Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-05-06

les have fallen. They imagine that
the war may last through the winter,
even throughout the next year, when
in reality il has come TO its last act,
with it's announcement close at hand.
But In spite Of all this they follow
with bind trust the orders given
them.
This confidence, this spirit, this
.,:oly ardor are the principle causes OF
our victory. They constitute the truc
national war in which moral force will
always remain Il predominating factor.
Spirit Crushes Machine.
Facing these allied armies. inspired
by such a spirit, what can the pro-
fessional qualifications Of Ludendorff
accomplish? He, as well as the gen
erals about him, is an excellent off,
Ger of the Frederisian epoch. They
represent the Prussian officer type,
With its good qualities and defects, the
machine for leading soldiers. They
lack that which Bluchcr, York and
their comrades had-the inner fire.
In the, chain of Prussian fighters they
skipped a link.
I'm 1918 there is no idea, no real
moral force in the German army. nor
in the whole German nation; nothing
but a gross materialism. What the
emperor:cult amounted to was sown
the day the emperor collapsed and took
shamefully to fight, abandoning his
Headquarters and his routed troops.
Respect for. and glorification of, brute
force, war conceived as colossal
plundering expedition-those!2 are all
there Is to he found at the bottom OF
the German soul-and they certainly
are not much.
"As long rs the militare machine
goes we'll, all is well. and insofar as
material organization is concerned. the
machine was admirably constructed.
But when there came gratings and
crackings then-look out for disaster.
The German people show themselves
inca pabe Of resistance; in vain Lu-
tlenGorff, who utterly fails to under
stand the truth, rcdoubles his appeals
and criticisms, and urges the govern
ment to make levee en- masse. to
reprcss with pitileSs severity all de-
Elonstratians. in favo: Of peace. Such
demands, which take UP the whole
final part of his memoirs. are proof Of
great naivcte. total lack of vision
and political sense The real state Of
mind, tho real situation. Of the Ger
man people. completely escape him.
RE fails to. understand that the spring
Of the German nation is broken
What in the devils name was the Ger
man government to lean upon in or
der to undertake a policy of reprcs-
Sion?"
Recouly asked Marshal i'och wheth-
er there were not purely technical mil
tary reasons contributing. along with
the lack Of moral force, 10 the defeat
Of the Germans in 1918. There were,
agreed the great rrenchman; and, lis
ing from his chair to walk more up
and down the room, he told about
them thus:
No Plans Beyond.
ar we take. rs IN example, the Of
fcnSives Of the last year OF the war,
sc find that Ludcndorff. with refer
cncc to the tactical details Of the oper-
atuns organized his attacks admir-
"bly, s''narlatively well. The mcchan-
ism of these operations is perfect; in
Fact you could not hope to find any
thing better. But these offcnsives have
no plan beyond thcm-that is the
main criticism to be made OF them.
IN other words. Ludcndorff prepares
and cxacts wonderfully well his first
act. but seems to lose his interest
when it comes to the second and third.
One finds in him no conception of q
whole, no plan Of vast scope"
Ludcndorff, declares Marshal foch
made no such far reaching plan. Each
of his offensivcs seemed to peter out
between the tenth and fifteenth day
after it's launching, To he followed by Il
long pause during which the allies had
time TO recurerate and prepare for
another blow Then Lrdendorff would
do the same thing all over again.
maintaining the same "rrthm" in his
attackS--which is no way, remarks
toch TO get decisive results.
Suppose" he continued, that the
German attack Of March ., 1918. which
from the outset, won such signal sue
cess because it utterly crushed an en-