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ZONE. Should the Allies exercise the right, which they reserve under the new nemis
conditions, to weeps the do north of Cologne their troops will be brought almost to the subarls of Essen, where the great armament work of TJIPANAS Krupps are situated says the Daily Ngers..
I had an interesting opportunity of seeing General Liman von Sanders, who commanded the German and, Turkish forces against the British both at the Dardanelles and, later, in Palestine, and of hearing the German general's views on the two-ampaigns, in which he op- posed our troops. In both these theatres of
WAT, said General Liman von Sanders, be had found the British a brave and chivalrous enemy, and the war had been the fought less ruthlessly there than on
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It is stated in Forwaerts that the direc tors of Krupps have informed a meeting of foremen that futaire the Gem will ugt be able to employ more than ten or rive thousand workers, and that owing the expected Allied occupation produc Westero front. The general took over in an only be intermittent.
This statement will be accepted with the command of the army in Palostine
peserve, but if events
it to be last March. By August, he had lost all
Yeats prome necurate then, as the directorate in re- hope of being able to continue his resist
ported to have added, it would be virtu sam to the British advance I teleally true, that only the ruins of the graphed to General Ludendorff," he said, whole undertaking would remain.
that unless 1 received reinforcements, The vast works at Essen really cin- nothing could prevent EL dbacle. bodied in material form the military The Turkish forces in Palestine were might which had become the obsession of very weak The Eighth Army on the Germany Kruppe was the graven image coast counted only 6,000 rifles, the of militarism before which its worship. Beventh, next it, fewer still. The Tur's bowed, and the best proof of a real kish battalions had, at most, 180 men, dinge of heart, which the German perple and the six German battalions with the and their new Government 'could give Palestine army were much rethodi elso.quid he the complete transformation of
Exch Most of the German troops had to be
works into factories producing. employed on the long lines of commani- only the implements of praceful industry.
cation, which took up 10,000 of them. As to cavalry, Von Sanders had only 1,200 horsemen all told, while the British had a very great number of squadrons, The superiority of the British in the air was also an immense advantage to them. The reason for this weakness of the Turkish forces in Palestine, Von Banders explained, was that the Tarks and went all their available reserves to Azerbaijan and Persia for the conquest of the Caucasus. Enver Pasha and his advisers over-ruled the German general's protests, and the latter twice asked to be allowed to resign his command, but was request ed by the Gorman Government to cop tinue it.
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he swift retribution which has come down of the nighty. is shared by upon Grading, with its wholesale east- Kipps to a greater degree than any other single institution in the country. At greater length, and in detail 'more Obly six years ago, during the celebration interesting still, Limau discussed British of the centenary of the works, Germung strategy in the Dardanelles. He said:... was almost intoxicated with joy as it The attack on the Straits by the Navy revelled in dewriptions and statistics of alone I don't think could ever have the mighty arsenal, The capital of the succeeded owing miner. F proposed to was £9,000,000. Its rapidly increas food the straits broadcast with mines, The factories, which covered over 50K ting profits were then £800,000 a year. and it was any view that these were the
adies, were the evene of cyclopean lafour. main defence of the Dardanelles, and
It was Krupps, as an Anilican jour that the function of the guns in the forts nalist wrote, which Kilve the German was simply to protect the minefields from people confidence that they could wage interference. If I had been the attacker, in-
war against the world. Essen 15 well etead of the defender, of the Dardanelles, described as the most wonderful death- I would not base landed at Cape Helles dealing manufactory in the world." and Anzeo I should have made the At the centenary the works were des principal landing on the cost of Asia crated with flags and triumphal archos, brilliant Minor off Tenedoe. There you have, first and the Kaiser enjoined a of all, a convenient base close at hand, gathering to "emply your glasses to the while, by only a two days' march, you
welfare of the house and works would be in the rear of the Dardanelles Krupps." forts, which can fire only eenward. At During the war the works were extend.
WAR EXTENSIONS. the same time, I should have landed the neck of the Gallipoli Peninsula close£12.500.000, the profits rose to over four
the capital
increased WAS to the Bulair Lines. So strongly did millions in 1914-15, and were kept down I expect that the British would choose 1 about two millione in subsequent years these places, that when I took command, payments to the families of the work- a month before the landing, I posted two ers. The number of employees, which was of my aix divisions opposite Tenedos, about 30,000 before the war, rose by many two on the peninsula, and two at Bulair thousands, and rage contingents
Déurals were employed. LUST OPPORTUNITIES.
With regard to the Suvla landing, Liman said be would have preferred to wake between, Anzac and Helles. There the peninsula is narrower, and the Turks
Helles could have been attacked But the landing at from the rear. Buvia might have succeeded, pressed hard. To oppose it during the first twenty-four hours there were only two battalions of Turkish gendarmes, two squadrons of cavalry, and two batteries Sof
old
guns. The General hurried up a division from Bulair by dachle forced march. If the British troops had push
ed on inland in several columns, some of them would have made good a position
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Krupps aimed at something far greater than the mere manufacture of armainezite. It maintained one of the most highly organised intelligence departments and Press bureaux in the world
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it controlled newspapers and dominat ed statestuen. The confidence and power which it retained. even so recently July 1917, is shown is the declaration of one of its journals that after the war and the far-advanced new frontiers of Germany, were seared, the
dangerous enemy of all, dri
democracy: would have to be fought and conquered From time to time the struggling in effort) deancerary of Germany vain efforts to combat the power and influence which flowed, from Essen. Now
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on the heights. There were many critical fat last if has its opportunity to crush the most fendly foe of democracy which moments in the Dardanelles campaign. When the push was made for Chunan the world has seen. Bair, Liman rushed across & division from the Asiatic side which would have been blown to pieces by the British guns if it had arrived only half an hour later. So hard pressed were the Turks this time that the German commander brought over all the troops from the Asiatic side "Pertinax," in the Echo de Paris, dis except three battalions, and was anxious cussing the situation of the French mer- for a while as to the possibility of achant marine. writes: "Of all our fresh British landing there also. An-modern passenger, liners, only two or other sector where it was touch and go three remain. The present available
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was Kirechkouy, on the north side of French merchant tonnage is estimated an to be left in the Gedowns, where they will be Suvla Bay, where the Allies attacked paper at 1,700,000 tons, but the greater examined. Claims against she steamer mast three days after the first landing there. portion will be immobilised because of be presented within 10 days of arrival, other
The German general entirely agreed repairs which cannot at present be car
wise they will not be recognised. with the wisdom of the English decision redout.. It will, therefore, be necessary to evacuate the peninsula. The Tusks for is to claim, among the peace condi- were constantly being reinforced, and at tions, the handing over of a certain. the and he had twenty-one divisions number of German linere, in order to He expected the enable us to resume at once our normal under his command. withdrawal after Lord Kitchener's visit, overseas trade, and to compensate us for but it was extremely well carried out the difference between the vessels scized The concealment devices at Suvla were by, un and those seized by the other Allies, most effective, and on the last night, which are, respectively. Great Britain when the patrols sighted the red fiares 412,000 tons, Italy 220,000 tone, United on the bench, it was thought for some States 735,000 tons, and France 340,000 time that fresh troops were being landed, tons. The low level of our shipbuilding Liman's headquarters were three miles construction.
of consequence the from the trenches, and when the news general military necessities of the Allier that the British positions had been found which were met by France, is an addi- being
in
empty reached him, he galloped up to tional justifiration for distri
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organise a pursuit. But the Turkish favoured in the partial or telephone communications were so bad bution of the German merelinnt fleet." that the following up of the retirement Pertinax recalls that Herr Ballin, was only partial. The Turks, advancing before committing suicide, advised Ger in a fog on a broad front, stumbled oummy to refuse to hand over her mer the British land-mines and had heavy chint Beck, but rather to agree to recon- losses. Ninety mines were found on the stinct the armite fleets. This revela- front of one division alone At Helles cid Pertinax concludes, shown also, Liman himself saw preparations for third our duty to demand precisely
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