The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-07


Australian soldiers captured. together
with some Americans. during a recent en-
counter expressed their surprise that men
SO ill-prepared and ignorant of warfare
were allowed to take part In an attack.
/ The Australians are convinced that the
Americans cannot possibly decide the war.
as by the time they are duly prepared
1t will be too late. And one may judge
| how the Americans feel on the subject
from the following words spoken by a
prisoner:-'We were compelled to enlist
and then were forced to 20 to the front
| With characteristic German consistency.
the kaisers propaganda. when II is not
busy disparaging the prowess Of American
arms and picturing the utter impotence
! of the Yankee soldier, IL at work paint.
ing America as the mighty and friehtful
bugaboo that Is destined to reduce
France-and Spain. too. II she doesn't
watch auto a state of servile vas
salage. by her sheer force of absorption
and conquest In another column l quoted
enough OF an address Of Senior Cambo.
Minister OF Public Works. to show how
seriously he was alarmed" because OF
American policies. limiting broadly at
American ambition OF conquest" Ger
man propaganda Is like blunderbuss-it
scatters its charge indiscriminately. On
one day American troops are so 'fll pre-
pared and ignorant OF warfare as to be
unfit to take part in an attack. On tho
next day they are depicted as potential
md fearsome world beaters.
II any one Madrid journal merits the
encomiums showered upon the Catholic
press Of Spain for its Justice and i'm
Partially" by the German Catholic Press
Association il surely must be FL Correo
Espahol. that s'anch pro-German organ
Of the reactionary Jaimistas and clerica!s.
Declare French Doomed.
From its columns OF a recent issue I
Gull this GEM
Uncle Sans troops have begun to cut
down trees and overthrow houses and
castles in France for all the world as II
they were in a conquered country. They
have laid railways where they pleased or
wherever they thought II convenient 70
do SO. and they have tried. even II with
no success thus far, to send all the French
factory workers to the front and to re-
place them with their own people. VS.
must confess the Americans act logically
withal. Was 1t not agreed that they were
to come over in order to defend French
territory? What more natura! than thnt
the French should be sent TO the trenches
first? And IL they all perish and tho
Yankees are left in possession Of their
country il will not be Amer ca 9 fault, but
that Of the men who rule France.
1T is known that the United Sta-cs
already has spent $50. non.coo in the con-
struction and repair OF French railways.
over which LII American locomotives ard
ming. Another line now is being laid
between Paris and Bayoncc. The money
lent by America to France is something
fabulous.
IT never have believed and never wiii
believe that the American assistance will
contribute 70 anything more than a pro-
longation Of the war. but il is urdoub'ed
fact that Uncle Sans troons. little nv
little. replacing the English and
French armies all along the line. Whether
the Allies be conquered or not even"s
are proving that If tt, war Re prolonged
for one more year land unfortunately.
II looks like iO the interests which now
bind France and America together will
have increase greatly. giving to the
latter nation. whose noble intentions
most people-and particularly tn" Span
ards-have good reason to doubt. an ex-
cuse to take possession OF the country
they pretend to defend in the name Of
liberty and Justice
Some persons NAV think exa egerate.
but IL they could read the editorial pub
lished in L'Eclair of June they would
perhaps change their opir ion. The author
# the article. Frenchman, Francois
Poncetton. expresses his views in the fol-
lowing manner:-'We are in the presence
Of a new crusade and a curious one. in
which the Americans are acting the part
Of the old fashioned knights. Magnan.-
nous. II not heroic, hopes are centred
in It.
Only Playful Satire.
Let us speak quite frankly Our old
friends have made up their minds to civ
ilize US. Evidently they find US still some
what primitive. They are accompanied
by special missionaries to teach US how
10 live according to common sense ideas.
They trying to prove their superior
"a pa city in all kinds of civic service after
many useless efforts in military matters.
The first thing We are laugh. is how to
swat flies. Please do not smile. Those
things are to be taken seriously You
cannot lima CINE how all kinds of winged
Insects, accustomed to carry typhoid.
cholera and other microbes along with
hem. worry our friends, They believe it
o be sure proof of barbar!sn1 that these
Insects are allowed to live
After quoting some more Of Mr.. Porcst-
on's playful satire. Ell Correo Espahol
comments son1brey:-"And thus We see a
country like France. which. after leaving
Ter firing lines. her railways and her pub
ic adninistrat ton in strange hands. has
o tolerate a people who think they arc
lble to civiliZe the nation of all the
world which we all thought the very acme
# culture and refinement When tho
French endure all this il is simply because
hey cannot now manage without the help
# those who are hunliliating them, be-
ause II is too late to prevent tho
uave subsection Of their territory. But
when 'he war comes to end and the
Wish to shake off the American yoke. Tn
ortunatelv. il will be too late then and,
whether they wish to do or not. they
viii have to swat flies and obey the oroers
f the Yankees"
Horrible fate, And. Of course the moral
rhich FL Correo Espafol would deduco
s-Let Spain beware a like debicle,
And now. German propaganda through,
his just and impartial journal having
demonstrated to a nicely Row American
over and practical efficiency are about to
wallow unfortunate France for supper
nth proba bility of seeking Spain Cor
ext mornings brea kfast--aIong comes an
Their Of those literary high explosive
hells from Nauens wireless operator
'hle the pro-German newspapers OF
ladrid exploit under the caption. Amer.
AN Helm inefficient
Disparage American Help.
Il purports to quote the views OF the
military critic Of the Dutch journal
'ieuwe Courant" follows
II have always doubted the importance
American cooperation in the war. and
spite of the terrific propaganda carried
4 by al American bureau for this express
urpose. / am far from having Changed
y opinion. England herself has doubted
lat the American troops would eyer DE-
roy German militarism. The successes
lus far obtained b. the Americans hara
zen exaggerated by the Entente press r,
leh an extent as to remind us of those