The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-24
AS BERLIN SEES IT.
Mixed Fear and Contempt Over
Success of Americans.
Critic Afraid of Yankees "With
Their Unbroken Nerve"
TURN ANGRILY ON AUSTRIA
Spitefully Remind Vienna OF
Her Indebtedness to Kaiser.
One Paper Says the Americans
Have No Guns or Rifles.

London, July 24.-German press
comments upon the fighting on the
western front are peculiarly interest
ing. Some journals are frankly
lachrymose while others undertake
the uphill task of cheering up the dis
appointed German public.
The Koelnische Volks Zeitung is
angry and says there is 10 ground for
concealing the fact that in the ranks
of the German troops were deserters
who utilize their knowledge for base
treachery to the fatherland."
But the newspaper endeavors to re-
assure its readers by saying that fur
Their severe battles are impending,
adding that not only in the region of
Rheims, but also on the Marine, the
Germans are confronted by new tasks.
1t urges them not to allow the small
tests made of their patience to give
rise to all kinds wrong speculative
conceptions.
In the Vossische Zeitung, which is
famous for it's previous insistence that
| England should be beaten to her
knees, Captain Won Salzmann is al
lowed to say that the general pros
poets and the enemy's determination
are such that he can only shake his
head mournfully and hope for a set
Element 'as between equals"
Moment of Reckoning.
It is, he declares, the moment OF
reckoning which has come, and he
endeavors to comfort his readers by
saying that this war 'tfor the father
| land, freedom, honor and independ.
| ence' can only be won If dark days
| strengthen the determination to hold
| out. THAT is how 1t affects me-" he
| danIaraG q
noble example for the fatherland tC
| follow. But he is frankly afraid OF
''the fresh Americans with their un-
broken nerve"
| On the other hand the Loka1 An
zeiger processes to be not one little BIZ
| afraid Of the American menace. Il
knows how careful the authorities
, have kept the German people in the
| dark upon the size and quality of the
United States army in France and
therefore it reverts to. the old-fash-
| oined dodge of stimulating contempr
for it. 1t says:
"Americans Have No Artillery.
THE American army is evidently
| lacking in the one essential-the will
| to fight In any case the American
army will not be numerous enough to
play an important part until 1920 and
| then only provided the transport diff
| ficulty is got over and the munitior
Industry ueVelOpeu from us present
| nursery stage. Our submarines will
see to the transports and America will
find it impossible to create a gigantic
| industry and a gigantic army at the
same time. Ammunition, perhaps
| but guns cannot be cast in sewing ma
chine factories. At present the Amer
| lean soldiers are without either rifles
| or artillery"
The Rheinische Taeglische Zeitung,
| looking for help, turns angrily on Aus
tria. ut is all very WE'LL" it declares
| for Count Gzernin to declare that the
war is now a duel between England
| and Germany" It begs to remind him
that there is a war between Austria
| and Italy, and spitefully reminds Aus
tria of her Indebtedness to Germany
! and of the need for Austria to do her
| bit. The Austrians, however, are be-
I coming weary of shedding their blood
| in the cause of German aggrandize-
| ment