Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-23
Tuesday, April %, 1918.
1t is in possible to be just IL one
y not enerous.-Roux.
The German "Vietory"

Germany has won another grea
xyictory! Vice Admiral Won Capelle
German minister of the navy, won Il
in the Reichstag by deliberate lying.
After month Of frantic slashing
right ami left, in three separate
: drives" the most powerful Teutor
army that could be assembled has
been halted the third time.
And Gen. Foch, commander in
chief Of the allied forces. quietly
says:
I'VE hold the boehs waves, blu.
that is rot enough-we will do
something more. Our ample reserves
are still intact. We are satisfied with
the progress Of eventsc
But Germany was NOT satisfied
with the progress Of events. A vic
tory must be shown. for the people
needed .ha inspiration Of victory be-
fore the awful story Of slaughter of
I sons is fully realized, before the Ger
man homes know that every inch of
the ground taken in the 1918 drive is
needed for the burial of German
dead.
And so Won Capelle was chosen to
hearten the populace. He told the
Reichstag the cheering news that u
boats were being constructed faster
than they were being destroyed, and
that they (the U-boats) are destroy
ing the worlds commerce faster than
it can be replaced. He told them
that the American ship building boom
was failure and consisted mostly of
talk, and that Germany was steadily
overcoming all her foes.
All this must have listened good
to the poor dupes who have no means
|. of knowing that the naval secretarya
words We're about three thirds false.
hood. No doubt they subscribed
more freely to the latest war loan
and said farewell to more gun fodder.
weeks, he drive that was to end the
war in nine days, has been halted.
meet the people held to the war mas
tiers by mass attacks Of falsehood
ho OF oil ~,f
oligarchy. 1t Is said other divisions
are being hurried from the east and
from the Italian front to again strike
the allied defense.
That is all that is left for the Hun
to strike. The allies can wait. Gen.
Foch says his ample reserves are still
intact, and he is satisfied with the
progress OF events.
The channel ports were the objec-
tive, and for them Hohenzollern and
gling-and lying to the people at
home. How long can the day Of reck
oitiS no POotpoilSu.
If we have not been lied to as out
rageously as have the Germans. then
that hour the Kaiser breads is draw
ing nigh. Shall we doubt our own
common sense. Gen. Foch. the French
government, the British government
and our own, or shall we await In
courage and confidence while piling
up the defenses Of Liberty Bonds that
are - disheartening Germany?
The Washington Post says:
Germany must fight on. Despite
his knowledge that his armies have
already done their best and failed,
and that further assaults mean the
useless slaughter of his people, .Ho-
henzollern will continue the battle,
He has no other choice. His war
against the world was hN8Nn in
falsehood. on a false asSump4tAn, and
it has been maintained by 11hoOd
and false gains blazoped be11He the
Germans to coAceal real loase6. From,
start to finish. Honeni0tssxn's wal
has been a. We, ~ ef6an psbpas
have been Iiheura Fsre ~ Of ksss-
hoods. and their Sa11 fnastafs hal
filed thelnEftll. MOI he dSes, moi
dare to lak them know tho truth. Hi
does not d4re to tell thems that Ger
mau1seAHtagonists are stronger thar
ever, nksare forced by Hohensol-
lern'a Attocious policy to decree thai
the war shall not cease until the Ger.
man empire Is on its knees. Hohen.
sollern 10 afraid to tell the German
what he has done to 100000 Of thet
sons, whom he has butchered, blind
ed, manned and sent to captivity. HI
has nothing to show for these slaugh-
ters except some territory which h,
holds temporarily. and which he mus
deliver up when he hands over hi!
sword to his conquerors. Not a foo
of Russia or Serbia or Roumania o.
Belgium is German or will renal,
German. 1t goes back to the owners
along with other stolen goods which
civilization will recover from thu
spoiler on the day Of reckoning"
The New York Times says:
The German object from the frs
was the Channel ports. according t
the plan Of campaign as given in tn
diary Of q German oflcer which VI
publish today. The aim was to reacl
'Boulogne. Abbeville, &C." The frs
attack. that on the Somme. was 81