seemed spiritless. Russia had
already broken their power.

Beneath a fearful fire from the Liege forts the Allies' armies poured
across the Ourthe, climbed like cats on to the 200 foot ridge to the
east of Liege; and within ten days all supplies for the German armies in
Belgium were cut off!

On the second day of September, the main German armies in Belgium, that
had held the line at the Lys, retired to their second line of defence at
the Dendre, but almost before they could deploy the British were upon
them and they unconditionally surrendered.

Thousands had fled to the Meuse, where the relentless French shells
plowed passages through their ranks. Thousands had rushed, demoralised,
northward, to be rounded up like wild cattle by the Dutch troops at the
border line.

Then the British armies marched through Brussels and across the
battle-blackened country easterly through Louvain; and at Liege joined
hands with the armies from the south, as news came of the surrender of
the German armies of the east.

The armies of Russia and Italy had been closing in on Vienna from the
north and south.

Germany having no desire to get upon its own soil the awful devastation
it had bestowed upon Belgium and France, through President Wilson, of
the United States of America, asked the Allies for the terms of peace.

Then ensued a rather interesting situation.

The United States had not acted through the war with any admiration from
the Allies.

Even when the German submarines had sunk the "Lusitania" and drowned
over 1000 Americans, President Wilson did not take any action beyond
practically asking Germany to frame any "old excuse." He was a man of
peace. He seemed to have forgotten that the foundations of the U.S.A.
were carved with a sword, and that Jefferson's first draft of the
Declaration of Independence was militant and resistant. "For the support
of this declaration," he wrote, "we mutually pledge our lives, our
fortunes and our sacred honor."

President Wilson had previously informed the Allies that he was "too
proud to fight," so when the message requesting the terms of peace came
through Wilson, the Allies received it in a cold and formal fashion.

There are some phrases in the world's history that will live for ever.
There is Kitchener's reply to General Cronje in the Boer War: "Not a
minute"--there is Nelson's immortal message on the "Victory" of "England
expects----"; so the reply of the Allies to America will l