The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-08-13
Americas Participation in War
and Conditions in Austria
Brighten Enemy.
PEOPLE BECOME AROUSED
Bombing Raids BY Allied Air
planes Over MunitiOn Centres
and Fortified Towns Alarm
Population.
(By HAROLD EDWIN BECHTOI..


many is scared white.
She's scared, first of all. over the
turn OF things on the west front:
over the thousands of Americans
regularly outfghting her; over tie
hundreds of thousands of Americans
waiting to get into line; over the
millions of other Americans ION the
way"
This information comes from an
allied source whose business il is to
know conditions in the enemy coun-
tries.
She's frightened about Austria
She doesn't know what moment Aus
tria may blow up, She knows what
is known and conceded in official al
lied soNrces-that the Austrian eco
norfic situation is worse now than it
has been since the opening OF the
war. and the people are bolder.
She's frightened about Russia. AL
lied warships and American troops
up north have puffed out her hope
OF getting her hands on the hundreds
of thousands of tons of military
stores at Archangel. there since the
revolution; she can't take step to-
ward Petrograd or the northern rail
way lest these allied forces swoop
Gouth: and for all she knows they
may be going to swoop south without
waiting for that menace; she can't
spare men from the west front, and
armed Intervention by Japan and the
allies in Siberia is a fact
Bombing Raids Scare People.
She's scared over the bombing
raids the allies now make almost at
Will over her munition centers and
fortified towns along the Rhine; she
fears to think of the effect of these
raids at home as the people grow
more and more frightened
She is frightened over the fiat fail.
ure of the peace feelers she constant
ly sends out through scores of diff
ferent routes; she expected her con.
tinued blows at the west front thi.
summer would put the allied powers
in a receptive mood
She is frightened over the failure
Of the .submarine;,- as against her
boast that the Usboat- wonhl bar
Amerieau tt9ops from Europe. the
Yankees are coming over-thou-
sands of them each week-and the
losses through sinkings are less than
any of the allies had dared hope.
She is scared over her after-war
prospects, being constantly warned
in public bySher own thinking men
that her position among nations af-
ter the war is hopeless without a
thorough. sincere house-cleaning.
She is frightened over her dwind-
ling man power ,,and the possible
fruits of the ksiser's extravagant
promises in the spring, OF victory
this time" And Voss' Gazette in an
inspired article says the German
commands new motto Is now "econo-
my in human life" The Gazette
adds: "A new method of attack has
been evolved, which consists in call
ing halt. directly resistance is too
stubborn and trying again else
where"
Spirit Shelves Brute Force"
In an "all-is-hell' editosial con
Tossing real anxiety over the Russian
situation. The Hamburg Nachrich-
ten pessimistically summarizes: The
danger grows from WITHOUT bnd
within"
The Vossische Zeitung throws iight
on food conditions in Germany ey
these native remarks: "The frk.twj
years of the war troops in fsiie
field received extra food from tiAdr
relations at home. Today all that :
reversed. and food parcels from the
front play an important part in nour.
ishing the home population -
Brute force--"might is right
has always been the German mbtto.
but fright. does strange things To
people. We And Captain Erich. yon
Salzmann, German military crjtlS
trying tGscheer up the people as fol,
lows: