Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-02
NO DEFEAT
ON THEIR OWN SOIL
Germans Are Confident of Abil.
ity to Repel Any
Invasion.
ADMIT SITUATION is GRAVE
Berlin Is Like Great Military
Barracks, With Soldiers
Everywhere.
ADMIT SITUATION is GRAVE

barracks. Everywhere you meet soldiers
OF every rank and every age On the
other side. you see fewer wounded
mere than in any other city in Ger
many, for these are systematically sent
elsewhere, SO as to avoid adding to tho
anxiety OF the Berliners and keep up
the Spirit in the capital to the utmost.
In front OF tho royal palace stand
seven big Russian guns captured from
the Russians and Frederick the Greaess.
statue is surrounded by Belgian can
| mons.
The doors OF the "Ruhmeshalle" (Hcu
Of Glory. in Inter den Linden, are
| kept open ut all hours that people who
are downhearted may revive their
spirits by looking at the many trophies
exhibited inside.
Twice I have seen the Empress drive
past on her way to the military host.
| tais where she is a frequent, almost
daily, visitor. No ovations greet her
out the respect that everybody feels
FOR this .;indhearted and sorely tried
woman is shown on every face. and
every head is respectfully uncovered
! as she passes
nave talked to people of all classes
! uurins the last week, and although
they readily admit that the situation ia
l
VIII be defeated on her own soil
Our country is menaccd on oil
sides" they say. Powerful enemies
| nave plotted to brin;; about our ruin
| out Just walt and see The world docs
| not know us yet. When the hours /
come to defend our country against an
| INVASION we will fight as no neonle ever
Fought before. fight to the last man. the
last ptenning. and tho last bar NJ
| -four"
TONE OF LEADING PAPERS
CONTINUALLY SWINGING
me tone or leading papers Is con-
tinually swinging between firm conc
dence and admissions of serious rnin-y
givings.
The koelnische Zeitun-, writes:
we must race the unpleasant TRUTH
mat In spite of all our Victories TIL
situation is exceedingly grave mil
question before us is whether no ,,,,s1
rose or are able to defend our Kultul#
our political unity, our freedom rfEf
"ncther we are to return to the midi
cries OF the Thirty Years War. Mj
IN the East we are threatened n
the slavs' In the west we are ngbtin s
against the lust OF revenge OF tbS.s
rrrhch' but even moro against theE
ala polc politics of England, againsH
.o"hlrS the entire German peo1
PIC justly concentrate their hatred"
simultaneously the Kreuzze.iS
Jung writes or the war in 1870:
bismarck reached every goa, y. -.
hlnself. He did not believe in or w.ntJa
preventive wars, but this did NOT .t.rt.
MN from giving the dispatch--v sl.-.t;s
""'ch made war inevitable He did ,hII
because the other side wanted war al
ne "esircd to avoid first humilIot,on
mere are those who hold that he acted
W,ohsiS' out we are grateful to him for
"hat ne did. and are convinced that HI,
act was justthable before the Almiebtv
"i"y 200 always give Germany states.
VINO take up their task rs seril
march," u DID
Many MINDS UNBALANCED
BY CONDITIONS OF wASs
IN the Muenchener Medizin woehenI
tNiuhich Medical weekly, I find
" af'icie signed by the famous Pro.
uauPp' or TuebinGen, an expert
on mental diseases, on insanit,, T., 80
German army, from which quote.
AT the beginning of the war ~
state of health of the German troons
especially as regards nervous diseasss
was splendid. but the awful CONDITION., .
uiaer winch this war is being carried 4
on mas brought In many cases Of mental
ana nervous disorders manifes,,ru
themselves in insomnia and abnormai n
schsitiVencss to the influence OF alcohol III
often resulting in abnormal drunken
ness.
@'hce the French offensive began i$I!|
''o ''iiooie or December. large nuns{tl
'e' VI men nave been incapacta,ed r. &
mental and nervous diseases. 5forb,E
nh
tration. These cases are founSfn ,oo,iSS
men who have never been actu.iE 81
wounded. and are caused bv tho alSI$
pioslon OF heavy shells. OF fear AL 4
anxiety at the death of friends nns se
comrades. sstff.. 4
me acute symptoms such as paraly1 81
SIS, commissions, deafness, loss OF speecl}
denrium or hallucnations, have in mo IL
cases readily given way to ration III
treatment in hospitals, but very ofti&l I
the symptoms Of nervous prostratfI& +
nave reappeared as soon rs the mi n {:
returned 10 their regiments. and mai III 4
nave been sent home as absoluteIv ,,bj
ut for military service The mtsfH
!, thought of returning to the front IN 4
often been sufficient to produco a I'm
currence of the nervous crisis annrooSB sS
ing insanity III 81
young officer who conyersed wISEs
great interest about subjects that NJ
nothing to do with the war, begans@ 70
cry and sigh whenever It was sugg9ss ~ ~
CD that he should return TO the frd II
assuring me that he could not possg III
take up his military duties as 10
the war lasted. fss
"A great many older men, and
VINO have never served in the IN -
presented similar symptoms. In
tho cause OF their .mseear ~
orisinated in their ina gination sSSt
doubt whether they VIII imp.ow. 3
the war lasts. ss8S
Their trouble had not h,nn
. Continued on Ninth TFss-ySs SI