The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, OCTOBER 18,1915 A TALE FOR AMERICA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 41, 18 October 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, OCTOBER 18,1915 A TALE FOR AMERICA.

Some weeks ago the notorious Hern-1 lumli cont ributed an article to the' New York. Tribune setting forth at! h’ogth his views with regard to the progress of the, war, and, we, presume, with tiie especial object of cheering up the pro-Herman element in New '" !<• He asserts with satisfaction that tiie strategy and diplomacy of the Allies lias broken down through lack oi sympathetic co-operation, which, on Hie lace of 'it, is merely a Herman view oi the situation. It is scarcely ncces--1 sary to say that he expresses certaintyj ol lenton victory in the end. and. as t might well he supposed from such an advocate of organisation', rule and procedure- as per time-table decided upon by the chiel butcher, his main reason given lor assuming the Allies will not win., is that they have not combined their military strength effecJ lively. The greater portion of this truly Mernhardian effort to further fool America, is devoted to a discusj sion of affairs in Russia , and in | France. The alleged facts and supposed figures are so manipulated that all is shown to he well with the Huns.' For instance, though hdmitting that the final effect ol von .Mackenseii’s desperate and Kaiser-goaded “drive”| through Halicia and Poland is not yet apparent, he estimates Russia’s total losses tit A.UOO,00(1, declares that “the' core of her army is slumbering in eternal sleep or is in Herman captivity.” and that she is “no longer able to undertake anew a big strategical offensive movement.” He also asks America to believe that Russia’s position is rendered even more precarious by the internal troubles. “The revolutionary movement.” Bernhard! tells us, “is becoming more threatening, and has already resulted in wild excesses; blood shedding. incendiarism, and looting in .Moscow and StJ Petersburg.” This, of course, is pure imagination, but it helps Bernhard! to arrive at the conclusion that Russia is

undone mid thiit (I’ermany may now, with an earn mind, turn westward to complete her interrupted work ol deslroyino ilie Allies in France and Handers, lie earns nil. with unhltishine ellroiilery anil insolent lalseliood to state that the French ollensive, which reached i t climax durino tin' hejehl n|' the Russian campaign. tailed completely, that the French and liritish t'orces sustained enormous losses, and that the total casualties tor the French armies alone must he at least 1 .•")()(),{»()() men. Fuller these circumstances, he maintains, (iermany can allord to eo on hnildmo up her strength with oreal confidence in preparation lor a “oralid oltensive’’ on the western trouts. t)ne can lailcy sane Americans reading the lorejj,ome ■(toi ls w ith pit/./led amtisomenl. hut w hen it comes to Bernhardi <>ii Britain iit)| tin' British Navy nothino hut wild hilarious laiighter can result; the anohler ol scorn lor the machinemade (ierman mind of a Bernhardi, He actually assures the good New Corkers that “even at sea Britain las had no successes.” and that the British N’a v \ siiltcred so heavily in

the last. North Sea fight that our great I»ij>s had to boat a hasty retreat before the splendour and valiant seamanship <>i the Rats of Kiel I And so, proceeding in his really non-' derlnl nay. Rernhardi attempts to prove that the French and British are left cold as airmen beside the brave of the Herman Tauhe. His contrast of the British forces with those of his own sweet hind is an effort worthy of the man He talks ol Britain’s armies as “improvised militia troops. Australians, and other drummed together recruits, who partly represent the moral scum ol the. earth’’—and then tells us that the noble Herman soldiers are “the armies of it people who have been brought up in fighting spirit and patriotic sacrifices from generation to generation during centuries ol history. W hen it is mentioned that even at this late day Bernhardi has grown no wiser than to boldly re-assert his laith in the “moral’’ superiority of the Herman race, it will lie realised how very hopeless the poor fellow is. Apparently he is an example ol a nation gone mad in sympathy with the homicidal maniac who occupies the throne.