The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-11-20
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mans, offfiicers and privates alike, will
remain a blot on the name of of Ger
many to the: end Of all time The
world has been So well inf ormed
concerning those brutal crimes that
II is unnecessary to recapitulate
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e. Having overrun all but narrow
strip Of Belgium, the Hun armies be-
gan what Berlin fondly believed was
to be a triumphal march to Paris.
England's-= little regular army was
thrown across their path and fought:
and died almost to man, and side
by side with them the French Poilus
contested every foot. They were
pushed back slowly but surely until
the Marine was reached and crossed
by the invading hosts and the CAPT.
tol seemed to be within the grasp of
the Huns. Then came forward the
first heroic figure of the war Mar
shall Joffre of France. Commander
ing every motor vehicle in Paris, he
rushed to the front the entire force
left to defend the capitol and in
mighty battle along the Marine the
Germans were defeated. They had
spread out too much and permitted
their right flank to be turned and
were driven back to the northeast.
Reaching lines prepared with this
possibility in view they ''dug inn and
then began a period of trench war
fare that lasted for three years, in
the course Of which there were no
remarkable gains of territory by Ell
ther side.
! Under the management of Lord
Kitchener Britain's millions were be-
ing enlisted and trained and trans
ported to the battle grounds. Not
only from the homeland did they
come, but from Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, India, South Africa
and all of the far-hung possessions
of the empire, with an ardor that
settled for all time the question of
their loyalty to that empire. Ireland
alone held back to considerable ex-
tent, hoping to gain independence
and making itself the Matching
ground for many a German plot
Kitchener's great work practically
accomplished, he went to his death
when German submarine sank the
cruiser on which he was going tc
Russia
Germany'S Submarine Warfare.
In the first months of the war the
; British fleets, aided by the Japanese
took away Germany's island colonies
and then, having almost full mastery
of the seas, established blockade OF
Germany designed to starve her into
submission. The reply to this was
quick in coming. The Germans start.
ed out their submarines at once, and
|'began building more and bigger un'
dersea vessels. Disregarding the rec.
ognized laws of warfare, they declar.
ed unrestricted war on all vessels OF
their enemies, and a murderous car.
eer that finally resulted in dragging
the United States into the conflict
and bringing defeat to themselves
The first notable victim of this
method of warfare was the Lusi
tania, more thar thousand OF
} whose passengers persisted. On this
and many other vessel that was sent
down by the submarines were Amer
lean citizens, and there was power
full demand on our government tt
stop the practice or to enter thu
J war.
;, For nearly two years President
Wilson held back, writing numerous
notes of. protest to Berlin and re
ceiving an equal number of fals'
promises. Early in 1917 Berlin an
nounced that submarine warfar,
thereafter would be unrestricted-a
it had been in reality most of tn
time and there was nothing left tn
United States but declare state O.
war with Germany. This was don
: on April and from that fateful da,
the doom of Germany's great con
spiracy was settled.
> Americas Wonderful Effort
: With amazing energy and spee'
America went at the tremendou
d task Of making an army out of it
civilian poulation. There were man
5 mistakes and many delays, but thes
are almost forgotten fin the contem
0 plation of the marvellous success
with which the thing was accom-
9 plished. After long and heated de
: bate, the selective draft system o