The Prussian War Minister, General von Stein, gave the Reichstag
on Tuesday the official German view of the recent fighting. He assured his credulous hearers that "General Poch.'s so-called Army of Reserve now exists no more," and that the Allies were" beginning to recognize and to admit their heavy defeat." The Americans, he said, had " suffered the same fate" as the French reserves, and their numbers had "so far been far below what we were led to expect." General von Stein declared that Germany's " incom- parable " Army would win the war outright, though he admitted with regret that the Allies were not yet tired of "useless bloodshed." We prefer his blunt menaces to the hypocritical professions of the German and Austrian diplomatists. But General von Stein will find that the German victories of which he boasts have been won in vain.
