Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-03-15
BIG PLUMBER QUEST
OF HUNS DENOUNCED
BY GERMAN PAPERS
Invasion of Russia, After Sign
ing Peace Treaty. Renders
Promises Idle, Declares leu
ton Press

WASHINGTON, March 14.-G-r-
many's plumber quest in the near east
is doing more to spur America and the
allies to a rousing war spirit than any
thing she has undertaken, not barring
U-boat warfare, according to the view
of officials today. 't
And, her path toward the golden Per-
STA, Afghanistan and India is not strewn
with roses, for Germany is encounter
ing the opposition of her own people
while there are uncharted military snags
in the path of any ambition she may
have toward India.
Capture of Odessa-golden key to a
rich wheat country and stopping point
on Germany's new route to the cast
far from causing gloom here only serv-
ed to stir the war spirit. Thoughts Of
peace have gone glimmering for a long
time ahead, and, to put it plainly, the
war capital is manitestly just getting
mad.
RumauIa Arouses Sympathy
Game little Rnmania has aroused the
admiration of officials and her fate has
stirred their ire. Austria and her mas
ter partner Germany are condemned on
all hands for their humiliating and
ever-growing demands on the helpless
nation.
And, this condemnation is finding it's
way even more into the German press
than into the American. Long extracts
from Teuton papers just reaching here
show that the Germans doubt the wis
dom of militarist tactics toward Ru-
mania and Russia.
The Russian peace, say these organs,
will prove boomerang. Germany, they
declare, cannot maintain the territory
she has grabbed, and she has cast aside
for the future the friendship of a potent
neighbor. The papers see her more and
more an outcast, and feel that the thou
sands of square miles added have been
gathered at too great a cost for the
future.
That Germany has dreams of new
route to the east In place of the Ber-
lin-Bagdad scheme is the thought Of
military men -generally-the Black sea-
Notwithstanding is the route
she now dreams OF, but military ex'
perts say there ARE difficulties" before
her If she attempts a, Equalization, 4
Peace by Conquest
Germany's talk of peace by negotia-
ton compared to her Russian and Ru-
manian peace by conquest make her
promises idle, say the German papers.
Every nation shall remember German
terms as terror of terrors," says Die
Zukunft. and all the Germans as ac-
completes in the great deception. The
menace OF a new future war is the
fruit of the Russian peace as seen by
the Leipziger Volkszeitung. Germany
has short-sightedly jeopardized her flu
ture and effectively supported England
'tottering supremacy" by her tactics,
says Vossische Zeitung. G er m n y
energies from war in the east without
friends or reliable allies, says Vor-
waerts.
The first concrete evidence of the
new war spirit here is the speeded-up
shipment of trops abroad.
In Chief-of-Staff March's own words.
he is cutting all the strings" and
shooting them across as fast as it is
humanity possible to do so with avail
able tonnage. Supply questions have
been attuned for this faster transport
plan, and the result is that Germany
will have more trained Americans OPP
posing her this year than either she or
the military men here had anticipated.