The Jones County news., 1918-10-17

allies VIII feel what the power OF Ger
many is long before English conscrip-
ton can avail them anythingw
"And while England is slowly build
ing up her Insignificant army" the
kaiser went on, 'She win see Americas
navy and merchant marine constantly
growing and the dollar replacing the
pound as the unit OF the worlds
finance. No, Davis, England win soon
be sick Of the war and viii look with
fear upon Americas growing power r
The French army, too, was generally
belittled. and the Russians were be-
lieved to be absolutely negligible. The
French army was so poorly equipped,
1t was pointed out. that the officers
had to so TO the field in patent-leather
boots, and on the Russian front, only
the first-line men had guns. the others
| being armed with clubs
Eventually, officers and soldiers. re-
turning from the western front on fur
Tough or passing through the country
en- route from one front to the other
brought the report of the defeat before
Paris. Soldiers who participated In
that disastrous retreat wrote from the
new trenches to their friends and rel
atiyes telling of the terrible expert
ences they had undergone. when they
went for days with nothing to eat but
raw potatoes and turnips which they
picked from the fields.
When these reports finally spread
through Germany the people began TO
realize that their generals in the west
were not meeting with the same success
that Won Hindenburg had had in the
east and Won Hindenburg became the
idol Of the people Immediately, fact
that was very distasteful to the high
| command.
The kaisers dislike of Won linden
burg was of long standing. He had
never forgiven that general for the mis-
take he made during military r,aneuv-
ers in peace time when by a brilliant
stroke of strategy he had succeeded In
capturing the kaiser's forces, including
the kaiser and his whole staff
have referred In previous chapter
to the kaiser's unbounded confidence
utltT lnc ttbilhn cpllaBSS III l3lt
"e7oss. we've got the etiiosf'' 3ssses~as
claimed. with an air of concusiveness
which emphasized the optimism hs
displayed.
After the capture OF Roumania, he
exhibited similar degree of exulta-
ton. He believed that in that achieve
ment he had successfully solved the
food problem-the one cloud which
constantly darkened the kaiser's ho-i-
| zon.
"Now the allies will never sao,.eed In
starving us" he said to me in my Of
fee shortly after the Ronmanian drive.
with Roumania la our pockets and
Servia already ours, their wonderful
agricultural possibilities win supply
our food needs and foil our enemies
efforts to starve us. Indeed, they had
better look out for themselves. Don't
forget we have a monopoly on the
potash mines of the world. Without
proper fertilization, American crops
will go on decreasing and decreasing
| and they won't get any potash until we
get ready to let them have it,"
The failure of the Zeppellns from a
military standpoint was undoubtedly a
| great disappointment to the German
| people at large, who had counted so
much upon them to bring disaster to
England, but 1t cannot be said that the
kaiser shared their chagrin. On the
contrary, have reason to believe that
he never expected very much from that
arm of his military force except as 1t
might be useful 10 terrorize the civil
population.
A day or two after zeppelin's death,
in 1917, patient Of mine, lady, hap
pened to remark that it was too bad
that the count had not lived to see the
triumph of his invention, and when
saw the kaiser shortly afterwards
repeated her remark to see what he
would say.
II am convinced that the count lived
long enough to see all that the Yep
pellns were capable Of accomplishing
was his only comment. 1t recalled the
answer he had given me some years
before when both Zeppelins and air
planes were in their infancy and haC
asked him which held the greater
promise. "We do not know. Time
alone Will TELL" was his reply.
The last time conversed with ths
kaiser was on November %, 1917. UI
to that time we had sent over 169,0ol
troops, according to the figures which
have since been revealed by Secretar,
Baker. According to the kaiser's In
formation, however, we had only 80,
600 men In France at that time ant
he was of the opinion that we woult
never have many more.
America is having a fine time try
Ing to raise an army" he declaret
satirically. II hear that 1,600 mutinlet
the other day in New York and re
fused to get on a transport, and {
town in the Northwest composed prin
cipally Of citizens of Swedish bloo'
refused to register al all We are get
. ting excellent information about al
conditions in America"
: Shortly before this had come the rev
: elations from Washington of the in
trigue of Count Won Luxburg, the Ger