New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-26
THE PRUSSIAN NIMROD
FaiIing to Bag a Bear or Lion, he Turns
to Smaller Quarries
To The EDITOR ~ The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Through virtue Of conquest OF new
lands in Rumania Germany Just now, In tne
minds OF some. il held 20 be lord oil the
ascendant. While true that By her most
recent capture Germany may profit eoonomi-
cally from Rumnnia's rich oil fields and Ter
tile lands-though the Rumsnisns claim 70
have cfcctually destroyed the former--it IS
not seen that she is advantaged mili'arliy'
Rather has she proved anew, as IN the cases
Of Belgium, Serbia, Montenegro, that she IL
invincible when the adversary IS mucn
smaller than herself.
Germany sailed forth in this war as the
Teuton Nimrod, the mighty hunter Of nations
armed for and armored against the largest
game in the calendar Of vcnery. The Prus-
sian Nimrods ambition was TO fall bear or
a lion, TO Gull his trophies from the primates
among the nations. Failing, he slowed his
bag with the little quarries such as, IN the
nature Of things could not resist.
The defeat Of his initial and perhaps still
enduring hope Of world dominion must be
the more Notifying TO him both because Of
the perfect preparation he had made and
because the barbarous technic adopted re-
pugnant 20 all the canons OF clean combat
vas calculated TO insure 70 certainty the
comprising Of his designs. Long before the
Germanic Eruption in August, 1914, the phil
osophy of frightfulness permeating the Ger
man army became apparent from time TO
time in overt instances, the one best remem-
bered, perhaps, because OF its comparative
e., in
The lame cobbler was stricken down by the
sword of young swnshbuckler of an officer
Since the war began that doctrine has
been exampled in magnifed proportions-in
the enormities with which humanity is famil
Jar First came the breach of faith, brazenly
acknowledged, with Belgium and the swift
violation OF that martyred country. accom-
panied not only by acts of superlative van
dalism, as the burning OF Louvain, but by
capital crimes upon the innocent ctizenry,
irresp ective Of age or sex. Next, the great
mechanical falcons flew across the North sea
and in savage pursuance Of the cult OF hate
spilled death upon other peaceful nhabi-
tants. men, women and children alike. In
succe sion followed poisonous gas and fluid
fire. Then the world was stunned by the
assassination Of the Lusitsnia, and b. that
act of supreme diabolsm was prepared IN
measure for such train OF similar atrocities
only less appalling in their harvest OF death
that the number cannot be told by unaided
memory. The latest outrage, past thought IN
its colossal reproach. the thralling and
forced servitude of the nation that presumed
to obstruct the Great Purpose, may not even
yet have capped the structure OF infamies.
though one cannot imagine anything which
would outsosr its burning odium
That the meaning Of the successful inya-
sion OF Rumsnis may not be exaggerated, II
is well TO remember that Germany has not
during the entire course OF the war won
victory which can be said 20 be OF permanent
or even farreaching beneficial significance 70
herself, or which may not quite concelyably
be overturned or made nugatory by Allied
successes in the campaigns TO come. The out
standing victories OF German arms so far
have been for the most part over the weak,
the helpless, the unprepared. The Prussan
Nimrod has brought down neither France,
Bear nor Lion, while the methods used in the
mighty effort to do so will scorch their stig
mata into the flesh OF the German state for
all time History will place the story OF
these denominations in her preserving amber
and pilory the Germany of this era to the
detestation of the ages TO come.
c. B. ROBERTS.
Nov York Dec 70 1915