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Show t CYCLONE OF SHELLS FROM SWISS LI TO THE SEA Hindenburg's Supreme Effort to Win the War Before America Puts Forth Her Strength Is About to Be Made on the West Front. TEUTON FLYERS DARKEN THE SKY Kaiser's Aviators Try to Prevent Allies From Discovering Where the Principal Blows Will Fall ; Big Munitions Explosions in Germany. Ger-many. JXiKDOX, Dec. 1 1. A cyclona of German Ger-man .shells, battering the French nd British lines all tbe way front the Swiss border to the sea, is ushering In 1 1 in- i denburg's supreme effort to win tho war in the west before America appears in ! for co uik)ii the fighting line. Those who Know sonic thing about the , German hobby of combining psychological psychologi-cal with military effect would nut bo sur- prised to see the big drive begin at dawn tomorrow. For tomorrow 1r tho anniversary anni-versary of tho central powers' peace offer of-fer to the. nil I on. If the usual mot hot I is pursued, neat little leaflets will be scattered by the t honsa nds among the German troops, with the leg-end: "A year ago today wo offered peace. They refused. -Now let us win It by tho force of arms." Such indeed is t he tenor of an Interview Inter-view Kiold Marshal Jliudenhuig has just given to an Austria ri journal is I. Ha Id be: "Wo have often been ready for wurr, Now it Is our enemies' turn. They will come to iir." Try to Keep Russians Quiet. In the meantime Count f'z.endu, Hie A uf t ro-1 1 uiignrian forrig n minister, haw arrived In Kerlin. One leading ;crnian organ sa a bis vlail. may have tremendous tremen-dous influence on the, course of the war. yonie here infer from this that llo-re Is a deal on fm the, transfer nf large Austrian Aus-trian forces to tbe west to help the derma der-ma ns In Ihe Impending Hiiiash. Hut that theory is not shared by (hone who arc famllia r with the reluct a rice of the ' ' r-man r-man high command to employ any but German troops in a pur-ly derman offensive. of-fensive. What t hough 1 more lit civ I Hal 1 be ecu I ral pov. era :ty g " t I n g I og. , -on the a rmift in- with I : - lyHa . To l.eep the easlii-n front the r.si core ih;, t it haf beiMi for Teuton troopa for month j.-i a vital pre-eondiiet ive lor I he drh' on 1 b'- wei . ('.unit Kr vent low. the fi, t,raii'I mill - , ta rlst editor. ytt: Koreign M i nisi , y von Kueblntftiti iM ih-Mftirt: a ij !.i r.. t ion tht dert(ian will liold lb" cu,,:t of Kbii'ln'i aa hunz at; the. Iiiiti!-h are hi ("alaia. Injt no longer. Where Will UIow Tall? U'lirrc will the t b rmaii blow b strucii? Military e.xp'fts were vyin with one anotlier today, trying to answer lie-mo-ni ion. Hut no one e.i in is to Unow if. Th hon dia rd men' now n tide r wa v i similar to that whb-h pf-.-eer,.,l the br-eiiK through on the J.o.o. fvery vital front is ba ' bed in a 'T-nt I nuons avalanche of hot meinl. "With everv hour the intefi-Hit intefi-Hit y of 1 he bo ti i ha ro me nt gi ow m. f ; ra d -ually it ib veopH irMo drumfire. Overhead Over-head an arurida of a irf nni - t he c:ennanf were s; i rl today to ba ve ;t,io ma c)i i im h -for it-" a fighting fn-n to prevent bt.s-tile bt.s-tile re, onnais'-ance. Throughout the day t lie r: 1 1 of roach i ue g - i ns from f I jej s y line-j in ! b" pre-ba 1 1 b- noise. The "Watch in the Air." Hehlnd the rcr.-en of fin--1 ,eb h i ng gunn and the "wat-h in tiie air" fev-rjh ac- j t i'i t ' goey (,ri . The foe Is pu ' I ing the f i n Ish i i.g touches on bis prepa ra t ion lor ; the drive. All that is knowy of then prepanitions is that trams upon trains with reserves and munitions are arriving behind the derman lines and that Hin-dci,bi;rg Hin-dci,bi;rg has accumulated the maximum (Continued on Pa0 Two.) CYCLONE OF SHELLS (Continued from Page One.) strength of his fighting machine for the prospective blow. The . difficulties of winter weather he proposes lo counter-ha counter-ha la nee by preponderance of men and g.uns, How seriously he t;i kes America's Ameri-ca's menace, despite his recent belittling" words, spoken for home consumption, is shown by his act ions, if he Is about to srt everything- on one card: A winter drive in the west, a thins hitherto regarded re-garded as futile by the best military brains in Europe. The omens accompanying' his preparations prepara-tions are not cheerful. Two fierman munitions mu-nitions trains collided last week on the way to the western front, ii was learned today. And the press bureau states that one of the largest munitions factories in the world, (hat near Frankfort-on-the-Main, ca lied the Griesheim Chemical works, blew up last month. . Both the British and French war office of-fice bulletins today reported nothing of importance beyond the heavy German shelling:. It was particularly violent in Alsace a 1 id Lo rra i n e, at Y p res and at Arras. |