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Show itrirkcn off," but ncylort to admit :h;it lltmnish heads an; al.su being opped off in equal or greater numbers. Hie heart-breaking feature of the eon- :e:t is that new heads are constantly j ippearing multittidinously on that fear- fill monster, "the Amcriean peril." j All of which testifies that the j allies have won a tremendous moral victorv. The change of viewpoints in : the German press but feebly expresses the change of spirit among the p'ople. Kven before the crown prince's drive the war. minister of Prussia felt called upon to deploro "that frequently far-reaehiiri' far-reaehiiri' promises have 'been made whieh afterward lead to aLl kinds of complaints when under pressure of necessity ne-cessity they arc .not kept." Tf the German people were making all kinds of complaints when the kaiser's kai-ser's lcgion,s still were in undisputed ascendancy, the fatherland must be a bedlam of complaints by this time. The government officials see the need of making certain admissions, "breaking the news gently," for unless the people were given a little more information each day about the Americans and about German reverses, they would be unable to bear sudden news of irreparable irre-parable disaster. BREAKING IT GENTLY. (.ionium newspapers are much pleas-anter pleas-anter reading than they wore a few woks ago. They minie humor and pathos in delight t'ul quantities. The old arroganee oau still he detected, but it is in somewhat ruefully drab colors. Who would have expected, for example, exam-ple, that the Frankfurter Zeitung would confess at such an early date that 1 1 Foch 's attack threatens the whole of 1 indenburg "s plans"? And who would have imagined that the Strassburger Post would say, "From where do these t roops come t hat t he American transports trans-ports have really brought more quickly than were expected ' ' ' Perh.-s it would be i-niel to list for the esteemed Strass-hurLier Strass-hurLier Post ail the American states from where'' these troops come. Yorw aerts admits that ' ' failv the Iivdra-heads ot the allies must be |