Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-08-30
MAKES THEM MAD
Berlin Crowds Don't Like Idea OF In
creased Age Limit.

Berlin Crowds Don't Like Idea Of In
creased Age Limit.
A remarkable demonstration is re-
ported to have taken place in Berlin
when a report was spread that the
military authorities intended to raise
the military age limit.
This started trouble in the poorer
quarters, and particularly in the Moa-
bit district, for in this district, which
might be called the Dover Hamlets,
or Bermondsey of Berlin, had been
circulated n report that the older
classes would be released from service.
Reports of the contrary decision
were received with anger and dismay.
Crowds, mostly Of women and old men
assembled in the streets and noisily
discussed the matter. Under the eyes
of the police, however, the crowds
melted away to their homes or went to
the cages. But at the former places
pictuEss u the kaiser the crown
prince, III bdenburg and Ludendorff
were takd from the walls and thrown
into the streets.
For some minutes there was rain
of pictures of Germanys military
great~ones pouring. from Bsriin's pri-
1ul1su i6s1laal elsaauI
the people gave vent to their feelings
by trampling the pictures under foot.
Some who fingered rather too long at
this business were arrested. For an
hour street cleaners were busy sweep
ing up the tattcrs OF thousands of the
gaudy Autographs, n spectacle which
was enjoyed by onlookcrs from many
a window in Berlin.
1T is now a life and death struggle.
Not for matters such as Belgium ana
Alsace- Lorraine are we fighting. We
must recognize that it is our all which
is at stake" So shouts the Cologne
Volks Zeitung in calling upon the pco-
pie to show themselves possessed OF
Hindenburg nerve. The paper rails
against the defeatists, declaring. I'VE
shall soon settle scores with the for
cign foes if the enemy at home does
not stab us in the back"
The same journal regards the fight
ing which Is now proceeding rs n
battle for the German fortress, and
laments that, unlike the Entente, Ger
many has to stand alone, because she
has no help coming to her. Other pa
pers express themselves in a similar
strain. and shout loudly for strong
nerves during the great double battle.
Ex-Colonel Gaedkc. in Vorwaerts,
declares 1t cannot be denied that Foch
has known how to make excellent use
of time and place and Of the element
of surprise. He calls Foch a shrewd
commander, with genius for decision.
This critic pleads for action on other
fronts, such as in Palestine, with an
eye TO peace conditions.
The critic of the Deutsche Tages
Zeitung can only comfort himself with
the satisfaction that the German
forces have still in hand a fair por-
ton OF the territory won during the
great offensives, and he warns his
readers that Foch has got n lot OF
plans and ideas in store yet. But a
great portion of the German press Is
treating the public to the most fam
tastic stories of great German VIC
tories. That sort Of stuff is pathetic
in the extreme.
The Vossische Zeitung correspond
ent devotes the greater portion of a
column to a description Of a fine
triumph in the Roye- Liancourt road
where the German infantry remained
victorious everywhere" He adds
that more than 100 prisoners and some
machine guns remained with them as
signs Of victory.
Strategically. the great battle was
long ago decided against Foch, one
paper declares. Another refers to the
retreat on the southern sector Of the
battle front. saying that the Divette
region has been "skilfully put be-
tween us and the enemy" while an
other maintains that the Lassigny
plateau was not conquered by the
French but "given up by US for tao
tical reasons"
The Frankfurter Zeitung Is angry
with Field Marshal Haig for claiming
to have taken Albert, seeing that the
town and surrounding district were
abandoned by the Germans at the be-
ginning of August. Everywhere" II
adds, attempts to break through are
shattered; everywhere the Entente
losses amount to SO per cent Of the
electives engaged; everywhere the
Germans are victoriously retreating.'