Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1918-01-30
NJ NiIlOh MOhbhN.
Editor of the Cleveland Press.

E0lIOF OF the NithtlhuO Brt>e.
Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper En-
terprise Assoclstion).
The train from Germany was late
All trains from Germany were late. For
more than a week now all trains from
Germany had been late.
Certainly the agent In the German
governments station in Swiss Basel
knew why the trains were late. A man
with half a head could know that.
Troop movements, Of course.
Basel squats out fiat on the line be-
tween Switzerland and Germany. The
Rhine cuts 1t in two. Basel thus be-
comes at once the gateway and the
speaking tube into the Fatherland. II
Is as far as any man who does not
want Germany TO win the war can
safely CO.
But nobody will stop you from going
into the German governments station
IN Basel, which at times throngs with
Supermen, straight out Of Superland
Those that | saw that day were very
thin Supermen, mottle-faced, loose
skinned at the neck. 1ney had II In
common, the notified face-chalky
vhiteness, like a man with the dropsy.
pin-ponted with tiny dark brown free
kles. The combination Is the mark Of
long continued undertaking. The doc
tors have a scientific name for II.
WE AMERICANS
ARE PIG-DOGS.
But they were not downcast, these
thin Supermen. Indeed, they were
swankiag a bit. And schwelnhundlng (!
To schwelnhund Is 10 name-call ones
enemies, particularly TO name-call them
schweinhunde-iD English pig-dOg-a
term quite meaningless as you may see,
save to Germans To them the word I'M
plies touching bottom In all that Is low
In the human.
And why shouldn't these thin Super
men swank and schweinhund3 Had
not Russia accepted defeat by agreeing
TO an armistice IN the east7 Had not
Italy been taught her place In the
south? And were not millions Of good
Germans and thousands Of good Ger
man guns being brought from the east
10 the west? And was not the finishing
blow about to be dealt the enemy there
especially the British and the Ameri-
cans, pig-dogs that they wereg
OF course, O lot Of Il was word
spreeing. The waters Of their informas
ton wells were sweetened with desire.
But into the reservoirs Of the American
Intelligence department there trickled
Q limpid stream Of exact data.
Every railroad every trolley line,
every wagon road In Germany was
choked with men, guns, munitions
moving east to west. At Cologne there
had been massed the greatest number
Of cannon ever assembled In one spot
IN this world. At Mannheim were more
guns. Hundreds Of thousands Of men
had been moved, and millions more
were 10 be moved.
The plan Of strategy would be a Sc
ries OF test attacks along the western
line for the purpose Of determining
where the enemy's greatest weakness
existed. once found. this weakness was
10 be battered by a force outnunDerins
anything ever before known. under
cover Of a gunfre that would make all
ounnres Of the past trivial. Cologne
in the north and Mannheim In the
south would be the distributing points
for men and guns
HOPE FOR WEAKNESS
ON u :. LINE.
II was hoped and believed that the
weakness sought would be found III
that section Of the line held In part 10y
the Americans. These troops would Dt
green. They had come far and perhap'
Syould not be so we'll equipped as the
French and British.
There was 10 be no waiting or
weather conditions. no putting on
operations for a conventional -"sprins
drive" The big lunge forward would
not be delayed an instant after reserves
were stationed and the weak points II
the allies line determined.
"The kaiser" so the word came, II
ready to spend a million lives to breal
through this time
Literally Hlndenburg would hurl M
men forward faster than the guns cOuli
XIII them. LET THE TRENCHES Fill
WITH THE BODIES OF THE DEAF
AND WOUNDED. and let the Twin
sweep over them in great waves ina