Show tactics TA SHOWN BY Y ARMY MOVES problems of warring nations are now becoming apparent KIEL KI L CANAL IS BIS BIG FACTOR capture Cap tire e of waterway by anemic of germany might prove turning point of war importance of paris ond berlin notwithstanding tho the meagerness of details from europe tho problems for germany and france have bacomo apparent appal ent during the last few daya days franco must protect her frontier against german invasion and at the sawo time sho site must proceed as fast as possible tov towards ards dB tile kiel canial that canal ie Is apt to prove pro e the turn ing 1 point in the war if the triple en tente feti control of it according to a LL military expert riling for the chica tu go tribune utie germany on oil the other hand roust must protect her french border and the file kiel canal and atle her forcee into russia as fast as possible the question now presented to germany and france la is whre where to attack the capture of paris parts alone at pros pres ent probably would not bring about a cessation of combite on the part of the french as the sinews of var war have hae been asell ell provided further to the south deun de un ie is not germany even to an here nearly as great an nit extent as paris is prance the straight line distance froia froin namur the fortress before aich tho th germans have established touch with their french antagonists to paris is 1 1 miles to berlin miles to the kiel ranal miles the distance from Mulba usen to berlin bertin is about miles to the kiel canal GOO miles but the distance from paris to mul hausfe Is about kilps and from namur to Is P miles and almost straight south iv tv eat east of it therefore away from paris parts while a opportunity and adall advanced ced ou ui namur Aluth ausen een colmar and tit the little in lorraine Lorr alne which mere not defended M ended ae an it might be possible that the en ell thus a laem and popular cladinor of the french would force an ot of their lost provinces of Alsace Lor mine hut but it la Is highly fin improbable probable that tt a determined advance ID in force will bo be made on this line even should popular clamor demand it the germin german plan plans armany kr many on oil the other band hand ha has not only france to attend to but alussia ae all well lu in considering her plan plans ehe she also mist take into account austria should dueain be allowed to mobilize fulia and concentrate it t ie is probable thit that bho she would be able to over overwhelm helm austria first attacking on oil the lorn 1 in berg bucharest 1 line it ie Is probable that germany ler many la to acting with ith against russia what nhat press dispatches have drifted through indicate that germans landed some three daa das ago between hango and in finland this force in lit all probability consisted of ono one arnn corps and one dl dt aslon isome u additional heay art Rr tiller ller engineers and aeronautical troops from front warsaw to bt st petersburg thero there are 12 1 corps but as those these tire not fully mobilized one ger man corps Is probably aa as strong in men ae as two to corie corps juet just no now noa A tho gennon german corpe corps which landed in finland and therefore behind st pe po torb te burg Is undoubtedly undoubted i designed to hold the four russian corpe corps in that vicinity to keep them from going to the tile assistance of the other russian 81 corps further to the south again it was una reported that the HUB itus stan government go haa has decided to ate warsaw which was vins off official lofall de tiled led at st petersburg weighing athla eil eld dence it seems probable that there has been a german ad advance ance from in the direction of vilna to hold the four Itus russian corps stationed in that district from doing any harm or going to any other place possible Pos sibl three german corps whose hose stations are close to ellna are on in that operation if the ilg vigorous orous lighting fighting of these four german corps the one in finland and the three against vilna ie Is strong enough eight Rus russian corps might be isolated and fully mccu pled with their own oun affairs and not able to move or concentrate anywhere here else austrians Aust rIans invade russia it ie to reported that austrians bad had been assembled in galicia and that THE FRENCH FRONTIER aa UE GERMANY no ua PAR I 1 1 I MUM o 0 CH ve g 51 F R A E BERH SWITZER LAirD JUM v j march or line of operations directed on berlin would involve a defeat of the german main array army and such a it grest penetration of german territory probably would paralyze the defense the distance Is miles every mile will be bitterly contested and very every miles means thousand of lives and millions of money kiel canal big factor the kiel canal Is the deciding factor in the control of ot the sea it ie lb miles from namur many of germanys great supply points arc are in the interval between an adrance advance on this line would be near the sea where here england rould could help with her ships once the kiel canal is captured annihilation of the german fleet might result which would give command of the baltic sea to france and her allies and allow the unrestricted transport of russian troops and material of war to the north german coast it therefore would appear that the strategy of fance france F ance will alin at the capture of tho the kiel canal because it Is tho the most important point strategically which gormany possesses by dy this line of action france would utilize to the utmost great sea seft power in addition by a direct invasion in the direction at 0 the kiel canal france would cover paris and her communications better than by any other route an advance via and strasburg would be extremely dangerous aad ad just what the german germans would like to seo see france do hence we eee isee why germany seized laege at the e of 0 theae these were ere cavalry this means that the three austrian corps stationed in galicia Gall cia or a little less than combatants aith ith dl anione cf cavalry about have gone into huesca but just here ie to left to the imagination six corps three german and three austrian Austria ii and from ta cavalry are probably advancing towards brest by the time these arrive there it is difficult to see how the russians can have more than three full corpe corpos and to cavalry austrian trompa have ad alced along the eastern frontier that to I 1 just north of roumania Rou manla marila it teems seems probable that on the french frontier at tit the present time germany has nine corps of the active army assisted h b one austrian corps en cri the german extreme left near the border there probably are nine more corps ol 01 of the first reserve and nine more of tile second cond reserve also on tha french ler which with ell all their amount to well over fighting mn mon it appears app earr that it if these million ger mane mans care to remain on the defensive on the french border it aill ill like take a pretty goodly number of attackers to get them out of their entrenchments mente ments it if they over can do it providing austria and germany are directing their main att attack ack against russia france to rep reap my any advantage must strike buick ly ind and bard hard on a line as in a military way a as possible toward the XI canal |