The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-01

southwest of Ypres were the most frightful in
the history of the offensive. Germans were
moved down like grass. Whole regiments were
wiped out British and French stood against at
the carnage which they were inflicting.
One shudders at the cold-blooded mental and
moral disposition of the German general staff.
They look upon soldiers like so much inanimate
material that can be shuffled about on the battle
front like blocks and sent to death without COM
junction. If general believes 10000 men must
be sacrificed to win position, he forthwith sets
out to execute his plan with the calculating indif-
ference of man hiring five men to field
OF timothy.
The frightful contrast between the men who
are led to carnage and the who issue the
commands is wildly depicted by the Kansas City
Star in these words:
Over there on the Hndenburg line there gray
green of helmeted automatons human material
they designated in Technology OF the lordswho
daily sent forth with and flame and grenades
bechng and knives of steel to make offering of
their fodder and to hack hew, mangle
extermnae other of distinguished from
them by uniforms different color and helmets of a
different make.
Behind them are other gaily uniformed men
drive them their gruesome tasks with sharp cries
command and hssings of and contempt if they
alter fail And further in the Of the line beyond
of shot SHE'LL beyond the echoes of the
drumfire. luxurious apartments with servants and
coures wines and baths arpanes and motor cars
ready their beck and CALL sit other more gorgeously
uniformed with huge bodies and heads bend
ing maps, writing, debating bandyng courtesies
and exchanging military peasantres of speech And in
the security magnificience of his palaces the
preme lord holds council with the high princes of
Junkerdon whose behest the foodgates of hate and
blood were opened upon peaceful world
And the why of it all? Ask the supreme war
lord the princes council and they will pirate
niloquenty OF Cod kutur the faherland and world
err Ask the squareheaded generals and they will tell
you saents and sectors mastery victory
and German peace Ask the little captains who drive the
into the mouths and they will prae of duty
discipline. heroism and iron But seldom does
there come a voice millions in gray-green.
Theirs Why theirs but do and die. And
yet they each of them thinking minds beneath their
spiked helmets and they be thinking strange and
luminous thoughts they march into the valley of
DEATH linked cogs kaisers Categorical imperative
machine.
How long can the German people endure this
slaughter? Their morale must soon be under
mined by the casualty lists. The general staff
cannot indefinitely keep on slaughtering by
the thousands. Public opinion in Germany ulti-
mately will demand cessation of the butchery.
We do not understand fully the strategy of
the Allies but if General Foch is employing tao
tics that have only purpose, namely, to kill
off as many Germans as possible without riskng
decisive engagement while the allied reserve is
kept intact and fresh for final counter stroke
he certainly is attaining his purpose.