Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-11-04
ENCL POLICY SEEMS LITTLE Changed
FROM Her e. ATTITUDE OF one CEE NTURY Ago
The Astute Brains That Laid Low B%onaparte Are Now Bent on
Downfall of Kaiser WiIhem-Memcry of Scientific d.
pIonacy Has Many Victories to Its Credit.
From the New york Herald.

From the New York Herald.
When Sir Edward Grey recently in
duced Russia and France to sign with
Great Britain an agreement whereby no
peace terms We're to be made separately
with Germany, and nc treaty. entered
into except as agreed to by the allies,
the British foreign secretary nearly put
into effect again the same arrange
ment which at the conference at Chatil-
Ion in 1914 bound the allies in their re-
lations toward Napoleon.
In this maNims for military students
Napoleon, after emphasizing the nee
esslty for reading and r%ereading the
campaigns of Hannibal, Alexander,
Caesar. Marlborough and Frederick the
Great, has declared that in time of bat
tie the happiest inspiration may often
prove more than a recollection.
When one considers that British dip
lomacy, and. for that matter. the diplo-
macv of MANY of the countries of he
old world, is based on policy long es-
tablished and long continued, and that
the men who figure in the diplomatic
councils of European governments are
from an early age schooled and deeply
trained in this science, it is not to be
wondered at that the recollection of
what was lone at Chetillon suggested
to Sir Edward Grey a similar course of
oSSAOAA " SiiC CAI1So III SlS PINSSll GU
AT Chatillon, it was Lord Castle
reagh, British foreign secretary, who
suggested to the convention that no
separate compromise be MADE with
Napoleon. and in making his sug-
gestion Castleragh acted under direct
Instructions from Lord Liverpool, the
then British prime minister: in fact,
Castlereagh was sent from London to
Chatillon for this express purpose, NJ
he arrived even while the convention
was in conference with Coulaincourt,
the minister Of foreign affairs for
France.
Agreement Blow to Napoleon.
The binding of the allies III 1914 un-
der agreement to enter into no treaty
separately completely upset the calcu-
lations of NAPOLEON. Austria was on the
point of being detached from the coali-
ton. and only for the Intervention Of
England this result would probably
have occurred. What England did in
diplomacy in 1914 she has again &C
complished in 1914. and the MASTER
stroke ascribed to Sir Edward Grey has
perhaps been only a recollection.
The commencement of the ear 1914
found Napoleon. in consequence of the
reverse at Leipsic, compelled to draw
to the westward of the Rhine. The
empire of France at the beginning of
that year a the Rhine for its eastern
boundary. and included the present
countries Of Belgium and Holland. A
large part of northern Italy was also
under French domination. All Europe.
however. was in arms against the
French, and before the commencement
of 1914 the allies We're marching on
France Holland almost Immediately
following the news of the defeat of
Leipsic rose against the French.
1t was on January. 25, 1914, that
Napoleon conferred the regency on
Maria Louis,-, appointed King Joseph
his lieutenant in Paris, and quitting
Paris put himself at the head of such
army as he could collect to defend
French territory against invasion. 1t
was a tremendous task which con-
fronted the French emperor. Army
after army raised by France had been
destroyed, and the forces available to
Napoleon in 1914 did not exceed 10000
men. This number was scattered along
an extensive line. Mortier with $4,000
men formed the right at Troyes; Ney,
Victor and Marmont with a total IF
$4,000 men formed the center along n
line from Chalons to Vitry. and finally
Macdonald with 5000 men was COM
ing from Namur by way of Mezieres
toward Rethel. How familiar all these
names sound in the light of the present
war! 1t is a fact that in the cam
palgn OF 1914, when he genius of
Napoleon was never more evident, the
French fought over the very groun
where the present great combat is in
progress.
Advance Of Allies in 1914.
When Napoleon took the field on
January rs, 1914, the allies were APP
preaching Paris; they were actually
in France, with a total force of $50, 900
men. The Austrians under Schwar-
Zenberg had entered France December
Fl, 1913. by the upper Rhine and were
marching on Lyons. On January 10
at the head of 100000 Prussians about
the same time had entered france by
Caulp. near Bingen, and had pushed
onward for Joinville. Vitry and ST.
Dtzier. Another army of Russians,
Swedes and Germans. under the crown
prince Of Sweden, was moving to as
sist in clearing the French out of Hol-
land II Belgium. while the armies
of Billow and Wintzingerode entered
France by it's northern frontier.
The actions which followed during
the memorable campaign between the
time Napoleon took the field on jan
uary 25, 1914. until the signing of the
addiction on April 6 of the same year
the French movements, the engaging
of forces everywhere. the strategy dis
played in detaching and maneuvering
of the allies into position all constitute
masterpieces in military study. But
despite the genius exhibited, Napoleon
was carried down by sheer weight of
numbers and the inability of France
to respond further in her weakened
condition.
1t was before the campaign Of 1914
had fairly started. but after the coali-
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