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Show I TROOPS AGAIN TO GO FORWARD. No more alarming report has come out of Europe since the close of the war than the statement made bj Mar-anal Mar-anal Fayoile that unleai the allies take firm action at once, the Germans will menace all Europe, as he declares the Teutons are making military preparations prepara-tions in an underhanded manner and. -eemingly. are not disposed to meet the obligations of the Versailles treaty. Marshal Fayoile says the, German are building aeroplanes which can be converted into bombing planes and he makes this prediction: "It may he expected that In the next conflict, immediately war is dt l ired anil perhaps even before, London Lon-don and Paris will be deluged with bombs from these 'commercial' air nquadrons The Germans then frill bomb fac lories and railroads, hampering mobilization mobi-lization and trlghtening the popula tlon. The Germans are not changed by war Some day one of the Hohen I thing seems bent toward a crisis 1 "Germany always will remain the same tenacious and industrious, but cunning and pugnacious Some people peo-ple train wolves as watch dogs, but eentually they become wolves again I 'The allies should' treat Germany J exactly as a creditor treats an un I scrupulous debtor take guarantees j and hold them until the debt is paid in I "We already have one guarantee. the Rhine-land, which we will not leave -until Germany completely has 4 discharged her debt, for it is a ques It lion of life and death with us. J ' If Germany persists in refusing aft :1 er May 1, we may take further guar j antees. Our plan contemplates the jjl occupation of Frankfort and the seiz- 1 ure of state property, mines, railways 1 and customs i "The Germans falsify when they de- I clare they are economically ruined 4 Her exports are on the Increase and I even the exchange rates favor her I commercial expansion." i This forecasts a more aggressive i policy on the part of the allies. With 1 in a short time, the troops of France I and Britain will be advancing, going 1 deeper into the heart of Germany. Be 3 fore too late, the Germans, if poststble, I should begin to mane an ertort to comply com-ply with the terms of the treaty of Versailles. If they are Incapable of meeting the demands, they should be able to more clearly indicate their helplessness Up to the present, the allies have distrusted the German leaders and have refused to be satis tied with anything less than performance. |