Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 40 | Expert's Daily Review of War

I I Experts Expert's s Daily I Review of War WarBy By J. J W. W T. T Mason I t United Press War ExpertNESS Expert f NESS V YORK YORE May Ia Von Von lIln- lIln denburg's c continued repose along alone oho ilio j. j west st front has haR cau caused ed German n newspapers newspapers news news- WM- WM I a d during the I t week to display l papers past l y 1 I I ii it 7 spun U U ui Ul uneasiness II at al t vuu tUt J voJt u ICI 11 of victory in Picard and ami Flanders i. i I Premier Lloyd George Gcorge declared during dur dur- during ing the week that a a. new hew Teutonic offensive of or- I I was impending It I is by no means certain however cr that S on I I will carry out his plans to try tn once more mort to reach the channel chanI channel chan chan- nel ports Unquestionably he would I again sacrifice German manpower to the utmost In III a desperate effort cHort to ro I save JIe his own rye reputation If the choice were left lell solely oleh to him But Rut C evidence evidence evi evi- I dence is 11 increasing that I influence at ai the lie German war councils soul COlin ells Is not nol as paramount as it t as was I before the present drive began bean I The failure allure of the German armies to o attain ln their major objectives durIn during dur dur- In lug ing the Picard and Flanders fic fighting fight ht- ht In ing has haR had time to create an a atmosphere at atmosphere at- at 1 of distrust in infallibility Ii Criticism Is developing develop develop- i In ing In Germany Cerman a against a military I policy that kills more Germans than French and British The l kaiser feels I the changed demeanor of public opinion low ion toward the war lords for he hc of offered offered of- of I ered the German Germau people this week mi au excuse for fOI the Inactivity along the west vest front He lie declared it would be bt better for Germany German to lo wait walt for fOI n victory vic Ic c- c tOJ tory to come come without further slaughter Iau ter rather than to try to win the war prematurely by br needless sacrifices I Nobody in Berlin believes belie Germany can win wit the tho war automatically by I II sitting down lown anI and doln doing nothing I I Americas America's fast growing strength in France makes males such a policy Impossibility impossibility if the Germans hope bops to lo win vin Yet the thc kaiser suggests this ma may bo he botho hethe tho the revised plan o of campaign campal n of tho thu German general staff The situation at t German headquarters must be lid highly confused to compel tho the kaiser I to announce no so radical a chance In InI Inthe inthe the Hindenburg stra strategy te a of blood let let- ting It can be due only to the fact I that the German people are showing a a dangerous r reluctance to hand their lives lI over to Hindenburg for further I reckless ex experiments How influential the opponents of I lindenburg will prove pro to be cannot canna bo foretold Already however they have held up all aU attacks and have set I the kaiser to promising that the Cerman German German Ger Ger- man people will not again be sacrificed as the they were during th the first weeks of or r I spring If It the present Inaction becomes be becomes he- he comes the permanent policy of the G Germans In the west Hindenburg will have put himself In the class clans with his his' predecessor as us chief of staff General Gen Gen- eral gral von on Falkenhayn who got sot to the hates gates of Verdun and was then halted For this reason reason will bring all the pressure he can to se secure secure se- se cure permission for ono one more super- super sacrifice in an effort to reach the channel ports If he secures this consent consent consent con con- sent and f falls fails to take Boulogne Calais Calais Ca Ca- lais laiR and Dunkirk his retirement ment as chief of staff lOa may follow follo Premier Lloyd George c aptly de de- described l I scribed this weel the situation on the lie west est front as a's as a n race between Hin- Hin and Wilson The description does not mean however that tho the Germans Ger Ger- Germans mans will be able to lo break the Anglo- Anglo French rench lines 1 s unless America hastens to the tho rescue rescue General Foch Foeh cannot win the war b by using Americans defensive purposes The Americans will help save the world word for democracy democracy rae racy only onh b by enla engaging ln in a great major offensive that shall crush the German front and carl carry the war Into German territory ten The race between and anti Wilson Is la to determine whether America can transport a n great offensIve offensive offen offen- sive sire force to France before Mira- Mira denburg b by his own reckoning can n Conr r reach the th channel ports If It America can do this the tho capture of the channel channel chan chan- nel pel entrances Into France will have come too lato late The Tho ports must be abandoned when America strikes and compels Hindenburg to shorten his lines JInes Von lindenburg has spent two months month reaching reaching- his present resent positions positions positions' In Flanders and Picard By his Ills own calculation he must require at least another two months to capture cap cap- capture ture Calais and Boulo Boulogne ne even under conditions wholly favorable to a new I Gorman offensive By that time however cr there thero Is every reason to be bey be- I lieve America will wUl have approximately a million In France Fiance Th The channel might then be le locked and new ways of getting Into Franco France might have to he be or organized but hut Am Americans will be over o there With that hat number of fresh fighters read ready for an offensive a against the Ierne erns Wilson will wm have won