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THE WAR ON AND.

THE PRINCIPAL FRONT.

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 10TH 1917.

Montlle of unparalleled effort have not can we move them by can aeross European CUTLER PALMER & CO'S.

provoked a decision. Is it reasonable waters with the rapidity open to the.

to continue? Should we proferably enemy, thanks to his complete control attack the enemy somew else, where of the great- Central Europena railway He is weak, than in the where ho system. If to-morrow we gave the order so strong These questions need to transfer 10 or more divisions from we have France to the Ballmus dur enemy could, swering in plain, termos. not broken through Vo were compelled it to pleased begin a corresponding by the situation of our allies to begin redistr.Un lon, with this difference, that our 1916 offensive when we did, but on in operation that would take us months July fut we did not possess the heavy and some hundreds of ships that we can guns and the skills for more than an not spare would only take the enemy attack on a contracted front, and this weeks. We should have to change com fact enabled the Gerrians to weaken the plotely our Army transport service, to increase the local harbour facilities, and in the and sharld commit ourselves to a campaign in which we should b deprived of almost all the advantages which we enjoy in the West. We should be cured with horrible communications, totally unsuited to the service of a great Army Ove, men would have bad bilketa or none, an unhealthy climate for part of the year with the malaria and dysen- tory resulting from it, while the moan- We made some mistakes. We had not, tunons and largely roadless country, on the first day of the offensive, perfected very favourable for defence, would deny us the free use of our heavy guns. Every- the co-operation of infantry and guns. But these faults were soon rectified, and ore should read General Milne's soldierly ultimately the team work of staffs, dispatch of October 8th and try to un hermen, infantry, and guns became re-derstand the conditions of tly 30'onika markably good. It it supposed that campaign. No more certain monde af the mnemy had a million and a quartering the war can be suggesteil than casualties before Verdun, and on the compliance with the directions of those Somme, mad the evidence accumulates blind guides who, taught, even that this prolonged battle was the most would send our Armies into this moss terrible trial that the German Army had unprepossessing of theatres. ever experienced. The Germant losses on It is not obstinacy but correct strategie the Sonime in killed and prisoners, of perception, that compel most thinking From Nieuport to the Curso in the well as in war material, surpassed all soldiers to hold tenaciously to their West, and from the Gulf of Riga to the previous records, and every captured opinion that the Western theatre is that Danube in the East the Allies have letter howed that the sufferings of the which offers the best chance of victory, drawn their tines round Germany. Aided enemy were appalling. On several The reasome for this opinion the writer by sea porer, they have nearly invested easions, notably on July 14th and Sept his stated before, and restates NOW. the Austre Germans, but the latter, gist, the situation of the enemy was They have never been answered and they thanks to the support of Bulgare and critical, and on the day of Lesbenfis cannot be answered Turks, keep agen, for what it is worth, German infantry throw away their fifies an ontleb to the youth cust while through to aid their flight, a sight never before certain neutral States, and thanks to men, and demoradiation was fast sot their successus in Romania they conting in Many suppose that the action tinue to receive supplies. The invest ment is not complete, and even were i so, the invested area would be so large, and its resources an abundant, that the reduction of the enemy by ceonowie pre sure alone would be a very slow process at best.

BY THE TIMES MILITARY CORRESPONDENT] If all the appreciations Framed by the General Staffs of the belligerents since August 1914, were published to-day December 7th, and exposed to arching investigation in the strong light of events, the griety of nations, or what pour reginant remains of it, would re ceive a very welcome stimulue, rest of their line and to mass against our | provide ourselves with pack artiller to

The fallibility of human judgment would be very crne ly exemplified. No reading, no prescience, no experience can. have equipped anyone, soldier or civilian, with the stock of knowkdge of intuitism requisite for dominating this war in ad vaner by intellect. No precedents serve

contracted front of attack an extremely juwerful force. Our offensive on the Somme acted like a magnet and drew to itsof all the German reserve in the West, But we could not take full advantage of the weakening of the enemy's line elsewhere because we had not the ama in an itajsecedented war, hnd every noient necessary for the purpose and Teels and knows that he is groping his comequently several of our Armies, as way in dim twilight and continually mis remained to a largo extent sing the right path The trufiets of unemployed... Fate we can endure with equanimity if they are due to the errors of the past, buy what would be unforgivable would be that, now » Tusions live been dis belled, we should fail to suppon Government Wind these acuanres are, the military side appear clearly f -- a study of the present position, and it is the duty of everyone to examine this position and to add anything that he can to the lucidation of our great problem;

THE INVESTMENT,

The desire to escape from the necessity of overcoming the chief Armies of our principal enemy because the task is hard and the duty difficult is naturol of the main reserves of our Armies may enough, hat we must not give way to it be more prompt and decisive in future The overthrow of the principal Armies and that it may be initiated by com- of a disciplined nation of 70 million anders nearer the front. In this case people trained to arms cannot be any- greater successes may fairly bo antici- thing but difficult, no matter what patod, but to expect perfiction all attestre we select for the attempt. It is URco from armies which did not exist be more difficult than our people have yet It is certainly expedient that we should fore the wor, and were buying their been told The Germans have more than array of heavy and machine guns, and complete investiments, which is a proper experience in all grades, was altogether 120 divisions in the West, with a great the successes which we have won against means for exercising pressure, though it too much, is far from hoing a panca. This under- It is certainly reasonable to continue them at Verdun, and on the Bomme tre lying idea of investment is to be dis When the spring comes, and if the Gov Buch as might have been hoped from our covered in all or most of the operationsment and the nation workers do operiority and peither less nor more. which we have conducted in the East, ot fail us we shall have far larger Numbers alone annibalate, and we must It is hor of a correct instinct, but number of hien and heavy guns, and we have these numbers. We have the men bơ in no case has it yet been based upon a phall no longer be restricted to battle on create the necessary otw divisions, and proper military appreciation of what is a narrow front. The troops will be the resources for arming them. Victory possible or impossible in given theatres better trained the shells will be piled in the West is attainable if we bend with given means, one and all of these up, and all the experience of 1910 will all our energies to deserve it. operations have brought ne disappoint be used with profit. The train, almost ment. The operations, in short, have to breaking point, which our Arinies been political, and from the military imposed on the enemy this year will be point of view the disappointments in imensely increased in 1917, and with which they have involved us have been tactics perfected in this stern school we merited Ons of the things which we shall constantly have greater results with have to do, therefore, is to examine whetus leds. The revolutionary legislation, ther we can complete our investment of the enemy by methods to which strategy Can give its sanction;

THE WESTERN KEONT This bringe us to a consideration of what fore's can be spared for the East, Bad Core quently to a review of the situation the West, where our

WAR NEWS.

THE LATEST GERMAN ECONOMY. which the Somme has compelled Ger According to the German papers the many to initiate is tribute to the Federal Council has issued a new regula courage and efficiency of our Armies and tion ja regard to old boots and clothing. to the devotion of our home workers, and For the year 1917 only two paire of we have only to continue to wear the so-called shoes-de-luxe will be allowed enemy down each person in return for cast-off but still must not allow ourselves to be wearable pairs. The utilisation of cast- misted by the enemy's attempts to throw off clothing is entrusted to communities.

veil over the Somme and minimise which will have a

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hand in the West, and that the numbers and armament of the Allies in this theatre will be far superior next year than they have been in the year not ending. We have acted, and are acting,

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elpal forces are now concentrated. Why its consequence The object of this chase of these articles poly of the pur- Bre they concentrated there, and are we Press propaganda 18 to weaken our ill be carried out on the ticket system, right or wrong in continuing our policy Frolution, and we must pay no bred to of making our main effort on the it. We know that we have the whip Western front. We sent our troops to Franc in order to counter balance, so for as we could, the known numerical superiority of the German to the French Army, and we have continued to develon our strength on this front because the main strength of our principal enemy was, and still is concentrated in this theatre. Thanks to the hard fighting the Allied Armies in France in 1814, wo definitely arrested the attack which the enemy intended to be decisive, and thanks to the efforts of all at home we have built up forces superior in mumbers and armament to the enemy, who is on the defensive and has been made to give ground.

BOAT AT SEA FOR 55 DAYS

Recent German newspapers called con close accord and intimate community of ideas with our Erench and Belgian spicuous attention to the record" Allies, and it can truly be said that the achievement of a U-boat in remaining at mitit and efficiency of the Allied Armies for fifty-five consecutive days, A in the Western theatre have never bean communiqué issued to the Press by the better. We can be sure that the enemy Admiralty at Berlin states:-'' One of regards the renewal of our attacks with our submarines, which recently returned a feeling of consternation, and it is for to harbour from an expedition, remained us to make sure that fresh troops, and, at sea for no less than fifty-five days above all, an uninterrupted flow of heave without entering a harbour or receiving guns and munitions, will coble Sir assistance (Unterstützung) of any kind. Douglas Haig, who has displayed the im Buch an achievement as hitherto been placable determination necessary in the circumstances, to continue in the year 2017 the punishing tactics which will in the end cause the German Armies to

All the arguments which led us to seek for e decision in the West retain their force and recive added weight from cumulated experience. On the Western front, and in our position on the left of crack

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garded as impossible. It denotes a supreme feat both by the crew and by the material, from which our U-craft is made, and also the more remarkable in view of the fact that the boat în quce- tron bad repeatedly to battle

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LETTERS

with

The Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung publishes

in the morning and returned just before

the French line, we are nearer to our PRINCIPLES AND THEIR INFRACTION boma hase tina nywhere else on the

The idea what we alwuld seek some Continent of Europe We have at p distant theatre where the enemy AN AUSTRIAN MOTHER'S disposal excellent reads, railways, and

weaker, and transfor thither our maju ports, and the short sen passage zacht, is one based upon a total inck of genera, though no uninterrupted, in munity from submarins attack, and the sane appreciation of all the condition diversion from its normal duties of the of this great campaign. We seek a great a number of letters from a poor Viennese minimum of mercantile shipping. Men victory, not a sinal one, and the grea women to schoolmaster, begging him to guns, ammuntion, atores, food, andness of victory depends, is Clusewitz excuse the bad attendance of her son forago can be carried from our home taught us. long ago, upon the mass of Joseph, One of these is as follows: territory to our Armies with the greatest the bonquered troops. Therefore, the Please excuse Joseph that he is late ease and in the shortest time, while the successful blow which will produce the He had again to stand in a queue to wait sick and wounded can return to England greatest effect must be made in that for fat. On Friday morning he was in

the row as early tɛ. 3 with the ledat posible loss of time, and theatre whore, the enemy's greatest saturned home at a quarter to ten

arty te 3 o'clock, and only consequently with the lesst suffering and is assembled and the greater the mass loss. We can almost iminediately replace of our forces used for the blow the more could only manage to get a few ounces of fat pork. The child was so frozen that Tosses of all kinds, and being, as we are sure are we of the necessary victory I could not good him to school gala within easy reach of our munition works By concentrating our main forces where we are able to give the utmost develop the centre of gravity, lies we have made today he was in the queue at 5 o'clock ment to our artillery fire without the fear the corred decision, and if we conquer 10-but this time with nothing to show of running short which is such a com here all the rest of the enemy's successes for his long wait. It makes one despair.

We have not hitherto acted on these where to be hat but no fat in an Blant anxiety in distant theatres of war. become useless to hum The climate, though not agreeable in the

Another letter runs

ofter runs thus: I ask you winter, suits our men and horses. There Principles with the singleness of mind are good billets for troops when these and purpose indispensable in war. We to excise Joseph for shsenting himself are resting in rear, and consequently have seen too many things at a time yesterday from school First of all the health and spirits of our men We sent an expedition, too weak for had to wait for fan and then for coale all that we can desire. We are Senting victory to the Dardanelles, and another For sight days we have had no coals and in a friendly and a civilized county to Mesopotamia, before we had sembled po petroleum. I cannot stand in the row We defend indirectly these Islands by

_in_Franco the furoet, neccmary. We myself because of my, had occupying the enemy's troops in our thereby rendered the year 1815 doubly more and more dependent on the poo

unfruitfa, in the strategic sense, and children and on what they are able to front, and in case we are afucked at pm October 1915 onwards, we opened bring home with them. Joseph has been home we can bring back troops from Trance with the least possible delay.

fresh operations from Balonika, in which Waiting for coals since 10 o'clock this morning, and only returned homs at 2.-15 He could Thus, from an offensive and defensive gion, according to German reports, with 121b, not Tourly point of view the decision to make our Allies have now something like half a

get no more anywhere. chief in the West has everything million men

A third letter runs Joseph for absenting himself yesterday. At 3 o'clock, in the morning, he had to stand in the row at the butcher's, where he remained till 9.45. He had then to fetch 14lb of coals, and again to

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little armies of Chatham and we cannot shift great modern armies about by sea But we have not broken through the in presence of submarines with the Neither cherry. We have sudored beavy locatecurity of the anciens dayı.

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