Middletown transcript., 1916-01-22
u1DDLETOwN. DEL. JAN. %, 1916
GERMANY LOSING

THOSE valOrous Germans Germany
1 and Austria, whose combined
populations number over 115,00O, 900,
have after eighteen months fighting
with their huge armies overrun little
Belgium, and Servia with total popu-
Iation of about 10000, 900, and subdued
tiny Montenegro with about twice as
manv inhabitants as the state of Della
ware.
The sudden launching of the Kaiser's
Internal War Machine, which for over
twenty-five years he had been secretly
preparing for the conquest of Europe,
gave his armies several early advan-
tages. but the heroic French at the
Marne stopped this latest barbarian in
vasion, and the Germans with all then
mighty armies and big guns have not
since then been able to get one incl
further.
Bitterly as they hate England, NJ
German" soldier has yet set foot or
English soil and probably never will.
This represents the sum total of the
crazy Kaiser's conquering advances
westward despite his staggering boass
in 1914 that he would eat his Thanks
giving turkey in Paris and his Christ
mas dinner in London
True, this brave German autocra
with his cowardIy Zeppelins has beer
able to assassinate some hundreds of
sleeping mothers and babes, and witt
his submarines to blow up or drown some
thousands of unarmed passengers or
steamships, including, let US ever keeT
in memory, lis Americans massacreo
with wanton, official premeditation on
the Lusitania.
True too, Won Hindenberg and Max
ensen drove the half-armed Russians
out of GaIlicia and Poland and boasted
they would plant the Kaiser's flag in
Petrograd-but they did not. Now,
with guns in their hands, those same
Russians are giving the Germans dose
of their own sprinting medicine, ano
what is more, promise not only to re-
gain all lost Russian territory bu
Austria and German territory besides.
Thus the German campaign, despite
the fearful and repeated bunders
of the English, has in all essentia
respects been fiat failure Finally, a
the end of eighteen months the Allies
have gotten ready to fight these care
fully prepared Germans on something
like an equality and the result, if it come
in this year, as we rather guess, or in
1917, or still later, will be Germany'a
utter overthrow.
Germany's losses have been serious.
Her navy at large has been swept clean
eff the ocean by the English, and the
rest is bottled up tight in the Kiel
canal scarcely daring to thrust a nose
out. She has not merchant ship on
any ocean-all sunk, bottled up at home,
or interned in foreign ports. She has
lost about all her colonial possessions in
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, amounting
to over million square milestone
third of continental United States
Germany's yearly foreign trade in
1913 was one and half billions of i'm
ports and over billion Of exports. She
las for months. as the various food
prove, been on short rations,
and this evil is constantly increasing as
England tightens more and more the
hrOttling grippe of her immense navy
n fact, Germany seeks to justify her
nhuman massacres of non-combatants
With her Zeppelins and her under-sea
'oats, by claiming it is in reprisal for
blockade that is starving her.
Financially Germany must be getting
n very deep water. A year before she
'egan this war, the Berlin Bourse was
threatened with a money panic; her
otal national debt was the big sum of ,
{, 5,068, ,997, 900; she and Austria together $
are borrowed $4,000, 900, 900, and
Germany is spending the huge sum of !
20,000,0O0 every day the war lasts :
%, slowly but surely, these ferocious
'eutOn fighting cocks are coming home
, roost.