Interesting and Pertinent Topics of the Day: Kaiser Wilhelm Becomes Silly, Daily Racing Form, 1918-08-06

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KAISER WILHELM BECOMES SILLY The kaiser in iis proclamation of yesterday to the German army and navy becomes positively inter ¬ esting if ridiculous American armies and numerical superiority superioritydo do not frighten us It is spirit which brings bringsthe the decision decisionIs Is the first sentence the gentle imperial way of breaking the news to the German people that there is an American army in France and that it is growing toward the two million mark And was the second sentence composed before spirit had brought a decision at Seringes and the Prussian Guards were dead or prisoners at the hands of the America us V VThe The most remarkable part of Wilhelms address however concerns the contest on the Atlantic My submarines are sure of success They are aretenaciously tenaciously attacking and fighting the vital vitalforces forces which are streaming across the sea to the theenemy enemy enemyIt It is impossible for Americans knowing as they do that more than a million soldiers have crossed to France with a loss of less than 310 men to become vexed with Wilhelms statement It is liko the babbling of a man who has slipped suddenly into second childhood and who is repeating fairy tales told to him by the German admiralty Coupled with such outgivings the kaisers talk about united stand and unbending will becomes silly Even Karl Kosner must have smiled behind his note book Nev York Suu


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