The sun., 1918-07-07
The Embattled FrOgs.

A great chapter of some future his
tory Of the war, entitled Feldherrn-
w~issenchaft den Fr6sche, will be
based on this thrilling incident from
the pen of CARL RosNER, who writes
pieces about the H%ohenzollern family
and gets the not unwilling papers of
Germany to print them. The Crown
Prince Is speaking, and his audience
Is nom other than WILHELM H.:
, "It was when the Germans were pre-
pairing to storm the Chemin des Danes.
The frogs. which were found In millions
In the marshy A!lette River region.
croaked In such a deafening fashion
that they enabled the Germans to bring
up batteries. ammunition and columns
without discovery, and when the attack
actually was launched the deafeni7g
concert OF the frogs prevented the enemy
from discovering the positions Of the
German machine guns"
That little narrative is Of course
only the surface story of n really
gigantic feat in preparedness, as all
the German historians will show.
Whether the inventor Of frog strategy
will be FREDERICK the Great or
MoLrKE cannot vet be told. But it
rs certain that one of them, sitting
in front of his tent ut great general
headquarters n warm evening in
May of sOme year or other, heard the
boom of a frog. He summoned his
staff biologist and babe him catch the
reptile and write a brief report upon
its characteristics two or three vol
umes. The frog proved to be Rama
catesbiana, the champion croaker of
, Its species. 1t was just what Ger
many needed.
This historic frog was the ancestor
OF a great army Of trained believers.
The Prussians taught them to per-
form all military acts except goose
stepping. Finding them of mild tenn
| per, they spread among them the
| propaganda of hatred Of the French,
VIGOROUSLY frog eaters. Every frog
In Germany was told that NAPOLEON
spent most OF his time ut st. Helena
throwing stones Mt hOppers. The
frogs were taught to rear large fami-
lies and artfully to conceal their pop
ulation statistics.
A troop of South American poison
frogs were sent into France to~httcnd
to the puddles and ponds inhabited
by French frogs.
The German people, unaware that
the frog, mex to the I~Iohcnzollern,
was its greatest military asset. began
eating EN-. Millions of loyal krieg-
fr0sclie were consumed by the igno-
rant. On opening the Frog Envelope
in the War Office in August. 1914.
General Won HrEmNGES discovered
that he should have 1.T32.S4O frogs
ready to croak. \ haSty census
showed less than Il million. These
facts, disclosed for the first time, give
n key to the ~ferOcity of HINDENBURG'S
battle at the Pripet Marshes. 1t was
not to put the Russians in the swamp,
but to get the frogs out. These Rus
sian frogs were green troops and had
to go through intensive training
under the best singing teachers in
Berlin. Later General HINDENBrRG
made his mysterious retreat from the
western front in order to get the frog
corps he needed 70 badly.
1t Is well established that the army
Of frogs whose great work the Crown
Prince described to the Emperor IS
composed exclusively of the hest bel
lowers In frogdom the shock frogs,
rs 1t were. And the song they sang
at Chemin dies Danes was the hymn
of the Roaring Ranids, Tartar Sauce
fiber Allies"