The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-08-16


An excerpt from this book was recent
ly read in the Congressional Record,
and gives startling information con-
cerning the Teutonic empire. Be-
low is the portion of the book which
was inserted in the Record:
I am writing what should have
been the last chapter as the fore
word of this book, because | want to
bring home to our people the gravity
of the situation; because l want to
tell them that the military and naval
power of the German Empire is un-
broken; that of the 100000 men
whom the Kaiser has called to the
colors but 100000 have been kill
ed, 100000 permanently disabled,
not more than 100000 constitute the
wounded or on the sick list of each
day, leaving at all times about g.
100000 electives under arms.
I state these figures because Ameri-
cans do not grasp either the magni-
tude or the Importance of this war.
Perhaps the statement that more
than 100000 prisoners of war are
held in the various countries will
bring home to Americans the enor-
NOUS mass of men engaged.
There have been no great losses
in the German Navy, and any losses
of ships have been compensated for
by the building of new ones. The
: 100000 men and more-for at least
i 400, 900 come of military age in
Germany every year-because of
their experience in two and a half
years of war, are better and more
efficient soldiers than at the time
,when they were called to the colors.
Their officers know far more of the
6 science of this war and the men
themselves now have the skill and
8 bearing of veterans.
German Nation Will Not Starve or
Revolt.
Nor should any one believe that
Germany will break under starvation
or make peace because of revolution.
Fg The German nation is not one that
makes revolutions. There will be
scattered riots in Germany, but no
simultaneous rising of the whole peo-
ple. The officers of the army are all
of one class, and of a class devoted
to the ideals of autocracy. A revo-
luton of the army is impossible, and
at home there are only the boys and
old men, easily kept in subsection by
the police.
There is far greater danger of the
starvation of our allies than OF. the
starvation of the Germans. Every
available inch of ground in Germany
is cultivated, and cultivated by the
aid of the old men, the boys, and
women and the 100000 prisoners
OF war.
The arabic lands of northern
I France and of Rumania are being
cultivated by the German army with
{ an efficiency never before known in
these countries, and most of that
food will be added to the food sup
plies of Germany. Certainly the peo-
ple suffer; but still more certainly
this war will not be ended because of
the starvation of Germany.
Although thinking Germans know
that if they do not win the war the
financial day of reckoning will come,
( nevertheless, owing to the clever Il
nancial standing of the country by
the Government and the great banks,
there is at present no financial dis
tress in Germany; and the knoWl-
edge that unless indeminities are OBJ
tanned from other countries the
weight of the great war debt Will fall
upon the people perhap, makes them
reader to risk all in hnal attempt
to win the war and impose indemnl-
ties upon not oriy the nations OF
Europe but upon the United States
of America.
We are Agaged in war against
the grsata military power the world
has <er seen; against people whose
,~eountry was for so many centuries
theatre of such devastating wars that
Z fear is bred in the very marrow o1
their souls, making them ready tc
submit their lives and fortunes tc
an autocracy which for centuries has
ground their faces, but which has
promised them, as a result of the
war. not only security but riches un
told and the dominion of the world
a people which, as from high noun
tain, have looked upon the cities Of