East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-12-28
SINGS OWN PRAISES,
ROUTED BY FRENCH
WESTPHALIAN REGIMENT FAILS
TO LIVE UP TO RECORD OF
TEUTOBURGEI FOREST.


WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES
NOV. 27.-Would you like to read an
other German war song? Here is q
free translation of one captured re-
Gently from the 55th infantry, form.
erly the 9Th Westphalan, the regi-
ment of Count Buelow Won Denne-
witt:
We are the brave regiment.
| The terror of the land of France.
! Which is proudly known as the 55th.
! We are covered with glory.
| Even when he outnumbers us
| The enemy fails against us
! Already we have repulsed the assault
OF the little French twenty y-eight
times.
Chorus:
We will fight, bravely man to man
In our victorious army
Until the day when Germany
Stands first in the whole world,
On land, on sea, in the sky.
+ And If the enemy shows his teeth,
We will keep our good spirits.
The sons of Westphalia never refuse
to fight;
Forward they march with the sons Of
Lippe.
When cannon crash and squirt their
flame
We still are vigorous and proud.
We will conquer as at Dennewitz
The soul of Count Won BuelOw lives
in us.
Chorus:
In the valley of the Lippe. the Ruhr
and Weser
our vigorous fists were formed,
With which so often
We have rudely mauled the French,
We are from the forests of Tepto-
burg
Where of yore the battle Of Armenius
took place,
And so against us, night and day.
All our enemies efforts fail.
Chorus:
One word more. This regiment.
the 55th infantry, was holding the
Vaudraina farm sector when the !
French attacked the Malmaison pla-
teau, oct. 23. 1t was completely |
routed and left over 700 prisoners in /
the hands of the French.
Cite Scripture to Aid Loan.
A great war loan has just been is
sued in America, with appropriate ad-
vertising of every sort. 1t may in
terest Americans 70 read how the
Germans, simultaneously are adver
Using their seventh war loan. A
number of documents concerning this
by newspapers, posters.
pictures. lectures-in short, by pub
icity of every kind-have come into
my hands. l quote first from an ar
ticle in the Weissenburger zeitung:
Here is a word of Christ for the
nervous, for the pusillanimous, for
hose who think in a cowardly man
ner o ye of little faith, why are ye
so fearful? Verify. he who, under the
protection of Hindenburg. can work
or the future of his country and for
his own future, and who stupidity re-
uses to bring his money to the war
oan, such a one has no country. no
eligion, no conscience, and in his mo-
nents of lucidity, he should despise
himself"
A banker named Jacob Hecht, in
erted the following notice in the
General Anzeiger
"Sabaoth, our all-powerful God, is
he Master of war and peace.
I'VE cannot serve both Him and
Iammon, and for this reason the en-
ire world should reflect. should
make for perfection and become more
humane.
"While thinking of our bond with
lis mysterious universe, and in honor
f our thousands of ombatants who
re fighting hard and who are fall
ng, we also along with other innu-
nerable sacrifices should bring with
Ill our heart and soul and all our
ortune, our financial contribution, i'm
he form of a subscription to the
eventh war loan, in order to arrive
at a brotherly universal
eace. AS always, l will gratefully
eceive your orders at the usual rates"
Hindcnberg's Little Sentiment.
Hindenbere, on being asked for an
autograph by the newspapers. gave
hem this:
He who subscribes to the war loan
: making me the finest kind of
present for my birthday"
Here is an example of the text of
he posters with which the country
vas placarded:
The war loan is the seed, peace is
he harvest. Just as the peasan con
ides to the earth the boarded seed
the given time, so thou shouldest
1an to the Fatherland all the groes-
hen (small coin) thou hast saved
hat is why; subscribe"
In the theaters, the actresses invit-
d the public to go onto the stage and
Ibscribe. while they themselves went
mong the audience taking the sub
.rin nj of 10 a
At the same time there seems TO
ave been a certain amount of oppo-
tion to the loan. Many posters were
cerated. Handbills with arguments
gainst the loan were surreptitiously