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Show ISM GOAL TEUTONS SEEK, ED1T0RJH1NKS Modern Transportation Makes Capture Possible, Would Cut Off Ammu nition Factories ENGLAND IS EAGER TO AID MUSCOVITE i Writer Declares That the Best Help Would Be Breaking Through to Constantinople By J L GARVIN Editor of too Pail Mall Gazette and London Observer Sp? Cah ti mnMa w t) Load Da r T smph i (1 r. ma ona sr LONDON A g Oreat Brita n must fa 1 more and mere the we ght of the wa un ll the re o er of Russia s con 1 We sha 1 sa At once ain 1 on that for r p rposes of th n xt few months th vc tern al es s e f it and no m take Thero an e no Urn ted 1 abilit for any bell er this war The ac omj hed fact now that the Ge mans ha e conque ed n ar all the froct e d fences of northe I s sia and hat our allies i f e p 1 to the full floo I f a deeper n an n the other baud th se cr t f 1 r mans lefeat pro ed bv th r oro plete withdrawn from the O f of Rl ga The Gern ans w 11 doubt ess tr to etmn but t s not likclv tber will find the r task au less dangerous than before Meanwhi e a o ding to uton after a che k t e O mans are edo bUng their m arv c s b throwing heaw r info n ems nto the Baltic provinces between Riga and Ina If tber can cajtu e ie forme t as well as the latter he naval att nipt pon the gulf woul 1 a e better prospe ts. Ma Capture Moscow Th s is on of be b t,ge4t ssues con tested n t e w o war and the s akes are tremenlou. The eneraj s na ob ject is st II to b eak down n one way or another he rand d ke s f c ting power pre en the recovery of h s of fens e st ength and knock Russia out of the wa As to what ma happen f the V lna base is once c zed a glance at the map will how Ina Pet ograd an 1 Moa cow form a sort of stratej.. cal t angle roughly measur ng about 4"0 m les each way The capture of Moscow f t could be achie ed v.ou)d be, for man reasons a far more serious matter It would plant the enemy n the heart of the Russ an ra Iwav system aud wo Id in volve a lateral movement depr ving our allies of the r hief arsenals Such an attempt would be daring and hazardous but we must by no means regard t as mpossiile n view of the German command of modern transport and supp) es Must Help Russia The enemy m all likel hood, w 11 ad ance aga nst both Petrograd and Mos cow If he advances aga nst e ther we w 11 not repeat now what has pre ously been wr tten about the chan es of Ger man fa lure vve would rather dwell upon the mperat e duty of the west ern all es Great B ta n above all to come to the a d of the r all es at the right moment when the German plans for the future are d sclosed Cons der ng all th ngB the best m 1 tao Pln on s tDat ne enemT m not reach e ther Petrograd Mos pvr or K eff but we must not bl nd ourselves to the fact that t may be touch and go at all three places Great Br ta n as well as France and Italy s com ng close to the po nt vhen repercuss on ot these events some thou sands of m les away must touch us al most as nearly as f Buss a s danger under invas on we e o r own It s qu te posB ble that Germany will be allowed to p rsue her plans in the east w thout let or h ndrance from the western powers However stern their task, they must grapple w th t We ludge that at best t w 11 be seven or e ght months before Russ a can turn to offer dec s e battle or act w th her full we ght upon the defens ve Even then the pos t ons the enemy has Be cured n Rusb a and the ne v railway connect ons with Germany can mean noth n less than a tremendous contest n wh ch the Russ ans advance w 1 be fo ced bv si eer we ght to be as slow as the r et eat WTiat an be done to he p K bs a! We are on e 1 that the s rest and ee est 1 ne of solut on s the road o o t nople There can be no a an Ion n n of th s les gu w tho t a dead y s to Russ a as w 11 as of our uw es ge i d dom nan e n the east. |