The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-07
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Hot Weather Signs in Berlin

The Most High is finding the temperature
pretty hot on the battlefield and at home. Aug
ust days are not prophetic of big harvests in the
fields and of victories on the front for Germany.
While the kaiser is trying to explain the reversal
of his triumphant journey to Paris the German
populace is crying for bread.
The Berlin Vorwaerts says:
"The real trouble is in the working class dis
tricts of cities like Berlin, and people are COM
planning bitterly of the defective distribution of
food, which every year causes great misery in the
last two months before the new harvest. The
shortage of potatoes is severely felt especially as
the prices of vegetables are exorbitant.'
Letters found on dead Hun soldiers tell in en-
phatic language of the disheartening conditions
in the interior. Workers are complaining of high
prices scarcity of foodstuffs, war WEAKNESS and
desire for peace.
Hindenburgs explanation of the defeat in the
Scissors Marine sector will not satisfy the demand
Of the German people for decisive victory They
will take with big grain of salt his statement
that strategic plans failed and the Germans are
still masters of the situation"
Ludendorf's alibi, 'the enemy evaded us on
July Is, and we thereupon, early as the evening
of the 10th, broke off operations" will not offset
the effect of the allied victory.
Count Reventlow, writing in the Tages Zeit-
ing of Berlin, tries to bolster up Teuton morale
by denouncing fearful defeatism' He says
"The beginning of the fifth year of the war is
marked in large part of the German press by re-
Elections which are Overlooking with resignation.
melancholy and whining.
'"The fearful defeatism which runs through
the German public life these days has PERM
80 offo with
some people the underlying view may be perceiv-
ed or is expressly stated by them, that if one
would end the war it would, after all, be an easy
thing to do, as one need only join Grey and Will
son in the League of Nations"
And when the Most High himself tries to as
suage German grief and inspire them by assert
ing, American armies and numerical superiority
do not brighten us. It is the spirit which brings
decision" he becomes positively ridiculous.
The crack Prussian guard units that opposed
the Americans at Seringes and on the banks of
Vesle may not have been frightened at the pros
pect of beating off the Yankees but after the
battles were over, so few of them remained that
they must have recognized the folly of the kai-
sers argument If the kaiser still believes that
ut is the spirit which brings success" he GER
tainly is convinced that there is certain ee-
ment in the American spirit which is fatal to
crack Hun regiments.
Won Hndenburg believes the German soldiers
will become just as easily accustomed to the
Americans as they did to the black coonials of
the French. 1t is a high compliment paid to the
Americans by the general of wooden statue fame
when he admits that the Yankee soldiers had a
few tricks up their sleeves which upset his SOL
diers. We doubt if the Germans will ever become
accustomed to our style of fighting, because the
Americans are too nervous to remain passive and
inactive when the foe is near They went over
for action, and they'll keep Fritz busy until the
way is clear to Berlin.
Dog Days