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GERMANY HAS SHOT HER BOLT
WAR TO END THIS YEAR.
[BY JOHN DEED.]
Of course the German troops are trained to obey orders, implicitly, and in a tight place they will not like a machine--without thought or wil; and the French and Eng- Jish are allowed a liberty of thought and action which sometimes results in costly b'unders, and sometimes in impossible vic tories; and Russians are dogged, terrible fighters under good leadership, and stupid under bad officers, but taken as a whole in training and in military equipment both sides are equal,
But you will insist that since this is a question of mere numbers of men, the Ger- mans will take the defensive as soon as they are pressed, and that the cost of attacking (ermany will more than offset the numeri cal superiority of the Allies, That would indeed be partially true if the character of defensive warfare had not materially changed.
GERMAN TREATMENT OF PRISONERS:
GERMANY'S DEFENCE.
A German defence against the com plaints of ill-treatment of British prison- ers of war in Germany is contained in a White Paper (Od. 8,108], which consist of further correspondence (May 24th to November 3rd) between Sir Edward Grey and the United States Ambassador in re gard to the prisoners. The defence is in the form of a statement by the military authorities, dated June 30th, in reply to the allegations of Major Vandeleur, who escaped from Crefeld about a year ago.
Mr Reed recently returned to New York after a sojourn with the Russian armies on the eastern war front, and a tour through the Balkan States. Earlier in 1015 he had been with the German armies in the West and was convinced of their invincibility. Observations made during a year of
The specific allegations of Major Vande travel in Europe, where I visited England, France, Germany, Belgium, Serbia, Bul-
Many officers in active service in every our are met with evasions or flat excuse that the "bitterness against the garia, Turkey, Greece, Russia and Italy one of the countries I visited told me of this deaials, in one case accompanied with the all the belligerents except Austria-have change. In the first six months of the wa English" was justifiable, as wounded the proportion of casualties in the attack German goldiers returning from the front convinced me that Germany is already ing force was about 70 per cent to 30 'n the brought back large numbers of English action, and heaten, and that the war will be ended by defending ranks. This was now modified, bullets with a dum-dum next autumn with the withdrawal of the they said, on account of trench mortars and brutal weapons (two-edged dirks, Dop- other new factors; so that 55 per cent, on peldulche). Major Vandeleur's declara German armies from the conquered lands.
the attacking side were lost to 46 per cent. tion that German officers spat at hire and I don't see how there was ever a possib- on the defensive. Then, too, such is now the forcibly took away his overcoat is denied pos- ity of Germany's winning the war, unless condition of things that at the present as "simply beyond the bound of she managed somehow to smash one of the time any side can take a trench by superioraibility, having regard to the-mentality, three great allies-France, Russia or Eng-concentration of artillery and infantry at upbringing, and social status of the whole land, And one of these three out of it, sheiven point, and the enemy's constar-at class of German officers." could easily have triumphed Italy I don't tack can regain the trench by the same consider one of the vital factors in the means both sides now counter attacking struggle; she would have been vital only if invariably so that one side loses approxi the had thrown her lot with the central niately what the other side loses. Of course, if these things, are true, the numbers of Powers, and hung like a snapping dog on
fighting men available are the important the fanks of Trance. Had she remained sentral, the ultimate result must have been thing, and we shall not see the Germans impregnably entrenched beyond the Rhine the same victory for the Triple Entente
To my mind it is a question of shipz, when the day comes that they withdraw men and money. Almost all the bulletin. from the conquered lands board strategists at the outbreak of the war calculated on that basis, But the great Ger man drive on: Peris, and the first few des perate weeks of the fighting on the Aisno when on the map which bung against the wall of my room in Paris I followed the official communiuses and watched the ap. parently inevitable Teuton, advance and then the monstrous crumbling of the Rus sian front, and finally the annihilation of Serbia, made us feel that perhaps superior organization, speed and mobility of forces were the determining factors."
The British officer's complaint that he had been made to travel in a eattle-truck is answered by the statement that an off- er, presumed to be Major Vandeleur, declared that he would speak with no German officer--at must he would snit at one.
he would respect no Geiman officers except those of the Horse Guards. quited by making the offender travel in at This ill-bred behaviour was rightly re Battle-truck."
I think it will be generally admitted tha
That Brish prisoners were more harsh- that first great German army which pouredly treated than the French is indirectly down over Belgium and France like a gray admitted, and excused by the plea that avalanche is gone. The best the Germans in the eyes of the German troops the
"English mercenaries" had "adopted. can muster in fighting men is some eight
boro method of warfare" and cunning millions and that includes many incapables. The official German lists of dead, disabled themselves with an insolent and provoca
tive mien." The employment of British. and prisoners totals almost four millions,
prisoners on disagreeable work is explain-
Grant that the allies have lost as many Dien as the Central Empires; atill Rumised thus:-- and England have untouched resources in
cannon food,
A German military attaché in a nestral capital informed me that the Central Powers losses in the drive against Russia were 20 per cent, permanent losses of
trenches.
short of men,
By a miracle of organization the French Ard British got themselves together in the wast so that German superiority in that re gard was cancelled. On the eastern front the Russians were pressed as far as Rus-2,500,000 men. And I know of cases where men past military age, who were exempt sians can be pressed, and tha: line reached
in account of physical infirmities, and even beyond which an invading army becomes soientists needed in the work of making top-heavy, and every mile of conquest can army supplies, have been called to the oc's offensive fighting-power; on account colours and are already dead in the front Germany is certainly getting of the difficulties of provisionment in vast and terrible plain where everything has teen destroyed by the retreating host, the necessity of constructing mighty lines of The progress of the war so far shapes communication where railrends are few and itself, to me, in three desperate attempts roads impossible, and the attitude of the by the Germans to smash their opponents ivilian population, who become wild beasts power. At the beginning they drove at the moment the foreigner puts foot on the France, and the Battle of the Marne mark ed their failure, After a minor blow at soil of Holy Russia, gays
England in the vain attempt to gain Calais essential of any attempt to cripple the main Russian army, also failed on account Northern Empire, the destruction of the of Gen. Alexieff's masterly retreat from Warsaw.
Finally, down in the Balkans, the arming
Mc French and Russian soldiers have Jearn a handicraft,.
universal mili- they do as the result of belonging as tary servico-to some or other civilian. trade, and can, therefore, be employed accordingly..... The soldiers of Eng- land's standing paid Army, on the con- trary, have usually learnt nothing and are fit for no particular employ outsides. the care of horsey and farm work; they are, besides, frequently lazy, arrogent, and obstinate,
The statement also refers to a report by an American writer upon the conditions at Döberitz, and to refute this that im- whose verdict was one of approbation in partial neutral observer Sven Hedin every respect," is ingenuously quoted.
for the rest the correspondencé deals with complaints from numerous camps and include a protest by Sir Edward Grey against the punishment inflicted on stake.
of the central Powers, Bulgaris and Tuthey tried to smash Russing but the very prisoner Lorker who was tied to
rey, have sa overwhelming preponderanos of force. As long as they have thitt they will win; but once their numbers are offset by the numbers of the enemy, they will lose,
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situation in another paragraph What I entry into. Constantinople; and that is no- want to indicate here is that the buletin- thing more nor less than a blow at the Bri-ying in the Eastern Extension, Australas and board strategists were right. It is a questish Empire For Constantinople is of in China Talegraph Confpady office at Boug tion of ships men and money and the greatest of these is men,
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stone to a much vaster project-an-expedi value in itself; it can only be the stepping kang tion against Egypt and the Suez Canal, of The allies have the Enancial advantage against India by way of Bagdad or both but that makes little difference in the But in the final show-down, where could tual fighting. A bankrupt country con Germany find the men to hold open the right on the South did it in the Civil War line from Hungary to Constantinople, and Napoleon also And while it is gener- keep a strong hold over European ally known that the allies can get all the Turkey and advance to Bagdad or to food, clothing and ammunition they need Egypt besides the thousands of workmen through the holding of the seas there in needed to build railroad, across trackless buge misconception in the public mind countries, arrange for provisions and about Germany's resources in these matters, water, organise new army units; fatter
Just because copper telephone wires and and fight the Arabs, and run the Turkish Singgheeseng..... Tan, Astor Hotel copper kettles and copper pennies were re Empire as she is now doing? quisitioned, it doesn't mean that Germany's Where could Germany get these millions: Ta
She cannot withdraw troops supplies of that metal have run out The of men? shortage pinched; no doubt, but when I was from the western front, where every month
strength, organization and power. cannot take them from her eastern front, where the rallying Russians are already making her reel. Even the Italian front is keeping busy a steadily greater army all the time. So, in order to beat Eng. land, France, and Russia, Germany must conquer the world, which it cannot da, When I was in Constantinople the Tu kish newspapers published about a column every day. Every of peace news runour of peace, every whisper of con- ciliation, was given the widest and most serious presentation--Bryan's peace trip, Ford's plan, the utterances of the Pope, an interview with and proclamations by the various German societies outlining their idea of the con- ditions under which peace should be con- cluded by the aws of Europe came
Now, through the German Embassy and was con- trolled by it. And it was evident that the subject of peace was an absorbingly in- teresting one to the Central Powers
millions of bars from America, which had been shipped to Savone, Italy and trans ported north in carloads of dried vege table" That copper paraded in carts down the Unter den Linden behind a military band, and the Americans in charge made night of it in the Adlon bar, Since then Germany has seized the great Serbian cop- per mine one of the largest in the world and for some months has been working in- exhaustible deposits in Asia Minor.
An for lood, the newspaper tales of bread. tickets, bread riots, starving women and children, soldiers on the front surrendering to get a square meal, etc., have given a antirely wrong idea of conditions in Ger- wany. All the conquered lands were under plough and the sowers, the railway em bankments were growing vegetables, ponds and swamps have been drained and filled up to make gardens, and the Bulgarian grain rop and the Houmanian grain crop, were cought by Germany.
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