The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-19
GERMAN SPIRIT
REVIVINC FAST
War Machine Has Crushed
Both Bolshevism and
Revolution.
ARMY OF FARMER LADS
Their Munitions Better Than
Poland's and Now Border Of
Russia Is Under Their. Guns.

(BY ARNOLD DOsCH- FLEURoT)
Warsaw. June 21.--fSpecial Gable
Dispatch to N. Y. World. )--Germany
is herself again--her old self. After
tfounderin garound through eight
months of revolution. she has re-
gained her poise, and feels sure OF
her old imperial self again. All she
needs Is a war lord.
The change in Germany In the past
two months needs to be understood
because 1t Is dangerous. When left
Germany in April, after going
through five months of the ups and
downs of revolution with tho Ger
man people, could see they had been
driven toward democracy. but I
thought IL was because they had been
confused by the constant spartacan
| revolts. But crossing Germany, as /
have Just now done, from west to
east, I find Germany so comfortably
settled back into her old ways that I
can hardly believe there was ever a
revolution there. Perhaps there never
was In the true sense. There was
only a great defeat.
.BoIshevisn "lroned Out"
After two months away from Ger
many two things struck me at once.
First, the bolshevik danger is over
in Germany. Noske's army, his
junker officers and farmer boy SOL
diers. united with what Hindenburg
succeeded in saving of the old army
have crushed revolt. They had the
materials of war, everything from
their iron hats to their endless
strings OF machine gun ammunition,
and they were directed by the same
old excellent German general staff.
They rolled their artillery around
Germany these past two months and
ironed bolshevism out.
Moreover, they rolled with this
iron hatted farmer boy army up
along ''the corridor into Russia" and
ironed out Lithuania, Courland, Lif-
land-everything right up to and be-
yond Riga. They did this at our be-
hest. Part Of the armistice con-
ditions was that the Germans should
police that squirming borderland and
they are doing first-class job Of it.
They did it under orders from Spa,
but the job was not distasteful to
them.
Our idea was not to leave them
there forever, but the Germans,
whose historical sense is excellent,
remember that East Prussia became
German because the Poles once in
vited some so called German knights
to go up there and police that region.
In those days the parlance was that
they had gone up there to Christian
ize the heather Let's. But they built
some German forts, brought in a lot
of German settlers, eventually made
the country German, and now the |
Poles cannot get to the sea without |
being squeezed
Old War Machine Busy.
Second: AS bolshevism went down |
Imperialism came up. For bolshevism |
was put down by the imperial type of |
German, the junker officer. He knew |
how to put an iron hat on any soldier |
stuff and make it move. When the |
Noske army was first beginning last |
spring 1t was really funny sometimes !
to see how much hardware there |
would be surrounding one callow,
palefaced youth. His solid looking
boots, a string of potato masher'
bombs strung around his waist, with
a rifle thicker than his arm and an
iron hat apparently about to crush
him, he was something for a burly |
lnshaven disarmed spartacan to see.
Without his hardware the spartacan
could have knocked him silly, but in
this case gunpowder not only made v