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Show FIVE MILLION MEN ' ARE NEEDED Maintaining that America must place five million men in the field, If Germany is defeated, John L. Balder-ston, Balder-ston, a military authority, says: "1. Germany cannot be crushed in the field within reasonable time; she cannot defeat France and Britain on the west front; she will therefore give up Belgium, northern France, probably prob-ably Alsace-Lorraine, assume control of Russia, and come out of tho war with the greatest victory In human history. his-tory. "2. To prevent the formation of an Invincible Prussian power based on the man power and the incredibly great resources of Russia, the allies must and will continue the war until they can foil tho plans of the German autocracy by destroying that autocracy autoc-racy itself. "If the American people aro willing to subscribo to the first of these alternatives, al-ternatives, there is no reason why the war should not end at once. For tho second alternative victory instead of defeat cannot now be achieved without with-out the help of the American people on a scale undroamed of even two months ago. "Franco might dio to the last man, Engleed bleed herself white, and still, without tho full strength of America ' in the scale, tho exhausted and stag- ; gerlng German empire would reply at i tho end aB now, 'In tho west, what- 1 ever you want, but the east yoa must 1 leave to us J "If America Is to take- the place of Russia, what does this imply? Russia Rus-sia has raised and put in the gold, since the beginning of the war, about 11,477,000 soldiers. She has lost, in dead, wounded, prisoners and invalids, 5,115.000 men. At the time when her armies commenced to melt away, and panic before the foreign enemy served as a prelude to civil war at home, there were axpproxlmately 4,750.000 Russian soldiers in the regular units, and behind be-hind these available reserves of 3,- j 523,000. j "More than eight million fighting I men, from present indications, must j be written off tho strength of the allies. al-lies. A miracle may happen in Russia, , jbut It would now seem that the time I for a miracle has passed. "It is with eager hope rather than the despair of a man who has but ono chance left that England and France are turning to America now. If the Russian collapse had occurred in February Feb-ruary or March, the hope would have been a faint one. The firm belief prevalent pre-valent that America will "play up" and save civilization from the conse-'quences conse-'quences of German hogemony is the : tribute of the allies to the extraordinary extraordi-nary achievements of 'the United j States in the past six months." |