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Show ! VANITY UNDERMINED , THE GERMAN. We have often wondered how the Belgian army escaped intact from tho Germans, when the army of the kaiser swept through the western part of tho invaded territory. An explanation is 'given by Brand Whitlock, who was our minister to Belgium In the war days. Whitlock says German vanityIs the explanation, and he makes tnls statement: state-ment: "The ironic spirits have thier fun with mortals; their sardonic laughter rings forever down the awful void; what were thought to bo victories proved to be dofeats and defeats to have been triumphs. Major Langhorne in Brussels a day or so after the city had been abandoned said that Antwerp, Ant-werp, if not a victory for tho Belgians, was hardly a victory for the Germans, sinco In their haste to parado tho boulevards of Brussels, to have the eclat of an entry Irr- the grand style in the capital of the little nation they had conquered, and to stagger mankind with their force and power, they had loft the country open westward to tho sea and allowed tho Belgian army to escape to the immortal glory of tho Yser. But whatever minor consolation consola-tion thero may have been for the people peo-ple of Brussels in the thought that tho Germans had made a mistake of which history would calmly speak, there was an Immediate and an intense preoccupation, preoccu-pation, destined thenceforth never to quit the mind for years. It was the thought of famine." This same vanity robbed the Germans Ger-mans of victory boforc Paris. The German high command had n time table prepared before the war, which included the taking of tho French capital cap-ital on a given date. When the troops of Von Moltkc met with unexpected resistance in Belgium and fell behind in their schedule, the infantry was pushed ahead of the heavy artillery and commissary and had arrived at tho outskirts of Paris when tho French counter-attacked with their famous "75's" and hurled the Huns back a distance dis-tance "of fifty miles. oo |