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Show GERMANY TO MAKE SUPREME EFFdRT TO END WAR DURING DUR-ING PRESENT YEAR. Men Beyond the Age Limit Are Retained Re-tained With the Colors, While Industrial In-dustrial Mobilization Is Ap- '. proaching Climax. Copenhagen Germany, according ta information reaching here from Berlin, Ber-lin, now is gathering to the colors every available man for a supreme military effort to bring the war to a victorious conclusion in this year's campaign a goal which Field Marshall von Hindenburg and his advisors consider con-sider by no means impossible of attainment at-tainment Without altering formally the law of military service the German authorities au-thorities have in practice extended the period of service beyond the forty-fifth forty-fifth year and are retaining with the colors and in many instances for fighting duty with active units in the front line landstrum men who have passed this age. The operations of the labor service law, now in full swing, axe further releasing re-leasing for service at the front every available man behind the lines capable capa-ble of carrying a rifle, so that the next two or three months should" see the " German armies at their maximum size. Simultaneously with this draining to the dregs of human reservoirs of soldier material, Germany's industrial mobilization also is approaching a, climax. cli-max. A scheme for converting every available factory and employing every available machine on war work and manning them with labor obtained under un-der the labor service law is contemplated. contem-plated. The secret of Field Marshal von Hindenburg's plan of the 1917 campaign cam-paign still is well kept. It is uncertain uncer-tain whether the offensive will be directed di-rected in the east or in the west and the German's strategic reserve, at last accounts, still within Germany, has not begun to move in either direction. |