Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 2, 1918, Winnipeg, Manitoba Second Section 11 to 20 help the s. A. It helps others wednesday october 2, 1918. Man Llola. He. . A Edison general 5iar of Branch ibs a11 Clay or n kl11 2113 malls Bitil Dinar . So j. No. Vij guv. 502 Fulwood . Pc. Genera Psi office. For through Fri us 5u-e Inland a of Trade Liberty of re Equality of civil rights oct. 2. 191s of secession. J satisfaction it will he noted he armistice concluded by the Riih Bulgaria is in no formal a treaty of peace. U is u t convention embodying the i non the Bulgari to he Superior forces the a tragic Alliance. These pm Stich matters As concern dispositions by Means j Tuich the Victory of the Allied i he turned to the Best no a it in the prosecution o the War i a Turkey and the Central pm in the political sense the status and extent of bul 35 a Balkan state will he deed at the final peace Confer to allies have wisely 4 to divert their energies from a task in his crucial period u struggle by entering into cts discussions with Bulgaria e terms in which numerous would inevitably be afford o pro German propaganda in of a negotiated peace. Decision has also apparently Aken to leave the Fate of King to be decided by internal Feinas and the will of the nation x was instrumental in hand Over bound to the service of 2235 and Austria. If the pos Eoa sequences to Ferdinand of ctr arse of action can already be Een by the allies this would Arto be a Wise course of action steals the Allied governments Fern ring any odium among the to Peoples by meting out Rosiad the punishment which he so richly deserved. That they a is perfectly justified in de big abdication is Cert May by Wiser to leave of Ever Fate i deceived unit item subjects May desire i in it would seem probable i take shelter from their with his prussian fellow finals and perhaps May abdicate j Eail o waiting for the formal j Araion of repudiation by his pee. Is consequences of the action of action to which it was by dire Likely of great importance in tie j u a phere As will As in their i on to the prosecution the the allies. The Pau Gers both in Austria and in Ger-1 7. Must shoulder the res Nonsie r Tor the inception and the sub Obj Mure of he German at it to dominate the Balkans. The of the wily and autocratic Isaad will permit the better i i agents of his people to come again to the surface. The j o. Democracy will rapidly be j n ascendant in the Balkan pen i be and will extend its influence i the hidden channels of d connection to the oppressed is of the dual monarchy. Germany there has been Siirid of reaction the political ii cation of the bulgarian sur the agitation for cons Titu reforms which has Long been klined can Ino longer be dire Laj by the militarists. The Point in onion into revolutionary a of the progressive elements German population is not far in it is therefore the part of the autocrats to satisfy of their demands and there is Law thut that course is about i condition natural to the situation in Germany but certain to be reversed As 5 As the immediate peril to the at authority has been sur lies a read danger to the cause if the spurious and reforms which May instituted in Germany Are j5 excuse for the claim that German masses have been de the pacifist movement Ountrk-5 May derive con impetus from them. It therefore be realized before whatever action of a is character the prussian r 5ts May take now they can h just so soon As they Are he emuarrai5ments which of their military plans the Only Security that Tenso critic institutions arc set up in Germany will n the Hohenzollern and their immediate following of All political Power. That is not yet in sight and can actually result from nothing but a revolution or the collapse of the military machine by Means of which the prussian junkers will certainly repress any open demonstrations of dissatisfaction with their regime. The prussians Are not yet beaten. And the danger is lest the detection of Bulgaria should inadvertently open up the path to a negotiated peace. Prussia ism will not be destroyed until its representatives Are Defeated and politically and that end can Only be attained by the Pursuit of the military Advant Ages which the defection of Bulgaria brings to the allies. It cannot be permitted to be exploited by the advocates of a mistaken and senti mental pacifism. Action avs proposed. The Federal government also was alive to the1 needs of the situation and the Hon. Arthur Meighen and the Hon. A. L. Silton made personal investigation of the facts visiting Washington Lor this purpose. The circumstances j which the enquiry revealed appear j to have been such that the Canadian authorities could not withhold their consent. The St. Lawrence Power company it seems is a subsidiary the aluminium company of America which is being urged by the United states government to produce to the j utmost limit of its capacity for War purposes frazil ice troubles in the South Sault Channel from which its Power is derived caused a decrease j of pounds in its output j during tie months of january february and March. The purpose of the proposed Weir is to Allenby at armageddon t1ik for Victory. The following reference to the fourth Liberty loan by the new York Tribune can be easily adapted to cover As Well the conditions under which the coming Victory loan in Canada is to be floated the great prospectus. fourth Liberty loan will he six rite of interest and Date of Security All have and Are an. Purpose for the proceeds ii be expended Victory. Never was there a More simple Cia Prospe Cuin. Are Somas that Over one Hun i eur Rii illion free people. Are about million families. Divico thirty million into six billion. The Tiro lust is . That mean. An average of per family for the Liberty loan. Have Sot it ready Are set tins it ready then let Stop something Start something something Tel something tiie greatest sum that Ever eci at one time since Money was invented must pledged in Twenty one Days. Victory is i Iai mess that cannot the amour a it is hoped to raise in approximates closely to that which tiie United states government has fixed As its goal ii anything the per capita demand in Canada will be a . It is time i or every citizen to begin to j prepare to meet that demand which will be made non him within a month. Prevent the formation of frazil ice and so permit of a maximum output. I the matter also gathered greater urgency from the fact that if the Structure is to be available for the coming Winter it must be commenced not later september 15. With these considerations in mind continued opposition to the issuance of a permit on any. Terms could hardly be contemplated and the conditions finally imposed would j appear to provide the safeguards sought by the Canadian represent in the history of the lives. When the Lime comes for the Ninnem of. General and the removal of the Structure there j armageddon will be associated with ginning to emerge. Turkey is Al ready credited with the desire to Fol Low Bulgaria s Vicau. And. In View of the situation in Palestine there May be much ground for the Rumor. Gen eral Allenby Lias already followed up the recent Victory Over the turkish armies by the capture of Damascus and French cavalry have reached Beyrouth to the North Weet of Damas Cus on Che sea coast. The ability of Turkey to continue fighting once the terms of the military convention with Bulgaria have been enforced is More than doubtful. If there is no formal attempt to secure a separate peace it can be accounted for Only by the breakdown of organized government in Turkey and the substitution for it of Independent military commands in Anatolia and Armenia. Such isolated guerilla warfare com have no Prospect of withstanding successfully coordinated operatic As of generals Marshall and aliens. Will he no. Of War necessities the crushing det eat by British irn Perial troops of the third and and take Tiberias the Plain of armageddon extends out to acre on the sea coast on it the turks massed an army of close upon 100.000 men to resist the Acle Nuu of the British. Thanks to general Allen i in i i m an the attitude it. The Canadian turkish . Andyne in anal by k Brilliant an rate Sand the a commission of conservation in i the the democratic allies of a nation Jand other instances of like character which. Whatever its crimes in Armenia i affords every possible Subaru Nice i a 3, Turkey cannot be de Nied the character of possessing Gen that any attempt to continue the nine courage and much ability in privilege thus granted will have no Wal fare the Field of his Boully conceive cd to throw i his cavalry into tie rear of then Emy a positions the military Pover of Turkey has been broken probably Prospect of Success. Of armageddon one of 11 lie most ancient and famous in re corded history has witnessed the i clash of israelite philistines of i Gideo nites and on it the and Tia romans won not Able victories and the met and Defeated the last important Cam it was Only a. Week ago that old ii Ais of the crusaders. Here also on Kirtling assured the turks were defeat by Napolz notes and comment Eon though h his Victory Cost him so dearly that he retired to acre and front cannot be and already i abandoned his dreams of Eastern con tha.1 the Iron Wall of the Western the Iron holes. Has been shot full of i it Lay on the easiest and most frequented of the ancient highways Between East and West and was the 1 natural grappling ground of the races the Are Lufi i sins ii the supremacy the Cen recovery. Since the Battle of armas Eddon tre of the then world. In com Mosul. The British and their Arab allies have rounded up Many thousands of turks left in the air by the disorganization of their communications. The Hedjan railway has been captured from Amman northwards the British Havo taken the ancient and once pow Erful City of Damascus and the French cavalry co-operating1 with them have entered the seaport of Beyrouth. Practically the whole of the holy land Lias been recovered from the grasp of the turks Anil there is an excellent Prospect that the new crusaders will ultimately link their operations with those of the British under Genera in Che valleys of the to Paris and Knish rates by an Advance to Aleppo a Only. The permit by the Imer join f on Mission the body which exerciser in i diction Over the International Waterways of the United states and Canada to the St. Lawrence Power company for the construction of a Weir in the St. Lawrence Channel on the Routh Sault. Must be regarded As one of the measures which can be Justi a lied Only by the exigencies of the War. The application though entered the name of a private company was endorsed by the United states gov As to the government s War of fort. In the circumstances the t Jiulian authorities could hardly persist in opposition and must be credited with hav ing secured the fullest possible Protection to Canadian rights by the condition imposed which that Structure shall be removed j after five years or at the Termina a of the War. If the War should j continue beyond that Date. Among the most valuable performed by the Canadian Sion of conservation has been its opposition to. Schemes such As this j would be if it were not linked up i with War Effort. H Nas been the constant Endeavor of that body to impress the. Public mind with the fact that there will be. Within a very few years a demand for every horse Power that can to developed on the St. Lawrence River to which Canada is entitled for use on the j Canadian Side. The attitude of the commission with respect to Power development on the St. Lawrence was enunciated by the chairman. Sir Clifford Sifton in his annual address to the commission during november of last year when he dwelt with unmistakable emphasis on the Short sightedness of a policy which would permit the creation vested interests on the other Side of the line. Sir Clifford said Verv Large for tie the Fitall implicate the position with re of sch to make his enemies smile. Where could Wiik find better humor than in j the official report o the turkish War office the Oliver Day which referred to the Pale Atim Retreat in these words. Our movement continued yesterday in conformity with our j plans. The English follow us Only by the explanation j is May be that Turkl a report w h i c h driven is in Little better Case than Cambrai. On the front Between these two buttresses of the old Hindenburg line the British. Australian and american troops have maintained such Progress As to make absolutely in of the Speed with the Anglo belgian troops have a wedge into the North porn of the German lines with reasons Why. It is not practicable until Germany and Austria have been completely. Defeated. Harrison in the september Fortig Tiv just consider the manifold prob lems to be settled before it league of nations can1 be reduced from a Cor Muht to a treaty of peace. Cd which Are real nations the vast russian and chinese empires have been broken up we know not yet what states May be formed out of their fragments. The Balkan races Are still in a condition 01 chaos. Bei of film and Roumania Are Mere Boncil slaves of the German conqueror. The habsburg1 Empire is in Manifest Dis solution and we Trust that the Turk ish Empire is no t More stable. In Surope in Asia in Africa. New nationalities Are Strugor lamp into Biruli. How can we construct a league of nations until we know which How Many How solid arc the nations to be our partners even our judges there Are now a dozen races claim ing to be nations. U when we know which Are the substantive nations in the league How Are we to apportion the respective weight of each tie respective of the e British Empire and Belgium or Serbia then come the two crucial ques Tion a which if unsolved reduce the whole thing to a pious wish. 3 is die league to have coercive Power .4 Are our enemies to be members of the league to these key prob lems the most diverse answers have been offered and few or. Either Side seem to grasp the tremendous import of both questions. The Peers who have incl the debate seem agreed that the league must have coercive lord Grey puts it bluntly in. Pin in words "economic., military and naval Force 1 indeed All reasonable opinions agree thai unless the league can enforce its decisions it is Mere scrap of paper Hague conventions Over gone to limbo with the i g frnperia.1 founder that ill fated l. Dream. But Ali Eleiter minds now. See Jev Taole the continuation. Of the Ger j that if the league is to have All this Man Retreat to the hew line of de j farce it is simply to do what we and which must Ever keep ready its whole a Tyi tical instance of German hypo Crisy is tiie claim nov put Forward by he German Ermenc that it Only. Of Clit a use asphyxiating after Power three the a Rench. On March 1. I to. Had i his employed tie m. The French ail English Only made use of asphyxiating gases Long after the e Clear fans had been using it in flan i Ders. In he Spring of 1s1d. A Short time before the Pei Iod where they j took i germans the allies of using gases. As of warfare was unknown to tiie army no oni understood the German communique which formulated that accusation. It became civic Sujit Teter that the germans Havi Rij recourse to one of to Seiv favorite proceedings tried to j justify their methods in Advance by lying. The fourteen conditions precedent to peace Laid Down last january by president under which he labors in four Clave the belgians and British under general Pumer advanced their lines to the outskirts of rotifers the All of which is momentarily expected and to within two Miles of Ilenin the Point of their wedge resting across he Road connecting the two towns. The base of the wedge extends from Dix Mude to the River Lys. South of tyres. Within Are included All the ridges under which the St. Quentin canal Tunnel extends for u distance of some four Miles. This portion of the front. Approximately in tic Centre of the Cambrai St. Quentin line would naturally receive the. Point of the Allied but in addition it provided a Bridge Over the canal bed elsewhere prevented the i paid and area t or Possession of which both sides. Have sacrificed so Many lives. In its strategical aspect the British j was belgian operation opens out far i reaching possibilities. On the one and the guns which follow upon the Heel of an infantry Advance. Tills four mile stretch from. Bellicourt in the South to be Cate let in the North held in great strength by tie enemy who took j Ull advantage options open of navigation upon hand lie Bruges Ostend and Zee lir Gpe. Already dominated by the guns of the Allied fleets whose Range j enables them to co operate with the land batteries in the coastal on the other hand lie Lille tour j coing and Roubaix important Manu the cover afforded by the dry canal Tunnel to conserve his forces Ancl to harass t he attackers. The Allied troops Are now some distance to the East of this formidable position which was cleaned up the capture by of the Wilson in an address to Congress to which Many references Are being made these clays in rela Tion to the austrian peace Sugges Nuiya be thus covenants of peace Freedom the establishment of equal Trade conditions among nations consenting to the peace reduction of armament impartial adjustment of colonial claims the evacuation of Al russian Terri tory and the erection of Russia into a free nation the evacuation and restoration of Belgium the surrender of All French territory and the wrong of Alsace Lorraine to be righted re adjustment of the frontiers of Italy the Peoples of Austria Hungary to be give Jilie freest Opportunity of autonomous development. Rumania Serbia and Montenegro to be evacuated and restored nationalities under turkish Rule to be assured Security of life and in an Intoc be erected j factoring Toi owns railway centres vergies three and a. Half Miles beyond the canal and nearly As much of the greatest value to the enc my. To uie eastward of St Quentin itself outflank that City on the North just As the French at Urvil lers outflank it on the South. Progress in the Argonne the Vesie Aisne sector and on the Champagne front record of the French is in every respect Sim Ilar to thut of their allies in tiie West and North. The enemy is. Being forced in spite of the strenuous de them is being thrust the which is Courtrair which passes tiie lateral connecting two districts Between them is Bein Allied wedge the Point of but seven Miles from through Railroad simultaneously flanked by the Allied j Advance. The line further to the South from arme Tieres to la basset1 May be regarded As lost to the enemy it is outflanked on both sides by offensives towards Courtrair Ami j Douai i tie a route. Collective Force economic military and will Only make world War a permanent potential institution. There Are still endless dilemmas to be solved. Co what is to supersede the battered Law of nations g what Are to be the new rules As submarines As to air ships and cannot be held without j Fence which he has made to abandon of encirclement becoming St. Goblin and the Chemin Des Dames. The French hold the key to Retreat must continue pendent polish state to with Access to the sea a general association of nations to be a tees of in the adjoining sector the British forces Are pushing Forward their lines North and South of which is of no further military value to the germans except As it affords cover for machine gunners aids them in their delaying rearguard action. The City is doubtless strewn with Bidden mines ready to destroy the procedure of the l. Afford Mittia guar Independence and territorial in Teg Rity. British conditioned by these facts refer to Advance round the than through it. The Roart pm Ming Nom Cambrai to Doua no Pruittt Iii upon fair terms. attempt was made some years ago to secure the privilege of developing Long Sault Power the Pur pose being to Export the greater por Tion of the Power in the interest of a manufacturing concern in the United states and the opposition of the commission contributed a Little to the final defeat of the project. In the present from the Golden books to Walt Whitman in America i us in Liureri .1. Make us too music to be with us a word from a world s heart warm to sail the dark As a sea with us i Uli sailed. Out singing the storm a song to put tire in our ears whose burning shall Burn up tears whose sign bid Battle Reform s note in the ranks of a. Clarion ;