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Show HUN ON THE RUN. General Pershing has taken over a new sector of the western front, and, in conjunction with the French troops, has launched an offensive in the Champagne. Cham-pagne. As a result, the second Hinden-burg Hinden-burg line has been cracked, many towns and villages taken and a large slice of territory wrested from the enemy. Thousands of prisoners have been captured cap-tured and the Germans once more forced to retreat. There is to bo no rest for the wicked. With two million first-class American soldiers already overseas and millions more in training in the United States, tho kaiser should seek the jumping off placo without any further delay. By tho time the Champagne drive ia completed another young army will have arrived from this side of the ocean, and every man in it will be itching for a brush with the Huns who once boasted they could whip all creation. If it is any couiort to him, the kaiser should ponder over the fact that tho new draft law is working smoothly and tho further fact that tho peoplo of this country aro buying billions bil-lions of dollars' worth of Liberty bonds, mon and money being thus provided for carrying on the war until tho last Prussian Prus-sian militarist is measured for his grave clothes. Just now tho best the Germans aro able to do is to make faces at the United States and call President Wilson Wil-son names. They no longer belittle the American soldiers in tho field. They mado tho mistnko of belioving, or at least asserting, that our lads would soon bo wiped out by tbo Hun war machine constructed during tho past forty yours. But it is tho Germans themselves who rtrn bein" winerl out, evorv timi, thev boys who are sent into battle after a few months" training. The doughboys call their antagonists "squareheads," and the name seems to fit. They have I been trained as soldiers from their I youth up, and so long as they are over-jwhelmingly over-jwhelmingly superior in men and guns I thev move along like newly oiled machinery ma-chinery or 6heep following the bellwether. bell-wether. They fight according to rule. The Americans, on the other hand, 1 while obeying instructions, do a little j of the thinking for themselves in the iheat of battle and take advantage of : the dull-witted Huns who are not capa-jble capa-jble of acting upon the spur of the mo-! mo-! ment. Up to date the troops under I command of General Pershing have been uniformly successful, and there is no reason to suppose that tho Germans will have any bettor success in the Champagne than they have had any where else along the line since the Americans made their celebrated counter-attack and enabled Genoral Foch to start his great offensive. We hear much brave talk from some of the pan-German leaders, even while the people in general are praying for peace. We are fully persuaded, how-over, how-over, that tho kaiser knows the game is up, and also that the Prussian vultures, vul-tures, posing as eagles, are no match for the American eagle. But Wilhelm II is also something of a "squarehead," and it may be that he is blindly rushing on to his fate without knowing it. Luden-dorff, Luden-dorff, Hindeiiburg and Von Tirpitz have lost their grip, but are continuing to butt their heads against the stone wall because they have been educated in the belief that the Prussian arms are invincible, and they are too old to learn the lessoms in the new school started since the present war began. So it is probable the conflict will rage for some time, that we shall send more and more soldiers from the United States, and that one offensive will follow another an-other until the "invincible" war machine ma-chine of the German empire is utterly destroyed. |