| Show K I Other Points of View f GERMANS CURSE U TT The combination of or the crop report of or August 1 which guarantees against an any food tood shortage so far as grains are arc I concerned and the successful movement of oC the tho British and amI French forces In the more northerly portion of f the I allied line in the Amiens Montdidier-Amiens region is cause for fOI rejoicing In America and the reverse re of tho the situation in I Germany There the food shortage Is at the short ra ration ration ration ra- ra tion stage at Its best In best In the army army and and at the dnn danger er imp of ot hunger among the tile civilians If It the recent defeat at the Mama l and what looks strongly like a duplication of or the same tactics around Amiens and Montdidier arc ad added the explanation for tor the gloom throughout the empire becomes as plain as the kaisers kaiser's sword I Of OC almost equal significance is tho the common condemnation nation n amon among tho German people of or tho the colossal failure of or the submarines submarines' to stop tho the transportation of ot the American arm army to France Why hy the wolves wol of or the sea were useless ss against plans to move mo Yankee troops across the Atlantic has already been announced but evidently c the has has' not been enough to quiet tho the people The sight of trainloads of ot wounded soldiers crowding eer every available hospital space has hns been fresh tresh fuel Cuel to the thc flames j of ot popular indignation The soldiers were told to stand firm and do rIo their part the tho submarines would attend to the Yankee transports transport No 00 American army could get et into France the deluded people were told and believed the thc fiction When hen tIle the first Jt units or of tho the American forces landed handed the tho German soldiers sollier were informed the tho men were English troops dressed III In American uniforms to give II a a. false also Impression Even l' when approximately l Yankees had become a part of or the tho allied fighting force torce official Germany persisted In lying to its pe people There is no American army In France vas tho assertion which is repeated up UI to to to- to day I But tile the German Gorman armies and the German people know kilo I better io now The Tho tI lI lie tails falls to reach Its goal The rile people i are arc condemning their wise all officials official The army rm is IR discouraged discouraged dis dis- and gloomy rh The Tho retreat at the Mama Marne is fol rol oh- oh lowed by retreat t around Montdidier and Amiens Allied success In th that t section will 1 first Jt straighten out the tile sa salient salient sa- sa that only onh recently threatened Amiens and rail communication com corn with Paris rand and and the channel ports Then the allied advance will Automatically produce another bend which will act as a 11 menace to flanks just justas as happened near Chauteau and anti further east cast and south to tho the Mama Marne That salient must be protected or abandoned which u is the tho most moat probable solution In this way General Foch ma may any da day set In retreat the en entire Cil- Cil tire German lino line from north to south and gradually g push the Invaders of or his country countr back to Jo their own frontier A blow hero and there thelo strong enough to bond the German German German Ger Ger- man line and the enemy will have havo only the tho bitter alternatives alternatives alter alter- I natives of oC retreating or holding a spot at a 0 cost CORt of life its value does not justify Tho The German people trained to implicit trust In the thc submarines submarine are arc angrily demanding to know wh why when the soldiers have o done their part lart art the U boats U-boats bonts have hn failed so BO tragically The Tle German people are aro Interested less lens In precisely ly what the e American army is doln doing In France than In how and anil wh why vl the Yankees got there If Foch duplicates around Amiens and what he d farther south the tho entire Gorman line may ma be he ex expected ax- ax to cave or break any day da Lender Leader |
