The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-14

at the AIT Board. S6I Ca1H4y tuo 0cI- mans will not surrender until they have made an attack from the air which is in keeping with the immen- sities of the world war. Some people seem to think that they may send aeroplanes here in very large num- bers while the New Year is still young but when peace looms it is quite prob able that every airship they possess may be 1oosed upon our shores, and that we shall see fight upon a scale which the maddest romancer hardly has conceived possible. For this we shall be prepared and should it come. I doubt not that our airmen will once again attain that mastery which they have lost bat for the briefest periods latterly.
 In that hope we shall face it calm ly, as indeed, we face with equanimity the threats of the German professors. One of the latter, a, gentleman who is evidently not well acquainted with ships, makes the suggestion that all the German mines should be cut loose as a last resort, and sent adrift in the North Sea. He seems to forget Herr Ballin and all the Teutonic mer- cantile marine, which is waiting to capture the worlds trade directly the joy-bells ring out. These ships might fall foul of the mines in question just as German bagmen ready to do business in Brussels might be serious ly handicapped if the cities of Bel gium were all burned to the ground, its water supply destroyed, and its money carried away to Germany. Yet this is one of the phantoms of fright fulness." One hour after the last Ger man soldier has quilted Brussels, the last of it's houses will be aflame. There will be no fire engines, for the Huns will have destroyed them. There will be no food, for he will have carried it away. There will be no corn grown, for the ground will have been so doc tored by chemicals that any wheat taken therefrom by the peasants will be poison to those who eat it. And thus shall Kultur be justified and the world taught it's lesson.
 The bacillus idea has throughout been the great idea of the German mind. In the very early stages of the war the Hun spread the cholera germs among the Russians, and for a while he produced a mild epidemic in Galicia. Poisoned sweets were dropped recently in France, and have been dropped galore in Eastern vil- | lages.
 | Now comes a savage Hun to ask why wage a second world-war? Why not make peace, and then proceed slowly and deliberately to poison your enemies until not one of them be left The good man evidently thinks it could be done. Let the German re- sume intercourse with nations that have beaten him, and then let him
 plant his bacilli everywhere.
 New and horrible diseases can be invented; meningitis made a pastime, cholera a mild recreation, and tetanus a thing of joy. We should never sus- pect the fat and homely bag man who tries to sell us a paper collar of a device to put the bacillus or hydro | phobia into our blood or to plant an epidemic of typhus in a teacup. Yet such may be his foul purposes even while he shakes our hand and
 periodically cries: Rule Brittania. ''
 Death in the air; death upon the sea; the destruction of our atmo- l the poisoning of our water supplies; the blasting of every great memorial of art they can lay hands upon; the laying low of Brussels, Bruges, Ghent,
 and the incomparabIe Cathedral of Antwerp; the plotting out of every great high road in Belgium-the pill Iage of even the sewing machine in the cottage-the carrying away of  necessities of the meanest homes, all
 these are in the German plan. She
 will feed herself from Russia, but
 Flanders and Eastern France shall
 not be fed at all.
 A Dreadful Picture
 As a last resort, she will deliber-
 ately starve the people in her keep
 ing. She will butcher the prisoners,
 kill every horse in the land, leave
 nothing of barn nor byre standing.
 Her airmen will be sacrificed by the thousand to wipe out our civilization; her ships will be sunk by the hundred to do our navy mischief. And in every
 enemy town where Germans still con gregate they will arise and run amuclz like a Malay with a knife in his hand Blood and death and black murder; foam at the mouth, and eyes which see red. Such is their picture of this
 amiable race.
 We can look back upon it without fear. The Hun has done these things
 while he believed himself to be vic. }, torious; but I feel that he will think twice about doing them when he is ; beaten. He has ever been a boast.
 CT, a giant roaring from bloody cav , ern. But the ideas show the drift o1 the German mind, and madmen are always dangerous. However we shal have him on the run yet; and being on the run he will think first of hi! , own skin. Indeed when writing O. him, I recall the latest story of the
 colored man ill America who was ask. , ed to enlist in the cavalry, and re. ) pIied-''No, boss, no; when that re. treat is sounded I don't want to be { hampered by no horsei' It will bt l the same with the Hun. No horse fol l him, thank you! CBy The Interna. tional News Bureau, Inc, Boston t MasS)
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