Weekly journal-miner., 1917-04-11

virtually critical' - repetition Ger. rnany's everlasting miscalculatior what she wills is donel Neue Freie
 Presse. Vienna - always one lear ahead of Berlin-reports Lytton house of lords, declaring he is not certain that the English armies at the front can be adequately supplied in future with munitions and other re- quirements:' millions of people in Entente countries are now convinced it was a great mistake to reject the offer of peace by Central Powers. Neucste Nachrichten, Leipzig, decides 'ferment of discomfort in England threatens to reach such a point that Lloyd George will be unable to with stand the rage of the people and must be swept into the sea-
 All this while rage of the people of Russia swept all pro-Germans into jailr'
 Americans Never Warlike.
 Small wonder in such poison gas, U. S, its president, laughed to scorn "Wilson an arrant Pharisee,' an nounces Der Tag; "arbiter of the world in a cul de sac" Nachrichten, Leipzig: U. S., "a phantom in this war" American army declares Vos- siche Zeitung; Captain Salzmann - pinching his own salt on German tail from my personal experience is not worth much. It is recruited only from among work shy people, who have no compunction in taking scr vice for pay in preference to doing honest work. The American soldier does not enjoy great reputation in his own country, and is often regard ed as "a plague The American is a complete stranger to the idea that the uniform is something honorable, and the phrase which one frequently hears that what England could do would also be done by America, is complete ly false. America is not England. The British have for centuries been a warlikc race, but the Americans never Moreover every man taken into the army would be taken from industry and that would impair the profits of the American industrialists, to whom business is above everything The whole thing" he concludes, ''is bluff. Germany has no reason to be frightened by the American bluff"
 Characteristically, North German Gazette: "At the wooden American sword our blucjackcts laugh loud and long. Many one of them, indeed, declares that he would not be at all sorry if the time came when he could show the Americans that to become involved with the German navy is a very different matter from winning a cheap victory over the unfortunate old Spanish tubs"
 America Will Be Beaten.
 Also charactcristically, Prof. Johan- mes Plcnge, Munster university, Dus- scldorfer General Anzeigcr, these seven days: q have travelled consid- erably in America, and 1 am thorough ly acquainted with the pcculiarities of the American national soul. It was because my knowledge was based on personal experience that in 1914 1 often declared in confidential circles what l repeat now: In this war Am erica, too, will be beaten.
 The vaincst, most ignorant, most blatant and boastful of all nations finds itself robbed of the glory, the incense of which it has so long loved to wait around its own swollen head. of being the first people of the whole world:'
 Tt was as balm and honey to Am erlca's conccit to hear the hattering. unctuous tourist guides in Italian museums declare that her wealthy pork packers all had the appearance of ancient Romans. What is moro. the Yankees actually believed it, so overwhelmingly great was their vanity.
 Their bragging, however, will soon be ingloriously silenced, for again 1 | repeat, America will also be beaten in this war
 Frankfurtcr Zeitung-without hay ing received American hospitali.y-I similar view: The arming of Amer ica, so far from ovrrawing us, indeed. | helps to clear the situation. The United States enjoyed its splendid | isolation so long as it could regard | European events simply from the American standpoint Today the | Americans are about to cnchain themselves. Very good; their fate will be the same as that of the Eu- ropean nations"
 Lokalanzcigcr-Crown Princes or gan-"No threat of armed ships. no | declaration of war, will again open up our blockade zones to American |