The Washington herald., 1917-11-03
HUNS realize
U. S. IS IN WAR
Prussian Mud Batteries Are
Turned on President
Army and Navy.

During the past two months the
governing powers OF Germany and
the servile Prussian press have sud-
denly awakened to the fact that the
United States is really preparing to
make its force felt in the world war.
This, and the smashing indictment
of the Hohenzollerns written by Pres
ident Wilson in his reply to the
Pope's last peace proposal. have caus-
ed all Germany to talk more Of
America than of Russia or of peace.
The empire has rung with a new
hymn Of hate, in which We have
been the ones they want to strafe.
The hymn contains four sections:
1-Violent abuse of President Will
son.
2-Ridicule for our army and navy.
3-Anxious discussion of the indem-
nifty they would like to exact from us,
+Eagerness to get new territory
from which they can menace us in
the future.
Immediately after the Presidents
note to the Pope. all kinds of or
ganizatiohs passed resolutions de-
nouncing Wilson. These formal dec
larations were sent to the inner cir
Gle OF the empire.
Crown Prince Apt "Me, Too,
For instance. the painters of Berlin
sent such telegram to Ksiser Will
helm. and he replied thanking them
for their loyal pledge regarding the
attempt to seduce the German peo-
pie into breach OF faith against their
Kaiser and the empire"
The crown prince proved himself an
apt "Me-Too" by thanking the Ham,
burg Chamber OF Commerce for "the
refreshing candor with which the pre-
sumption Of the American President
was deservedly declined"
Old Gen. Hindenburg-Marshal Back
ards-was the busy boy. He did more
lighting with his pen than with his
sword. He gave out a message assur-
ing Germans that they had placed
themselves firmly behind the Kaiser
as an answer to the "presumptuous
words of Wilson. A few days later
he wired to the Cologne Chamber OF
Commerce:
BY his attempt to create disunity
President Wilson has succeeded in
uniting the German people. 1 don't
doubt that Wilson will receive a clear
answer by the seventh war loan. May
he in the future continue to be a part
of the force which ever intends evil
and does good"
Attacks Wilson.
Three weeks later he sent q
similar message to the Catholic
Peoples Union of Essen, where the
Krupp cannon are made.
Count Hertling, Prime Minister
of Bavaria, in an address to the
Bavarian diet, attacked Wilson,
saying: What makes his note in
sufferable and must challenge the
sharpest protests are his villifica-
tion and insults heaped upon the
imperial government. as we'll as the
transparent effort to sow dissat-
isfaction between the government
and the German people"
The town council of Potsdam,
where is located the main residence
OF the Kaiser. passed resolutions
which said:
"Filled with contempt, our citi-
zens turn aside from the shameless
hyprocrite (Wilson) who seeks to
hide behind high-sounding ideal
ism his anxiety about the blood
money which he has advanced to
his English colleague" The Presi-
dent is referred to as the crafty
hypocrite who with the simple i'm
pudence of an uneducated paryenu
has the insolence to interfere in
our domestic affairs"
The Rheinische westphalische
Zeitung. munition makers organ,
says the Presidents note exhibits
colossal arrogance and insolence.
1t continues:
German self-respect is aroused by
these words which act like strokes of
a whip. The red flame of fury must
rise in the cheeks Of every honest Ger
man when he reads such production
OF American bumptiousness Let SUBJ
marine warfare go on a little longer
and the enemy will learn the char
acter Of the German government at
the peace conference table, and will
then have to accept It as it is"
The kolische Zeitung, the Frank