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BY COLONEL FEYLAR;}

This Alliance, which undoubtedly was advantageous from the point of view of Germany's political ambitions, would have been equally advantageous from the point of view af strategy if it had fulfilled the two following indispensible conditions-- weakening the Allies in the principal theatres of hostilities without requiring the Germans to weaken themselves pro portionately; and of providing for the enmpaign in Asia menus commererate with the end to be attained.

STRATEGY AND THE BALKANS purpose let us go back to the real origin of the operations in the Balkans, that is, to the Alliance which brought the Otto man Empire into the world conflict on the side of the Central Empires. People talk a great deal about print was the dermans who desired this cipal fronts and secondary fronts. They alliance, and from the military point of now army, and Turkish Army, against the will tell you, for example, that the view it represented the concentration of a western front is a principal one while Allies in a new theatre of operations the Balkan front is subsidary. In some Western Asia, respects that is true. In point of fact, the importance of a frout depends upon the importance that would attach to the victory upon it. If, for instance, we put the supposition that the Germans destroy the Allied armies in France, they would have peace and the terms of peace in their hands, subject only to such modi fications as they might be compelled to make hy the Italian, Russian and Ron manien factors in the situation. Again, a German victory on the Roumanian front is disagreeable for the Allies, because it supplies the enemy with certain mentis of prolonging the struggle, but strategically the elimination of the Rouresnian factor makes but trifling alteration in the general position:In particular, it does not put Germany in a position to dietate terms of peace to the Quadruple Entente. Thus, France is a principal theatre of operations for the Germans and Roumania

a secondary one,

But the converse is not always true A front which is vital for one of the belligerents may be subsidiary for the other, nad circumstances might so develop as to make a hitherto subsidiary front a capital ong for both helligerents. Let us but the case that the Austro-Hungarians are absolutely defeated by the Russians and Roumanians in Transylvania and compelled to retreat to Budapest, while in the weat the German defensive remain unbroken. The question might arise for the Allies, what would be the most advantageous way to exploit this new situation? Would it not perhaps be best to relegate the advance to the Meuse to Becond place in the scheme in order to reinforce an offensive up the Danube, the infinence of which would immediately be felt beyond, to the north of the Car pathians, towards the borders of Silesia If victory enables them to impose peace upon Germany on the Oder as thoroughly and more speedily than on the Rhine, and the conditions are such as to render them able to achieve it, will they not seize the opportunity Park Paddy

Thus in military operations everything is in a constant state of change because everything rests upon conditions of fact, a constant state of and facts are in

These condition were not fulfilled by the Ottoman Alliance The military object to be attained was the weakening of Great Britain, to be effected by the invasion of Egypt and by the march to the Persian Gulf. The Turks did not secure these advantages for the Germans, Their means were not commensurate with their object. On the contrary, the Ger Thus not only did means were obliged to provide them with the to supplementary resources and these, tno.

were

"ALLIES DEMANDS ARE NEW GERMAN PROPAGANDA..

MODERATION ITSELF!

STRIKING ADMISSIONS BY HERR HARDEN.

Herr Maximilian Harden has written remarkable article in which he Bots out to prove that the peace terms contained in the Allies Note to Mr. Wilson do not justify the indignation and scorn which have been heaped on it by every publie writer and speaker, from the Kaiser downwards,

THE EAETERN QUESTION,

APPARENTLY TO FORESTALL ANGER OVER SINKING AN AMERICAN SHIP.

Some curiosity has been aroused by a new form of German propaganda which has chosen the women's clubs in and near New York na its subject.

Within the last few days there has been sent to these clubs copies of begins by asserting that since the Allies printed circular signed "Mecduc." It refuse to consider the peace proposals of ENGLAND'S MAGNANIMITY, The first thing to which he draws atten. Germany, the latter will "triumph over tion is that England wants nothing for her enemies" by using her submarines to herself that she, in face of sacrifices isolate England from the rest of the which even Pitt would not have dared to world, "thereby destroying the life spark without any words or gesture "all that in such a case the United States impose upon his countrymen, renounces of the Entente." It goes on to assort tangible gains. He admite, or rather will be drawn into the war to help suggests that even without any gains England. "But how is this to be done?" England would, after the war, remain the Germany says, will be particular strongest Power on the west of Europe; not to dangerously arose American an but the recovery of her position in the tagonism." But--

To the desperate all things are justi finble Gather a pickel crew, dress them world would be slow and painful, and The ghost of Machiavelli whispers: She does not contrary to the pre-in the German naval uniform, place them. her lusses would be felt by her for a

mature predictions, made in some qunr in an English submarine flying the generation to come. Vet:

ters, demand the surrender of the German fig, and go out and torpedo al Germany navy. and the fact that she big American passenger ship. Be sure to does not mention the Gorrean colonies allow your submarins with the German Bag to come in view of the passengers ord theans remain iusufficient

shows her readiness to discuss them.

the sinking vessel, and have a few of of the struggle for Germany. requirements, but the principal theatres.

Then comes the question of the expul your English alors in the German dis- deprived of resources which were placed, selessly, at the service of the Turks.

Then have British destroyers helpless. without having seriously weakened theon of the Turks from Europe and the guise on deck, and let them mock the Allied the Germans have weakened their surrender of Constantinople to Russia.sh to the doomed ship and reacus: Ho maliciously recalls, in brackets, that sufficient number of affidavit makers own forces opposed to them.

Treitschke, too, was in favour in confin that they saw with their own eyes # Gor

German crew, submarine, with at man ng Turkey to Asia, and observes that the well intentioned childish twaddle this decision of the British is but the about the fairy and of Middle Europe result of

that should extend from Emden to Bagdad, and would compel England, and eberefore the United States, to maintain a permanent alliance with Russia at all costs: Whoever proclaims in large posters that he is clenching his fist in order to humble into the dust everybody who does not belong to his own gang must not be surprised to seo alliances formed against him with out much scruple as to the resources

A Ger and quality of the partners. many hostile to the British, the Rus sians, and the Latins, while wielding a military, political, and economie hegemony between the North Sea and the Persian Gulf why, rather will the party menaced see the White Tsar en- throned by the Sea of Marmors.

THE BULGARIAN ALLIANCE."

The ma

was even more serious. In where the German concentrations failed to deal the enemy any decisive blow

But

without difficulty and now never can-they where they never could have done so induced the enemy to meet them with con- centrations which might have resulted in 40 We know why they did not. The decisive blows if things had turned out

D Dardanelles business and the campaign in Mesopotamia were planned badly. the German mistake, in concentrating de and endures, for the checks in the a result of the Ottoman alliance, endured Dardanelles and at Kut-el-Amara were not Balkan theatre, They merely compelled: 50 serious as to drive the Allies from the them to work out other plans of opera- tions

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The result has been a modification of the relative valdes of the Balkan front. From being a relatively subsidiary defen sive front for the Allies, it has shown a tendency to become a relatively essential offensivo front, since it was favourable to the delivery of more or less decisive blows at the Central Empires. Conversely, from being of indirect offensive front for the Germans, it has shown a tendency to be come an essential defensive front, since it compelled them to parry there blows which threatened to weaken them de

RAMSHACKLE AUSTRIA.

But Herr Harden goes further, and boldly touches upon the sorest point in the Allies' programme-the fate of the

thing about Territorial separation, nationalities in Austria-Hungary. He and may well be taken to mean," Home declares that the Allies terms say no The text thing was the alliance with Rule all round, such as has been pro-

peoples: Bulgaria The Bulgarians have been ex-mised to the Irish and the Scottish ceedingly ingenuous.

They did not ce

High Command was recognising the im- that, Germany was throwing them to the possibility of butnessing up Turkey's de- Scient credit by a subsidy from German resources Finding themselves unable to parry the blows they had provoked in Asin, the German High Command induced. the Bulgarians to take on the risky job,

nationalities would be no new thing in Austria-even Bismarck rccommended something of that kind and would he

Ger- practicable also in Hungary. many, too, would do well to not in the terms of Frederick the Great's famous saying Ly allowing her foreign nationalities to seek their salvation in' their own way..

Such a plan for the federation of

ALSACE LORRAINE,

to it that the ship sinks quickly and that The deed, sink the great American liner Bee who laughed fiendishly at their hidequa

many Americans lose their lives. greater the number, the greater the im petus to immediate hostilities between the United States and Germany. The Gor- man Government will make sweeping

They may even accuse you "of denials. perpetrating the dastardly act but all will be Futile. What von, England, startet, the American Press, will finish. They will demand war with Germany. and there will be war. And England will The whisper did not complete the sentence."

The circular goes on to argue that. should a great American ship be sent to the bottom, the mind and hand that A letter which encloses m English struck the blow would not be German, but specimen of the circular comments:

"Probably it is merely the outpouring of the unbalanced brain of an over-en- thusiastic lover of the Fatherland, but in these desperate days it is well not to ignore eren such a wildly worded warn- ing as this. Y. Times.

THE FUTURE OF GERMAN COLONIES.

DECLARATION OF POLICY BY MR. LONG.

at Westminster Addressing 1 meeting at City Hall recently, Mr. Walter Long. Secretary of State for the Colonies, de clared that the conquered German colonies. would never revert to German rule.

Mr. Long in making this announcement spanking with knowledgo said he was and full responsibility with. regard to the Lastly, as to the question of Alsace Cerman colonies of which we had acquir Lorraine Harden thinks that this deed possession since the war began, and as mand of the Allies is modutation itself the representative of the vast Oversen in comparison with the demand, re- Dominions, and he continued sounding from every Fan-German month. ern France, Briey, Belfort, Poland. for the annexation of Belgium, North Lithuania Volhynia Courland, Serbia, and Montenegro, pieces of Dobrudja and Wallachia, and even Venetia and Egypt But is the demand seriously meant the attempt to make a speedy peace will not be shattered against the walls of Strassburg and Metz" and that nine.

development. The good general, like the good government, is the one who forceees events with the shrewdest eye or who, not them having foreseen them, recognises most quickly and applies the most de quate solution to them without the limits of the means at his command, cisively

It is considerations of this kind that warrant the opinion that the operation of the Germans in the Balkans may still eventuate in disappointment for them theatre of operations can only procure CUTLER PALMER & (0'5 Trom the strategical point of view, this them successes of secondary military importance. However brilliant the vic

win there, tories may be that they may they will still be incomplete and ineffee tive to compel the enemy to make peace. They will result in the acquisition of territory and of economie resources, but they will not destroy any essential forces it is quite arguable that even at that or touch any motive power indispensable date, and while they still perhaps cherish- to the activity of the enemy; they cannot some brighter hope, they contemplated the deprive the Russians, or the French, or possibility of a shortened south-eastern the Italians, or the English, of means of front, an Asiatic front replaced by a Bal maintaining and reconstituting powerfully kan front before which the Turkish army, equipped armies capable of continuing the gradually abandon to its own devices, war in the west and in the east that is would lies as a mere advanced guard. to say Bearer to the vitals of Germany That is what it is at the present moment thon Germany could approach to the The Ottoman Empire is now merely a re- vitals of her enemies as a result of her gun outside the theatre of German opera- successes in the Balkans. In order to tions. The south-eastern defensive front bring the Quadruple Entente to its knees, is the Bulgarian front. The Bulgarians have moceeded the Turks in the duty of the Central Empires must deal it crashing covering, the Central Empires. He has good reasou to think that 1 blows, both in the west and in the east,

bows that they may deal it in theThe offensive against Serbia was the south may hurt, bat cannot knock it out, consequetice of the alliance with Bulgaria. Here again the converse is not true. This alliance was a graft on the initial

satisfied with a moral victory over Ger The German attacks are divergent, those strategic mistake of the alliance with

“generous gesture" on her of the Allies blows are delivered Whether the Turkey. It compelled the German Em tenths of the French people would be

from Paris, or pire to furnish yet another large con

Perhans Harden is too optimistic on whole Petrograd or Salonika, they are all aimed tingeat of its troops to assist the Bul- many and at the head, at Berlin if a geographical gariin army in its conquest of Macedonia, Pars

a striking demonstration article is objective is desired, and consequently all which was the stipulated price of the

and are in the direction of a knock-out. It alliance, and generally to assume the risks the letter point, but the is only a question of length of length of of the Balkan war, jangk

The intervention of Roumania brought views which are no doubt shared. arm, that is, of adequate means. If the means are adequate, the point of depar one of these risks prominently into evi- by many sensible Germans, ture is immaterial, the objectiva every dence. The last of the German troops in perhaps to judge from the indulgence. thing The place where German might is Serbia bad hardly left the Balkans when of the Censorship in the highest, Govern destroyed is unimportant that it shall be they were obliged to return to meet the ment quarters --Daily News, destroyed is the object to be aimed at. Roumanians and support the Bulgarian

further in the Balkana without seriously. This illustration of the relative value army.

And, here we come to the second of the shaking bublic confidence and without dis Thin persona, particularly those from of fronts for one belligerent or the other. is very instructive. It is a lesson in two questions referred to above: Why illusioning the public to a degree that ten to, thirty pounds under weight, will strategy to be remembered for military should they support the Bulgarians when would be no less serious, Retreat would be interested to learn of a marvellous schools. It is evidence for the truth of the Balkan campaign can now be only a destroy the precarious nature of the vic discovery which puts on flesh at the rate

that instruction it that axion of military behove, one to beware of set theories, of source of weakness to Germany For two tories that were celebrated too soon and of a pound a day in many instances, ready mode ideer of fossilisation of reasons, apparently, one political and also would betray the failure of the essen- rounds out the gure and makes thin.

moral, the other strictly military in its tial object of the war which the victories folks fat up even if they hav

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ther the Germans will be able to collect This man never look like real money at the risk of weakening the ance of the great armies of the Entente? Upon this fundamental error it grafted new forces of sufficient strength to destroy They are pushed aside in the race for

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of Berbia and the opening of comhle them to resist long enough to extort namensions

Constantinople were from of the

interesting one well worth investigation definito guazautes that position would fail serveried enemy seepgaitin

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