Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-19

Paris is the goal of every Germans ambition "lo apparently of the Kasers strategy While the plans of the Teuton invasion are masked in secrecy military ez perts are pretty we'll agreed that Germany seeks to penetrate Che eastern frontier of France with three great columns and drive forward iresisbly to converge on Paris The power of the mighty German empire would then be concentrated on the capture the capital of the civilized world" With that feat accomplished she would turn crush the Russians.
 If Germany succeeds in breaking through the coun- trys outer lines defense and brushing her armies aside she Paris she took it in her last war? The Siege of Paris is memorable in military annals. The French people recall with horror that black time when Napoleon III had been checkmaed at Sedan and the flower of army had surrendered at Metz with the victorious AIlemands" before the gates of the capital expecting easy entrance Tens of thousands of Parisans st tell of that bitter winter of 1S7Ols71 when the prisoned population was rayaged by cholera cold and hunger when the only food a nauseous bread made of bran and horsenesh babies died at the rate of 25oo a week
 But hc Paris of today is the Paris of 1870. The Notifications that enabled the defenders then to hold out four months against tremendous odds good. for that epoch; when built from to IS45 at cost s3OOOOOOO they had been the last word in defensive works They still stand the supreme type Of the ancient
 
 that France for thousand years They a close sirdle for the city 21 miles in circumference with S4 great bastons with rampars 32 feet high and parapets 70 feet wide and a broad moat where cows graze in times of peace.
 For a last stand with oldfashioned handto-hand lighting this od-world wall would stil serve as it served 1S7O Paris no longer trusts to it for safety She has built al cost of more than S5OOOoO0O
 
 other city in the world.
 The mcautious tourist rambling in the environs of Paris is likely to stumble upon large grassy mound halfhidden by trees. From distance looks like an old ruin. The impression is strengthened by nearer view of haltburied masonry. But as steps closer there comes sharp challenge Hae la!" and the flash of a bayonet
 It is a French sentry. guarding a modern earthen fort Of nconspcuous but supremely powerful type-a fort covering wide sweep of country with big cannon that turk invisible behind sloping ramparts that ofio mark for enemys guns. In peace there is but 8 handful of redoreeones there in time of danger ther may be half a regiment
 No outside of the French war office knows th, number of these forts There may be 200 of them Sur rounding the of foruacatons are two rregua circes. The first is two miles distant The second il
 
 miles farther from the city. The latter constitutes seemingly mpenetrabe belt of fifty mighty fortresses. An Che forts of the three coucentrc grdles ar planned together Each has its piece of tel titory guard in which the range plotted with precision that a gunner has but to glance at a chart an place shell where he chooses. Fire cross-hre ak are worked in detail Intervening spaces are mine that the pressure of electric button may dynamt
 
 air. If fort sienced the guns other forts ca be trained upon it to keep the enemy from occupying
 The defence Of the Belgians against the Germans Liege shows a little of the tremendous obstacles the il vaders will face when they assall Paris The Lege d lenses of he Parsian type IT little group of suc manned by few thousand troops could hurl baC confident army of 100000 Germans and innct loss greater than those of Sedan or Waterloo what " happen when army ot a million confrouts fortified wordcapital with the strength of twenty Lege