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HON BALE.
It must first be pointed out ones more, and with wearisome reiteration, that this main forces of our chief enemy have always been concentrated on this front, where there now stand two-thirds of the total available field forces of the German Empire. There can be no doubt at all that the centre of gravity of the German military power is here, and that it is here, therefore, that we should amass superior force in order to seek victory which will be decisive brain en
This
victory has been found difficult to obtain, as might have been expected, but the principle of striking at the centre of gravity remains intact in spite of the difficulty, and all that emerges from the strength of German positions numbers is that we must make correspondingly greater efforts to overcome this strength, soul, in short, to meet it by superior strength, both of men and
Can we truly say that we have followed up this purposé consistently and with all our might? We cannot say that we have, because we and the French have diverted to distant theatres since the war began not less than 000,000 men, with their corresponding guns and munitions, ant it is open to us Westerners to hold that had these diverted number been at our disposal for the May and Septem ber offensives in the West we might have dealt the Germans a fatal blow.
DISTANT ADVENTURES,
BREAKING THE LINE.
CLEARING OUT THE REBELS.
In woll informed quarters Reuter's Agency learns that the latest news from But, it is urged, we cannot break the Ger- Persia, botli telegraphic and otherwise, manlines, and what is the use of attacking tends to the belief that the Russians are if, in such attacks, we lose more man thau lie does? These visions of breaking the German gradually ridding Northern Persia of the lines; these dreams of swallowing the whole rebel element. It is true that here and German Anpy at a gulps
these half-a-dozen objectives given to our infantry in an attack there the German propaganda and German and carrying
them far beyond the avalry
of money are successful, in the case of indivi- their artillery, these massed Corps of ready to stream through the famous Gin Gap, duals, in giving rise to local trouble, but on the whole the situation shows improve¬ have never appealed to the writer very much, since they have appeared to him to be based
ment, ponn fillacy-ely, the expected re- surrection of the maneuvre battle, which, like good Queen Anne and Roland's innre, is unfortunately dead.
sian troops.
The
Evidence of this is to be found in a tele- ther gram received announcing that How
low can we expect to break the German Imperial Bank of Persia has recommenced lines in one battle? There are lines upon lines, business at Hamadan order having been and when we have taken the Aubera Ridge and the Viny Heights there will be Lille, the restored in that town owing to the arrival Dendre, the Scheldt, the Meuse, the Rhine, of Russian troops. A further telegram and many more lines, as there will be for us
states that the British at Korman, who if the Germans attack un, so that this basic had to leave that place last month, bave iden of breaking the line, good for Trafalgar, arrived safely at Bunder Abbas, is really quite out of place. It is even harm- ful, for when we win a serious victory like colony is a fairly large one, and after the that of September last, when we dispose of departure from Kerman it was reported 150,000, Germans and capture 150 German that owing to trouble on the read the re- guns, we are not content because we have fugers would be compelled to go through not attained the unattainable and our cavalry Seistan. It was also stated that the Bri
famous Gap.tish community from Yezd, including a have not streamed through the fun, eust missionary staff of ten persons, had arrival the country is unrideable, covered with at Ardistan en route to Teheran, and were obstacles, and cantines cavalry to reads therefore in the district protected by Rus where a division can be held up by fes machine-gons. But if, leaving these
A further telogram announces that nego- really puerile plans aside, and abandoning titions are taking place for the release of the idea of breaking the line, we had said before September 25 that we were going to
the British colony from Shiraz, who are cause the Germans 150,000 casualties and to now at Ahran, but so far they have been bring home 150 of their guns, we should have without success. A private letter received considered the accomplishment of this pur-in London from a member of a British firm, wha has escaped from Sultanabad to pose a great fent, and we should have been satisfied instead of dissatisfied with the Teheran, states that when he left the Ger man Consul was pouring men into Sultana. result.
bad, which was completely in Geraian hands. He added that the road between Kerman and Yezd was unsafe, and that The latest three posts had been looted. news concerning Russian movements, how- ever, would seem to indicate that the rebel position in Bultanabad is being rendered precarious by the advance of the troops.. Other letters, which were sent from Persia as late as December 20th, give a more coherent account of the situation, These state that a large portion of the Russian force left on December 1st, pro- ceding frem Kazvin to Hamadan to sub- due the rebels round that place and Ker- manshah, They scored their first success against the rebels between Hamadan and Kazvip. The artillery of the Russians goin- pletely out-ranged that of the gendarmes, and their success was complete,
Was
to
Assuredly these secondary operations and diversions have brought us scant profit. Moreover, this misconception of the real Thoga, who would renew and extend these problem leads to heavy and unnecessary secondary campaigns and their stoutest losses. The writer showed, after Neuve
that there were advocates adunt that they are secondary Chapelle,
two way should first show cause that they will of attacking the enemy's lines, one of
which
and hold, grip and provoke a decision favourable to us, and
the secondly, that the large contingents of troops the other toes with the son of ranking which they will require from us and France onemy's first lines with the iden will not leave us dangerously weak in the through and winning a decisive battle. We West in face of the main mass of the took Neave Chapelle and its immediately German operating armies: This case has surrounding defences with little more than never been made out. The writer has 2,000 casualties, but going on into the blue, examined half a dozen wild-cat projects, we did no gox; we ran into the German including the proposed advance from reserves, and we use back to the liner first Salonika to the Danube, and feels confident captured with nothing more gained and that the best instructed opinion would reject with 10,000 more of our men on the floor. them all. They all leave us, unduly weak The same underlying idea of finishing AG a blow recurs in in the West; they are lacking in a clear off the Germans objective; they entail a continuing and our May and September offensives, which ruinously costly employment of any hun-equally cost us heavy losses, because we were dred transports and storeships in waters not not content to occupy and consolidate our cleared of hostile submarines; while they first gains, and to postpone a further advance involve operations in mountainous or dificult until our guns had moved forward and were countries devoid of good communica-ready once more to support with their tions, and therefore
unsuited admirable fire our for armies like those of England and Wand incomparable infantry severe Russian defeat. This nt first caused France They gand into activity arniies the possibilities of the theories upon which we are not principally concerned, such which our tactics were based in the battles as the Bulgar Janissaries of the Kaiser, armies of 1918, and our next business is to set out to hich might not be actively hostile it we loft find letter, with experience as our search- them alone, and they all play the German light. game of saving German troops and of divert- Lig us from our main purpose. This purpose is to go on killing and wounding 200,000 German troops month until it becomes obvious to the densest mind in the Father Jant that German ainus cannot be attained. Let us be quit of our wander-year, and get back, with no more relapses, to the main business in hand, ma
`WESTERN ADVANTAGES,
ALLIED CO-OPERATION NEEDED..
Certainly, we can do better. To begin with, it really is time to beg the Higher Command of the Allies to forsake the bit of acting separately on each front without regard to the proceedings elsewhere. The failure of the Great Powers of the Allies to co-operate, and to begin their offensive simultaneously, movements more or less
disadvantage. has been a grievous
10
chased-ratad overy time.
The presence of our main armies in Northus, and has enabled the Germans with Eastern France entails advantages other the aid of their admitable railways, to than those already enumerated. These main play the game. armies protect not only France, but England. Blocks of Ceiman troops are transferred They can always and rapidly bring such from one front to another, and are effectively pressure to hear that Germany will be fearful used, because our various offensives do not of making large drafts upon her armies in synchronize and the same German troops the West for some new enterprise, such as an which were fighting one lower yesterday oversen uttack on England, and, if this latter are fighting another to-day. It is an attack takes plice, we can hope to bring elemendill exists, to decide upon the duty of the Allied War Council, back rapidly to England, from the present if it positions occupied by our armies, sufficient approximate date, and then for all of us troops to make England safe. Our coasts to attack together, in order to deprive are within sound
of the guns in Germany of an advantage of which, in the Flanders, and we have this important advan- past she has protited altogether too much. tage, namely, that, standing where we do,
A GENERAL ATTACK., we are close to our home bases and sources
ment and our transport and provided with ovided whole
At the very moment of this victory the Germans spread broadcast a report of a
some excitement, but on the truth being known a large number of the Austro-Gor- man-Turkish people who were nt Kum lit at once for Ispahan. The latest news is that the Russians continued to push on to Kermanshab, and that, after the Russian victory, they were meeting with little re sistance, In Teheran the situation was quiet, the most serious feature being the want of money. A very significant statement it contained in one letter, that the Persian Government had requested the Russians to clear the country of rebels as far as Ker man and Ispahan.
Communication between Kum and the capital was prohibited, the road being kept by a cordon of gendarmes,
Martial law prevailed on the Sultana- bad-Kum road, and no one is allowed to travel over it except by permission of the German Vice-Consul. At Sultanabad where some of the British colony sought refuge in the house of an Armenian, the gendarmes had been guilty of looting.
the changed conditions. Hitherto the old conception of the infantry as the queen of battles has ruled. Our actions, have on the whole been fought with this dominating idea in our minds. Thus have provided the overture, but when this curtain has been rang up we have alanys discovered the infantry as chief actors. The infantry
of supply. Being close, we can immediately What is true for the whole great strategic replenish expended munitions, as we cannot theatre is also true for each front. If the always do with the same facility far afield, operation which we purpose is likely to extend while the flow of drafts to the front, and the beyond 48 hours, it is quite obvious that, un remain the principal arm and we can return of Rick and wounded to the homeless the whole German front is attacked, or never make too much of it nor By at all events menaced and harried, our enemy
too violent energy when territory, are rapid, easy, and sure.
But the predomin- the opportunity arises. concentrating our main armies where they has a simple game to play, for, using his rail-it with Are we can thus make the most effective ways again, as well as motor transport, he ance of modern artillery in present-day and the most damaging use of them, while rushes up the reserves of all neighbouring fighting has become must marked, and it is we act in a country suitable to our arma sectors to the front which we are attack
a question whether in this trench warfare ing, and met do ting the Line we should not use the infantry as a comple on admirable railway service.
force What, Werder did on the Lisaine
Ypres tentary arm, and see what happens when 1871, and Foch did at organization of our original Expeditionary
wo subordinate its action to that of the gans Most, if If Force, and of our Territorials and New German generals are doing new.
we knock to pieces the first line system of not all, of our attacks have been condemned hostile trenches and obstacles with our shells, assumption Armies, was based
upon the they were to tight in civilized countries and to sterility in advance because we have form our barrage of fire beyond, counter bat in a temperate climate. To fight in countries. attacked on narrow fronts, have spun out
ter the German artillery more effectively and and clinates that are the reverse entails a our operations, sometimes over weeks, and
the solidate the ground gained, and await transformation of armament, clothing, trans- by maintaining a passive attitude on other then use our infantry to occupy and con- port, and much else. On all counts, therefore, parts of the front have placed all the trumps advance of our guns to fresh positions
before the Weat is the best theatre for us, and the in German hands. The 100 German batta
wo continue our attack, we may hope to gain nearer that our armies itand to the Channel lions which rost, the French in Champagne solid successes and to cause the enemy much ports the easier can the war be maintained.
rapidly grew to 200 because the neighbouring greater loss than we suffer ourselves. The sectors remained quiescent, and so it has tial account of the losses and exhaustion been with us, on a smaller scale.
that
** TERRITORIAL GAINEAN Some people are impressed by the amount.
A general offensive by all the Allies at once of the Germans under the French shell fire in Champagne must be read and understood. of Allied territory which the Germans and a general offensive on each front, are the hold. If this argument deserved to impress tactics which will hurt Germany the most we might point out that we have con- and they are therefore to be commended. quered and now occupy German Colonial These are being rendered more possible every territory of some 600,000 suare miles,
KAYALEY COMMANDERS.
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recently divisions have an undue number
There is one subject which continually battles and look into the future namely, equal to treble the area of Germany day by the rapid incream of our heavy comes before us when we study our recen howitzers and munitions generally, enabling herself. But the fact does not carry us to devote an increasingly large number of the predominance of cavalry officers in our Our main armies in as very fax, and similarly, though the oc-heavy guns to all our sectors, and to main higher commands. cupation by Germany of Belgium and Serbia, tain a good rate of fire for a longer time. It France and in the Balkans, our Army Corps at Suvla, and other Armies, Army and of parts of France and Russia, is vexa is not the case that we have yet delivered a tious, the vitals of our greater Allies are not serious attack without any concern for our of cavalry officers at their head. It is true penetrated, nor are their armies cast down. supply of shells. Neither we nor the French The superior readiness of Germany for war has been wholly so fortunate as that, that, thanks to the cavalry renaissance of recent years, this arm found itself when war gave her an initial advantage from which she but as time goes on each one of our
of very
great profited, hut this advantage appears to be attacks will be more deadly from the artillery broke out with an unusually large number
West, where all exhausted, certainly in the
point of view, and we may often enjoy the of brigadiers and colonels
merit. They were a band of brothers the gains of territory during the past year, luxury of driving the enemy out of his whom any army might have felt small though they have been, have been on trenches by shell fire alone.
proud, but few of them had had any ex- our side. The main point is that it does not
perience of handling mixed forces, and many of us would feel happier if, in fatures matter so very much where we fight Ger
appoint mans, so long as we fight Germans, and not
The long periods of quiescence, which are ments, more consideration were given to of their allies and dupes to whose fate Ger- many is indifferent, and it is easier for us to between one of our attacks and another are astillery and infantry. It is these arms, not
unacceptable in principle and yet elapse officers of other arms, and especially kill Germana in their present positions in the
and when we forgetting the e engineers, who have also been
A CHANGE OF TACTICS.
West than it is anywhere else. Even if largely due to want of
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future-as-we have in the past we do not get us, and we shall probably do better if our forward with our war of aftrition, but rather generals in high command in the West are get back, and with the experience now I drawn, in future, from those arms with which. we have done better in each-successive tightbeurd us we must change our taction to they have been acquainted all their lives.
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