Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-08-07
GERMAN WATERLOO
PARIS, IS BELIEF
If Kaiser Makes Good His
Threat to Smash Allies
Lines Slaughter Will Follow.

(By William Simms, United Press
correspondent. Copyrighted in
America and England)
With the French army at the
front, Aug. 6, via Paris, Aug. t.
If the Germans make good their
threat, an attempt to smash through
the allies lines to the channel, or to
Paris, after taking Warsaw, the
greatest slaughter ever witnessed by
men will occur, and the Kaiser will
meet his Waterloo. This is the opin-
ion, most emphaticaIly expressed, of
every officer, from generals down,
with whom l have talked on a tour
of the battlefront on the anniversary
of the first week of the war They
declare they only fear the Germans
won't try, for If they do, they will
play into the allies hands. For Ger
many, they say, 1t will be the begin
ming of the end
Not only is this assertion made re-
peatedly, but with a frankness which
startled one accustomed to the old
time secrecy of the early days of the
war. The French officers, with GEN
eral Joffres full permission threw
their cards lace up on the table,
lii at least to the laymen that
III, 54.Asr aXaitS- q Paris or Ca
lais drive bJ the GerD Dians kront.
On this trip to the battle hanv
was shown sights which few
civilians had heretofore seen. 81 M
they did see and were caught, paid
the penalty blindfo1ded before a fir
ing squad. The secrets of the great
citadel of those at Verdun were
made an open book by the French
officers. / was conducted through
subterranian passages nearly eco
feet below the surface of the forts
where preparations comprised every
thing from food and shells to grist
mills, water works, hospitals, a wire
less and sleeping quarters for the
entire civil as we'll as military popu-
lation
The military governor and his
staff were working 100 feet under
ground in an office of considerable
size, directly beneath the fort. The
governor explained that precautions
were being taken, not because Yer
dun was actually in danger of attack.
but because June 4, $50 millemetre
shells were hurled on the town by
the Germans, who used the same
long range guns that shelled Dunkirk
from distance of about twenty
miles. His staff, he explained, was
now able to work without regard for |
possible dangers and it was also pos
sible for the civil population to find /
refuge underground if the bombar l. |
ment was begun.
1--WE are ready for any move"
said one of the officers escorts, but (
we are in no hurry Time is working /
for US. We can break the German /
line any minute we want to, but the
operation would be costly. We pre-
fer to wait and let Germany try to /
break our lines. They certainly will /
attempt it shorty, and when they do. |
let them look out"
One is vividly impressed by the spir-
t of determination everywhere prevail (
ent in the French ranks after a year
Of the war. Men and officers agree /
hat another year of war is a practical (
certainty; both are most cheerful over {
The French prospects. They say they
are so used to campaigning now that (
hey fear they will find peaceful pur
suits tame when the war ends.
All along the battle front the tren /!
'hes and villages back of the lines I
have been renovated to add to the com I
forts of the soldiers, further evidence /
hat the troops expected to be in ac I
ion for long time. In some of the /
little villages elaborate power stations, .
churches and theatres have
JeeG established.
American barbed wire, strung be-
.ween the opposing trenches, has es-
ablished a deadlock from the sea to .
he Swiss frontier and the war has
been reduced to routine business.
The French officer, however, ex-
,ected a change, though few think
hat peace is at all near.