The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-01-30

uAuSA ASN~AAAS AAS SOoSSAo AA~~'S "
we AMERICANS
ARE PiG-DoGs .
But they were not downcast these
thin supermen. Indeed, they were
swanking bit. And schdeinhunding!
To schweinhund is to name-call ones
enemies, particularly to name-call
them schweinhunde-in English pig
dogs term quite meaningless as
you may see, save to Germans. To
them the word implies touching bot.
tom in all that is low in the hu.
man. ...t~...y.
And why shouldn't these thin su-
permen swank and schwefhhund? Had
not Russia accepted defeat by agree.
: ing to an armistice In the east? Had
not Italy been taught her. place in the
south? And were not millions of good
Germans and thousands, of good Ger.
man guns being brought from the east
to the west? And was not the finish
ing blow about to be dealt the enemy
there especially the British and the
Americans, pig-dogs that they were:
HOPE FOR WEAKNESS r..
ON. y. s. LIME ~. 80;
1t was hoped and believed that
the weakness sought would be
found in that section of the line
held in part by the Americans.
These troops would be green.
They had come far and perhaps
would not be so well equipped as
the French and British.
There was to be no waiting on
weather conditions, no putting off
operations for a conventional
spring drive" The big lupge
forward would not be delayed an in
stant after reserves were stationed
and the weak points in the allies
line determined. .t.
"The KAISER" so the word came,
'is ready to spend million lives to
break through this time"
Literally Hindenburg would hurl
his men forward faster than the guns
could kill them. LET THE TRENCH.
ES FILL WITH THE BODIES OF
THE DEAD AND WOUNDED. and let
the living sweep over them in great
waves that would engulf the enemy
and win the war.
But Christmas time came and went
New Years passed. January was
slipping away. And still no drive.
Weather conditions prevented 1t, some
said. "T0o much snow; too much
mud.' etc. y, Doubtless there were
plenty of both. But they were not
what delayed the drive.
WHX THE DRIVE
WASN'T DRIVEN
Back of these delays stand two
reasons-reas0ns as big as noun:
,tains in Importance to the allies
cause and in menace to the kais.
er's. These reasons are:
/. ONE: The unexpected attitude
Of Mr.. lenine Of Russia.
TWO: The unexpected attitude
Of the Hungarian troops when the
news was broken to them that
they were to leave the calm east
and 90 into the fiery west.
When the armistice was arranged
with Russia the Austrian and Hun.
garian troops thought their JOB end
ed. Indeed. 1t appears that the whole
eastern front thought the was was
over, or practically over, when Rus
sia declared for a separate peace. 1t
is not surprising that the invitation
to step out of the safety zone and be
killed had in 1t some of the elements
Of shock
The Hungarians protested at first
in whispers to one another. Then
some of the bolder ones began to talk
out loud.
MAGYAR REGIMENTS
ARE SPLIT UP.
The order to delay operations in the
west was given. The wholesale move
ment of men and guns from the east
to west was stopped.
Obviously Germany could not strip
the Russian front of troops with Mr..
Lenine acting as he was. And, worse
still, the Russian people in mass
were showing hostility to German
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