Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-23 | Page 8 | Hun Man-Power Grows Weaker

eriSer By EDWIN I. JAMES. (.Ne York Times-t 'hu .ic Tribc Cable, i'opvrtcht. WITH TUK AMinUCAN AP-MV. .ppt. -I'. I w .is t. ilking this rr.orninz Uh a funner pt n feasor of Co'.o:rne alOi;t Gcr-nii.ny,. Gcr-nii.ny,. hucccm In flmhnK substitute articles ar-ticles for tt.ir w hloh she Ia-krd. This rl.mer of v.ir. himself a chcnii?t, was di:wu'iSins nt length (lerman Inventions of ): ort when suddenly ho m Id ; "Hut wi -aiu;o! fU't suNuit tiles for men." He voi 'ed then t hr thought that Is np-m np-m rniont in t)".e mind of every ihinkine l riii.ui 'In iriillinhT man-power t tho kriisr'? dispoyil Inio tho the. iter of war Aineiii.i is ihrowmn her hundreds of : h'.i.i-.m-! of 'iin flii'it inn mrn and ''.rn-.-wiy has not Lie like to rend acalnm Inem. After talking with tliU o'crman profe-wir profe-wir I ohtalned aul norliativc fiKUres :is 'Jertn.m man-poui;- on the wotern front. Thev fImw t,te ; e r ;n .1 11 coninand has nhout tnt',nin :ewer men on this front Dun t t.ey h.id .n prli. and t h nrr.il ii.ill'v is inn- !i poorer, due not only to the fact that orni,wiv had to feck re-1 re-1 nut.1' frotn ,nf'-r,iir )hVHH al ehi.i: en. but ;i)ro to ;he iaet that (Jernian army morale 1 n t .1 hew er point now than during any t: me of I war. Hut f.i r niorr "Iciufl'ru Inan the re-d'l'Minn re-d'l'Minn of 'X'lJ'ei' of ilcrinan rftei-tlvrp on the western front U the fact tint. Iuti'hr iuM i-e't-re (irrnmny started her offensive,- l;is! Mari'h the t'.crman enm-inaild enm-inaild h.i'l f-' en t v -1 'vn fresh divinlons mil of trie Pro ;ih niai' maneuver and fu.lv it ted. II has (ndny Jnsl ililrt en sin ii di ii"ir . and the rr r e hA- not niupi1'! as llien, bul are now pc;itlerrd all aliti'i: the we'dern front, due largely t f. a 1 of t hn A iiirrl-a tim. on 1 In- western front tlermany has d 1 v i i;i(i;i -i ; 1 (( li n rv bci n 1; nia I n I a 1 ncd at ,,n av.-:iiL:e s!r.Mii;IH of l.'..i"H ,y the n .nri he in I e ( ffoi r of eoiolillij' out el-ll- ii- n wur woi xi'i h. ' J h 1 m es a t"tnl of Hooo.r.oo. line in:iv takt" t he e r 11 - It i o W n rstl-ma rstl-ma t d I'Yench a nd l'.ncllsli fd rentt Ii :,,),( jKb! to that toir.l nearly two million mil-lion , merle arm In Krn nee to 10 w ha t pi e poii'lera t mis ma n - power 1 1 rniirt h the allien have, or will hne as -.oon as these AmeiiiaiiH all et in flirhtlnis' I rim.