Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-11
Beyond Doubt German Enemy
viii Turn on Him in Flour
iSh of Hate ,


BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, July 1.-THE arrival Of the
first contingents Of the American
army in France serve to recall the
fact that the United States Is enter
ing a war already old and wise--wise
with the dearly bought wisdom of
three long adventurous years-and
stepped in all the diabolical wicked
ness that incessant delving into the
deviltries of destruction can bring to
It. -a..-
Having escaped the first terrors OF
weapons which German science had
evolved through long years OF mill
tary preparation, the American diyi-
sions win nevertheless plunge even.
tuaIly into q seething cauldron which
has grown from the unavoidable pol
icy Of lighting the devil with fire"
They will have quickly to learn not
only to take the awful German fright
fulness with calm endurance, but to
return it with an ever increasing
measure. In doing this many nerve
testing and soul-searching experiences
undoubtedly lie before them, but there
are already thousands Of young Amer,
leans In the Canadian and British
ranks who have proved themselves
traditionally. worthy in the scorching
flames Of modern war. - ~.
The American forces are fortunate
indeed to be able to base their edu-
cation upon the bitter lessons learned
by the French and British soldiers
Ia all the eventful days that have fol
lowed that first rush Of battle IN
1914. Marvellously complete books Of
instruction have been builded upon
those experiences and out of these
the American soldiers will CLEAN the
last word knowledge that win fit them
for the foremost trenches.
First of all, when they take their
place, will come the baptism OF fire
from the noisy black high-explosive
German shells that scream in from
afar and burst with terrifying reports
sometimes in most unexpected
places. The Germans are great be-
levers both in noise and high-explo-
sive. They even mix their adored
"H-E" with their shrapnel shells
which break high in the air and send
their bullets showering down with the
whine of an angry winter wind. The
Americans soon will learn to distin'
guish the individual songs Of the vari'
Gus shells for there is not the slight
est doubt that the moment he dis
covers they are in the Zine" the Ger
man will turn every available caliber
OF weapon against them in . flourish
LOT Introductory hate" They will
come over In order-these shrieking
grumbling missles-ranging in size
and noise all the way from the nasty
little pip-squeaks or whiz-bangs, up
through the four-point-twos, the five
lpoint-nines and then on to what the
British Tommies laconically call "the
big stuff"-the eight and 11inch how
itzer shells and the projectiles from
heavy calibered, long range naEal
guns, known without affection as
''whistling Percys."
There will be little opportunity tc
hear a "Big Bertha" for those ia
nous old 4z-pound howisters are sci
dom used nowadays. II is believed
that the Germans planned to lombard
Arras with them, using prussic acid
shells, but the British advance on
Easter Monday last put q stop to thai
particularly nefarious scheme against
the already sadly battered little Art
OILS cathedral city.
| There is also awaiting the new
American army q bounteous baptism
Of bombs and hand grenades and the
still more dismaying Introduction t.
the CHASTITY rattle Of the machine gun
and its sinister swish Of spraying bull
iets-sounds we'll calculated to stab
with q moment Of fear the heart Of
the .brayest man.
But above all the American soldiers
must equip themselves to endure the
lethal gas that viii be sent oyel
against them in poisonous, yaporish