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Show IAS TO THE TERMS OF PEACE, i When the terms of peace are being discussed, the one demand which Ger-j Ger-j many will struggle against will be the ! turning back to France of Alsace and Lorraine, j A very big percentage of the coal, ' Iron and potash,-on which Germany i has built her modern industrial insti-j insti-j tutions, lies within the boundaries of I the old French provinces-I provinces-I To force the giving up of Alsace j and Lorraine would be equivalent to I inflicting a sentence of Industrial de-i de-i cay on Germany. But Bismarck, in ! his process of bleeding France white, tore those rich areas from the defeat-' defeat-' v cd, and now, fifty years thereafter, retribution re-tribution is at hand. ' Germany will be most fortunate if the ravishes of war end at tho ceding of Alsace-Lorraine. There is a possibility possi-bility that the country will be devastated. devas-tated. Should the military heads de-, de-, cide to fight to the death, all the i Rhine valley will be wreckage before I the last gun is fired. |