The Washington herald., 1918-01-30

We Americans Are PIE-Dogs.
But they were not downcast. these
thin supermen- Indeed. they were
swanking a bit. And schweinhund-
ing! To schweinhund is to name-call
ones enemies, particularly to name
call them schweinhund-In English
pig-dOss-a term quite meaningless. as
you may see, save to Germans. To
them the word implies touching bot
tom in all that is low in the human.
And why shouldn't these thin super
man swank and schweinhund? Had
not Russia accepted defeat by agree
ing to an armistice in the East ?
Had not Italy been taught her place
in the South? And were not millions
OF good German guns being brought
from the East to the West? And
was not the finishing touch about
to be dealt the enemy there, es-
pecially the British and the Amer
leans. pig-dogs that they were?
OF course. a lot OF 1t was word
spreeing. The waters Of their infor-
nation wells are sweetened with do
sire. But into the reservoirs OF the
American intelligence department
there trickled a limpid stream of ex-
act data.
Every railroad. every trolley line.
every wagon road IN Germany was
choked with men, guns, munitions,
moving from east to west. At Cologne
there had been massed the greatest
number OF cannon ever assembled at
one spot in this world. At Mannheim
were more guns. Hundreds OF thou
sands Of men had been moved, and
millions more were to be moved.
The plan of strategy would be a
series Of test attacks along the
western line for the purpose of de-
termining where the enemy's great
est weakness existed. Once found
this weakness was to be battered by
a force outnumbering anything ever
before known, under cover Of a gun
IRE that would make all gunfires Of
the past seem trivial Cologne in the
north and Mannheim in the south
would be the distributing points for
men and guns.
Hope for Weakness on U. $. Line.
It was hoped and believed that the
weakness sought would be found in
that section Of the line held In part by
be green. They had como far and
perhaps wocid not be so well equipped
as the French and British.
There was to be no waiting on
weather conditions. no putting of
operations for q conventional Spring
drive" The big lunge forward would
not be delayed an instant after re-
serves were stationed and the,<@eak
f-fa In. aI14aas Aafnrrafnad
The Kaiser" so the word came,
''is ready to spend a million lives
to break through this time"
Literally Hindenburg would hurl his
men forward faster than the guns
could kill them Let the trenches fill
with the bodies of the dead and
wounded. and lee the living sweep
over them In great waves that would
engulf the enemy and win the war
II is the cold truth that at this
sage the neutral countries Of Eu-
rope were convinced that Germany
would defeat tae allies in the coming
battle. The one true gauge OF neutral
opinion is the money market. A
nations currency is like the stock of
a corporation II the company is known
to be facing disaster, its stock drops
In value in the market II Il passes a
peril and appears to be in a fair way
TO regain a subs a It,aI basis. its stock
rises In value So with a Lation's
currency.
German Currency Has n Boom.
German currency. six months ago
one Of the poorest investments in Eu-
rope. now rose by great jumps in
Switzerland and other neutral coun-
tries. II all but went to par. Austrian
money advanced. too. though not so
last or 50 far as German. American.
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