Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 279, 5 October 1918 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND 5UN-TELGRAat SATURDAY, OCT. 5, 1918.

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Reprisals Tbe persistent burning of towns and "villages by the retreating Germans cannot be-tondoned by any appeal to morals. It is a wanton piece of ruthlessness, perfectly in accord with the barbarous policies of the Hun and matching his shelling of churches and sinking of hospital ships. There is only one cure for the practice. Severe reprisals by the Allies. Our government ought to send a brusque note to the Most High informing him that for every village burned, every church destroyed, every factory burned, a similar toll will be exacted in Germany. The Germans are keenly enthusiastic about the policy of ruthlessness applied to their enemies, but do not relish the same medicine when it is adminI istered to them. Proof of this is seen in the pub- ' lie meetings held in the Rhine district cities ask- ; ing the German government to come to an understanding with the Allies to stop aerial bombardments. Allied flyers have dumped enough high explosives on the Rhine cities to give their inhabitants an idea of what the French and Belgian cities have suffered, the result being that the Huns are whimpering and crying under the punishment. It is characteristic of a bully that he can enjoy immensely the suffering of a victim but blubbers and screams if punishment is inflicted on him. The Huns enjoyed the spectacle of the sinking of the Lusitania, the bombardment of hospitals, the cruelties inflicted on Belgium and the countless other atrocities that satanic ingenuity could invent to torture innocent, helpless or suffering men and women. Now is the time to make them

feel the sting of their tortures which they devised and practiced. , Germany has been storing up the wrath of the Allies for four years. No Frenchman or Belgian can overlook the desolation wrought on his country with no other purpose than mere lust for despoliation and havoc. No Frenchman

or Belgian can, forget the sufferingi his people endured at theliands of the barbarians. AndHhe German public mind is apprehensive of the day of wrath. The crushing defeat of the German armies in every theater of war has a foreboding and sinister aspect that the populace understands as 'well as the dynastic and military leaders. They know that the Frenchmen and Belgians will not forget the bloody events that have been enacted since August, 1914. It has been suggested that France and Belgium not only obtain financial remuneration for their losses, but that German laborers be forced to restore every building, bridge, factory and highway destroyed by the German war machine. The proposition has many good points to recommend it. France and Belgium will be short of man power'' for many years. Germany will seek to obtain the indemnities it must pay by flooding the markets of the world with its products. If the men who will be engaged in her industries after the war are forced to return to Belgium, France, Poland, Roumania to reconstruct . the damage that was done, the Kaiser will not be able to pay off his debts quickly and in an ad-, vantageous manner.

Go For Them!

Prom the Saturday Evening Post.

ROM the twenty-first of March to the eighteenth of

July the Allies were on the defensive and falling

back. Whenever the Germans struck they won

ground. Two more such pushes as carried them from St. Quentin to within sight of Amiens and from the Ailette to the Marne would have put the Allies in the most desperate position. Then Foch attacked the Marne salient, took the initiative out -of Ludendorffs hands, and ever since has been rolling the Germans back. , Now the Germans had substantially the same army In August, when they were losing, that they had In April, when they were winning; and the same generals. The Allies had almost the same army. Only a couple of hundred thousand fresh American troops actually participated in the fighting. They had pulled themselves together, effected a better military organization, made their means more responsive to their will. Ten per cent did it. Always It is just that last ten per cent that puts a thing over, and the last ten per cent is always there if one will only call It out and put It In action. That is the situation of the United States In respect of this year's twenty-four-billion-dollar war bill. It is your situation right now personally and individually yours. Ten per-cent more will power! the sixteenth ounce

of determination; saying to yourself "You've got to!"

that is what this year's fiscal program means for you; what this Liberty Loan means. Subscribe all you think you can pay for in the next four months, and then some .and take It out of your expenditures. Your expenditures are boches. Go for them!

When Will Decisive Action Gome? Now Or in Spring of 1919?

By HILAIRE BELLOC

Author of "Elements of the Great War" and Military Critic

Britain's Most Distinguished

THE battle which opened September 26 is on such a large scale that no one can grasp It unless he will combine a return to the first principles with a recollection of the immediate past. When he has done that he will have the framework within which this enormous issue Is be-

been reversed its machine worked backward during the last few months and then to look Into the details. Just as on July 18 the French and American counter attack between Chateau Thierry and Solssons turned the tide of the war, so the enormous action launched September 26, just ten

ered Its full status and began pressing on Its opponent Today we are watching the extreme struggle, and in particular do we assist at the debate as to whether this late autumn or next spring shall see the enemy In a position confessedly hopeless. That he is now beaten we all know; but the present gigantic struggle all the way from the upper Meuse at Verdun to the North Sea poses the question whether we shall be free from the tragedy before the close of the year, or whether another winter must be endured before the enemy suffers a Moscow and awaits a Waterloo. When the war shall end no man can tell, but there will come a time sharply denned when the nature of its end will be apparent, not only to the general reasoning, but to every observer of the enemy or the allies. We are watching at this moment a critical combat which shall determine whether that moment is to come this autumn or next Bpring. As for the matter of the first princi-

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weeks later, Is opening Its great crit-i pies. Prussia and her detjendents.

Ing decided. Then only can he descend to detail. I propose to consider those first principles at the outset, to recapitulate In the largest lines the steps by

which the great story of the war has I

ical phase. On July 18, for the first time since Prussia forced her dependents into this attack upon civilization, four years before, civilization recov-

and her

having launched their criminal adventure, knew they would have against them superior numbers when they learned that Great Britain had joined

Russia and France. But they knew,' to Verdun. He had massed his troops,! all the way from the Immediate front

even admlting the presence of Britain, that they had superior equipment, and

on the whole, superior material resources; that their opponents, whom they believed to be their victims, must depend upon maratime communication; that of those opponents, only one, France, was fully organized for war; and they had, moreover, neglected war and- Its art In domestic discussion; that Russia was without industrial civilization and that Britain

as was wise, for the purpose of attack

within that salient. The counter attack caught him now congested within the bulge and therefore in a bad position for defense. The problem was how to keep the enemy congested within the angle of Arras, St. Quentin and St. Gobaln, Rheims and Argonne; how to prevent him from reinforcing the now dangerous thin line to the south and east of Verdun and keep him in this bad

was without military preparation, and i posture while the American forces

could not. In theory, at least, produce I were growing. For six weeks, all an. army at all. through the latter part of July and the Every chance was In favor of the ! "hole of August, the problem was sucCentral empires, as the phase goes i cessfully solved by the system of gradthat is, in favor of Prussia and those ! extending attacks that ran from

whom she had drawn Into her net. As Thucydldes . said, with justice : "War produces many things, but above all things, the unexpected." The campaign went through an astonishing series of adventures. Logically, the certain victory of the enemy was broken at the outset at the Marne. After his first battle of the Marne, he could never do what he had intended. But things developed in all manners of uncalculated ways. The Turkish government, whose mastery of the Dardenelles held the economic gate to the Old Russian empire, joined the enemy. Attempts to open the gate were undertaken by the British, but failed.' Meanwhile, Italy, entered the field, withdrawing a large portion of the Austro-Hungarlan strength. The enemy was holding In the west successfully, while displaying an unexpected new power in the .modern defence, and had massed his strength for the overrunning of Poland when the exhaustion of Russia came. The enemy" was apparently successful. The Russian empire was ultimately broken and ceased to be. The end of this series of situations is that with which all are familiar. Numerical calculations and the power of the allies gradually to wear down Prussia and her dependents should the Germans be checked, as actually they were being checked at the outset no longer obtained, for the great reserve of man power of the allies In the great Russian empire had disappeared. But as against this collapse America entered the war. With this new factor of man power America could, upon paper, more than supplement the loss of Russia. But there were two elements In the business besides mere man power on paper. The difficulty of transport over 3,000 miles of ocean was enormously aggravated, apparently, by the new factor of the submarine and the time It would take before a purely civilian population could be organized Into a great army. The enemy In the winter of 1917 had all the cards in his hands and everything In his favor. It would admittedly bv the best part of the year before a considerable American force could appear in the European field, and it was doubtful whether the force could be transported at all in face of the submarine factor a doubt which was publicly and loudly expressed by the most competent authorities of Germany and accepted by all the German public. The enemy not only had a superiority in numbers, but also a superiority in tactical instrument. He had used the opportunity the Russian collapse afforded to withdraw great numbers of men and give them special training for a new form, of shock army. 'When he launched the novel and formidable instrument on March 21 of the present year, the odds were very heavy in favor of his success. There was only one grave draw-hack to his position. At he failed, if the Allies managed to maintain the struggle, unequal as it had now become, for even a few months, the growth of the American army, which it was now apparent his submarine campaign could not interrupt, would turn the scale. Again we know what happened. He failed. On April 4 it was discovered that the French and British forces, though almost bereft of the power of manoeuvre, had pressed right back against the valley of the Somme, and with Paris Itself under long range fire had kept the line intact. Then came the period which history will, I think, regard as the most curious example of bad strategy in the hands of competent, even great, generals which was even known. The Germans in the west having lost very heavily in the delivery of this great blow, which should have been decisive, began to strike at random. There is no other word for it. At that time each blow was so heavy for there was still a great superiority in numbers and still a superiority in the tactical instrument- it affected the opinion of the military as well as the civil. . The British commander in chief talked of the army as having been pushed "back to the wall" during the blow up to the north in Flanders on April 9. Paris was appalled when the Chemin des Dames gave way far off to the north and the enemy came right Into the heart of Frence at Chateau Thierry. At last, on July 15, came the end, with a series of tremendous converging attacks east and west of Rheims, upon a front of fifty miles, the last effort of the German armies. It failed and was countered. Three days later, on July 18, just" at a moment when the tide in numbers was turning, when the French and American forces launched an unexpected counter offensive between Solssons and Chateau Thierry, the enemy still had the advantage in numbers. But it "was like a tide which, having raced up at flood, is brimming to slack water, and In a very few weeks the ebb must begin. That was the supreme importance of the date and was the meaning of July 18. The American power of organization and the astonishing elasticity of the American military system in sending quite unexpected numbers to Europe, and doing so ever since, caused the disaster in March. Meanwhile another element entered the field the "new tanks, which owed their origin to the mechanical genius of the British. Finally came the united command, the fruit of Clemenceau's persistent efforts, In the hands of French masters of strategy.

The Initiative being recovered, the I

new and Invaluable tactical Instrument being now In allied hands, there appeared a certain plan which from that day to this has been consistently followed. The huge battle at which we are now assisting Is but its latest development. Let us appreciate that battle. The enemy stood in a great salient running from the north to its apejc at the Forest of St. Gobaln and the neighborhood of Laon and then around past Rheims. through the Argonne Forest

Rheims northward and westward to Arras. Foch made no attempt at a rupture in the enemy line. yFar from it His whole object was jrefully to pin the enemy and prevent any general re

tirement; to keep up the congestion

at Metz, which is right under the

American long range fire and which were It a German town, we could knock to pieces tomorrow, around by the St Gobaln apex to the North Sea. Upon this new clean-cut salient with the railway to Verdun delivered and therefore, the supply assured, with the enemy heavily handicapped In numbers, the attack of last Thursday was launched. Observe how the attack exactly follows, though on a larger scale, the rule and method of the first great preliminary operations. Now. as then, the fronts are "lighted", sector by sector until the whole Is aflame. In other words, the enemy, attacked In one place and beginning to concentrate for its defense, is suddenly compelled to stop by 1 anxiety for another. Now, as then, he is led northward and still more northward. He Is forbidden to reinforce the

south and the critical front where his

Into which the enemy had fallen, with;ateral communication fringes the Ar-

a run nair or his armies in tne nundred miles between Arras and Rheims and with three-quarters of them between the Argonne and the North Sea. He struck flrsfupon the Marne pocket Into which the enemy had thrown all the available men in the neighborhood to avoid disaster; then on August 8, in front of Amiens, with similar effect; then on August 21, in the sector Immediately to the north of that; then on August 26 In the sector from Arras to the north again. Meanwhile he exercised a continuous, uninterrupted pressure against the apex at St. Gobaln, a pressure which began on August and is continued to this day, so that the enemy Is not able to withdraw from that position, so vital to our plans, and he has put Into it, first and last, the equivalent of say, twenty-four divisions. In the last of these operations the British, on September 2, In a brilliant action, forced the last permanent artificial line north of Queant and compelled the enemy to adopt a new water line against the tanks, covering Doual. Then came a sort of a lull. Those who did not understand the nature of the plan thought perhaps that the enemy "had been driven back to the Hlndenburg line," or some other nonsense of that kind. What really happened was that be had been forbidden to reinforce the weak sectors to the south and had lost in prisoners alone all the results of his drive in the spring, some 2,000 guns, and in killed and wounded, apart from the prisoners, more than he could replace In a fighting season from the new recruits and hospital returns. But all this was only the preliminary and the main shock was to come. Its first chapter is no true part of it, only a sort of clearing ground. For the first time the large American army with certain French contingents, took the field alone and cleared the salient at St. Mihlel. It was singular proof of the way in which the enemy is forbidden by its northern fighting to reinforce in the south. Quite apart from the killed and wounded, one-third of the Austrlans and Germans holding the line from Fresnes, around by St Mihlel to Pont-

a- Mousson, passed into prisoners' i hut subsidiary, cages. The salient no wise quite clear le8S significant.

whole plan. ' The' eastern fields could not save Prussia even had she the men to reinforce them, but their failure

Taking for granted the complete cot

lapse of the Balkan defence, which i probable, and the Impotence of tba Turkish empire to react which is certain, we now have to watch for th decision in the west, for it is this decision which we are now observing. It may be delayed, but the end is now secure and the only question which remains Is whether the issue will b immediate or deferred until spring.

Don't throw away old . paper. Sell it to the Junk man, as It can be used

again in the manufacture of new pa per. The government asks this. Germany Is threatening reprisals because American troops are armed with shotguns.

dennes. Now, as then, but on a larger

scale, successive attacks come unex

pectedly, from his viewpoint, almost at random, until he is wholly engaged and can no longer manoeuvre at all. . Take the salient beginning September 26. Gouraud on the west of the Argonne attacks over nearly twenty miles, while east of the Argonne a portion, but only a portion, remember, of the American forces attack a similar front. Gouraud makes little progress compared with the Americans, which is. exactly as it should be, for the Americans are on - the extreme

wing of the attack and the attack j

is being conducted against a great salient where it is the wings that count Just as the enemy concentrates to meet this peril he checks Gouraud where he checks doesn't matter much In the Champagne, and loses heavily in counter atacks at the sector which really matters, between thte Argonne and the Meuse. The British suddenly come into play twenty-four hours later against the only open sector in the north, on the left wing that Is, the only sector without a water defense the sector In front of Cambral. They thoroughly make good. The water line attacked Is turned, and the Cambral junction, so vital to the German lines, is put out of action within forty-eight hours, for though Cambral is unoccupied It Is under close

range. The enemy is compelled to concentrate what he has left, probably;

from the north to meet this menace, and again, within twenty-four hours, Plumer, with the British second army strikes still further north upon the extreme left wing, accompanied by the Belgians. - ' Everything is In movement from the upper Meuse to the North Sea, and even as I write comes news from the last sector attacked, which is Important only because the enemy will there be pinned and cannot withdraw his men I mean the sector south of Cambral and north of St. Quentin, which has been engaged. In the presence of that phenomenon the striking success in, Palestine the only complete local decision of the war save Tannenberg and the collapse of the Bulgarian defence are

They are none the They are part of the

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