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Show MILITARY PLANES I SEEKJWIATORS I Missing Army Men Sought in I California Mountains i Court Martial If Found. London. Ian. 15, 3:40 a. m. The f Times military correspondent main FT tains that the prolongation of the war j "as the result of the doomed failure L of the peace move," throws on all the allies the duty of making greater I efforts in order to deserve vktor . F He says that Germany did not wait for a reply to her peace offer, but initiated measures a month ago to ex-pand ex-pand her supply of men and muni- 'We ought to see," the correspond-ent correspond-ent writes, "clearly enough now that our efforts on land, especially on the western front, have not been adequate I to secure a decision, or even to de- i! Referring to the imputation, "with l B tendency to exaggeration," that the j British has two million men in France " and tho French have three million, he I - Obscure War Statements. II "Statements of this nature serve J 1 rather to obscure the issues than to I I illuminate them. It ought to be know n and admitted that the aggregate na I tional strengths do not express the ! real value of fighting armies. We all j ought to count in bayonets and guns , ' in order to ascertain our chances of victory and when we count In this . manner the figures dwindle to quite a J different total. The truth of the situa j j tion in the west is that Germany has l''x divisions opposed to us and that I j the number of French. British and Belgian Bel-gian divisions is not yet such as to promise a decision in an offensive Superiority of Germans. j "The offensive devolves on us, in order that we may evict the enemy i from the territories of our allies and j such an offensive, against modern j means of defense, demands a great su-periority su-periority in strength, particularly in heavy guns, Infantry and all other H modern machinery. Before the war I we supposed a two, or even three to ; one superiority not too great for the attacker and I must repeat again that We have nothing like this superiority 11 I and that victory depends on obtaining i it. It is always possible for the Ger-mans Ger-mans to place in the floating balance the strategic reserves which they used against Rumania, and. if In 1 9 1 7 . wo only employ against the enemy a alight superiority of force nothing bet-i bet-i ter than a slight success can reasonably reas-onably be anticipated." Crying Need for More Men. The writer declares that there Is i a f rying need (or more men and that I i there has been a great remissness in the creation of new divisions along the lines of Kitchener's original con- II ception. He refers to the military j plan published in the Times in 1914 which he says Lord Kitchener himself revised and declared would Insure Britain of being able to continue tho ir war when the other powers were ex- J bausted. According to the correspondent, correspond-ent, this plan has gradually lapsed tor many reasons, chiefly the recruil Ing muddle In the autumn of 1915 I which he says, even now Is far from cleared up. "We need another sixty divisions in j the west," he concluded. "The neces- j sary men exist and there Is every probability that their appearance In I the field will decide the war " II |
