Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-30
SAYS GERMANY
|SPREPARED FOR
SPRING CAMPAIGN
LuII During Winter Months
Has Been Used to Best Pos
SibIe Advantage, Declares
Correspondent,

I NhHN"'hlfu iFesh NOrfespOnueHCCl
Berlin. March III have come
pack from the front aus CONVINCED
optlmist even if there are some
things which cannot explain
writes a correspondent of the Frank
turter Zeitung who has recently been
making a round Of the German
trenches In Belgium and northern
France. He was particularly impress
ed with the work which the German
| authorities have accomplished in the
occupied districts, Of both Belgium
and France, where, he says. every
conceivable provision has been made
for the time when our powerful
army shah break over the borders
| into the interior of France All the
! railways and roads, he observes. have
been brought to the highest efficiency
for that objective He continues
"The pause has been used TO the
utmost advantage. The north of
France and Belgium have been trans
formed into German border pro-
vince. whose granaries, ammunition
depots and bases for the provision of
war supplies are oyerflowing and
ready, at a sign. to send thousands OF
| tons to the front, while the hospitals
and transports for the wDtinded are
marvelously organized All the war
/ like preparations in the west have
been placed on a new and eXtraordi-
inarily strong footing.
Unprecedented Energy.
IN many respects these prepara-
! tons surpass even our German mob
! ilization. Here i'm the depots YOU feel
how this preparation for war has
ben thought out in the most concen-
/ trated way. An unprecedented energy
/ Is devoted to It, While greater and
greater masses Of men are being
/ hurled against our wall outside
/ with only a wave now and then
breaking over the dam, while our
| trenches are sending the storming
parties home again with bloody cost,
| all the time our inner fortress Is be-
! ing more heavily armed until the
| signal for a new offensive can ne
| given Kitchener's millions and the
new French army have never alarmed
lus although we must not underesti-
mate them. But il is one of our char
/ acteristics 20 look only to the front
/ and to believe only in the existence
Of what we can clearly perceive -.
Before / went 10 the front, all
accounts and stories Of the war lelt
ME unconvnced. Even when ] passed
through the trenches in front OF
Rheims. where the front Of the tow
ers of the cathedral still stand out
Utmost uninjured; when | walked over
the heights which dominate Arras'
that junction Of important railways
land roads: when I heard the thunder
Of the cannon sDy Ypres, where the
trenches are driven right up 20 the
ltown. | had a lively desire to criticise'
WHY had we not held on to these
towns2 We were once in them why
had we not closed the gap between
our right. wing and the North sea IN
the DAYS when Antwerp was being
taken. so that Calais ana Dunkirk
might now be in our possession what
has happened in the woods of the
Argonne and on the MarneT
Maps Are Convincing.
when | began to talk about my
doubts and to complain, ana began
Ito question this person and that, IN
order to gain information to convince
1.-THE Philistnos at home, they SIMPLY
put a map in my hands, which was
marked with a blue pencil round the
broad plain by Rheims.
81 was then invited to regard with
lmv own eyes our excellent DISPOSE
ifions on the plateau which overlooks
lthe Aisne. | was shown the crest OF
1.-The hill i'm front of Arras on when
Iour front leans, the Kemmelberg, the
Icenter of our cnemys position IN
Flanders. the high road in the west
Lin front of Ypres. behind the pro-
lection of which the bcsieged city IS
hidden. The whole position was care,
fully explained, and was invited
M sav whether | could devise any
better dispositions which could rem
lder our front more secure and more
favorable, in view Of the whole ilne
Iof batle in the west and the east
Meaning of Pause.
gwen this much knowledge was
worth a visit to the front. But some
lone will say. What does this dreadful.
tlv long pause mean? 1t would n no.,
he surprising if someone IN inc
trenches or in the villages at the base