Show THE ROAD TO ASIA in the path of af the crusaders but bearing aid not defiance to the crescent some four hundred thousand descendants of therol lowers of barbarossa cross the danube under the leadership of field marshall von mackensen and the great war takes on a new lease of life indeed so it seems t to 0 the philadelphia ia north american it has bag now entered upon a phase as distinct as that which began with the retreat of the Ger germans mins from the marne or the sweeping of the russians out of poland until the tremendous tissues issues now converging in the balkans are sealed and one side or the other reaches the other reaches the goal of constantinople stantin ople the campaigns in fance and russian must be of minor significance Is the new thrust an exhibition of ger ma banys nys inexhaustible strength or a forlorn hope to relieve a desperate need at constantinople the proud belief of a berlin editor that this is the beginning of the final triumph of german arms over the world is ignot not shared by many representatives of allied or neutral opinion yet the philadelphia editor just quoted is by no means the only american observer to be convinced that germanys germanas Germ anys balach alakl drive is a manifee manifestation ta tion of astounding toun ding power and that it presents a situation more orn ominous inous for her opponent than any other since her sweep through belgium toward paris thus is somewhere in servia europe meets europe and fights for the road to asia what more asks the new york times would allah have literary digest |