The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-08
WAR ECHOES

torious over the allies in the present war
 He said there is little doubt of the for
 mers ultimate success.
 This war;" said the inventor. 'is a thing of such importance as to obsess the mind and stagger the understanding
 The are so many variables to be taken
 into consideration, and so many circum-
 stances and conditions. which 1t IS lm- possible at this time for an outsider to
 know, that no judgment, which must un-
 derlie true prophecy, can possess the truth.
 However. the sayings and little philos- ophies of that greatest of soldiers-Na- poSeon-may help us in guessing. Ma
 poleon said that the science of winning battles is in being stronger than the enemy at a given point.
 Tt appears at the present time as
 though the German steam roller advance
 into Belgium is being directed with Ma
 poleonic sagacity by someone behind the German guns. If the Germans are able
 to strike the battle line of the allies on
 the center or flank with a greater force than the allies. will be able to oppose them, then the onward march of the Germans-to Paris is inevitable.
 l Ut looks to me as though the French were making a grievous mistake in divid- ing their forces in order to strike the Germans in Alsace and Lorraine. It may be found that it would have been better Judgment to have massed all of their available forces in front of the main ad- vance of the Germans anA to have left ha | as would have been necessary to stay the German advance in that direction. l "Germany's ally, Austria, has her hands I full with the Russians, Servians and Montenegrins so that Germany is essen- I tially fighting single handed with France, Belgium, England and Japan and the larger forces of the Russian army. It looks bad for Germany, but we must re- member that it is not the size of armies l that decides campaigns, but the power of the flying wedge of men and artillery upon a given point of the enemys line.
 Armies are not beaten as whole. but are always beaten piecemeal. It made no difference to Alexander the Great
 whether or not his Macedonian phalanx faced an army of 50000 of 500,000 men, because the phaanx was always strong est at the point of contact.
 Frederick the Great, whom Napoleon pronounced the greatest captain of mod ern times, won his battles by the same
 method by which the Germans S6day are | throwing their weight of men and guns against the ranks of the allies.v
 Louisville Courier Journal: The world could not brook a master of Europe in I 1Sl4. It can as little brook a master | in 1914. The success of German arms
 would mean ruin to England and France. annihilaton to Italy, Denmark Holland and Belgium. If Switzerland should be | left unabsorbed she would owe 1t to her | mountains and her poverty. None of these results can the world submit to- With them achieved we should not be safe in America. With them achieved 1 civilization would be but an armed camp,
 and liberty fled to brutish beasts l It is unthinkable. inconceivable. The 1 Hohenzollern Is doomed. Even if his
 troops should occupy Paris he Is l doomed. But, the likelihood is that l the Russians will be in Berlin before | the Germans get into Paris, with Will l liam of Hohenzollern prioner of war
 as was Louis Napoleon. and the people of Prussia. of Hanover, of Bavaria and of Wurtemburg free to establish what ever national autonomies they please to 1 establish as were the French after Sedan l Cleveland Plain Dealer: The continu- ous fighting between the German in I vaders and the allies in France is not, from the reports at hand, separable into ! battles or series of battles. It is, in effect, one tremendous battle of which
 the end cannot be foreseen.
 1 There was never such war. Other wars have been waged as succession of easily disinguishable combats. The great war of 1914 Is fought by armies I that do not sleep. that do not pause l to rest, to breathe On and on they fight, with superhuman energy and in l comprehensible endurance.
 | When history is written, the German advance in France may be satisfactorily
 analysed. Each phase of the endless fight may be isolated and arbitrarily
 labeled. The battle of Mons. the battle of Charleroi. the battle of St. Quentin ana countless other battles may be as- signed definite ratings. But to give any
 local designation to the great general
 battle which is raging throughout the
 north of France would be impossible. 1 In such a titanic struggle 1t is not sur
 prising that the war correspondents and
 even the professional military experts can l give the watching world no satisfactory | elucidation. In a general way the great tactics of invader and defender may be known, but how these tactics are being followed is, for the present. beyond com prehension.
 The time must come when the fight ing will cease for a time. Human will and endurance must have their bounds. Even with the attenuation of men on the
 actual fighting line. the armies are them. selves units, and as such must in time
 demand recuperation. The pause may be the pause which means victory for one and defeat for the other. Or it may be merely the pause of common exhaus- tion But until the pause does come there can be no hope of definite inter- man game which is being played.A
 Baltimore Manufacturers Record: Bear ye one another's burden" This divine
 command must be needed now. It would
 be folly to shut our eyes to the trernen-
 dous losses which the world must meet. Untold billions in wealth are being swept l