New-York tribune., 1918-08-29
Won Stein Exhorts
Huns to Emulate
Courage of French
Prussian Points With Ad-
miration to Their Belief
in Final Victory
German Morale Low
Newspapers and Officials Ap-
ply Constant Verbal Stirnu-
lants to Worried People

LONDON, Aug. 28.-Since the En-
tente Allies have wrested the initiative
from General Ludendorff on the West
ern front the effect on the German
people Is such that it has been neces-
Sary to apply continuous verbal stim-
GIANTS, and they are officially exhorted
10 be men, and to be "stout-hearted d. :"
lhere has been more than a sugges-
tion Of panic and it has been necessary
lor General Won Stein, the Prussian
ar Minister, to fill more than three
columns IN the Berlin newspapers with
reproaches to the people who credit
and repeat fantastic rumors of dis
aster. 1t appears to have been freely
stated among other things that Ger
many has lost 10000 prisoners in the
recent fighting and that the German
troops have been betrayed.
General Won Stein tells the Germans
to look at France for an example. He
says:
Every Frenchman believes in final
victory with steadiness which forces
admiration"
Germany Abandons Blows
Captain Won Salzman, who is usually
intrusted with the task of preparing
the German people for change of pol
ICY, elaborately explains, in the course
Of an article written for the "Vos-
slche Zeitung" of Berlin, that German
attempts TO form decision by means
OF much vaunted hammer blows were
really abandoned on July Is. Captain
Won Salzman declares:
Even the recent considerable tao
tical successes Of the Entente nations
cannot alter the fact that Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburg has brought
a Of ho ,r,b ;ol,
land and America are endeavoring to
prolong as much as possible.
Apart from consideration of loss or
gain of ground, it is to the advantage
of the Germans to entice the enemy
into the trackless, roadless and water
less waste Of the Somme
Lloyd George Versus Hindenburg
at must be admitted that England
was the first to turn the war into
world war. Thus Premier Lloyd
George, Field Marshal Won Hinden-
burg's great opponent, as so often be-
fore. is endeavoring to shift the centre
Of gravity of England and Germany at
the beginning of the twentieth CEN
tury. Germany, purely continental
power, fights for Europe, while Eng
land, world power for centuries, is
fighting all over the world.
at is to her interest to establish an
equilibrium on the Western front and
seek partial decisions elsewhere.
Final decision must be made in France.
Germany is just as ready to adopt
a new policy as to adopt new military
tactics. Germany must, however, rca-
lize that England's history clearly
shows that she can learn her lesson.
Striking proof of this is afforded by
her successful resistance to the last
German offensive. Germany's problem
in the fifth year Of the war can be
solved only if she is able to find new
ways and methods in the political as
we'll as military sphere"
German semi-otficial reports re-
ceived here continue to endeavor to
reasure the Germanl people by repre-
sent;ng the recent events in the West
as costly failures of the Allied forces
to attain a "break through"
One report says that the fighting Of
August 26, between Arras and the
Scmme, brought the British no nearer
this aim, despite their embittered ef-
forts to use all fighting methods and
fresh troops.
"By timely evasion and unexpected
counter blows" the report adds, "the
German command again and again i'll
ficted losses on the enemy. The extern
sion of the British attacking zone to the
north over the Scarpe compels the
british command to the ever more eX-
tensive use Of troops. 1t has, never
theless, been vainly struggling since
August p for a decision"