Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-03
LONDON PAPERS CONFIDENT OF VICTORY,
BUT DIVIDED ON GERMAN EFFICIENCY
Observer Doubts Whether "AlIes Will Win at One Throw
Globe Pooh-poohs Legend of formidable Germany'-Ho
tel Advertises Patrons Need Fear No Danger.

1t is interesting to note what Eng
fish papers, which have just arrived
here, have to say about the war. The
London Observer on August 16, said
| this:
Confident in the final issue, let us
not assume for moment that all will
| go our way, much less that the allies
| will win at one throw or even that for
! tune will be soon decided. The strug
! gle for world power may have been
! precipitated by the infirmities of
judgment and the imaginative fanta-
sizes of one man. Once the die was
cast, the German people, full of Sc
cret fofeboding as at heart many of
them are, had nothing to do but to
rouse every element of force they pos
sess and to fight with all the energy
that can be inspired by patriotism,
both in it's best and it's worst sense
by ambition and desperation, by pride
and dread. That is the present tenn
per of nearly seventy millions of peo-
Pile There is little evidence amongst
them now either of genius or the very
highest types of talent or character,
but they produce perhaps the best
trained average of any nation. More
or less with them are the fifty mil
lions of mixed races under their
Hapsburg partner, a perilous depend
ence, but not yet to be too much
deprecated
"As to the people of the German
Empire whether their staying power
will be as remarkable in all circum-
stances as their present momentum
remains to be seen. That important
factor after the first few months may
be subject to events. 1t is an utter
error to think that Teutonic staying
power is necessarily harder than
French The Germans say that they
will make as big a bid for triumph
and its priceless spoils as was ever
made-that they will stake life and
treasure to the last man and the last
mark. For the moment let us note
that sentiment and respect it. Eng
land and France must be as fully
prepared in their turn for struggle
stubborn enough to demand the ut
most exertion of the moral fibre and
material resources of both. We must
not mistake the immense weight and
impetus of the onset which will have
to be met and broken-or at least
stopped-in the coming battles If
there is to be safety henceforth for
Western Europe and the British En-
pire.
"Jena or Sedan?'
Jena or Sedan-or neither? The
wide range of operations in modern
war makes Sedans almost impossible
and makes decisive victories like
Jena hard to win. Deadlock in the
urgent circumstances of Germany's
fight against time would be another
name for defeat. We have restated
the issue, larger far than was at
hazard either at Jena or Sedan. Let
us see in what manner 1t is moving
towards debate and decision in the
Valley of the Shadow of Death
On August 10 the London Globe had
this to say:
at is strange how this Prussian
legend mas grown up and taken root
in mems minds. For the better part
of a generation Europe as a whole has
been hyppotized into believing in a
formidable Germany, which Is to say
Prussia, a veritable sUperman among
nations. Her army, her navy, her
mercantile marine her great indus
tries, her education, her communal
development her experiments in social
legislation, all these have been held
up as admirable, as in many ways
superior to similar institutions in
other lands. And readily believing
Europe has come to conceive of Prus-
STA as the most thorough of nations.
mot that thtre is not abundant
foundation for this belief in the Prus-
sian machine Its organization in very
many ways is superb. Thought out"
as the Germans say IN a Characteristic
phrase, as witness the schemes for
sowing tho worlds capitals, not only
with spies and potential fighting men.
but also with bombs and stores Of
rifles and Ammunition for use IAN
Tag" ION that day. But the Prusslan
machine, like all very highly complex