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Show u u PROGRESS OF THE WAR Germany Is losing valuable time V The war cannot be won by the Kaiser Kai-ser until his troops can get somewhere some-where until his soldiers can overrun France or gain a foothold in England Eng-land This is the fourth month or the war and the German army corps are further from their objective than they were at the end of the first month. At the end of August, General Gen-eral Von Kluck was in sight of Par-Is; Par-Is; today he is In obscurity some place on the Aisne. Military men estimate the German force in Belgium and northern France at 1,750.000. and that is approximately approximate-ly correct- On the side of the allies there are 800,000 British soldiers nnd about 1.900,000 French, with l.soo.ooo French in reserve. Along the Russian front there are soo.ooo Germans, At home tin-re must he at least two million more 'available lighting men. Great Britain is training an army of 1,500,000. Russia has 5,000.000 men in arms and can place as many more in the field Austria-Hungary has 3,000,000 soldiers, i The preponderance of soldiers is Ion the side of the al:fes, who can stand the wearing down process, which is now going on. with better prospects of maintaining an advantage over the Germans. By spring trnj new British army will be ready to move, when, if the Germans have not j made headway, the cause of the Kaiser Kai-ser will be hopeless The commanders of the allies are said to have adopted a policy of allowing allow-ing the Germans to make frontal attacks, at-tacks, without attempting counter moves except when a great advantage (& to be sained. They are content to have the fighting close to their own base of supplies and on ground favorable to their tactics, and believe this attrition will have a most telling tell-ing effort in the course of a few months, and this plan of campaign un doubtedly is the best that could be followed. After a time, the Germans will grow restless under the pressure of the allies and there will come a demand de-mand for the German navy to do something to keep the empire from being bottled up Then the climax of the war will be reached. nn |