Show 1 Will Will Germans March arc Again on Paris A A. s satisfactory explanation has never been given for the 1 withdrawal of the German armies to the east when they were at atthe atthe atthe the very gates of Paris Both French and English military theorists have endeavored to point out reasons for the seemingly ridiculous move but not a single word has come out of Germany to let a waiting world know the real reason for probably the most astounding move in the history of all aU wars Certainly the kaiser did not send his huge force into France Francen on n a mere powder burning and life sacrificing junket He wanted Paris and unquestionably still desires the city's occupation There are arc those who will say that the sudden hurling of the defense army of Paris Parig against the Germans augmenting the allied force until it outnumbered the German host was the reason for forthe forthe forthe the retreat back east through France At the same time it is worth orth taking into consideration the fact that the Germans did not make any attempt to give genuine and stubborn battle when they i were in in the woods near Chantilly and at Paris' Paris door I At the time THE TELEGRAM f in an editorial referred to this and asked Have the Belgians thrown a monkey wrench into the German machine 1 I It looks now as if that was exactly what happened The Germans dashed through Belgium into France and on onto onto onto to Paris without reckoning on the Belgian menace Once inside the Gallic boundaries the kaisers kaiser's armies began to feel the sting of Belgian revenge The soldiers of the little kingdom harassed the German right many times threatened the German Gennan lines of communication and at all times stood as a countercheck to the general invading plan It looks as if the German general staff or some one in authority authority author author- it ity blundered To the casual observer it would seem that the Germans should first have cleaned up Belgium and then proceeded proceeded pro pro- with the march to Paris By pushing the Belgian army up north and into Antwerp the Germans were forced to march southwest They left the north coast of or France exposed and free for British t landing purposes Had they gone straight on through Belgium to tear a fiery path along the coast wrecking and occupying Ostend Dunkirk Calais possibly Havre at the mouth of the Seine there might be a different story to tell at this writing wl It is merely an opinion and we are entitled to one as much as the guC guessing sing English press that the kaiser saw his blunder and andis andis andis is intent on making reparation for it He now has Antwerp He Ie may next take Ostend then the other coast towns of 1 France already named and depend on the brilliant Von Kluck to hold the German Gennan right in a huge enveloping movement to turn to the southward from the northward north and form a ring around Paris Meanwhile l there would be no danger to the line of German Glerman I communication un |