GERMAN EMPIRE'S DOOM

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2377, 5 February 1915, Page 6

GERMAN EMPIRE'S DOOM

AN AMERICAN INDICTMENT. Washington, December 15. "Germany is domed to sure defeat. Bankrupt in statesmanship, overmatched in arms, under the moral condemnation of tho civilised world, befriended only by tho Austrian and the Turk, two backward-looking and dying nations, desperately battling against tne hosts of three Great Powers to which help and reinforcements from States, now neutral, will certainly come should the decision be long deferred, she pours out the blood of her heroic subjects and wastes her diminishing substance in a hopeless struggle that postpones, but cannot alter, mat fatal decree." Thus begins a two and a half column leader in to-day "New York Times," the most terrific arraignment of German diplomatic and, military incompetence that has yet appeared "in any American newspaper. The doom of tho German Empire, the "New York Times" thinks, may become the deliverance of the German people if' they seize and hold their own. -Hill the, Germans blindly insist on having their Waterloo, their Sedan their St. Helena, too? A million Germans have been sacrificed, a million German homes are desolate. Must other millions die and yet other millions mourn before tho people of Germany take in the court of reason and human liberty their appeal from the Imperial and military caste that rushes them to their ruin? German diplomacy and German militarism, the "Times"' says, have broken down. Germany literally forced the alliance. between England and Russia. "The terrible misjudgment of the General Staff hurled Germany headlong into the pit which incompetent diplomacy had prepared. The' Empire went to war with three great nations able to meet her with forces more than double her own." Paying tribute to the valour of the German Army, the "Times" points out that it was over-matched, and that ifc had attempted the impossible. The first rush to Paris was intended to be irresistible, it was not irresistible, it was checked, and it was repulsed. When the invaders were driven back from the' Mame to the Aisne Germany's utter defeat was registered. Even if she seize Warsaw, and by some unlooked-for turn of fortune again approach Paris Lord Kitchener's new million of trained men will be in France before the snows have melted in the Vosges, and Russia is inexhaustible. But there is an even more sinistei .portent for Germany. The world cannot, and will not, let Germany win in this war. With her dominating all Europe peace and security would vanish from the earth. A few months ago the world only dimly comprehended Germany, now it knows her thoroughly. For their own peace and safety the nations must demolish that towering structure of militarism in the centre of Europe that has become the world's danger-spot and its greatest menace." The "Times" thinks that tlie German people no longer want to fight, but they are merely obeying orders given by. Imperial and military authority. In plain words it advises them to rise in revolution to put an end to the war, which if continued will bleed her to exhaustion, drain her of her resources, and make more severe tho penalty she will incur. Upon German-Americans, the "Times" believes, there is a duty imposed, and that is to_ let Germans know the truth, which is being kept from' them, and to make them understand "the sword must go, the scabbard, too, and the shining armour."