The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-06-17
RIDING THE WHIRLWINo.

1 hSoSiS OutAaSSOuo AOI dy . VI lIlSutlul
ness as the last German air raid over
London to the calmer mind comes
an undispelled wonderment at the
| boundless stupidity it reveals. The
| German purpose is to make war Sc
| terrible to the English people by kill
| ing a score or so of women and chill
! dren and non-combatants generally
every time an deliberately prepared
air flotilla can get across the chan
mel, on the basis that it will terrorize
the English into quitting the war and
impress on them that war with the
Germans is too awful a thing to
either carry on or think of ever en-
tering again, says the Macon Tele-
graph.
That every succeeding air raid has
| simply stiffened the determination of
the English to fight on and on to the
end when Germany shall be power
less to commit another crime against
peaceful and unoffending people and
| communities, if "perfdious Albion"
haste shed her last drop of blood and
spend her last farthing, even if she
has to fight on all alone, seems to be
utterly without the compass of the
Intelligence of the German govern
ment That they have failed to ter
rorize anybody, even Belgium, should
be patent to them now, but still they
go on and add fresh outrage to out
rage already raw and crying to
heaven.
1t cannot be but the expression of
the innate cruelty and love of dep
relation which to a certain extent
actuates much that is done by the
German general staff, because its
stiffening of the English must be ap-
parent. On a military basis of judg-
ment such actions are a net loss. The
only explanation is that these raids
are. carried out to fire the imagina
ton of the German people, to give the
some spectacular feat to
which it can point as an offset to
the steady losses, the regular retire
ment on the boosted western front.
Skilled propagandists should have no
trouble inspiring the man i'll the
street against the loss of thirty thou
sand men in three days at Messines
Ridge with a picture of the great raid
over London itself. with death and
destruction hailing down from Ger
man bombs, with the sordid English
war sick because of
the German assaults from the air
1t can be for no purpose but to pro-
duce a compensatory effect on the
German people They must have
learned long since it could not affect
the English people in any but, for
them, an adverse effect
1t is a case of riding the whirl |
wind 1t is now pretty certain to
even the hopeful enough German Of |
fetal mind that the underwater craft |
will not starve the English before
Haig gains a definite and undeniable |
decision on the western front, one
that German people will recognize as
such and from which they can take
no hope. Therefore, the only resort
is to feed up the certain to be soon
hOpeleSSlY dlScOrS0late ClVlllan pOpu-
Iation with tales of great suffering
wrought on those English whom they
have been taught to so bitterly hate.
1t is doubtless having this temporary
effect, but the inevitable end is to pile
up yet higher the score of retribu-
ton and expiation the ultimately vic
torious entente is bound to exact from
the defeated Prussian. The dying
bull charges head down and reckless
of what he strikes, of whom he kills.
He must only strike out and inflict
counter hurt somewhere ere he dies.
For which we kill him all the more
quickly. So we have Germany today.