Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-04-22 | Page 6 | France's Ammunition

FRVNCE'S AMMUNITION. 'vr- h-jve reuia rkd that the I'reocb -l .-mj,.'- :i ,-pri.-?, in store for the dcr-nan-, as -oom us the afta--k on Verdun !f iran. !,ut there arf igns that the sur-j'Tf-'' ',;-. ixrt nil on rnf- '-.'' -li?.t at. I'.'f-i-nt tli"! Thonia-", the '"rnch fii.in ', of. munition", is going about ;if ')!. nfrv .po'r'ng tlf1 munitions :' to grnl-r rff,rU. Although if 'c- A-. f ri.;tr-, tli.-y Jipprar '' a condition v.hici, i. ,y no ;j.",'ru'- 'H'-'ii:;i!ii to I'rJitiif. '!!. l.iird-u ,,t Ur r-p-r.-l, j. that. I r.sti'-i ( poii 'li n in in u n jt ion for i I h p ptn-po-"-, but in daugT of fulling b'-liiod ,fi-A ni-c of HW mnrtrloun -j-.i ii i -i t ,(( mid t rcfncnfP.ijFi efforts of ill'' ' rppii . . If v. e arc in' lined to be "i. M'-i-..j, of ll the ?taU-n-H in the i.cti.-r.rit '; rie-i, - j IT -e to hi. ;,,!,( r-. ---. ;( Im! tb-- '.rrmarip h:i ' 1""U Hble 1o erj,.,y r'.U-r fjuan '-itte- i,' n i, n , i j r j t,'i o n at prdiin tl;an i-pe. :..!, and thut the French have not able to reply vhej for ile. I f fin- ,r,, jon j- ..,.) founded, t herp ii orjf't !i : rnttiT ludi'-roj- in the a i ofi i-I, uf-rit of the I'rcfich, -or at leant month5 v e have hc-n or-tting T por thai th- allies on the p.;fr.rn I'jont ,a !,- hurling tr-e w. to I Jje eiiPiny 'n one. A ii d wji ile t b i h pro'e.qi vii'm on ' ;iflT day the alhe "ere Jiiiriin t u-nf , e on their im i agi ued Miperiority. Now it is fairly certain that at Verdun there bns been no shortage of German ainmuuition, which shows that while the allies were wasting their shells the Germans were hoarding theirs to some purpose. It is merely another demonstration of the superior foresight and efficiency ! of the Germans- as war makers. While jibe English have continued to blunder j cgregiously the Germans have made j few purely military mistakes. -Their errors have beeu rather of tho political order. No doubt these errors have been costly iu their effects upon the military situation, but the army men have not failed in so far as their expert qualifications quali-fications have been concerned. It was fatal to count on the dissolution disso-lution of the British empire, to minimize minim-ize the resistance of Belgium, to foresee a serious revolution in Russia, to regard re-gard the French as degenerate and to alienate the world 's sympathies by atrocious methods of war fare on laud aud sea. All these errors are reflected : in the failure of Germany to attain her ; ultimate military objects. They re-: re-: vealed a lack of that vision which some of their foes possessed aud which compensated com-pensated in a degree for unprepared-uess. unprepared-uess. But in the strictly military sense the Germans have always been ahead of their enemies. And they maintained this lead even after their enemies bad beeu completely warned and given adequate ade-quate time to remedy their uureadiucss.