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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1918.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

AND SUN-TELEGRAM

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The Best Protection "The best protection against the enemy's fire is a well-directed fire from your own guns." Admiral Farragut. This caption precedes the editorial column of the Great Lakes Bulletin, published at the Great Lakes Naval Training station, in its issue of July 30. The truth of the observation has a wider application than the navy. It holds true of the army. It can be applied with salutary effect to the nation as a whole and to our entire military and naval program. If a withering fire from a ship is disastrous to the enemy, a galling fire from thousands of cannon on the battlefield will work havoc among the enemy. If America today were standing on French soil with millions of trained men and thousands of guns instead of the comparatively small number she has been able to send, Germany would be feeling in a disastrous manner the effects of our "well-directed fire." . We failed too long to heed the principle involved in Admiral Farragut's statement, and consequently found ourselves woefully unprepared when we entered the war.

"Well-directed fire from our own guns," will come only after we have enough guns and men

to make our force felt. Preaching and exhorting

will nefther produce men nor guns. ' Principles must be translated into action before you can get results. We need more men for the army and the navy. Class 1 men of the first two drafts will soon be exhausted. Before that time arrives, our Congress must enact a law that will extend the draft ages so that more soldiers and sailors will be available. This truth is so obvious that Congress and the war department should not debate the proposition at length, but pas3 the measure. Germany is withdrawing men from her industries and supplanting them with women to release soldiers for the army. Many of reserves have been badly cut to pieces by the FrancoAmerican gmns. She is losing no time in obtaining new reserves. Every one admits that the campaign has become a matter of reserves. The side that can put the most men into line fastest, is the side that will win. America is the only reservoir from which the Allies can hope to bolster up their man power. Our associates in arms have depleted their available first class material. We are young and fresh. We are willing to furnish the men. Let Congress devise the method. "The best protection against the enemy's fire is a well-directed fire from your own guns." How Russia Loves Germany

Deceived by false pretenses of the Bolsheviki and duped by the lies of Germany, Russia has had ample time in the last months to reflect on the folly of having laid down her arms to the Most High and of trusting in his honor to protect her national interests. And Germany, it may be added with emphasis, also has had time to realize that the "benevolent assimilation" it proposed for the Ukraine and other sections of the vast Muscovite realm is not going ahead at a fast rate. I Both the deluded Russians and the deceiving Germans have had their eyes opened. The former know now that they admitted a band of robbers and murderers into their country, and the latter is learning that even despised Russia has enough self-respect left to resent wrongs, even if it does take the form of assassinations and bomb outrages. The murder of Count von Mirbach, German

ambassador at Moscow, and the killing of Field Marshal von Eichhorn by a bomb in the streets of Kieff reflect a spirit of unrest among the Russian people and a desire to rid the conquered country of some of the men held responsible for its plight. 1 The old terrorist spirit which relentlessly pursued a policy of exterminating the leaders of the old Russian regime seemingly has not lost its cunning, and is determined to show its disapproval of German usurpation by murdering the .kaiser's leaders. Eichhorn's policy in Russia compares favorably with the tyrannical rule of the Romanoff house. Germany seized the Ukraine to obtain a wheat supply. The governing body of Ukraine began to manifest opposition to the highhanded methods of Eichhorn, and so he filled the jails

with Russians who were too outspoken in their denunciation of the robbers. When peaceful methods failed to get the grain supply of 'the Ukraine, Eichhorn resorted to the practices of the Middle Ages, sending his soldiers into the rural districts to take what the Germans, wanted, the result being that the peasants soon arose in revolt. Armed bands have united into the semblance of an army and, according to news dispatches, are marching toward Kieff. Germany's brief occupancy of stolen Russian territory exhibits her admirable faculty of making other people hate her. And Russian terrorists have the training and experience to kill off their teuton oppressors in a very efficient manner. To borrow a trite saying, "a nice time will be had by all." The appended commentary on Eichhorn's regime, printed in a New York paper, illustrates how the Germans try to exploit a conquered territory: Before the European war began, General yon Eichhorn was one of the recognized leaders of the Prussian military ring, and a favorite, of the Kaiser. In March, 1918, he was sent to Kiev as German military commander of the Ukraine. As such he was the supreme authority in the Ukraine. Being concerned chiefly with the task of extorting foodstuffs from the Ukraine for German consumption, his military policy toward the population and the Ukrainian Government was one ot peremptory demand, followed by the threat and often the application of force, whenever the peasants failed to comply. Many sporadic uprisings resulted in which blood of peasants was freely shed. Rather than release their food to the Germans, the peasants would burn and destroy their crops. General on Eichhorn repeatedly issued dedrees ordering the peasants to bow crops and threatened dire punishment if they failed. Just as repeatedly, however, the peasants listened with a deaf ear, and this last Spring, despite the oppressive tactics of General von Eichhorn, only 50 per cent of the Spring sowing had been done in the Ukraine, the peasants preferring to starve rather than put their labor into the fields for no purpose other than to produce food

that would be taken away from them.

When the Ukrainian peace was mad, th? Rada agreed to supply Germany with 1,000,000 tons of wheat by August

1. 1918. When the helplessness of the Rada to meet its obli

gations became evident, General von Eichhorn and the German ambassador in the Ukraine, Baron von Schwartzenstein, decided to dispense with the Rada and support

in its stead a dictatorship with General Skoropadskl at the head. Under such an arrangement, the German military leader believed he could better command the obedience of the peasants. Having nothing to give the peasants for their wheat, he adopted a system of ruthless seizure wherever possible. On the whole, however, this method

merely made things mqch worse. The policy of the "iron"

hand only fanned the flames of resentment and antagonism in the population, and Hetman Skoropadski either could not or would not assist the Germans in achieving their purpose. Kiev and other parts of the Ukraine became the scenes of many riots in protest of the peasants against von Eichhorn's decrees. Desperate over their failure to obtain the promised wheat, the German authorities were ready to employ every means available to seize from the Ukraine whatever resources she held. In several instances it was reported that General von Eichhorn distributed arms and munitions to partisans of German rule in order that they might more effectively suppress the outcries of elements which demanded the establishment of a real government and the cessation of Germany's oppressive tactics.

Karl Rosner's Job From the Peoria Journal. KARL ROSNER has been chosen as chief press agent for Wilhelm the Last. It is his job to keep the Germans and Austrians

informed that everything is going well with Hohenzollern, Hapsburg, Hindenburg, et al. It is his task to feed sop to the people of Ihe central powers in an effort to make them hink that defeat is victory, black is white, and thin vegetable soup is beef steak and mashed potatoes. Speaking in the street vernacular, he has some job! Rosner is a correspondent for the Lokal Anzeiger. In that paper he does his pres3 agent-ing. The war lords however, see that his optimistic ravings gain wide circulation. Other German papers reprint the Anzeiger's painted stories.. Marked copies reach government postoffices, and are displayed on public bulletin boards. And, believe us, Rosner must be working days and nights to get out the publicity credited to him. Two weeks ago when the entente powers made some successful and startling successes in holding back the Germans, Rosner probably wrote as follows: "The emperor, God and the soldiers are working together in fine shape." When the French and British and Americans' pushed the Germans back ten miles Rosner probably filed this message: "The emperor has withdrawn his soldiers in one small sector for strategic reasons."

When the entente push continued with tremendous success for several days more Rosner must have sent a little story like this: "The emperor watched the battle

from a tower behind the lines and witnessed the remarkable victory which his troops achieved." And when "Mistah Ratface" got cornered with his troops and when General Foch was handing him thousands of exploding shells and bombs; when the aviators were dropping shells from bombing planes; when the big trench guns were hurling death and destruction into the German divisions; and when the crown prince was sneaking toward the rear, probably in disguise, Rosner must have sent a message like this: "We are achieving the most remarkable victory of the entire war. The morale of our soldiers is remarkable. The emperor gives the greatest praise for the brave fighting of his troops." And Rosner must have had another hard job when he read in the communiques this morning that the Yanks had swept on two miles despite a heavy barrage. Verily Press Agent Rosner must have an awful job of it these days.

Pimer5tories

The benevolent old gentleman had taken a friendly interest in Cohen's Ion. "Suppose," he said on day, "that I thould give you a thousand dollars, fthat would be the first thing you would do with it?" "Count it," said the promising youth. A government press censor was talkkg about the German press censorship. "We found oa some prisoners re

cently," he said, "the German censorships' latest prohibition. Prominent among these was an order to the press not to mention under any circumstances the growing use in Germany of dog flesh for food. "That prohibition reminds me of a story a story that may contain a lot of truth. "A German prisoner, the story runs, was rebuked by a sergeant for the sloppy way he was feeding and looking after some Red Cross dogs. " J guess you think you know a lot about dogs,' the sergeant sneered. "'Yes, sir, that's right,' said the prisoner, 'for let me teli you, sir, I've,

been cook in a Berlin restauant for the last two years."

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The kaiser's efficiency refuses to JelL And we are right In the canning season, too. . A LITTLE SLICE O' LIFE. The crowd gathered quickly. It was a terrible crush. We could see the ugly nose Of a gun and It was pointed -Right smack at the sky. Everybody was afraid of it So they all moved up closer. Crowd psychologly rampant. Five soldiers were there. One bent over the gun to rim it. And turned a little crank. He was aiming it, certainly. Reinforcements arrived A hundred a minute, easily. A woman screamed: "Henry! You come away from there: It's an anti-aircraft gun And they're going to shoot." "Oh, aw right," said Henry And crowded up closer. So did everybody else. "Stand on your tiptoes," Yelled some artillery expert Away back in the crowd. .

The suspense was awful. We held our hands on our ears. Another gang came so swiftly The aimer of the gun was Sent sprawling into the gutter. A perspiring little man Leaped on a box and yelled: "Youse folks gotta git back. "This guy gives, me 15 cents To look at the moon. He ain't Seen a nickel's worth yet."

"KAMERAD." THAT'S THE FIGHTING WORD IN GERMANY.

If the Crown Prince will not go to the front, the front will have to go to the Crown Prince. 'Nother Mohammed.

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EATON, O., Aug. 3. Under orders received by the local draft board, six limited-service men of the 1917 class will be sent August 9 from Preble county to the barracks at Columbus, O., for duty. These eight men are next in line and subject to call: Aloya J. Dudley, Ralph C. Duvall, Clyde E. Smith and William E. Kendrick of Eaton; Frank Grasshoff of West Alexandria; Earl W. Bliss, Verona; Ralph Schatz, Cincinnati; John E. Homan, Germantown, O.

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