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Show SNEERING AT US. Berlin is informed, and in turn informs in-forms the world, that the peope of Luxembourg complain because their ammunition factories are bombed by allied airmen. The Luxembourg Ober-mosel Ober-mosel is quoted as declaring that Luxembourg, Lux-embourg, like the United States or Switzerland, is willing to sell ammunition ammuni-tion to any belligerent in a position to buy. This sounds as if Berlin were trying to satirize the American contention that we are willing and ready to sell, ammunition to the central empires, and are only prevented from doing so by tho fact that the German navy cannot keep the sea routes open. As a sneer, the dispatch from Berlin is permissible, but as an argument it is void of substance. sub-stance. Luxembourg was occupied by Germany Ger-many in the first days of the war, and factories are being operated under , the direction of the army authorities,! just as are the factories in Belgium, including in-cluding the gun works at Liege. Allied airmen have not hesitated to drop bombs on Belgian factories in the hands of the enemy, jus,t as allied gunners gun-ners have not hesitated to blow to pieces French towns and villages occupied by German soldiers. Luxembourg is in the possession of the German army, and is just as much a part of the German war machine as is a field gun on the Somme front. . |