Middletown transcript., 1915-12-11
GERMANY HAS LOST

n ERMANY'S final defeat will be all
" the more overwhelming and Its
after effects all the more prostrating'
because of her persistence for fifteen
months after her first and fatal defeat
at the battle of the Marine in Septem-
Der 1914.
Yes. Germany lost her great fight on
that fatal 7th September day when
Joffre and his heroic Frenchmen aided
by General French and his stout Eng
Iish hearts, stopped at the Marne the
ferocious onrush of these later bar
barians Just as Charles Martel stopped
the Saracen barbarian at Tours.
Germany's plan and her confident ex-
pectation, was to win an instant success
upon the first launching of the mar
velous military bolt she had been forty
years forging, by quickly overwhelm-
ing the unprepared Allies; and but for
the unexpected stand those Belgians
made at their Thermopylae, this cut
and dried program of the Kaiser and
his militarists would have gone through
without hitch. But as Bobby Burns
tells us, 1.-The best laid schemes of mice
and men
Gang aft aglee, and leave us naught
But sorrow and pain for promised
JOY"
All Germany's apparent victories,
spectacular and won at horrible cost of
the blood of her sons lavishly poured
out by her Won Hindenburgs, her Mack
ensons and the rest, were in reality only
gilded defeats.
For instance, her onrush No. that
was to have lowered the Russian Eagles
in their own capital and to have cap
tured the important naval station at
Riga, though marked by more glittering
victories like the retaking of Lemberg,
the occupation of Warsaw and other big
Russian towns together with much ter
ritory, has also failed just as did those
earlier drives at Paris and at Calais.
This Russian Campaign of Germany
illustrates the truth of the Muscovite
proverb "A Russian retreat is German
defeat, for it has been finally sban
doned and Russia has assumed the of
fensive and is driving the invaders out
Lucky indeed will Won Hindenberg'
Germans be if they shall be able "t'
dig themselves in" and thus escape tn
freezing that annihilated Napoleon
famous army of invasion.
England at first caught unprepare,
in men and arms has now adrilled arm.
of 1900, 900 and an abundance of mu
nitions of war.
Russia's plight at the opening of tn
war was yet worse, SO badly in need O
arms that hundreds of her soldiers hav
been captured with only clubs in thei
hands. Now she has large supplies G
arms and out of her 1900, 900 of me
is forming monster army in additio
to her present large force and ne2
Spring these millions will add the
weight in crushing Germany.
Bread riots are breaking out in a
the German cities where food price
have doubled and tripled, and bot
bread can be sold only in limited quaint
ties and meat but two days in the weel
Further proof that Germany's col
dition is becoming critical, is the fs
that peace talk is now being heal
everywhere, and in their desperate
leading German newspapers are adv
eating the killing of all prisoners al
the driving all inhabitants from Belgiu
and the parts of France and Russia no
in possession of Germany. rather thi
admit defeat
This fiendish act would seem impo
sible but that Germany's many ba
barrie deeds make one easily credit it.
After the Kaiser has slaughter,
these millinn odd prisoners it would
fitting act for him to erect as mon
ment in his own honor a huge pyram
of l 1000, 900 human heads near the far
ed Brandenburg Gate in his capitt
and thus eclipse tenfold the brutal
of his feroeious model, Tamerlane.