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i' the Kaiaer q8Y be 'k ]oown as the .t1eroo·
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Ru. ' ia r. that bne-Ii tb bf Roumania i p
· ta1!.~n !,way and gi 'en t-o Austria ani!
, Bulgaria, and. th~ all , ther Balkan
States and Turkey are left .urder tBr'
, tbumb ' of Gocman. , ,who wouff!. thm
" have /h~r ' desir.!W I road down t9' th'e I
borders elf ,Egypt. d Ibdia. and haw'
, . the whole of middle Europe arid mi9,dle
Asia in. her po,\",ed Both Eutope an,d
, ' Asia. '\'I'0uld qe' cut clean in to two by tl:\e
· Germans a:nd' tbosd under, their c~~tr~l
-Austnans, Bulga.nans, · ·and . 'Itlrk~ .
In~fead of b",ing .~eaket , and ,less ab1'
to atta.ck theIr ne,g bours than · befor~ .
the Kaiser and his Generals would ljr
about twice as str ng, for they would
ha:V'e ~noth\lr hun d millions of people '
to draw up1ln for " food. for powder."

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the Ea~t are left as 1\'1ey are. Thilt is tl1l 1
i say that Germany ~s. left ~n possession
cif !he P3.l'ts of Rtssia 'that she has
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. 'f 'f01lthight ~gp a nimpur got ap?ut, and
!, app~3.I'ed In thfl pa~ers.' that , the' G~t~
. j man~ , we~e ..ready, t? mal'e!e:fce WIth
• i Great Brltam , ]1rance, ~>D Italy; on
" i l certaih terms. ' t he I inde~endence
of Belg~um w~s J to bel .'1estored;
'Alsace and LorratuEj' were to have com,;' j .plete se!f-g-overnp;1Ell'lt within the, Ger. ' man Empu1., I.
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i or a.lIIJ.0st all righ t!, for theydo:pot meet
; . the desir~ r.~f. Frane ~o r~covEjl' , "" ."~;~
, 1 i. and ~Lorrarne: . 'I1h~rem l,es t?e ..n.Wl
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; Il~S'S orl our we~rinlSS' but wliich ~il,ll
i ;lea'Ve tHe Huns in l p ssessiop Gf!all that l
t tbey waht, . but ha 'e beeIl 'buabl!l lto
i obtaID I;>y fightin g. That is to say, iaD'
[I . ~ttelllp1J\ to. win b, fraud [what tlleYI
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b~en fighting to. ob~in:. Qur bra VEl m~n
· 'have- not shed the blood . by sell and
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. Geimany may have bi~ger' armIes than
eve before to :let loose' upon us. We
kn w how the Germans have treated
the ,Russians, wlib tr\1sted ' to their
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bl)fore J:'Ieace was made. , L,ast 'week the
news came that the German soldiers
. were ' in sebasto~
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French and British fought to try'to take ,
seventy years ~\l.' the Criinean War .
. The valley where 11lll! dead soldiers lie
is now in the han ~ of a worse: enemy
to'Brit'ain than ey~ Ithe Russians rere.
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So tins is what a .. Ger,m8.n Peace
OlIensive'" 'means: We mu ~t close our
min~s to ' it abBollely.l We ' mire not
as~ , the question, " What does the East
- matter, to us? " , t Me8 matter! . It
matters so much t at, if we make,peacc
before Germany~
, beaten,. and allow .
, he~ . to keep wna , she 1.has won ,.from
Ru~sia 'and Rotim nia, \;e shall alw~Ys ,
.b av!, 'ti;» stan'd on I!>rd against a~lOtJ:1er ' '
ms we l(et m the. ' ,
kttack, wha'tever
West. . 'l'he warl Lords of: Germany 1 ,
will have 'taught the ~erman ~ople
" ' ,that ,war pays nOF as well a~ lit,lpai!l
· , them when tlley \?eat t:ancej In 1870:
I The GermaD'S will have w01 ' the war " ,!
alld they 'I"ill be ,~ble ·to ge~ r~ady for l
another wh'ich it Iwill be ' !l1uch 8&S,ier ~.
to win, because t y wiIr have ,all sorts (
pf things-food, oil, dopMi', cotton,
aild.so on-whick they haye been short
o£ nQw ,_811 well a many nUl)iOD'S D;lore
men: Ifl,we ,mak peace now with ,,1Inl
ul1bfiaten Genna , iri ten, yeG11I t~e
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: a,r em to co,ntr,adict ~ach oth~r'. 'I~ is
ltpportant.' to un~ef: tanp . thIS pomt.
! What ~e mean bS.! ' German " 'Peacel
i Offensive" IS att ~tt nipt to ,,·eaken our '
and to. se~,ai~rfl us .froI? ~ur Allies'l
by words and b~.I', cunmng loffer of

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