Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-20
CAN LICK GERMANY
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Now we are in this war. Irr 10
months the authorities at WASHINGTON.
despite the abuse to which they have
/ been subjected by those who don't
understand, have placed 100000 men
"hder arms-a greater army than Lord
Kitchener was able to equip In two
years Our torpedo fleets are sweep-
ing the German mines from the sens
We have armed our merchant marine
And this ali led up to what impressed
everybody as a magnificent clfmax-
the forecast of what America will do
in the air.
we read, said he, "of q few dozen
aeroplanes appearing in this locality
or ON that battle front Two or three
or them are brought down. n1aybe.
and perhaps a few aviators are killed "
lie made 4 little gesture infinitely ey-
pressive. What does that amount
to said he. When the armies of
| Great Britain with their tanks. start
Tor the Hindenburg .line: when the
armies Of America. trained and eouin-
PED, support them; and when from
| -o,ooO to 10000 American aeroplanes.
manned by 100000 trained sviators.
ram bombs upon the German trenches
then war will come pretty near to
| being what Gen. Sherman said It
was
We can never starve Germany Mr.
! Burke declared She took o,er Pol
GUM and put her population at work
raising food for the nourishment of tho
German armies; she took over a large
part or France, levying tribute upon
every city; she took over the lands q,
Servia and Rumania; she now has
Russian territory that Yields annu-
ally $4,000 900 bushels of wheat. She
has three times as much productive
territory as she had before the war
and the allies have that much less
Yes we came in just in time to save
them. We haven't saved them yet
but we are going to.
''No' said Mr.. Burke. I'VE cant
starVe Gernany-but We can thra sh
Germany and we are going to do it,"
(Whirlwind Of cheers)
Inc government at Washington ;,
he went on, has been severely criti-
cised; but did America ever go into
war that criticism was not buried
upon the governing authoritieso We
have been in the war now for 10
months. 1t took Kitchener. master az
rector though he was. two wears to
whip the English army into shane and
even then there We're all kinds NJ
blunders. | don't know Of anv serious
biunders we Of the United States have
made. There may be some things
which in normal times would be Ieajti-
mately open TO criticism: but he.
lieve that by the publication Of criti-
cism now we give just that much aid
and comfort to the enemy. (Applause
Those charged with the awful re.
sponsibility of carrying on this war
have been working night and dav
We have 800 900 men in our armies
Our torpedo fleets, cooperating with
the British, are sweeping the German
mines from the seas. We have armed
our merchant marine-and do Won fu,lv
appreciate the cost to Germany this
means? Before our merchant ships
We're armed, the German submarines
could stay upon The surface-and did
most Of the time. They constantly on
riched Germany by the capture Of hie
cargoes. Now there is as much lkefi-
hood of the merchant vessels slnkin,
the submarines as there is of the sub
marines sinking the merchant vessels
They must stay. below the surface.
and, even when one of their torpedoes
sinks vessel. it goes down before
they can secure the cargo. It's an