The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-05-18
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satisfied with their lot and bear patiently the hardshps
and privatiOns Of war" Then he added;
The offensive goes well ahead. Already
900 English have been put hors de COM
bat and 1900 guns have been captured. Ev-
erywhere the French must help. Our oppo-
nents have had bad time. They deserved
/ nothing else. Our task in the west will be ac-
compshed, but we must be patient We can
not settle in a day armies of millions.
We shall obtain our aim. Difficult tasks are
before u.s. but to deal with these we have eff
cient workers.
Whoever is faint-hearted be patient" says Hohen-
zollern. "It might be worse Look at the devastation
we have wrought. Let that be substitute for food
Look at the ashes and cease to lament. Be satisfied
with your lot if you are starving to death Don't
ask me about the victory was to win in March, Be
patient Don't keep clamoring for bread We have
killed many English. Consume that thought as a sub
sttute for bread. Be satisfied. Bear patient your
hardships and prvatons. We have hard work ahead
Don't make it harder by asking for bread when there
is no bread"
The German emperor sings tune quite different
from the paean which he chanted in March, when he
took personal command Of the armies that had reached
"the turning point Of history" At that time he as
sured the German people that the supreme hour had
come, when the mailed fist was to strike the fatal blow
In to the rising clamors of his people he prom
Used them early and overwhelming victory over France
England and America which would compel them to make
quick peace Germanys terms and enable the German
people to fatten themselves the spos of the whole
world. He attempted to make this promise good by
sembling all his forces and striking with all his might
He failed. The offensive that began March Fl end
ed within a week with loss Of 100000 Germans 1t
Germany Of the devastated ground of which
the emperor spoke so feelingly There was not loaf
Of bread, not potato not piece of sausage in the
whole Three hundred thousand Germans lost and
not scrap of saueraut in retun That was the turn
ing point of history but turned the wrong way for
Germany.
i Then the realization by the emperor and his
generals that the end of German power was in sight
The allies had taken Germanys measure The reserves
of Germany were all assembled The reserves of the al
lies stretch back to America into reservoir containing
I2OOOO,OOO men Of military age, equipped with all the
resources of the New World This appalling fact burst
upon the ated emperor and his captains on the day when
the French and British armies breasted the German
waves and shattered them 1t is fact which must be
concealed from the German people by every trick and
device known to desperation and mendacity Not until
the German power is crushed not until the empire is
Tits knees win Hohenzolern his attempt to butres
his dynasty with the bones of Germans He will saugh
ter them down to the last rather than yield his
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continue to kill you off, Starve until need your car
cass to stop the allies bullets. Don't ask questions
Don't learn the truth Be satisfied to starve and die"
| The Germans are starving and dying but they are
not satisfied The emperor would not have spoken al
he did, if his people had been satisfied and confident
The ugly and menacing note is hard The people ar,
not satisfied to look upon devastated France as recon
pense for their privatons and losses Too many Ger
sons and brothers lie in devastated France to maxi
the region attractive The conquest of this devastated
region means the recovery and enlargement of Ger
graveyard but it does not mean victory or bread
1t hope deferred more privation more son
and brothers slain, certain exhaustion and defeat
The imperial assassin is approaching the breakin,
point With his enemies arising in enormous irresistib
in the western world with the nations Of Europ
unconquerable and gradually exhaustng his armies Ho
henzoIern now hears the unmistakable undertone o
warning from his own people, telling him that the en
lis approaching. he must defeat the world or die H
must satisfy them with victory or with his head. H
has slaughtered their millions of sons They are begin
ming to ask for an accounting His falsehOods ma,
postpone the reckoning for a few days or week
mere moment in this stupendous tragedy The nescap
able climax draws near-Washington Post.
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