Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
kAISER's DOWNFALL
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defeat and that a hundred thousand
more widows have been made by the
French and English guns.
People No Longer Back Army.
The people are no longer backing the
army, not even the -Prussian people.
and when the state Of affairs has been
reached the march OF manumitted
race toward freedom is well begun. In
stead of paying money now for the
privilege of driving nail in the
wooden statue Of Hindenburg in Ber-
lin. the Infatuated and unhappy people
spit upon it and revile the name Oh
the original
There is food in Berlin today, true;
there and in other great cities OF the
empire much food of a certain quality,
but of what avail is food when only the
Very rich can buy enough of it to keep
death away from the door? How many
can pay $50 for a goose? How many
have 81 fo- a pound of so-called butter?
The favorites of-the kaiser are fed lib
erally-the junkers always did and all
ways will eat-the army has been FED
fairly well, yet far below the FORMER
u,
hungry and only the rich NAV eat.
The people want peace at almost any
price that will assure them food, out IL
Must not be misunderstood that there IS
going to be a great organized rebellion
or revolution in Germany against the
government and the military deSpotism,
which are one and the same thing. al
though the lower classes do not yet I'M
derstand this.
The people are too weak for concert
ed action. They are unorganized, they
have been too long the slaves of Hohen-
zollern autocracy. they do not know
and there will be no revolution to de-
stroy the present Germany and replace
it with a. republican form of govern
ment but there will come state OF an
archy of unorganiZed brute force
against a beaten machine a machine
that will be torn to pieces simply be-
cause Hindenburg is about to play ms
last trump card and because ne VIII
lose the game. 1t is his last chance
and well he knows this. Then Will
come the open revolt not only of the
people at home. but of the soldiers VINO
have for nearly four years thrown
themselves against the bayonets ana
shells of France and England.
Predicts Co-ordinated Mob.
TT will not be an organized revolt.
any more than organization was shown
in Russia following the overthrow OF
the car, but it will be such a combina-
ton of the mob force OF peasantr:yy;;
workmen and soldiers that there VIII
be no military power which can ever
again drive them. like sheep. to sense.
less slaughter for the passing glory OF
AZ insane despot. And there VIII De no
army for this angry mob to hight, LOT
the army will be part of the mob.
Just now. at the start of what prom
Uses to be the most desperate drive that
Germany will have made against her
assures
the people of the German confederation
will land his victorious armies In Paris
and on the shores of the Enghsh chan-
mel at Calais, these deluded people are
. starving to death in Berlin, the capltal
Of the Hohenzollerns and once one OF
Sfie greatest cities of the world. the city
that Wilhelm wanted to build to sur
pass Paris in beauty. They nave oeen
reduced to a condition of abject misery;
they have little light. almost no neat,
their clothing is negligible and raploly
growing less, there is no soap ana am
pie food is an unheard-of tnIng. iherS
are few middle-aged persons left ana
the death rate among children mas IN
creased appallingly, while the oirtn
rate is ominously reduced and the on
spring of starving mothers might pei
ter be left unborn as far as their poten-
nal value to a new Germany is con-
cerned.
These are not theories, but facts COM
ing to me from personal experience
u.
have returned from Germany and ada,
cent countries. From these last named
sources am informed that the govern
ment is looking forward with the grav.
est concern to the problem OF even
partly feeding the people during March,
April and May. until the next early
cups are harvested.
with these rather academic state
nsents as a foundation. it will not be
difficult to visualize the German army
attempt to accomplish task 1t was
unable to accomplish when at the
height of it's power and perfected or
ranization and after an intensive train
ing of nearly half century for this
single issue.
Will Go Down on West Front
On the western front. where the con-
test will end ard where German arms
viii go down to final defeat. the hordes
of wilhelm are outnumbered nearly
two to one by enemies who have been
for nearly four years constantly i'm
proving themselves. while the German
army has stood still atthat point OF ITS
highest development where it crunched
its bloody way through Belgium and
into France as far as the Marine and
mat deathless motto of the French:
s France have learned from Germany,
and now comes young America, learn
ing from all and adding her great power
In men and material toward the hnal
81 CRUSHING OF Inc pltilcSS iiOhstci th6 u
has flooded Europe with blood and
tears"
1T is well known on the inside in Ger
many that the ammunition reserves of
the allies are far superior. which is the
answer to the question of why Ger
many has so long delayed her ultimate
offensive. Before Verdun alone at one
time / happened TO know from unim-
beachable authority the French guns
were packed side by side as closely as
they could be operated along line
nine miles in length. and after these
guns. most of them the famous and
deadly 75s. had hurled against the Ger
man human waves and defenses more
than two million shells there were more
sireils waiting for these guns than had
been there at the beginning of the bonn
bardment. SO maryelously were the
batteries served by the munitions trans
portation system behind the lines. And
that was more than a year ago. and
the improvement OF the French and
British in munition manufacture is
known to every student on both sides
of the conflict.
Therefore, given a preponderance of