Evening star., 1918-07-28
R'SSETbACKS
DEPRESS GERMANS
Stoutest Prussian Hearts Are
Dismayed, Says an Ameri-
, can Official.
FIGHT IN DESPERATION
BIZ EDWARD PRICE BELL.
Cablegram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, I9IS.

BIZ EDWARD PRICE BELL.
Cablesram to The Sunday Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 191S'
LONDON, July 27.-Dismay is grad
ually asserting itself over the stout
est Prussian hearts, according to an
American official who reached Lon
don this afternoon from IAN observa-
tion post" we'll situated for following
opinion in the fatherland.
Three possibilities are assuming
the character of a nightmare IN Ho-
henzollern circles" said this official
to me. First they discerned what
looks like slow evolution of national
conscientiousness in Russia. support
ed by a prudent positive policy on the
part of the entente. They are ex-
tremely anxious about the develop
ments. both at the European and
Asiatic ends of Russia They fear
that these developments portend the
growth of a firm political framework,
around which a real Russian democ-
racy will rise to power. How terrffy-
S4ern mind free peoples with their
present knowledge of the Hohenzol-
lerns will have no trouble in imagtn-
ing.
Czecho-Slovaks Alarm.
.The czecho-slovak proceedings in
Siberia have produced CONSERVATION
in the central empires. Neither Ber-
lin nor Vienna could believe the sto-
ries of the deeds of the Czecho-Slo-
vaks, so weighted were these stories
with evidence of enterprise, resolution
and ability on the part of new force
in Siberia. There is no doubt that the
history of this movement will make
one of the most extraordinary mar
ratives of the war.
Secondly, Hohenzollern circles are
astounded at the failures of Luden-
dorff and Hindenburg in the westN-
failures that fall so heavily on the
prestige of the kaiser and crown
prince. The glorious promises of vic
tory and peace have not been full
filled and this is a matter of resent
ment from one end of Germany to the
other.
Little wonder that the kaiser is be-
coming daily more haggard. His
gnawing question is: Where will this
thing end?' All his preconceptions
about the Americans have brought
him only grief. He now knows that
Germany cannot crush the allies in
the west before Uncle Sans armies
attain appalling proportions. 1t is no
Germans will drive the British.
French. Americans and Italians into
the sea, but as to whether the Ger
mans can keep their own territory
fkee from invasion. This apprehen-
a9bn is all the deeper because Of the
its rumblings of storm.
Economic Outlook Disheartens.
Thirdly. every day intensifies Ger
many's alarm for the the future of
her industry and commerce. She fore
sees herself in an economic desert
crying in vain for the water Of raw
material. Herr Arthur Feiier, in his
study of Germany's economic prob
lens, comedies that there can be- no
victory for the fatherland-indeed,n no
life for the fatherland-without the
exclusion of every form of economic
warfare promoted by the states. He
and commercially, lies with the en-
tente.~>
'.At this realizat tion Hohenzollernism
stands agasp. 1t sees in the situation
its death warrant. 1t hears again this
time not as AN fmpudent empty
breath, but as the hard voice of
reality, the words of President Will
son echoed by every first-rate states
man in the allied world pronouncing
the doom of irresponsible political
power
=. Fights in Desperation.
!. In conclusion the official. whose re-
marks may be taken as entitled to the
most unusual consideration, said:
This very plight picture should
work we must do. So far Hohenzol-
1ernism is Germany. Self preserva-
Son inspires its thought and tempers
PITS will. 1t will fight to the last
ditch unless the nation breaks up be-
meath its feet. OF such a breakup
ion
will quit the Marine salient only il
utterly unable to hold it, and she will
fight everywhere else with the spirit
of desperation"