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Show WAR SITUATION IN FRANCE AND RUSSIA. If the allies in northern France and in Flanders cannot make progress now. they are not capable of a real effective, aggressive campaign It is evident that the Germans have sent large reinforcements to the Russian Rus-sian field of operations, drawing on the army in Belgium for this purpose While the German lines are weak ened, the allies should be able to make progress, although advancing against entrenched positions is not an easy task under moBt favorable conditions But the French and BrltiBh should be hammering with their most powerful pow-erful implements of war in order to bring the maximum of strain on the German army at a time when tho Russians must bo somewhat distressed dis-tressed in the neighborhood of Warsaw. War-saw. Of course, the allies can well afford to go slow. The longer the crucial test is deferred, the greater become the prospects of German defeat, as the British are growing more powerful power-ful each day and by spring will have over two million men in the field to reinforce and make overwhelming the preponderance of strength of the allies. al-lies. At present there Is no evidence of Germany's ability to gain any decl-sive decl-sive victory such as is necessary in order to assure the Kaiser's success in the war The most promising area of German activity in Russia where General Von Hindenberg has proved to be masterful, having made great progress in this, his third, attempt to capture Warsaw. Either tho Russians Rus-sians are poorly officered or Von Hindenberg is the most resourceful dnd capable of all German military! 1 m commanders. Had he been in command com-mand wheu the Germans mado their dash on Paris, France today might bo a devastated, enfeebled nation. - nn |
