The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-11-25

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, his belt the scalps Of little Belgiur
and little Serbia only.
How does this latest achievemer
help the Kaiser to get his chief er
emies ? In wearing out Serbia, has b
! not worn out his own forces more tina
those of Russia and England an
France and Italy? If he has, then hi
Serbian campaign represents ne
loss for the Germans.
| What are the compensations for tn
Germans and to what extent do the,
outweigh the losses? The Kaiser ha
lextended the zone of hostilities 81
that the territory he controls include
Serbia and Bulgaria. II those region!
have surplus supplies which he car
use, that extension represents gaiI
from that point of view. II, on th'
other hand, military and other sup
plies Germany and Austria needed, ol
will need before the end comes, mus
be diverted to the Balkans, then from
this point of view the taking on OF
Bulgaria and Serbia is net loss.
If we turn to the question Of secur-
ing supplies from the outside world,
we shall discover that the German
drive through Serbia has resulted in
directly in closing one of the most inn
portant avenues through which the
Teutons gained things needed from
other countries. So long as Greece
remained neutral commerce flowed
through her territory without let or
hindrance.
Now that France and England and
Italy have established an embargo
against the Greeks and stationed their
fleets in the Aegean sea and other
approaches by water to that region
Germany and Austria are wholly cut
off from supplies from that direction
save by rail from the region of Con-
stantinople and even that route must
be used for sending supplies in the
other direction for the benefit of the
Turks.
If Germany had kept out of the
Balkans entirely, except to win con-
tinued victories through successful
diplomacy, and allowed Turkey to
wear out portion of the allies as the
allies permitted the Serbians to wear
out host Of Teutons, there is ques-
ton whether she would not have been
in better situation than at present.
The Kaiser has some excellent advis-
ers, but they failed in succession re-
garding their drives to Paris, London
via Calais and Petrograd. We believe
the net result will be failure in the
drive towrad Ccnstantinople in the
final analysis, with special reference
to the overcoming of Germanys chief
rivals.
The Serbian campaign represents a
net loss for Germany with reference
% Russia more than any other coun
Try, and Russia is really Germany's
asst feared enemy as regards future
racial possibilities. The Serbian cam
paign has given Russia time to gather
Itself again, and word now comes
from Petrograd that millions of men
are to be put in the field by the Gar
N the immediate future.
With the western allies holding su
oreme command of the sea and abso
utely cutting off the Teutonic coun-
5rics from the south via the Mediter-
'anian, and with Russia ready to re-
lew its devasting warfare on the east,
While the allies in the west redouble
heir efforts, it really makes little diff
erence what is going on in the upper
Balkans.
1t looks to us as though the Kaiser
lad merely gained larger circle in
which to throw his forces about with
onsequent increased loss in proper
ion to the advantages accruing and
dded impetus to the wearing out pro-
ess. Whatever moral gain in the
'alkans has resulted from the smash
lg of little Serbia has been more than ,
by the annihilation of /,
he Armenians through the Kaiser's !,
orcing Turkey into the conflict and !
ne consequent Indignation of the en- y
re Christian world outside of the 7
entral powers. Serbia was not worth ="
hile. Turkey was not worth while. !,
elgium was not worth while. All O
lese campaigns have been depar v
ire from the sound military
axims of Frederick the Great, the Il
aiser's patron saint. Each one in =
rn has postponed the Kaiser's day Il
possible success against his chief Ii
iemies.-Burlington Free Press. N
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