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Show Unhappy JUsace Good military critics from the first outbreak of the present war have felt to deprecate the French incursion incur-sion into Alsace, Is an observation by the Deseret News. They looked upon it as a tactical mistake. At best it could only prove of spectacular spectacu-lar interest anu ot Inconsiderable value.. If the French war office imagined im-agined for a moment that a little .diversion into former French provinces, provinc-es, followed by a possible loyal uprising up-rising of former French subjects, would alter or Influence In, the, least degree the German plan of campaign, they reckoned unwisely. The fact that the Germans were willing to leave their eastern border to the mercy mer-cy of the Russian hordes, rather than delay In any way the feeding of their grudge against France, ought to have - asBBSsa-aastM H shown that the conquered provinces would only come in for Incidental I Snd secondary care in , the grand VJan. France was the objective ot I the German advance from the first I moment the capital or the heart ot I France was the spot at which th 'H Teuton sword was to strike. H France was In the very outset put I upon the defensive her policy should I have been to await with full strength the inslaught where the toe chose to I deliver It, preferably as near the boundary as possible. To make a I feeble counter attack, especially when I nothing could be gained by it nn(- K when there never wa any Intention 9 of following it up, was perhaps dra- W matlc,, but certainly was not J, good I generalship. ' ' H ' Jhe result Justifies the criticism I which the movement evoked. The' I ground temporarily 'gained has been I lost aa must Inevitably have been I the case. The fleeting hopes aroused I In the hearts of the loyal Alsatians H have been dashed to the ground. The I heel of the hated Germans is again H on their necks, and their present lot H is 'worse than their first, for they H have committed themselves to a trea- H sonable attitude against their mas- H ten which the latter will- not forget B and will lose no opportunity to pun H ish. War la too big and too serious H a game to permit of sldeplaya for H spectacular effect. H |