The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
WOUNDED TOMMIEs CHEERFUL

sa nds throughout every part of England, let me tell you that the most cheerful, happy hearted men in the world today are the Tommies who are returned in a more or less fragmentary condition from the fighting front. They are always chaffing and laughing and making light hearted jests about their experiences. Sometimes they may argue concerning some battle detail, but in one thing Tommy Is wholly and entirely in agree ment with his fellows. and this is in his belief that "old Fritz is done'
 The English soldier has respect for the vast numbers of Germans that the en- emy can throw into the field, but for the staying power of his antagonist he has supreme contempt.
 So no matter what may be the pub 1shed news of battles and raids at the front, the wounded Tommy safe in hos pital in 'blighty" has only the same comment to make-"Wait a bit. Fritz Is losing is wind. E cant stand up against us!'
 I once heard an American say that no real Englishman could ever realize any thing except victory in fight, and I think 1t must be true, for it is this spirit that makes the civilian soldiers of Great Britain what they are today, and it is this same strain of splendid fighting stock that makes Uncle Sam's boys move heart to heart and shoulder to shoulder with their British brothers and allies.
 CONTINENTAL PRESS
 I am feeling rather "warful" this week, and it is perhaps for this req son that I am attracted by a para graph in New York paper, com menting on the discovery in the lines of the Italian army many copies of paper called '"The Continental Press that is being freely used for propaganda purposed by the German authorities.
 This seditious and terrible paper was originally published in Berlin for the benefit of the English and Amer ican colony in that city-of course. before the war. It was owned, oddly enough. by the wife of an English man who was for several years Ber- lin correspondent to great London daily. Then he was offered the edi- torship in London of powerful morn- ing paper. He accepted the post and moved with his wife (who was a Viennese by birth) to the English cap ital. Madame retained, however, her control of "The Continental Press" and the English editor at her request put more money to it's credit, for the viennese said that it's value would in crease and the income she expected | double itself
 The fortunes of the Daper did, in- deed, improve, but in the meantime the English editor and his Viennese wife agreed to differ" She hated England and specially London. with a deadly hatred. while her husband ob- 1ected to the German friends with whom she filled their house, and al- together life became very complicated for the pair.
 Then war broke out and the situ- ation became still more deNcate for the editor of the great London paper. His wife Viennese. his house full of Germans.
 Things were said and whispered and during the sayings and the whisper ings the wife one night slipped out of London by some amazing maneuyer that no one ever understood and re- turned to Berlin, where she took up the personal control of "The Conti- mental Pres.' which has since become the most active and virulant organ for stirring up dissension and sus- picion among. the allies that Germany can manipulate.
 "The Continental Press" used to be published only in English. now its doctrines are being circulated in the languages of all the allies and by its poisonous influence Germany is trying to undermine the steadfast re- solve of our fighting forces. It is