Life — January 24, 1918 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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Peace By HERE is no doubt of the ultimate outcome of the war. Temporary success may attend German efforts from time to time, but it is only a matter of months, say mil | experts, when the German war machine will collapse like a wind-blown house of cards. It is impossible, of course, to say where the Kaiser will meet his Waterloo. The English may have an inkling—there are masses of cavalry in waiting at certain points, ready to turn a “strategic retreat” into a rout. The French are silent, but apparently waiting for the summer climax. It seems certain that the end will come somewhere along the irregular line of trenches in France—from the North Sea to the foothills of the Jura Mountains, To Roulers—s7 miles from Waterloo—may fall the destiny of Leing, to the Kaiser, what Waterloo was to Napoleon—the end of a dream of world domination. Roulers the Objective Roulers is the “ solar plexus” of German control over the seacoast of Belgium, This is the logical goal of the British troops at Ypres. The distance between Ypres and Roulers is just 12 miles. By next summer it seems certain that artillery and infantry pressure will beat down Ger- man resistance in this sector. , With the fall of Roulers will come a vast Teutonic retreat, the surren- der of the submarine bases at Ostend and Zeebrugge, the beginning of the collapse of German power in Belgium, Critical Days at Hand As the battle line struggles forward from day to day it is interesting to know why the Allies manceuvre for positions south of Dixmude, why they fight so bitterly around Lens and prepare so craftily to drive east on Lille, and north on Rheims, It is to sweep the Germans out of Bel- gium! Once out of Belgium, Germany's cause is as lost as a penny at the ocean’s bottom. And no one knows this better than the Kaiser. The critical days are close at hand. Every American, to understand what is going on from day to day, must watch closely every move of the Allied troops. Much hinges on what is going on from day to day. The scale of activity is measured, not in miles but in fractions of a mile. Every place on the battle line means something in the history that is being made. No place is too little for vast achievements to occur. The Value of Maps In order to follow the battle lines intelligently it is necessary to have complete set of world maps. Nothing is so discouraging as to read of towns we know nothing about—have no idea of their position in relation to other towns or the battles being fought. In every home there should a map of every nation at war if we are to understand exactly what our gains mean and when peace may reasonably be expected. The world’s history is told by maps. The world’s progress is told by maps. ou must have maps to visualize the dream of the Kaiser, the object of the Allies, the progress of the Great War. 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