New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1918, Page 10

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Beach Thomas Visualizes De- cline of Germany’s World Dream That her Germany “lost the war” when U-boats sank the Lusitania and | that when the peace will come next year full of ' combined the military might that of her, America, Allies, the fight- be in France and Flan belief of the Allied mi < expressed by W. Beach Thomas, who i s country fresh from the Br headquarters y In Current Opinion for this spokesman of the Allied Command goes further the present great drive is Germas acknowledgment that she must w now or never, and that German defeat will come in 1919 with the “armies not far from the cliff of trenches that join the floods by Nieuport to the neighborhood of the Swiss mountains where the French are clinging to one small reach of German territory.” He writes: with is i hurled against ing may still is the ry leade though High “Oscillations there will be, victories land defeats there will be at this and that spot in the line; and one day there will be a symptomatic defeat and victory from which any observer, whether he is seer or no, will be able | to deduce with some certainty the progressive decline of one side or the other. It is inconceivable to the mina | of any leaders among the Allies that this progre: ve decline—this spot on | fair fruit of the alliance—can appear among them while America, with her | 100 million people and resources that defy arithmetic, is heart and soul in the cause. We may have defeats, but not progressive defeats. Those are reserved for the Central Powers. When the first of this sort comes, peace will De in sight. Germany will not wait— i neither her population nor her army authorities will permit it—till she tumbles back in successive failures upon her own frontiers, and the tar- gets for the growing hordes of air- men come nearer and nearer, and the boom of the Liberty engine at last foreign music over German Further: “American influence on the war will resistible; her ships, her men, her wealth, her will. When Tirpitz rose victor from the interview with Beth- mann-Hollweg and the U-boats sank the Lusitania with a pair of torpedoes, | Germany lost the war, whatever may be the date of the proclamation of peace. The cardinal reason of the new German offensive, up to and over the old battle ground of the Somme, | is the conviction in Germany that 1919 is America’s year, and that if Germany is to force any sort of vic- tory she must force it in 1918, before America is ready. And not late in 1918, “The German public has just begun to understand that the U-Boats, which *;\‘ »S 2 and 3 strap Louis Heel, and Kid $ 5 Pumps, 2 .9 Patent also plain Pumps $4.9 White Oxfords in high ‘White Buck new heels, ball straps A special value able Kid, Shoes Regular ‘Wash- cut Jace $5.00 all the also some with $4.95 $6. A W From $4.00 Up WE GIVE AND REDE MODERN BOOT SHO Havana Brown Kid, also Patent Leather NEW FANCY SHOES for SPRING and SUMMER WEAR Such as a Field Mouse Kid and Lightweight Cloth Top to Match THE N TRADING high heel Oxfords, $3 95 A Real $6 Value RED CROSS Black Vici Kid Oxfords A PATR $5¢00 NEWEST IN ME COMPL ¢ LIN AMOTUS L. Douglas SHOES ALL SHOES OF THE GUARANTEED STAMPS —168 MAIN STREET— (NEXT TO THE NEW BRITAIN SAVINGS BANK) | drove i ing, ! e | Germany they i factories. and says that | s | { directors. | EVERETT J. LAKE fHe's America into the war, have failed, are fail- to compel a decision. the everlasting see-saw between offense and defer the which was inferior, has begun to a level. The people of the 1 Powers lost one ground of con- but this was the Sarly in the war some Iinglish residents in London were rned by close friends in Germany to eave England instantly as it would made untenable by Zeppelins. Nearly all the general population in believed this, as they will believe anything they are told ‘from thove.” But one fetish after another has proved a false god: and now both the public nd the High Command have been driven hack to the old faitn that the army and only the army their shield ana their buckler. To act as a shield alone was not enough, so prepared with little concealment \deed, with much advertisement of ers and Hindenburgs—to amass biggest onslaught ever conceived the mind of man or hatched in his It was no secret to us. “I spoke with one of the most thoughtful and successful of our gen- erals at the end of January, as he re- turned to France from Italy. ‘The Hun,' he said, ‘is going to attack us good and proper. It will be the vast- est thing in drives ever imagined. But the more he attacks, the better for us.’ The German is a great learner; much more remarkable, even in military affairs, as a learner than as an origin- ator. He learned and amassed for this attack almost all the forms of ‘fright- fulness’ used against him during the war. He copied our trench mortars— much the best then invented—and our trench artillery. He doubled their number. He copied our deadly device for throwing gas in cylinders from martars. On the advice of General von Armin, who commanded against the British in the Somme battle (I have seen the general's memorandum) he equipped his infantry with hand- carried flame-throwers, which are chiefly useful for inspiring terror. He built little armored cars for carrying forward ammunition, of which ab- surdly exaggerated accounts were In the defer K. the by published in Germany for public con- sumption. He made light, very mo- bile guns much on the American model. He built vast underground tunnels and caverns capable of con- cealing a d ion of men at a time, and concealed in them first his ‘storm troops,” then his reserves. He brought up not only fleld guns and howitzers (especially the standardized 5.9’s), but almost enaugh long-range guns of a semi-naval type (they were planned and manufactured in Austria) to drop a curtain of fire on lines of communi- cation ten miles back. More than this, the German had prepared the whole ground of advance a year before, a thing never before done in the history of war. * * & “British doctors as well as intelli- gence officers examine most of the prisoners. The doctors find that a great number of the vounger classes of 1918 and 1919 are as much as two years behind the development proper to their age. They have been under- fed in uncomfortable homes. The in- telligence officers find in regard to their spirit much the same that the doctors find in regard to their bodies. The young recruits are not among the best and cheeriest soldiers, as almost without exception are the young Frenchmen. On the contrary, they are continually courtmartialed for complaints and rebelliousness. They come from homes where the women- folk have for two years talked of lit- tle but of the struggle to get food, of death and wounds and the hopes of peace. The warrior; the Berserker, spirit is no longer theirs.” On the other hand: “During breakfast at Amiens, at the very height of the Somme battle in 1916, I was inveigled into a discussion on the morale of soldiers by my im- .mediate neighbor, Mr. Lloyd George. ‘Military men,’ I said, ‘united in say- ing that “there is no courage like the first courage.”’ ‘Aha,” he answered, with the quickness to develop an idea that is his leading characteristic, ‘that is yet another reason why we must win.' His poeint is much strong- er today than when it was made. One of the many inestimable gifts that America will bring the Allies 1s a con- stant supply of this ‘first courage,” and it will perhaps include new courage in the domain of general strategy as well as on the stricken field. “About this same time, too, I had a long discussion with one of the bet- ter-educated German soldiers, a man of high morale and education. He said: ‘We are in the position of men who have put all their money into a company and are wondering what is happening to it, but consider that at present the only chance of saving it is to leave things in the hands of the That cannot go on forever and it will be very bad for the direc- tors if they lose our money.’ A few days later I found British officers de- fending German artillery prisoners from a physical attack by their own infantry, who were furious at the lack of artillery support during the battle. “It fallows that if this period of the coming summer is bridged, as it will | be, thenceforward the sc: should swing quite quickly in the Allies’ fa- vor. American ships, guns, airplanes and, above all, men, will prove first an immovable buttress and later an irre- sistible ram. If this inference is true, | we come very near to finding a date | for the end of the war. As soon as the weight is preponderingly against | them, the Central Powers will strain | every nerve to’ make peace, at any | rate before the winter of 1919, which will be America’s vear.” OFFICIAL GREETER | the First Man Americans Sce | | When They Debark at Certain French Port. New York, May 10.—A message to | mothers who raised their boys to be ! soldiers was brought back from France by A. R. Gay, chaplain on a government transport which is carry- ing troops and supplies overseas so fast that permission for a 60-day lay- off for repairs has just been refused.! The first man the American ers hen they debarlk : por d Chaplain Gz retary of the Y. M. C. A. mer Licutenant-Governor Cannecticut, who is in charge of all the Y. M. C. A. work at this port. Thereafter, for the 24 or 48 hours be- fore the soldier moves on to a camp near the firing lines, if you want to find an American trooper, go to the Y. M. C. A. headquarters, the lunch- raom or one of the numerous huts | which are scattered about the city. “The Y. M. C. A. may be described as an oasis in the desert. The Amer- ican boy has just come overseas full | of siasm and fight. He is no weakling, but his heart sinks a little as es upon the unfamiliar As he goes ashore but French, until the . M. C. A. secretary and his workers push through the throngs with a hearty handelasp and give him a wel- | come to the country whose people are bearing the brunt of the fighting. “From then on the Y. M. C. A. is the American’s port of call. He likes the food served at the lunch-room. Four young women, emploved as wom- en warkers for the Y. M. C. A., speak his language. He is glad that he has come to France. He knows, or will know, that no matter where he may g0, the Y. M. C. A. is going with him. He may be captured, but the Y. M. C. A. is going With him. “At the French port where we take our soldiers and supplies as fast as we can go back and forth across the ocean, the Y. M. C. A. has the hearty cc-operation of the military and naval authorities.” On the last trip, the transport car- ried many reels of film for the Y. M. C. A, through the courtesy of Chap- lain Gay. He called recently at the headquarters of the National War Work Council, 124 East 28th street, New York City, to report that he had delivered the fllm, and that in grati- tude Mr. Lake had invited the crew of the transport to one of the huts, where a special program had been arranged for their entertainment. fight- French “is the s there—I0 Lake, of Established 1886 GLOBE CLOTHING HOUSE You Can Come Here and Be Absolutely Certain of Good Value. HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX CLOTHES, $20 Up. y A Right Size for Everybody in Our Union Suits. little Distinctive Styles in Children’s Straw Hats, 50c to $2.50. The Finest Styles of Children’s Blouses 75c and $1. 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