The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-13
German Press Now Admits
Power Americans Add to
the Allied Forces
NOLONGER EXPECT
DECISIVE VICTORY
Trying to Dispel Anxiety of Public
Opinion by Stating That the Figures
Furnished by the Entente kilograms
Are Incorrect.

WASHINGTON, July 13.-Diplomatic
adviees received indicate thtat the Ger
man press is altering its tone toward
the military activities of the United
States.
eff the war does not end in 191s,''
these advices credit Stegemann, the
Germanophile military critic, as having
declared in recent publication, lit is
no longer possible to assign a term to it,
either from a political or military
point of view. The allies are awaiting
the battle with growing confidence
They viii have reserves at their dis
posal and the multitude of American
| re-inforcements supplies them with
moral guarantees. -
Regarding the Importance of Ameri-
can military aid, Stegemann confessed
IN his article that his latest estimate
| has already been exceeded.
| "We estimated he said, - the Amer
leans at 100000 fighting men. We are
obliged to add that those figures are
rapidly rising. The first million have
already been exceeded. The most diff
fieult problem consists in preparing this
mass for mobile warfare. The English,
who have improved with astonishing
| success the setting up of several million
men, have experienced this difficulty.
FBut it is the French army, with its
highly trained headquarters staff, its
excellent officer corps, its troops full of
suppleness and quick at adapting them
selves to existing circumstances, which
Eprovides the brain and the marrow of
military resistance for the entente. The
!, forces of the German army will find
themselves faced by French, British
and American troops. The new battle
will bring the decision nearer. But can
the political consequences be foreseen
That is another question
Stegemann, like Won Kuehlmann, the
despatch received here points out, ac
knowledges that he no longer believes il
q decisive German victory. 1t stated
also that while for a long time the Ger
man papers had been silent about the
: entry into the line of the American
troops, the role that was played by the
I American forces in the very cen
u ter of the big drive tward tn,
E Marne and Paris, had not permitted tn,
u German papers to continue in that at
I titude, and German papers are now try
y ing to dispel the anxiety of pubh
L opinion iy stating that the figures fur
nished by entente kilograms are incor
e rect
"One, - said the telegram, "has trie
to prove in iocular way that the new
spread by the French radio telegram
about the arrivel of 100000 Amer
T can troops constitutes gigantic piec
of bluff The Norddeutsehe Allgemein
Zeitung asserts that, even if the state
Y ment were verified, there would be n
a occasion for alarm, since it is only
4 question of improvised soldiers. A
l. the papers conform more or less to til
4 tone of the official press. Some of then
e. however, haye succeeded only in hidin
Is their real anxiety. Others confess ths
the action of the United States is MOI
s rapid than was expected and may in
r pede the success of the German arm
rs In the Berliner Tageblatt of July
Of Theodore Wolff remarks that Amer
ca s help is augmenting the moral r
sistance of the enemy peoples.
s'The fears which necessity impos,
upon the Germans of continuing
or struggle against q fresh and ardel
ary are contributing to the official e
forts to control public opinion, viii,
has been very sensitive of late. =