Show Fate of Empire May Bg Y Settled in Struggle Nd NOti NO Raging Close to toW Wars ti 3 ANALYSIS OF THE THEM W 1 M M MM W t Germanys Germany's Supreme Effort I By Frank ran H. H Simonds by every possible standard viewed la Inthe the M MEASURED information from all aU sides aides the of present Gorm Gorman an the se second ond conceivably the final bid of the kaisers kaiser's hoit boils bOltl a a. favorable ta decision in the war Certainly not time eleven months ago ngo when the great drive to the Mam Mame it II there been boen any such momentous crl crisis cries ls as is 16 now at hand hind B By this time lime the world is wholly familiar with the German Gernan AU August 1914 Franco lorance was to be removed from the allied battle batU battles i s 8 81 swift 1 Ct terrible final blow which would destroy the military third republic and leave Germany free to deal with Russia Russia tm r ly But France was not destroyed The blow was parried pame an tad meantime Russian hosts poured Into Austria and the it tit that i to threaten France in August In no small degree overtook The grand scheme of German high command was WI thui thus Oi tb There was left the necessity to turn east with the western work pork and rescue Austria Now over weeks and months the German effort to sin un Au Ami pushed with varying success On the whole until May 1 I ty cess In field and shining success back of or the line in the reG of the Hapsburg forces Until Austrian armlet armies Wart rere new German forces put in the field the campaign aft u desperate effort cHart culminating at fell Cell to the level le of local cp Russia Needed Ammunition j I 1 But we know now that behind these local operations operation then old Idea the Idea of ending a w war r on both bOUl fronts fronta by the complete tion Uon of or the foe toe on one front France German high command could not be disposed of there ot-there there was left Russia If It Russia con could posed of or there was still BUll time to win the war a Little 1 by little then German plans were made Russia Emits coati advance but Russian ammunition grow less Jess and less The Ice and tho the German blockade Interrupted the tho inflow of or supplies last moment before the spring came and Archangel and opened Germany German planned to strike Her blow was WitS tremendous Instantly successful continued t fr f I 1 to the end of or June and culminated In the swift o of the repulse of RU Russia sla to her own territory the capture of ot bun thousands of or prisoners the most brilliant success of the war But there was one limitation to the success lucce Russian military was shaken as al was wa the French In August but It was not broken Defeated Defeated the Russian army escaped envelopment along the the and to this extent the great campaign failed The failure was complete In this sense ense I For armies not position must be bo the objective their test of success In the present war German hl high h command had however envisaged this failure hoped to enve envelop op the Russian armies in Galicia between the Mackensen coming cast from Cracow and the Austrian troops troop north over the and west from Now It f fi upon a far more moro grandiose e scheme involving an enormous extent i tory torT and requiring troops In numbers unknown j other wars Russia's Position Described Look at the map of oC Russian Poland and it will he be b seen een Been l pushed into German Austro-German territory like a flat fIst driven against a p pL pU U use uso another figure It is like a nut held within a n cracker ono one jaw is East Kast o ast Prussia the tho other And In tho the military sense HI Hla Is the upper Mackensen the tho lower Jaw Today the whole of the gigantic German conception Is II corn com comp in an effort to bring these Jaws laws together crushing all aft of a forces Successful the plan pan will practically destroy Russian power ewer All the Russian troops west of the Bug defending Warn Warm Ing ng the railroads to Moscow Petrograd and Kiev will be pounded ing or captured A Tannenberg ten and twenty fold Increased will result I For the Russians the problem Is simple They must defend to Var Warsaw to the last possible moment Its loss lone will wUl be a permanent Injury but It St Is even more essential that they sh shoe hot their armies out alive alho Think always o of those these two Jaws of the nut nul closing nn n Russian military forces in the eastern castern field and the of the tho new operation is simplified r If It Germany can envelop the tho Russians if she can cnn crush crash h thi armies and send their fragments behind the Bug Dug she will tb then D to send most of or the victorious army to the west against France Franca i iland land to the south against Italy or she can cnn detach an expedition Its Us way through Serbia and open a road to tho the Dardanelles The fate of Constantinople will be seWed settled along the Vistula 1 And If Ir Germany German can do o this what hope will remain to i England of ultimate victory since now with all tho the German B H cast east and only skeleton ton armies in front of them they cannot mere most can only move by Inches and feet When and Mackensen come we west t what chance chane i left leU to free Belgium to liberate northern France I IDear Bear Dear In mind this Is the German view this is what the the S This Is why Germany Is more moro confident than ever ever v since the the Y YOn Mi On the other hand if It the grand duke is able to escape the wi withe the cracker if his army array eludes chides the destruction as Joffre's Joffres did id lut last lutU If U he gets Ills his main forces safely behind the Bug Dug then Ulen the 0 have won a considerable advantage but tho the hope of a n real de dehave dee e have been shattered Once behind the Bug Dug the R Russians will 1 b be the peril perU of or envelopment The Tho very vastness of Russian territory will preclude SUM suet man operations There remains the possibility that the Russians will succeedIng succeed succeeding Ing log Warsaw No one should minimize the value of ot this command it U possesses of ot the Vistula bridges s t Russian retreat t and a successful defense of Constantinople year to the Ule length of or the war But It is only a complete Ru I that can satisfy German necessities To the whole world audience it must be plain that a In a world war passing all the bounds of recorded history in I Is now at nt hand Tho The Slav and the are at grips In a conflict w which bleb ml i i human history hereafter And It is well to remember the tho Germans expect to w win I n end I prospective victory are building their hopes bopes of early peace and andon pea f on em com complete tote success |