BERLIN WEEKLY
POLITICS SECTION
Week 31, 1914
written by Mmm...Donuts
Another vicious week in the history of Europe. Political analists are calling this the biggest war ever. Already some 500,000 have been killed. This is mostly military fatalities, a total 80,000 German and 100,000 French so far, but many citizens of Belgium in Ypres and Antwerp, now under French control, have been killed. Keep in mind the fact that there are 10,000 men in a division of soldiers and already 40 divisions have been destroyed in Serbia, Champagne, Belgium, Arabia, and other fronts.
The biggest news this week is the fact that the English are humungous traitors! Lloyd George, prime minister of the cowardly English nation, declared war on us! The Kaiser claims we can handle the English, and we all know we can, but it will be a tough fight. Although our land army is almost double theirs, their navy is triple ours! They have at least two ships in every port. They have a navy spanning from Kuwait City in the Middle East, to Egypt, Gibraltar, Ireland, London, and to Scapa Flow in their northernmost reach. But we Germans have one thing they don't have-pride.
The Kaiser this week also drafted at least ten conscript divisions to replace the losses from Champagne. Most have been transfered to Verdun or Belgium.
A naval campaign has been initiated to bomb the French city of Caen. Three cruisers have been sent to blockade the city. It is said that some French civilians have been killed but major targets in the city, the coastal fortresses and the soldiers stationed there, have not been hit.
Again Caen is in the news later this week when the English navy strikes our cruisers from behind. Our cruisers heroically fought until the bitter end when they were sunk, sinking one British ship, but the British did unfortunately win-only to gain a position blockading the same city we did.
here is the Battle of Caen. On the left is the German cruiser
Danzig 9.
The Danish also declared war on us, because of their mutual protection pact with the English. But it will be easy to destroy the puny peninsular nation...we already destroyed two divisions at Kiel.
A battle at Verdun starts this week when German troops assault the town from every side, and after sucessfully weakening its defenses, began to siege the town. The French counterattack was very weak...no German divisions were destroyed but three French ones were.
this is a scene where German troops are attacking a village outside Verdun. Most of the fighting here is German artillery bombing merchantships in the river.
The last battle this week is at Ypres. A combined German and Belgian army attacks the Belgian populated, French occupied city. Although it is a tactical defeat for us Germans, it is a strategic victory as we have weakened the town's defenses. Two French divisions, one Belgian, and one German have been wiped from the face of this earth.
A street in Ypres is bombed. At one point in the battle, Belgian troops were in the streets, but soon were forced back out by the French defenses.
Now for an update on the tangle of alliances and mutual protection treaties this week. For mutual protection pacts, its been just Spain and the Netherlands. In military alliances, its been Albania and Netherlands vs. Austria, Norway and Denmark vs. Austria, Italy and Bulgaria vs. Austria, and Rumania and Albania vs. the Ottomans. The Spanish and Arabs sign a trade embargo against the fatherland. And Sweden declares war on France, Spain does too.
Only time will tell the outcome of this crazy war, I'm Mmm...Donuts writing.