New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-12
CHAMPAGNE LIKE
TEN GETTYSBURGS
French Gunfire Would
Have Wiped Out Union
Army in Is Minutes.
FOR MISS CAVELL' CRY
OF CHARGING BRITISH
No Peace Before England Puts
Million More Men in Action,
Asserts Frederick Palmer.

Declaring the Zeppelin raids to be
tame after spending months at the
front, Frederick Palmer, the war cor
| respondent, described the British at
tack on the Hohenzollern redoubt. on
his arrival in New York yesterday
aboard the American liner St. Louis.
He is here on a furlough, and will re-
join the English troops in the trenches
in February.
my last day at the British front
was spent in watching the attack on
the Hohenzolern redoubt." said Nj.
Palmer. "The British guns !aii a per-
feet swath of explosions over Two
thousand yards Of German trenches for
half an hour before the charge. From
the roof Of house partially shattered
by shell fire we could see the British
I infantry charging into the smoke and
the British guns lift their torrent OF
IRE onto the German second line
trench.
81 was over the Champagne battle
! field, where the French might have
broken through but for the heavy rains
!
Germans brought 100000 reinforce
ments from the Russian 'front.' they
/ knew the attack was coming. That
front was five times the length Of that
AT Gettysburg. with at least ten times
tho number Of men engaged
"Tactically what the French tried 10
do In Champagne and the British a:
Loos was what Pickett tried 10 do at
Gettysburg to break solid front. a
quarter OF an hour Of such gurfre as
the French directed against the Ger
man trenches would nave wiped out the
Union army as IL WAS on the second
day at Gettysburg.
Kept Up Fire Seventy-two Hours.
"Tho French kept up their fire for
sevcnty-two hours. The German
barbcd wire was cut into bits, the
trenches wrecked. while curtain Of
fire back OF the trenches kept the Ger
mans from getting supplies The dr.
heulty came In taking the second and
third lines.
The Germans on the western front
are fighting we'll but not as well as
they did six months ago. She initis-
tive Is now with the Allies in this stub
born siege business. a year ago the
British We're fighting with rifles aud
flesh and blood against artillery and
machine guns. Indeed. the Germans
fred i've shells 20 their one But ell
that is changed; they are now firing
more shells than the Germans"
Referring 20 the Balkan theatre %
war. Mr. Palmer predicted that
throughout the winter the crisis o. the
war would be IN that quarter With
out endAngering the situation on the
fruvf Ha saf4 FVyfgva Gould
send three-quArters Of n million trained
men % the Near East - she could
transport them and supply them with
munitiOns Kitchener has che big army
organized. 10 awaits only guns and
shells
1T IL case o. ferce fght Tor
time in the Balkan mud and mountai1
passes" be- continued The Bulgsrs
cannot keep going long without mum
tons from the Germans When the
Germans have established their com
municstion with Courtsntinorie they
will have long line 20 guard. while
they Organize al the mischief they can
IN the East
The British are spreading sll their
bad news broadcsst. the Germans are
suppressing theirs II tho sieel cur
tain which ia drawn over Germany
tho world Rot only peace win lift d.
Eject Of Miss Cavclrs Death
Mics CsvelIs execution jid moro
for recruiting than on Tho raids.
happened to be with tho French when
the news OF her death was received
Its effect on tho troops was electric
Tho woman's sacrifice bad Joan Of
Arc character and struck home Co the
NaF
home was tho fact that she was
nurse. and mon who have been wound.
cd know what nurses care means
Now tho British soldiers say For Miss
Cavolll' when they charge.
II have not heard British or French
soldier or officer mention the possihil-
iiy Of any compromise with Germany.
The Fronch have saying that the
ghosts Of their dead soldiers will haunt
them II they ever. stop fighting with
the enemy on the soil of France.
"When will the war be over? Not
until the British have put In action
more than n million men who have not
fred a shot Noboay at the British
front ever considers anything short OF
next summer.
1.-THE greatest experience ! had was
with the British fleet. The lesson OF
efficiency is the same as that or the
German army-tireless industry and
no amateur interference with profess
sional experts. If it takes a navy the
size OF the British to make an i'm
pregnable line of steel from the British
Channel TO Iceland, how large one
will we require If we should ever be
attacked on two sidesI
Home defence? That is big sub
ject. The army must be made to suit our
national needs. which are not those OF
a European power. The first step must
be the reform Of our regular army
system. Our military policy must be
formed to suit our political policy
Simply to appropriate money for ships
and soldiers does not mean that you
will have n military machine equal TO
an emergency. Our home defence is
the vital question of the hour for US.
We must thrash it out thoroughly
without false sentiment or emotion, as
sober business proposition