Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-11
PLAN TO CARRY ON CAMPAIGN
AGAINST GERMANS AND
Aus1RlANs WITHOUT HALT. :
SITUATION IN EASTERN ARENA
JUST NOW CENTER OF INTEREST
Experts in Washington Believe Kaiser
Hopes to Hold Russians in Check
With United Force While Sending
Aid to Army in Franee-Turks Seem
Secure From Immediate Annihilatien.
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from the eastern war zone. on the
Russian frontier. continue TO be OF the
most absorbing interest. The nagni-
tude of the Russian successes against
the Germans and Austr.ans looms
greater as developments in recent OPP
erat!ons are disclosed. The Germans
are making few claims 10 successes
asains, the Russians at this time and
admit the German Austrian forces are
outnumbered. The Official reports from
Berlin says the condition Of the roads
makes rapid movements impossible, tho
the cold weather is helping conditions
in that regard TO some extent
The winter comes on early IN East
Prussia and along the frontier of Rus
sian Poland. and operations there from
now on will have to be carried out
under conditions which mean great
/ hardship for the troops.
| With the Germans driven back to
their own territory in East Prussia.
| and forced back from The line of the
Nistuia 10 lines close TO the frontier
! OF Germany and with Russian success
GAINED N the GaIic:aI region. the Rus
slams are back about in the situation
they were when they were forced 70
/ concentrate about Warsaw and along
( the Eistula in order 10 meet the Ger
man drive against Warsaw. The cap
ture OF Ja-oslau, seventeen miles
/ northwest OF Przenysl with many
prisoners. is an achievement OF value
/ 10 the Russians. The Austr!ans are
/ oescri bed as executing a general re-
/ tr.ment. partly a defeat. partly
/ w!thdra wal. on Cracow. they are ap-
parently prepared TO make strong
stand about Cracow. Just as the Ger
mans VIII make strong stand IN their
! forts and entrenchments in Poland
near their own frontier.
Germans Sending Forces West.
/ The belief OF mos. of the experts is
that the Germans are going to try to
! hold their lines IN the Russian from
! tier region by defending them with
comparatively few troops while send
/ ing re-entorcements TO France Under
1 all the circumstances, this conclusion
can not be regarded as entirely war
ranted. If the scope and yigor of the
Russian offensive are what they are
/ promised. the Germans Will be under
/
| troops 10 the west 10 any large extent
or Of replacing the troops transferred
with forces from the reserve. L. car
hardly be believed the German general
staff will take chances of allowing the
Russians TO invade their territory in
force by attempting TO hold them back
+ with thin and inadequate lines. The
! Germ ans are by no means al the end
/ Of their rope with respect 10 reserve
troops Of good quality. Russia has In
times past demonstrated her capacity
/ to conduct hard winter campaigning
and if the Germans are calculating on
winter making the Russian operations
I less vigorous they may fall into serious
| error.
| Turkey Secure For Present.
| What will come Of the Russian op-
erations against Turkey is something
which can only be conjectured. If Rou
mania and Bulgaria were TO get into
The war against Turkey. the situation
would be much simplifed. But as II
/ stands, effective land opera tons by the
Russians against the TURKS will be ex-
tremely difficult Military experts gen
orally agree that Russia can not send
Z big army thru the Cascusus and
Armenia 10 assaii Constantinople.
Such an army would have TO march
about $50 miles from Russian territory
! thru q mountainous region. with bad
roads. II would probably be cut TO
pieces or fail thru the troubles of its
supply trains. Russia can not, send
troops IN transports across the Black
sea against the Turks unless the
1 Turkish power is wiped out on ths
! Black sea. For the present, the allies
! are making no Roadway IN hombarding
the forts Of the Dardanelies. II Rus
7 sia could send troops thru Roumania
and Bulgaria and especially if she
could have the help Of those countries,
short work would be made Of the Turk.
But for the present, ii looks as If he
were comparatively secure. The Rus
sian movements into Armenia thus far
are not in sufficient force 70 point to
large conquests in Turkey. No doubt
they will be of service in protecting the
population against massacres.
Allies Regain Confidence.
On the whole, there can be little
question that the situation OF the allies
in France and Belgium is gradually
improving. Losses they have sus-
tanned and heavy ones, but their troops
have learned fully this lesson, that
Germans. The superstition that the
German troops are uncomfortable has
passed completely. The allies are in
good spirits and optimistic and they
are more than making up their losses
thru endorsements. The British
alone are said to have 100000 troops
in France. They will rapidly increase
this total. ALI the German efforts to
Interfere with the steady pouring Of
troops into France across the channel
have accomplished nothing effective
The allies not only have more troopz
on the line from the channel to the
Swiss border than the Germans but
there is every reason to believe they
are in position to keep more there and
that az the months pass the advantage
numerically will lie with the allies
rather than the Germans.
That being SO. the Germans can hope
to defeat the allies in the west only by
superior equipment and superior gen.
eralship. Man for man, the progress
Of the war shows, the two combating
forces are about evenly matched. Blu,
unless General Joffre and the officers
about him make seriouse biundei
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