The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-09-08
IT WON'T END AT PARIS.

- WIN Emu Al Fhhto.
TIE Germans may be said to be at
the gates of Paris, which is very
different thing from their being with-
IN Paris, it should be nosed. In the
war Of 1870 they arrived before the
French capital in September and did
not enter the city until the following
February. Five months Is a long time
TO wait for the opening OF a citys
gates, and the Germans haven't that
much to spare this trip, with a Rus.
sian army swarming over the east
ern marches Of Prussia. Unless the
Paris Of 1914 is more hospitable than
was the Paris of 1870 it may not have
the honor of entertaining another
German army. It seems scarcely
probable that the French authorities
are even 50 much as cons dering as
a dlgpatch from Rouen reports the
surrender of the capital to the Ger
mans to avoid the destruction OF prop
erty by artillery fire. Paris will
doubtless take the punishment that
Is Incidental 10 a siege and a bonn
bardment, 1t has been through with
good deal OF that sort of thing and
can endure much. If the Germans
want Paris they VIII probably have
to exert themselves to take it, and
they can't do that. IL Is not even
likely that they will lay formal
siege TO the capital and sit patiently
through the winter awaiting the
pleasure of the loving city. The cap
turc OF Paris must be swift and sod
del OF i will haye to be fogegone.
The situation is very different now
from that Of 1870. In the war of that
year The prussians defeated and cap
turcd the armies OF France at the
frontiers The emperor surrendered
1--we weeks after the war began. the
precise period over which the pres
ent war has already extended From
Sedan TO Paris was but stroll for
the Prusslana AMI they had all the
t'me they wanted to sit before Pll
This time the Freaoh army, with is
English support, has been neither
trapped in Metz nor surrounded at
Sedan. II has failed to sustain the
assault of the Germans. but il has not
been destroyed nor captured 1t has
iallen back steadily, but in good or
dof, illiiedns terrible losses upon
the invaders as II retired. aud it
draws in upon Paris with It's lines
practically unbrokcn. Ii is hardly 10
DC expected that the army viii herd
in Paris aud await the development
of The city hy the Germans. TAat
would be 10 invite the fate that over
took Marshal Bazaines army ii Metz
In 1870, The forts of Paris are al
ready fully manned ami The capital
needs 10 reinforcement from the field
army. Ii it can not hold out by its
own defense it viii fall. But the field
army, abroad aud intact, viii he and
must remain the real objective of the
Germans. The capture OF Paris would
be hardly more than sentimental val
ge, Wills the French army was still
IN lighting condition yet il ean hard
N be passed by without an attempt
20 take.
Time being such an important elo
meat III the campaign Of the Germans
Che destruction OF the opposing army.
TIE supreme essential and the oeeu.
ration Of Paris an incidental uecessi-
s., the inevitable conclusion is that
the Germans viii v,dertake he ee-
aaetion Of the capital ~ assault, as
they undertook If liege at the thres,
hold OF the campaign II the opera.
ten WAS difficult al the Belgian ci,y
what must ii be al rarisg Instead
10 tiye gorts there arr probably dTtS,