New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-24
SOME lTAR COMPARISONS.
Movements in Manchuria Not Lake
Those Of Moltke.
ba rditor q, The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: read your War Views OF Experts with
interest always. but especially interested IN
the following paragraph in yesterdays tssue'
some Of the American officers have been counting
on a battle at Liao-Yang. but there are no pos pos
da6e coilison Perhaps the retreat Of the Russians
is prompted By the hank movemea5 Of Ehe 60 ' AZ
anesc who said 70 have resoT{su asalh 20 ~.
famous NIoltke tactics Of comPelli3g the zoe 20 20
protect itself by continually falling back Win tho
effect OF being pursued
Gan tho Japanese NOV emcut against kuropatkin's
positions in defence OF his railroad line Of supplies
he properly compared TO Won Moltke's tactics IN
either the Prsslan-A Austrian or the Franco-Gernlan
wars9 Are thcy really not IN contrast with both
his great offensive campaigns In the first named
he marched two columns against the AustTians
and concentrated them in his slsht on the heId OK
sadowa badly defeating the Austrian Hello mar
shall That was the only great battle OF that orief
war Won Notke followed the retreatlns enemy
not thanking him. TO the gates OF Vienna. where
Bismarck not being ready for general European
war patched up a peace and went homo 10 unity
Prussia and the South German States into another
Empire OF Charlemagns with his King William OF
Prussia as Emperor of Germany
In the Franco German War Won Moltke WAS re-
strcted TO Il very limited gate by which 10 enter
France. Belgium the rignt and Switzerland on
his left had been peutraliSed by all the european
powers Won Moltke therefore. in part because
OF this boldly struck at the centre Of Napoleon's
army broke It az the very irst blow. and, inter-
posing his army between the great fortresseS OF
Metz and Strasburg. the left and riEht OF Ma
poleon's armies isolated and besieged. and hnaIly
captured both There no thanking operation
here Won Moltke tried TO flank MacNahon and
shut him up Ia Metz with Bazaine. but NacMahon
escaped him after hghting the great battle OF
C;ravelot and retreated 10 Chalons. Neither he
nor Napoleon dared TO fall back 10 Paris. for they
knew they would be shot, IKE Ney, or sulIigtlteu.
like Louis XVI So they tried the desperate dstouF
10 Sedan and got caught there, Rather tasn re-
naturalization. Napoleon surrendered. Won Moltke
did not any time in marching directly on Paris
no fanking operation IN tAa'-oeS'esins u Alo
sembles that Of sherman and Joe Johnston IN
Georgia In 1854. Sherman had successfully hanked
Johnston at ResaCa out OF his mountain businesses
70 its north. but Mcpherson in conlulaud OF the
Ranking army. being an engineer only. not gen
erai by marching back and terrifying the sap by
which no had got in Johnston'S rear allowed the
Confederates 10 escape. Then began the remark,
able series OF thanking operations by sherman and
the more remarkable defence OF his Inc OF sup
lighting 10 reach Atlanta There were no great
battles fought except one oeIUTe s7 lis FabiS
tactics, had been removed and Hood took his place
Hood afterward it Will be remembered; under
took 10 flank sherman and SUBSEQUENTLY, Ih1Ias
called Marching through Georgia and left
tanoosa Railroad to Nashville 1t took four months
for Hood TO complete his Ranking movement ana
Thomas. in midwinter-one OF the worstN recall
whipped Hood out Of his boots Snninisted t hls
Tennessee al Florence without even an escort In
an ans MuTfrecsboro to be beseiged Just as Knre-
patkin has had TO abandon Port Arthur but his
Indeed the enemy quit as soon as Hoods defeat at
look to sec Kuropatlin ennbody the tactics of
Joe Johnston TO Hardin If necessary BY that time
While the japanese win be BANKRUPT. and with
only water lines OF supply always convenient but
to quit If the Russians viii give them covea, which.
OF course. they WON'T HAVING designs on II tnen-
Brooklyn. Aug. q. 1901