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ror. It is to be hoped that the German 
people and the German soldiers will re¬ 
gard these iftterances as being sincere and 
that they wall have firmly fixed in their 
minds the truth which is that the sawed- 
off shotgun will be a frightful weapon to 
face. The German soldier has already 
learned the deadly efficiency of the Ameri¬ 
can fighting man who can place his shots 
with the 45 caliber revolver and pistol, 
and of the American rifleman who is able 
to down his man at distances of from 600 
to 800 yards. He has also learned in the 
great Marne fighting that the soldier from 
the United States is not content to wait 
idly in his trenches for the assault to 
sweep up and overwhelm him, but is will¬ 
ing and anxious to meet his adversary half 
way. All these are good things for the 
German soldier to know, and so much 
stories as those accredited to the Cologne 
Gazette and the Weser Zeitung serve a 
double purpose—that of amusing the Amer¬ 
icans who read them, and of instilling into 
the Hun soldier the knowledge that the 
American soldier is present on the West¬ 
ern front to kill or be killed. 
“If the German people are at any loss 
to understand the psychology which thor¬ 
oughly justifies in American eyes the use 
of the military shotgun—which inciden¬ 
tally is a highly efficient weapon—they 
need only ponder a few moments on this: 
Many a good American sportsman who 
would rather go forever with an empty 
bag than to shoot a bird sitting, bring 
down a squirrel with anything but a rifle, 
or transgress any of the unwritten laws of 
clean hunting, will make use of any de¬ 
vice to exterminate vermin. If the Hun 
does not relish the idea of stopping a load 
of buckshot he has himself to blame. 
“If given a choice, the average Ameri¬ 
can soldier would prefer to fight with the 
weapon for which he has a natural apti¬ 
tude—the rifle. Yet is he can kill more 
Germans with a sawed-off shotgun and its 
exterminating load of buckshot, such talk 
as that in the Cologne Gazette will not de¬ 
ter him. The American soldier has been 
brought face to face with an unpleasant 
task, yet one that must be done once and 
for all. Therefore the United States sol¬ 
dier may confidently be expected to win 
the war by following the advice of Field 
Marshal Joffre—‘Kill Germans.’ 
“In the meantime, the comity of nations 
which has been bludgeoned by the spiked 
‘morning star,’ strangled by poisonous 
vapors and racked by the torpedoes which 
have sunk hospital ships, will undoubtedly 
survive the s-pectacle of the highly-efficient. 
Hun - exterminating sawed - off military 
shotgun.” 
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