The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-09-19
Prussian Strategy Has Failed


BY an International Pressoo Correspondent
The famous plan No. has failed
1t checked and mudded Lege and at the gates
Of Paris has been smashed into confusion NOTHING can
change this significant fact Victory on the battlefield Of
the ultimate taking of Parscannot change now Plan No
has failed and its failure you may read you will forecast Of
the far-of end of the
Four German Plans
The general elaborated four plans for the in
vasion of France.
The moment declared-the moment the COVERING
troops OF the seventh rushed the Belgian
oner known that the fought on plan No
mystery made of 1t dvuged what fool
hardy bravado In Bavaria for instance the officers Ruprechs
army hailed laughing shouts of "Sewe" Tba,
German dash the open Belgium plain the
the undefended Belgian France it meant d-
march upon Paris German
officers.
This in a nutshell, plan No. q
Its depended entirely upon the rspdity
could be executed The art OF after all ssd
beating weaker than yourself The essential part plan
No that the foe should surprised mudded
eoy The attack must be made before the defensive
stretched eany along the entire frontier Beor to Lille
could be concentrated to meet it. And it just this
falling swiftly upon inferior foe the uen and
bitter delay in front of Liege Prussan strategy is
and inastc Its elaborate plans cannot be lightly changed
And with grim valorwh the most appalling sacrifice
the world has knownhe huge, rigid complicated
machine has been pushed according the plan decided
rpon Only too late 1t is too late for that swift upon
Russian essential
late for throwing into the voses those victorious troops which
out the last dying struggles of the French republic
Strategy Has Failed
That is the fierce and significant fact that
to-day No victories hide it. No subsequent
compensate for it. The famous plan No has failed
the swift of the German orcesn their falling
before the assaults of the aesthat ntmaton of nj
defeat Of the be found;
significance the fact that the very midst of battle they
been forced elaborate plan of action What has failed is
not the German fighting men-t Prussian strategy
The French battle line is nearly 300 klomees III length What
the world knows about is the fighting the extreme left where
the allied forces have been battling Paris Very little has
been told the battles the plains of Aace where the French
right has been operating with almost unchecked That is
natural What the world wanted to know the fate of the huge
German roller which being driven through Belgium and
northern against the little redbreeched soldiers of the
Somme and the of Connaught
was natural things being de-
cdd edges vosges there touched the fringe
Of the great And something of the import of the fighting
there French troops from Beort met the sixth
corps OF the German frontier troops OF Haute-Asace
No Theatrical Display
By critics. French dash into Assoe at the be-
ginning of the looked upon merely sentimental display
apparently only give the Parsans chance to
strip the crepe from the statue of sace the Place de La
Concorde and hoist upon t color it the
nche French theaticaism; appeal patriotic ervor
OF nothing Of the sort The French who are
Tor the life the nation not making that KIND Oh
campaign.
So important was it deemed French general told
The French advance through Asace Lorraine will decide the
campaign"
statement made days after the began-the
days reckless had been driven back from
Muehausen What has happened sincewhat is happening
add significance the statement Here is what was
told:
"The general staff thoroughly informed OF the iour
plans Germany had prepared for the invasion France
each of them had made plans which purely
Fighting on equal English flag hewthey
proved that wherever they could get with the heavy
al