Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-24
GERMAN PAPERS BERATE
U. S. AND GREAT BRITAIN
Only Aim Of Next Offensive Is to
Prove to Us That VIC Arc
Defeated.
DAWN OF VICTORY" is NEAR
Press Argues That VIC Arc in Ter
ror of Tcuton Attack in West, Be-
cause 1t Is Discussed by Our
Journals.
international News Bureau
[ COmnilCd bH j. j. nONdan.l


The Leipzig Nachrichtcn was. In pre-
war days. an unusually sensible news
paper. But since the war. it seems. :he
once famous university city newspaper
has experienced terrible mental
change. Il an article in one of KS
crrrcn: is-ues. we find the following
Teutonic venom poured out in truly
:, Gyp- the Blood style:
Every people shall decide its own
destiny. Thus breaches Mr.. Wilson
across the ocean. This is the same Mr..
Wilson who holds this boas,fully pro-
claimed doctrine quite compatible with
The purchase OF entire nations.
The purchase OF Dutch Guiana has
been professionally contradiCted, i; Is
true. but as America needs the coun-
try, the plan will doubtless soon be
carried ont. Wilson bought the Danish
West Indian Islands, Roosevelt bought
the Republic OF Panama. Mckinley
bought tho Spanish archipelago in the
Pacific Ocean and annexed the Philip
pines by conquest.
To the almighty dollar all is per-
United: il Sancti!icS violence and rob-
berry. fraud. deceit and the bartcrins
OF entire peoples.
AZ the side of this monstfous Mr.
worthy windbag. Lloyd George. talking
utter drive! by the yard about .Alsace-
Lorraine. II is all Barnum. Barnum
east and Barnum west which can in
jurc us no mere than the bite OF :. ilea
stu. it would not do to allow this
poisonous weed OF puerilc war talk and
defamation to grow too luxuriantly.
Barnum and his crew must be dealt
a crushing blow from cur iron fist
right on their big chattcring shouts.
The task is not a pleasant one. GER
;sinly. but it must be undertaken"
The Nossische zeituns is a Hun
newspaper with q high circulation,
published in the interest and for the
pcrusal of tho high "Hun respectable
ity." Among Germans it is better
known as the old Woman She.
the odd Woman" makes the follow
ing comment in preparing the German
people for the coming butchcry in the
west:
ATTITUDE IN WEST PROVES
HONESTY or GERMANY
The fact that i; = not we who are
the meters to war and that linden
burg and I.udcndorn only make use
OF the means at their disposal 10 Sc
'u't n minimum 'l tHc!I rights is
proved by our attitude in the cast
For our generals it would have
been an easy matter to march on Pctro-
grad and Moscow and 10 conquer
those cities. Did they do so? No. This
proves that the generals are willing
10 work hand in hand with our poll
;icians.
our enemies in the west may be
assured that the war which is con-
Quoted against them is merely means
OF policy. nothing else. We do not
carry on war for wars sake \ Ger
man offensive in tho west would only
be the EXPRESSION Of our political will
TO show the antagonists that wc have
never been beaten and tina, VIC can
only treat with them on footing Of
perfect equality.
To-day they ytill maintain that
they have wrested from US the milf
;ary victory, therefore, VIC shall have
TO prove TO them that they are mis-
taken. This only is the aim of our
ncNt offensive. only when VIC have
done that VIII tho time bc ripe for
peace
The crodu!ous old woman" ,.vcs-
s.sehe HcitunsD also publishes the fol.
lowing
In ;h4.Prisof. camp a, IIclls,orf. in
lianovtr. ,.hs E-itish prisoners havc