El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-18
HOW WILL THE
KAISERENDW WAR?
VIII He Attempt to Wreck
as Much of the Civilized
World as Possible?
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Germans turned a peaceful. smiling
country into a wilderness which ue
flies all description Here are vi .
| lagos which are not even the shells
of houses. A blur OF powdered brick
dust upon the black horizon alone
| marks their scene. Once they were
| the ornaments of France-red rooted
with their old Gothic churches. lying
/ amid a network of white roads, which
! poplars and acacias, or even apple
! trees. bordered- Now you shall see
! no roads save those which our en-
| gineers have made.
| Every tree that could bear fruit,
every trunk that could har the way
TO cannon or to soldiers, has been
! ruthlessly cut down. The wells. we
I are told, have been often poisoned
by cTNeosote added to the corpses
could not be carried away were
! burned: and the women. violated
often and the subjects of unspeak
I able outrage at German hands, were
driven off as sheep to terrors even
Only the very old and the Infants
crept forth from the cellars OF this
! desolation. Sometimes even the in
1 FAINT has been crucified on the barn
doors. or the eldest son dren ched with
paraffin and lighted to make a hu-
man torch for the fiendish invader.
BOBBY Traps.
These are notorious things. We may
ask what further could the Germans
have done. and it is difficult to say.
There were never such BOBBY traps
as they have set for the unsuspect-
ing helmet thrown on the road
became bombshell when you touched
II. A pencil case upon the chimney
piece blew off the fingers of the man
who tried to write with It You
turned the fingers OF a clock and
we're hurled into space. a piano
blew up when you touched the keys.
The nail upon which you went TO
fired a mine at any contact. and half
q street was shattered Even the pic |
lures upon the walls were traps. and /
the soap with which you washed, |
burned with vitriol the fingers Ct
the man who would be clean
Upon a greater scale. We had mines
at every cross road, in every thicket. |
beneath every relic OF a house which /
remained; not mines. be II observed, /
that necessarily exploded within a 1
cunning contrivances which would ex-
plode week. a fortnight. or even a !
month after the victorious troops had
taken possession Of the shelter.
So clever. indeed. is all this that the /
allied infantry must go with a BOBBY Il
trap txpert to lead them. Not a thing
must be touched. not a yard Of the
ground unexplored. for the imprint OF
the German is everywhere. and his
writing upon the wall spells death
Fleets Last Stand.
In accord with probability, is the
belief that the whole German fleet
will come out headlong directly defeat /
looms upon its horizon. and will be
sacrificed to the last shin in the hone
OF inflicting an unparalleled injury
upon the allies navies. Such a great
battle seems to be inevitable. for II
the enemy fleet Is to be sacrificed
anyway should peace come, what OBJ
iect can there be to keep it in its
harbor? Better that II should perish
to the last ship in that mad on
siaught. when the Zeppelins sea
planes and very shoals of mines. II
win endeavor to put 100000 men upon
British shores to ravish and destroy
in last mad orgy.
Invasion of Britain.
There are generals OF great name
today who certainly believe that this
great attack win be the eliminating
act Of Armageddon. The certain de-
struction of the 100000 men Will not
matter to the Germans. They have
always believed-falsely. as ! think
that II 100000 men could be landed
on these shores. they could accomplish
a work OF devastation which would
cripple us for years. All the villages
near the seacOast and some OF the
more considerable towns would bt de- I
stroyed
Possibly they think panic would !
overtake Great Britain
Decisive Afr Battle.
Certainly the Germans viii not sur !
render until they have made an at
.ack from the air. which IS in keen
ing with the immensities Of the world Z
war. Some people seem to think that G
fhev NAV send airDlanes here in very ,
large numbers while the new year
Is still young. but when peace looms.
It Is quite probable that every airshio
hey possess may be loosed upon our :
shores. and that we shall see a fight I
upon a scale which the maddest ro-
htrdly has conceived possible. I
Many believe that an hour after the y
last German soldier has quilted Brus- |
sells. the last of its houses will be I.
aflame- There will be no fire en-
zines. for the Germans will have de-
stroyed them. There will be no food.
FOR he will have carried It away. 6
There will be no corn grown, for the :
yround viii have been so doctored by )
chemicals that any wheat taken =
POISON to those who eat It, And thus {
hail kultur be justified and the =
World taught its lesson.
Germ n RrHSi8n Trick.
The bacillus idea has throughout
,een the great idea of the German q,
mind. In the very early stages Of
he war he spread the cholera ge---s ;
lmong the Russians. and for a while \
e Droduced a mild epidemic in
ialicia- Poisoned sweets were
ropped in France and have been
ropped galore in eastern villages.
Many fear this even after peace.
lew and horrible diseases even can
10 invented; meningitis made a
lastime cholera a mild recreation.
nd tetanus a thing of joy. We should
ever suspect the fat and homely bag
ian who tries to sell US a paDer col
sr OF device to put the bacillus of
into our blood or to
liant an epidemic of typhus In a tea
up. Yet such may be his foul pur-
oses even while he shakes our hand
nd periodically cries, Rule Bird
ania."
Death In the airs death upon
the sea; the destruction OF our at