The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-10-11
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Kaiser's Army Demoralized,
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Lists of Wounded Manipu-
lated by the War
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London, Oct. 1.-THE Generalization
OF the German army is being carefully
concealed from the people by the govern
ment which has duped them into believ.
ing Germany is winning, according to an
article by d. Thomas Curtin, Boston
man, published in the Times.
Mr. Curtin has arrived here after ten
months spent in studying conditions in
Germany. In his first article the Ameri-
can described the hypnotic influence ex-
ercised by the German press over the
people. This he said was directly con-
trolled by the foreign office.
The truth of the military situation
he said he learned at Potsdam, where
he watched the arrival OF the wounded
of the famous Prussian Guard. This con.
tingent had been badly cut to pieces by
the English at Contamination.
! what / saw there would, if it were
known to the German public, shake the
very foundation of the empire" the writ
er declared.
Mr.. Curtin said that the gravity OF the
situation was being hid behind figures
carefully juggled to deceive the Teuton-
ic mind The official figures of the wound
ed which have been increasing at an enor-
nous ratio since the development of Eng
lands war machine he declared were fall
sifed by manipulation.
IAN instance of a monstrous misstate
ment is the official assurance that more
than 90 per cent of the wounded after
treatment are able to return to the firing
line" he said
The writer then went on to describe
the scene at the railway station at Pots
dam, when the wounded of the Prussisn
Guard were brought back from the front.
III moving pictures had been taken
OF the wounded and were shown in every
town and village in Germany it would
cause inconceivable establishment to this
deluded nation" he said "The malcon-
tents, already formidable mass, would |
be swelled into united dangerous army
of angry dupes who had their eyes
opened. This is not merely the express |
sion Of the view of neutral observer,
but also the opinion of sober, patriotic |
German statesman.
saw tHt diiiNC at
from the shambles at Neuve Chapelle, /
inspected the Russian wounded in the |
disastrous Bukovina retreat, witnessed /
the arrival of the Belgian wounded from |
the evacuation of Antwerp. | even saw
the German wounded brought from East
Prussia, but the arrival of the wounded
of the Prussian Guard at Potsdam sur
passed in sadness anything | have wit
messed in the last two bloody years.
MANY of the wounded tommies re-
turning from Neuve Chappelle. if not
gay, were blithe and smiling, their minds
cheerful But the wounded of the Prus-
sian Guard. the proudest military force
in the world, were broken in body and
spirit. They came back to their home
town decimated in ranks and humbled in
pride They formed the most amazing
of beaten and despairing
men / have ever encountered. OF the
i've reserve regiments forming this con-
tingent few were believed to have es-
,aped unhurt Vast numbers had been
<illed outright"
The writer then related how he had
watched the unloading of 600 or 700 men
rom two trains. These were transferred
% panteehnicons, moving vans, and We
licles of every description and carted
way. After the first two trains, which
preceded others, were unloaded they were
lrawn out of the way to make room for
he waiting sections. The evacuation of
he trains occupied hours.
The wounded soldiers, he said were
detected and completely exhausted.
at was not, however, the aines of
offering on these faces that impressed
ne so much as an mcanny sameness of
xpression, an expression of hopeless
.loom," he related This detection subt-
Y communicated itself TO the police and
Knockers.
"The men, who. badly wounded, were
till able to walk, and the upturned
aces of the Others outlined by the white
flows of the cots on which they lay,
old as plainly as possible that the Prus-
ian Guard, the physical flower of Ger
IAN manhood had at last met force
uperior to themselves and to the war
lachine they represented They knew
ell that they were the idol of their ia
lerland; they knew that they had
ought with every ounce of their great
additional strength backed by long ira
tion, and they realized that they had
zen vsnquished by the British, by an
my OF mere sportsmen."