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OCTOBER 10, 1918 ** While there ts Life there's: Hope" VOL. 72 No. 1876 Published by LIFE PUBLIS A. Mitirr, 17 West English Offices, Roll: THe cottanse a of Bulgaria was great news, Things coming along very fast Every morning brings a new tale of victory and of continuous pounding all along the Western front. It is begin- ning again to be worth while to be alive, if only to see the Big Job done, for even people whose chosen employ- ment has been to warn us against op- are now timism, begin to admit that anything may happen now at any time. Mr. Simonds of the Tribune, who has done his full share to hinder us from being distended with premature hopes, says now that “we are on threshold of one of the greatest military events in all human history,” that Foch's aim is to do it now—compel a general Ger- man retreat from France, crush the iring armies, turn the withdrawal into rout, and break the military power of Germany this year and in the present battle. Let us therefore continue to read the papers, Bulgaria saw the writing on the wall and her crafty Ferdinand scuttled. The wisdom of the astute is no good in this war. As President Wilson said in his Liberty Loan speech, it has positive and well defined purposes which no statesman or assembly created or can alter, he common will of mankind has been substituted for the particular purposes of individual states.” To the same intent is the answer, quoted in the Globe, of American soldiers to the questionings of an American woman- professor: “We believe in God, and believe He is working ont a plan, and believe this is all a part of His plan.” Vox populi, vox Lei. UNG Thisty-fiest House, Breams Bligs.. London, COMPANY y and Treas. Street, New York Bulgaria is pro-Ally now. The Allied troops can cross that country and at- tack Turkey or Austria from its fron- That, and General Allenby’s vic- tories in Palestine, knock Germany's Zastern aspirations into a cocked hat, the proper cry for y, and bring Austria face to face prompt imitation of Bulgaria’s example, The rat of rats has left the sinking ship. The passengers must follow, and the pirate crew have their work cut out for them to keep from being sunk before winter. tier. merad with sL we shall see nd with luck, this it is a good we shall see; very much in month of October. If fighting month, there's no telling how momentous a Thanksgiving it may lead Meanwhile, what is going on is no child's pla ive big battles, all related parts of the same great conten- tion, going at once between Belgiu' and Lorraine, with Belgians, British, French, Americans and others punching the Germans all in vital spots, capturing them by thousands with their trim- mings, driving them back mile after mile, gunning them out of their im- pregnable positions, and them generally, The Germans are not yet always on the run everywhere, but already they are on the run somewhere every day. They fight hard, but they no longer fight like winners. Their bellies must be filled with the inevi- table, which is a more trying dict than the East wind. But habit is strong, and the fighting habit has been fastened on up to. “ showing” to the Germans with painstaking care, and they not’ easily detach from it. It was delightful to read of German. in Belgium being driven back by Bel gian troops. The British there anc thereabouts are all fighting like mad aad getting what they go after, The French are fighting as though it was « and they were new men, and - new men are One reads ex are new da the Athericans who fighting like veterans. traordinary stories of the quality, phys nd spiritual, of our men They seem to combine idual initiative in ical, military in France. obedience with ind a degree quite extraordinary. we only get glimmerings of the whok truth about them, but the glimmerings shine bright. sic Semper nuts! g HE President's Liberty Loan speech was splendid. It was the speech he didn’t think it worth while to make to Austria, when he rejected her sug- gestion of a secret peace discussion He said again what he has said before, that there can be no peace by bargain with the governments of the Central Empires, because “they are without and do not intend justice.” What is the good of exchanging prom- ises with professional liars? Mr. Wil son thinks it is useless, “ They observe no covenants, accept no principle but force and their own interest G many, he said, is always intimating the “terms” she will accept, and always finds the world does not want terms. “Tt wishes the final triumph of justice and fair dealing.” The novelty in the speech was what he said about the League of Nations— hat it could not be contrived while the war was still raging, but must be born of the peace arrangements and as an indispensable product and guarantee of them. Certainly there is no present prospect of its coming to birth other wise, or any sooner, There have those thought that the Allies should set it up at once, but, for one thing, the war seems to be going too fast now for that to arrange a Peace League until Foch’s honor, been who present Nobody is goir Ccomicbooks.com