Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-19
Monday, August 10, 1918.
An Omnibus "Lull"

res. war front because millions OF
men are not, night and day, driving
With every means of modern warfare
in a titanic clash for mastery 1t Is
2 "lulr'-after terrific offensive
int history is making every hour and
thousands Of Human bodies are being
sacrificed daily to the Hun God OF
war. Many of them are brave Ameri-
can boys. or the sons of France, Eng
land and Italy and those fighting side
h. side with them. but the greater
rt:centage is made up Of German
youth offered up by the war masters
in a gamble for power and treasure.
If you ask why German youth,
We shall answer: Because the Lu-
dendoff policy has stripped the Ger
man army of it's best troops fu
shock battalions"--the troops that
arc left are not of the physique, moral
or training of the Teuton troops of
1314-l5-16l7 or the spring of 1918.
Military experts of the world esti-
mate the German losses since July
IS, at from $4,000 to 100000 men. to
say nothing of the gruesome slaught-
er of hundreds of thousands in the
I've strokes of the Hindenburg drive"
before the counter offensive was
sprung by Gen. Foch.
The relentless pounding, all along
the front, by the allied forces, day
after day, is the history making eff
fective of which we speak. Every
day the voice of admitted defeat is
louder throughout the German en-
pire Three weeks ago the press of
1Iuncons, in roundabout way,
limited to the people that the tide Of
var mad turned. Two weeks ago the
language was palmer. A week ago
they began to place the blame. Now
they openly admit defeat and declare
the Picardy reverse the worst sus-
tanned by the Teuton army.
But the defeat is not complete
While over here we are talking 'lull."
and are listening for another tre-
raendous blow in Flanders, in Italy,
on the south west front or, mayhap,
again along the Marine or the Aisne,
over there they are hammering the
life and morale out of the German
amy and people.
III this is too rosy don't swallow it,
but we are offering these facts as a
basis for the demand to redouble
every American effort to knock out
.he enemy while he is "groggy" and
staggering backward
For few moments let US consider
the ground for our growing optimism.
Looking eastward with the Kaiser)
we can see, as he now begins to see,
dark Ito him) clouds gathering on
ths Russian horizon. These Ito HIND
forebode renewal or sanguinary war
fare and entailing the loss of many
divisions from the west for defense.
With him (this Prussian war lord) we
see the tumbling into scraps of pa
per" all the Brest- Litovsk treaties.
The tide of natural distrust, ingrown
jealousy and age-long hatred of any
thing Prussian. is swelling through
out all the Russian provinces and peo-
pies. against the Hun invader and
usurper
Added to and leading these Slavic
elements against the Teutonic, the
Htn baby numbering Kaiser sees
Yankees and British and French. in
tar north Slav land. driving the Ger
mans and Bolsheviki south from
Alchangel; he sees Japanese and
Americans, British, French and Ital-
ions moving west from far Vladi-
vostok; he sees the Don Cossacks and
kubans uniting TO oppose the German
menace in the Russian southern ter
r''or,: and he sees the British sud-
denly looming large after a spectacu-
Ia march TO Baku. the great oil CEN
ter on the Caspian sea. There with
Russian and Armenian troops they
are swelling into a force to defend the
Great oil wells and 10 cut off the Ger
man supply
An" ne the Hun DESTROYER of WON.
snnoodl hears the swelling OF the
voice Of 100000 Russian soldiers
awaiting only the arrival Of allied
leadership, arms and food. to take up
TIE advance against the Kaiser's ia ct
TAXING hosts OF "kamerad" yowling
epwards, ravishers and torturers OF
innocent and helpless.
Looking further with this monster
of greed and hell -inspired methods Of
warfare. with him we see an Ameri-
can army already powerful enough TO
hnrl back the best that Germany can
produce and other armies to TIE
fumter OF millions of men, in the
faaking-and we hear the mutterincs
Of an hundred millions of aroused
Americans now ready to pour on;
their blood. their treasure and their
.nrivalled resources to down forever