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The Western Comrade
Devoted to the Cause of the Workers
Political Action Co-operation Direct Action
VOL. II LOS ANGELES, CAL., NOVEMBER 1, 1914 NUMBER 6-7
WHAT
are vapid.
Luckel Camp on Rio del Llano.
Will be remodeled for trout hatchery and motion picture factory
will be the outcome of the war?
This question is heard everywhere and
many of the replies are as varied as they
Those having no knowledge of the causes of the
war can give no sensible reply to the question as to
the possible outcome.
A few weeks ago the British were supremely
confident. When the Prussian army ceased its pressure
on Paris and the backward movement began
this confidence grew to positive conviction that the
power of German arms was waning.
Then the Kaiser's army swung about, held the
allies in a firm grip in a battle line hundreds of
miles long while he hurled his mighty forces on Bel-
gium's capital.
The menace of Russia on the eastern frontier
War and Empire
was dispelled by a series of sharp defeats which the
Germans administered in Poland and when Przemysl
was relieved and the Slavs thrown back through the
Carpathian passes.
The British plan and program contemplates
stripping Germany of all her colonial possessions;
destruction of the German fleet; seizure of the German
ships of commerce, and the conquest of Germany's
foreign trade.
Frenchmen cherish the dream of a restoration of
Alsace-Loraine ; the destruction of Prussian military
power ; the rehabilitation of Belgium and a war in-
demnity of such magnitude that the Kaiser's people
will never again arise as a fighting power.
Little Belgium hopes to be restored and to receive
a great indemnity as a reward for heroic service
rendered to France and England.