tho great mass of humanity which, makes up the German army around Valencennes and north Into Belgium, there are remnants of , the mighty forces under Von Kluck j which came down through that region In August, 1914, singing tho songs of riumph and looking forward to being back in the Fatherland by Christmas. I If there arc survivals, how memory ' must chldo them, as thoy recall tho promise and realize the disaster which confronts them. Nearly all of them a o under tho mud of Flanders, whero pappIeB bloom in spring time. But fie living have cause to regret that 1 they, in their delusion, sought to op-1 press othor people and rob civilization of liberty and justice. Approachingho fifth Christmas of the war, the German soldiers havo nothing to look forward to that is other oth-er than depressing, except that thoy will be home once more when the bells of Cologne cathedral strike tho hour when Santa Claus enters through tho chimney. But, oh what a scene will confront Santa Claus In thoso German Ger-man homos! If tho German soldiers, on their return re-turn from the fields of their debauchery debauch-ery rould turn back tho--hands of ilie olock of Time, how quickly thy -would me t)i" boor i: o'clock mldnijrhf 1- '!.'' w r ' - Christmas, 1913, and how swiftly they would servo notice "Germany, you must not, you cannot, make wrir on a world at peace!" |