The Tupelo journal., 1918-06-28

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they are destined to do battle against
the best-trained fighting force the
world has ever seen.
Big Sea Fight Expected.
Admiral Won Tirpitz declared a few
days ago that the German navy is
soon coming forth from its land
locked harbors to sweep the Allied
fleets from the seas. Thousands of
persons, when they read that de-
claration, declared that it was a mere
German boast, another attempt to
brighten the enemy.
They don't look at it that way in
admiralty circles. Quite to the ON
trary, the allied fleets are preparing
for a great sea fight. They know
that the German navy has not been
idle in it's land-locked harbors. There
is every reason to believe that during
the past four years a vast new fleet
has been under construction, and Ger
many now believes that she has an
armada of battleships strong enough
to cope with the Allied navies of the
earth. The Kaiser knows that his
dream of world dominion cannot be
accomplished until his enimies have !
been swept from the seas, and that is
what he is preparing to do. The
statement of Won Tirpitz was not
oog;e m2n talk. II was a declaration
of serioas purpose
70 disgress for. a moment, here is
asoah1r little tip the writer desires
20 pass TO those who are hoping for
early peace; Don't discount the
~tatenents issued from the war office
IN Berlin concerning territory gained
n ofensives, prisoners taken, and
ann and munitions captured. The
German war office statements are
generally accurate-just as accurate
as i own. When carefully checked
up with the official statements from
Paris and London, you will rarely
find the Germans making false claims.
Ask any official in our own war
department at Washington who is in
a position to know, and he will admit.
the truth of this assertion. When
the Berlin war Office claims the cap
ture Of $4,000 prisoners, it can be
conceded that practically that.
number has been taken.
Deadly Propaganda.
With all possible earnestness, the
writer desires to urge the people of
Mississippi not to be lulled into a feel
ing of false security, when the press
dispatches sound encouraging for our
side. The German propagandists are
tickled to death when they hear talk
of that sort among our own people,
for they know that it will retard our
preparation for war, lessen military
activities and weaken the great ma
chine we are building for the crush
ing of the Hun. In fact, the German
propagandists right now are Stealth
" spreading this sort of talk, and its
continuance will have a deadly effect.
Take your case, for instance.
# you honestly thought, or had good
reason to believe, that the war would
end before the close Of the year,
there are not many sacrifices that
you would be wiling to make. You
wouldn't give any more subscriptions
to the Red Cross, the Y. NJ. G. A., or
Knights Of Columbus. You wouldn't
buy any Liberty Bonds or War Saving
Stamps. On the contrary, you would
your energies to getting ready
for peace instead Of doing your part
in preparing for war. And with
countless thousands of other citizens
holding exactly the same mental at
titude toward the war, our martial
spirit would quickly vanish.
1t has been a gigantic task to
awaken 10, 100000 peaceful, self-in-
dulgeat, extravaganza llxury-loving
citizens to a realization of the fact
that their eXfsCance is IN acLual peril,
thai their own lives are in danger,
and we must not tear down the great
work we have accomplished, or weak
the self-sacrificing spirit aroused
by expressing thoughts that have no
foundation save in our own secret
We have just commenced to pour an.
army into Europe. The 100000 men
we have sent across is but a mere
fraction OF the force that will be re-
CURED to achieve lasting victory and
establish permanent peace. They will
continue to go in great waves until
millions of [ boys are on foreign
soil, fighting with unfagging energy
until prussianism is dealt the death
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