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FIERCE WAR OF ATTRITION, LOST GERMAN RESERVES:
employed. That question has now been answered without any fear of contradic- tion, and I shall proceed to show how.
The Gorman artoy is at present con- [FROM ASEMEAD-BARTLETT.]
stituted consists of 193 infantry divi- sions, of which 124 are on the Western It is reported of Sir William Robert front, and sixty-nine on the Eastern. son, the present Chief of the General But these divisions are not of equai Staff, that when he was with the Army strength. Nominally a German division in France he had one stock answer to consists of four regiments of three any military proposition placed before bastalions each, or twelve battalions in, bim by his subordinates. That was all. But in order to allow of the crea
How many Huns do you think it will mon of new formations, especially to kill? This shows that, even in those ect the Roumanian menace, many of the early days, the General realised very divisions have been reduced in strength, clearly that the war would not be de-and at the present time of the grand cided so much by strategy and the gain total of 183 divisions 117 consist of only ing or losing of ground as by the ex- three regiments of three battalions each, haustion of the enemy's resources and afty-seven of four regiments of three the destruction of his reserveal
battalions, whilst the remaining nineteen If the results of the Battle of the are of special formations. These figures Somme up to the present were to be alone show how pressed the Empire in gauged merely by the ground she Allies becoming for men, for in order to make have won, why then the gains would sem good the losses from the ever-diminish ridiculously small when compared with ing reserves it has been found necessary the immense losses both sides have suf to reduce nearly two-thirds of the divi fored and the incredible amount of anions to three-quarters of their original munition that has been expended. In size
peace.
money alone, the battle must have cost It is interesting to follow the move- hundred times as much as the actualments of some of the German divisions soil, including all the real and personal across the chequer board of war during property, thereon, was worth in times of the last few months, which shows how they have oscillated between Verdun and the Somme and Galicia, and the proof that the Germans have now no strategic reserve is shown by the manner in which their divisions are moved from one battl sandther almost without any rest or reorganisation.
This Some battlefield is in fact only the local, selection of ground which the Allies' chiefs. considered the us favourable on which to carry out their plans of wearing out the enemy on the Western front, whilst our friends the Russians are engaged in a similar non-
BATTERED DIVISIONS. genial task on the Eastern. Were it got
The 22nd Reserve Division was badly already named the Battle of the Some hammered on the Semme on July 10th, it ought to be called the Battle of Atand was obliged to retire, but was in trition. For three months this brutal the tronches again nine days later, on bludgeon work has been going on, inthe 19th, north-east of Auberive, The volving appalling losses to all the com- 1215 Division was taken out of the Bois batants and the expenditure of countless le Pretre, a very active zone, on March millions of money, whilst the normal 15th, and was immediately cagaged on occupations of practically the entire the attack on Verdun. There it rennined civilised world have been suspended in until April 20th, when it passed into order that the cold-blooded monsters, the reservo in the district of St. Avold. Carnage and Destruction, may continue At the commencement of our offensive their vile revels unchecked. The Duke it was found on the Somme, and on July of Wellington at Waterloo rode up to July 1st was decimated round Mercau his decimated infantry and remarked, court. On July 10th one of its regiments "This is hard pounding, gentlemen was again identified on the Somme, but, but we'll see who can pound the hardest, nevertheless, on the 29th of the same The Duke realised that if he could only month the 21st Division is found on the hold on long enough for the Prussians Eastern front, before Luzk. to come up then overwhelming superi ority in numbers and in guns must count in the end against an enemy, however brave and skilfully led. This remark applies with equal truth to the Battle of the Somme. It is hard pounding on scale hitherto undreamt of, "and has niready listed for three long-drawn-out months. But there is not the smallest doubt now as to which side will be able to pound the hardest. The question is now, how long will the enemy, however brave and fanation, be able to hold out against the soldiers of France, Russia, and England, with all the world's forges. behind them belching forth an ungrusing stream of molten metal, which hardly cools before it is hurled against the comunion for A
WHAT GERMANY, THOUGHT For years before the war German writers and thinkers were unanimous that if the Fatherland was to win in struggle against the French and the Russians-for the English were not then considered a potential factor on a European battlefold-a decisive age must be sought against one of the enemies which would leave the mass of the German army free to deal with the other at leisure. In fact, that Germany must be ready to the last gaifer button, and that at least one of her adversaries must be so completely smashed in the first two months of the war that she could never recover and take the field again, even if backed by all the markets and mannfactories of neutrality. In 1914 France was selected for the victim. The Marne shattered German hopes, which were then diverted against Calais The Battle of the Yer crushed the hopes of the All Highest once again, and drove his thoughts towards the East.
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A regument of the 103rd Division, which left Verdun on July 25th, is found on August 14th in the district of Buczacy. A still more marked example is that of the 43rd Reserve Division, which WIS taken from Verdun on June 10th. On June 24th it is discovered in front of Luzk, having only had fourteen days for rest, its journey, and necessary reorgani sation. Of ten divisions taken for a rest from the Somme front. between September 2nd and 9th, four have already been employed to relieve others in Artois.
On the occasion of the grand attack of the Allies un September 12th-15th, a division already entrained and well on its way to Hussie had to be hastily brought back to the Somme.
There is no doubt whatever that at a
moderate estimate very
twenty-four divisions are moved from one front to another each week." It can easily be understood what the nervous tension must be où men who are moved from ouS battle to another without any real rest, and on every occasion find more and more ground has been lost. It is there- fore perfectly certain that if the Germans still possessed any strategic reserve of fresh unite to send to decisive points such as the Bomme and Galicia, in order to give the worn-out ones s rest, one would not see the same divisions within a period of five months fighting before Verdun, on the Somme, and in Galicia.
To sum up this is perfectly clear from an examination of prisoners, from the reports of deserters, and from identify ing the dead on the different fronts, that Germany and Austria have now actually
reserve but three divisions each, when at the commencement of the attack on Verdun, after the concentration on the Avocourt-Freases front of fifteen divisions the General Steff had still in reserve on the Western front eight divisions, four in the North, one in Champagne, and three in the East.
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Great successes were gained against the Russians and Serbians, but no deci sive issue was found. The Borbinns were pushed out of their country, but their army was not smashed; the Russians were pushed out of Galicia, Poland, and East Courland through lack of arms and
In regard to their reserves of men, the munitions, but they were neither crush figures are even more significant.
Of ed materially or in morale. Expanding the 1916 class it is certain that all have the balloon in search of decisive victory been incorporated in the ranks except the cost the Central Powers dear, Neverthe weaklings, who have been put back. By less, even when holding these immense July 15th of fifteen divisions
on the fronts Germany at the beginning of Verdun front the average was 20 per cent. 1918 still possessed, within the Empire of the men of the 1916 class In ten a large strategic reserve which she could other divisions the figures had reached em-loy at any decisive point and still 50 per cent, on the same date. On the en avour to snatch a victory before the Somme front by August 15th the average Allies were ready for the great counter of the 1916 class was 22 per cent. stroke that is now in progress Verdus was selected for the employment of this amongst thirty two regiments. Thus, it can only be concluded that practically. last great strategie reserve. There is no the whole of the 1916 class has been need to dwell once again on what hap-utilised.
present time at least 25 per cent, of this class have been incorporated into the fighting units and area already at the front, whilst the remaining 77 per cent. are in various stages of training behind
pened there. At least half a million The calling up of the 1917 class com- Germans were killed or permanently menced in December, 1915, and was ex- disabled, and the resources of the End-tended over several months, according to pire were strained almost to the breaking the German custom. Actually at the point by the huge expenditure of am- munition and material. The French thus n the first half of 1916, almost by their own unaided effort, knocked out the last remaining strategic reserve which Ger many possessed, and thus prepared the the lines. In comparison with this not way for the present offensive. The posi tion of Germany at the present time may be likened to an apple with a still very tough rind, which has yet to be cut through, but in which the interior single man of the 1017 class has yet been called upon to fight It is also certain that if the Germans had realised the necessity of calling upon the 1917 class
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