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Show READY TO INVADE GERMANY' i J5 OS 8 & GALLIENI TO LEAD FRENCH GENERAL GALLIENI ifg; t3 ill fc-rs.ws e-nvic.rto Wonderful Stones Told, of Big Guns and High Explosives Ex-plosives in Preparation (CpocU Cbl. by Arrangement With London Pall, Te egraph aad lo eroatioaa! Neva Servica.) LONDON Dec 23 The invasion of upper Alsace combined with a outh to north movement along the Khine it is learned on tho most trustworthy authority is the foremost feature of the French plan to carry the war into Germany The present French act vity m upper Alsace and the Vosges and the bom bardment of the Metz forts of which noth ng has been said officially are the first steps m the great scheme, but the general oif ens ve will come m a ( few weeks when the French armament makers hat e g ven the army a clear super onty n lieavy guns A captain dep ty on f f teen lays leave from the east to attend the brief meeting of pari ament n Pans said this week in the lobb es ot the cham ber of deputies More qn ckly than is generally be 1 eved we shall str ke a sw ft and dead ly blow at Germany from tho southeast of the battle 1 ne General Joffre declares he could (Continued on Page Eleven) 'FFiCH MAKE READY TD IHV1UIE GERMANY j (Coutlnimd from ragfl One.) '"! tin unr I iy tho t'lirlv hn-iiif W the u'ini'nrcnini'iils of a niillpin t ronpH from Kn,v la ml runl.l ., pu1 in ihi irM lit oiu'e, Kut nti Ihcir triiinititj in not. com pltdi', that ). nut of 1 lie iip'f.t ion. Nc ! crtliclc-H, Joflro muiim to jivn tin1 Ti urMii up, ncr LI in here c rti an-i f-ia u riu ut. a tHstp of inilitiiry invasion ntore uianv mcKh haw pitssi-d. ' ' Details Worked Out. 'Tin- now pltni, wliirli liHB liccn nrkn on! in detail Minm ir:iiJlocH on the Aism ami in Klnndcrs wh 'MalilMl, ifi ilt i;t.(i ti,0 irjti, ohjrt-t of I'rh'K'ii'i: liomo to t ho (.ierniau pcoi'ln tlie honor.s of war, ransoiiiiui; tier man fitic.4 near lli( lihinti and forcing the kaiMM' to witlulruw bin troops from tlio nurt h. TIju allies oriL-'imtl plan for clear-ini clear-ini l'laui't" nii'l rianiTers was baneri on the n-'Miinptinn tlint thi Musrnvitn iinny woiihl rout 'un Himli'iihorti in lhilan-1 aiifl llimt initlto tbc G crniaa ret rt-n t. in the ucsturn tlmator of ttio war u idra-trit'al idra-trit'al rrriitinty. Iu-n, how uxor, it w as ruali.dd Hint Von I uitlnnhei a win capahlt of holding up the KufMiuif, in I'olmid tor un itiilut. liti 1 1' period, tlio 1 heiu'h p. en era I t af f w'hi con t run ted itli the jirtdilcni of de- t si ti a powerful oll'etihive iuo cinent in the wetd. Two IMans I'resenicd. tf the tvo alternative! uf striking the G ernui ns viulently all alouy the line or throwing an army Keren-a the K" l)i ne near I'reihur-J, General .loftre e Iceted tlio latter licau-ie it ir mure like-ly like-ly to MH'i ceil Hinl will i'ot fewer lives. Geucral Gallieni, the prc-M-nt. iniiitarv governor of l'arirt, will com ma ml t lie f orees w hn'h will make t he attempt and whii'li will lie t-alled the army id" the Khine. If he Micceeds, Gullieni will le inn-le a inarsrial of i-'rain-i, not hecau.-.n hit work will neccssanlv lie finer thnn that alirH'lv ti'-coiiipliNhi'il by General Koch, Me (histehirui, liubail, and others, hut Invalid ho will have fulfilled the tacit- , Iv formulated nrrny n-ulation wliicli arne iuto fur'e aft.-r the 170 war, that I f ft ure Pu'in-h marshals iu nt fish up tln-ir baton-, in tlie lihtn'. Opposition Expected. The plan to in van- Germany is, of cour-i, supposed to be a clone si-cret. l'ol;ti',-ans ay that wlioi it is known it will m?et with oj'O-it ion from a t mall ."Vt ion uf sue ia list s w ho, w hile r i t n 1 1 v m; pport i n a d' t 'eni c war, ob-ji-et to an iiivasum of German territory en the ground that il would mean a further terrible .-artt me of J'reip-b I;v -. 'J ho more general view , however, that t h-r-uan militarit'in eannot ho nrmol-i-hed once for all unless tlie allies car-I car-I rv the war into the enemy "s eount ry ; the idea zealou-Oy propagated bv the London 'limes will iu ad likelihood prevail in Trp.nee. M etr. and St ra-bu rg will be -pared bomhardn eiit h'-cau-- tliey arc tho cap Gal- f Lorraine and A ! a r e, hut t n i r ou'er forts will he Hemnii-hed and 'he German 'arrisn held in hand by ado--p:a ! mn-kiiig forces. I am assured aiso thht it is no part of the French plan to dest rov Gcrrnau villages and torroriz; thu innab;tants. At the moment of invasion a proclamation proclama-tion will be ised to the French army reminding it of the traditional chivalry of the French poldier and forbidding it under pain of death to moWt unocom-hat unocom-hat an? or in dulg-' in unauthorised loot-iri;. loot-iri;. Will Levy Fines. Onlv in one rcfrect wUl the French fol'ow" the German" example. War contributions con-tributions will he lovi'-d on occupied towns and if th army penetrates that far Frankfort, Stuttgart and Munich will be made to pay hfavily. . Th-J amounts will be ealen!fitel in the exact ex-act proportions ej-tubliuiied by the Ger-;r.3Pi Ger-;r.3Pi in Belgium and northern France. Mesnwhile, preparations for the coup" are Vieing pihd ahead with feverish hafe. Thousands of workers have been withdrawn from the trenches and garrifous and STt to the reat armament factories of . reusnt ana Schneider for the intensive manufacture manufac-ture of guns. It is a!?o a positive fat that 10.000 arti-aus are employed at Creusnt 'a bast-i!v bast-i!v build iog light transportable iron ; bridges whieh will be thrown across the ; "Hhine fnr the. French army to pass over the river. Talk of 20-inch Gun. T also learn from a creditable military mili-tary source that the French arc making mak-ing a siege gun which will eelipse Krupp's famous 17 inch mortar. Its caliber if given at 2'i-ineh and it fires a ton and a half of explosive? with cv-erv cv-erv shot. Compart with tho fiennan mom-dor it is easily transportable, can be limbered lim-bered up quickly and fired at greater speed than the cumbersome 17-inch mortar. In addition to this and other guns of lighter caliber, Creuaot 's is making six-inch rimailhoe, named from their inventor. in-ventor. Next lo tlie marvelous three-inch gun this is the most destructive weapon on the battlefield. It can be used for both siege and field work with equal efficiency. Like, the three-inch gun it can be taken to pieees and put together to-gether agaiu with great tipped, and for its rapid fire might be classed with light artillery. The effect of its fire is devastating. Recently it destroyed the village of Doulens, where a German staff was quartered, in half an hour with fifty-seven fifty-seven shells. Working with a three-inch three-inch battery it annihilated a Bavarian regiment in the wood of Apremont in a few hours, 1800 corpses being found afterward amid the chattered trees. The explosive force of the shells used can best be realized when it is I said that battery officers watching the e'fect of the fire with field glasses have seeD the limbs of Germans rent from the body and tossed iu the air like a cloud of matchwood. It is chiefly on this gnu that the French rely to demolish the Khine defense de-fense works. The twenty-inch gun will be employed principally to silence the Krupp seveuteen-ineh mortar. |