Williston graphic., 1918-07-11
THE LONG PULL

THE LONG PULL
Are We halfway through the war? The idea that
the end draws undees the scholarly comparisons
with what happened at Waterloo, and the newspaper
editorial assurances that Germany strikes now in
frantic haste to win before America do her part
The deeper indications to be that the end is
rather far off, We must distinguish clearly between
Teuton policy and the Teuton agency which abors
to make that policy less bitter to the German people,
No horse hauled load of hundred tons: the
work is done ton at time with intermittent
OATS water, and rest In the way Postdam keeps
the German Michel gong-just this final task and
then peace. But why should believe Potsdam?
These gigantic attacks in Picardy, in Flanders past
Rheims to the Marine, and so on may very we'll nave
been intended to establish new line of battle from
which the boche might destructively lombard Paris
and the great industrial district of the lower Seine val
ley. Holding the northern French coast would enable
the boche to multiply the submarine peril and to bring
various English cities under direct gunre; for which
work this Infamous longrange shooting at Paris is
rehearsal 1t will be noted that Foch let the Germans
go the Marne barrier (when he had to bu: put his
power into breaking their effort to work westward.
Huge they are, these great drives into France
but parts of larger pan and it is the scale of that
which must get in mind if we are to see this war
as it is. The Teutons working it out rather
fully, as is indicated by military experts revlsons
of their earlier (and too rosy) estimates OF compara-
tive Allied and German losses Prophecy dangerous,
but it safe to predict that when-and 1.-THE
German feet goes out to attack, has been much
rumored, it will sally forth, not Intentionally to COM
NIT suicide but to support drive for Calais The
recent, much -chronicled submarine raids along our
seaboard certainly intended to divert both
the German people and the American navy from even
grave matters. ....
The rulers Of Germany are looking forward to
world of armed brutality and armed fear in which they
will be the masters of still greater empire. For this
they want to establish battle line through France
easier to defend and Gripping to their enemes
Behind it they might be able to drag the along
Matching trouble among the Allies and drawing aid
from the enslavement of Russias broken remnants II
Ludendorff has. system to make fighting men OF re-
luctant convcts from the German prisons, the same
system will work with conscrpted aliens. The Prus-
sian army has been JAIL since the first FREDERICK
We have to win peace, not merely to defend our
Selves and it is the long pull that will bring the victory
-"COlliers."
G-R-A-P-H-IIC
DON'T USE YOUR HEAD-USE NINE
SAYS THE KAISER
Sid Says in the July American Magazine:
"Ivan S. Rossiter, Canadian soldier, has just been
in to me. For year he was German prisoner
When the Germans caught him he was badly wounded
in the right hand. They took him to hospital, where
without the of anesthetic they c't of one OF
his fingers and removed five pieces of bone from his
manged wrist They said that they had anesthetlcs
to spare for use on 'schweinhund' and added that
they were saving their anesthetcs for their wound
ed soldiers. Rossiter showed what is left of his
hand It isn't much, and what is left is of use
except reminder of that German surgeon who op-
Grated without giving an anesthetics.
"While Rosster was in Germany, he moved
about from prison camp to another until he and
other prisoners exchanged for German prisoners
held by the Allies This moving process was the
most interesting thing he described. He was never
allowed to stay in place more than few weeks
In the year that he there he in nine different
prison camps located in various parts of Germany On
each trip the train that transferring these wander
ing prisoners stopped at every station. German off,
got every time the train stopped and told
pie that the prisoners all ones-just taken!
Rosster says that excursion of this kind began at
four o'clock in the morning and lasted until late at
night And always at every station crowd of people
to jeer at these new prisoners many of whom were
French and Begans who had been in captivity for two
years. 1t got to be like theatrical troupe playing
one-night stands-ony far more boresome for the
prisoners allowed to leave the trains to
communicate with the crowds that to them.
Rossiter says that company of British artillery
takes the palm for touring Germany in the guise of
new prisoners. They were captured in the fall of
1914 and they are still playing to packed houses.
"In other words-fool the people and make monkeys
of them is Germanys policy. Bismarck believed in
that idea He once said that it is impossible to over
estimate the stupidity of the human No doubt
the Kaiser feels just contempuous about In his
mind, men are nothing but many tons of flesh and
bone to be used to push back boundary lines.
uTh;s is for he nurnOse of preventing human