TO FIGHT IT OUT

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13819, 8 October 1918, Page 1

TO FIGHT IT OUT

WHAT GERMANY MEANS TO DO Lovat Frasear, writing in the London Daily MaJl on 15th July, sa;d: Sti-iipped oifj all tlie. well"-subtle explanaitions which are prevalent, vha political effao&ment oi" Herr voai Kuhlmsuim appears to indicate that Germany .mewus to "fight it out." The peiaoo talk wais all mooaishiiie, j and has been so always. The <>r- ; ganisation, whioii leally holds (iermamy in its >g)rip still dreaana of a "peace" imposed upon the: Allies after defeat in battle. The destinies of Gea many and of the Germaai. natioui are iv the lutncls | Off that vast, 'inhunian, but higlily 1 competent institution known as°tihe . Grea,t General Start". The Stall is a, machdne, a. kind '.of Frainkemstein monster which pursues its soulless course unceasingly. Individuals vanish, but the Great General Staff survives all vicissitudes. It is in effeati the real ruler of Gorminv today. . y .-1 The Junkers arc its willing in - stTuments, the Pan-(i»rmans are its liiglenien,, even' rhe Kai&er does not lead it, but is ruth or guided by it. He may now amd then, remeve a diiiiver from tihe; machine., but the machine itself da*agsi troth Kai«er and naition. whei-e it wishes. ■ Hindenburg or Lude«:-dorff or the ■ftther biains in thg backgro'iincl decide* the fate of Geuinan statesmen. Sometimosi they cin,c<>urac;e t-.uk of - pea,ee, but when tb> talk gets a little too definite the offending polil--/ticiiin jjs. obliterated, 'beoaiusei Geirimany's military leaders still bdlieve ■in, ,the possibility <d a military victory. ; T!foe failure of Brest-f.itosvk was yon Kuhlmamn's initial ofteince in the eyes of the miiita-y leader's. A PERTINENT QUESTION. Then, he incurred' the wraith of the Genera! Staff because, in his, speeah iv the Reiiohstag 1 on S-ith^June he asked the following! pertinent question : —• "Will .the war, according 1 to human oalculatiomi, last beyond ihia .autumn, and winter, oir beyond next year?" £r In the same)'speech ■ he declared' that: "'An absolute end can hardly be expocited through militaa^ deoiaioinfi alooiie 1." TShe mem who manned the military madiina were instantly enraiged. They had been, gpllingl tiie German nationi with ston-ies of the comingi capture of Paa"is, of the. abject - submission of the French, and of the prospect, of the remnants of the. British Array floating home orn iaits. ,Tiue people' of Berlin., whosei rations havo again j been reduced, and who have* now been invited to walk barefr-ct, received Yon KuhlmaiKi'si 'initiiT.aitions | with positive dismay. Ludt-ndorff aud his associates evidently insisted on his instant dismissal. Yon Kuhlniaam therefom vanishes to the Alps or to Ba.varia for a. time, and Admiral voni Hiiitze,, an eager tool of the General Staff and Uj© Pan-Garmans, is to vieside over the Foreign Office m his s.tead. The Ohiaaocellor, Count Her Ming, has con- ! trived to remiain in office, amd on, Friday he said ilr'ngs aibout Belgium which have set many foolish people in this ooun.Uy * twittering •with excitement. It cannot be too clearly understood thu.l nothing said by Count Herblrng has a,ny r^al im-poa-tance. Hq is a mere figurehead, and pooa and unconvincing at that. It is a matter t>f very little, moment to us whether Voni Kuhlmaiin or Vom Hintze directs German foreign, pofioy, for both seek the same end, whioh is the triumph and th© " aggraindisement of Prussiaonism. The one thing; that matters to us is that the: Great General Malt" is stili on top and will never let go. It wants a decisive and final victory over the Allies to justify the sacrifices of the liasifc four yieaa's, and ib thiailks it oani get it.. It ,will fiiglht and it will 1 foaxe Germany'to fight, 'intil it wins: or until it is thoroughly beaten. No ome has setein tihiis more clearly than President Wilson, is was shown by his declaration a,t Mount. Vernon thaib oui" first aim must be "the destnictiom of ' every arbitrary ■ pwvea*" which oa,n 'of its single ohoidei disturb the peace of the world." ' >„.:. ■-■■_■-•