Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-10-12
MEANING OF
GERMAN INVASION.

They are beginning to see IN Eng
land the meaning of the German IN
vasion of the Balkans and of the
march to Constantinople. 1t is not a
defensive movement, but an agrees
sive one, and is a part OF care
fully considered general plan of cam
paign.
The London Daily Express des-
cribes it as a menace to British do
minion, and as ''the German chal-
lenge of britain for the possession
of the empire of the east" German
triumph. in that quarter would mean
that "the Kaiser would control the
whole of Central Europe from the
Baltic to the Bosphorus," but it
would mean a great deal more than
this" With the Germans established
in Constantinople, Asia Minor and
Egypt would be at their mercy, IN
dia might be their prey. The Suez
Sdlidl Woulu SSdSc w NC liitCiiaIiohoi
and would be as German as the kiel
Canal, and, worse, Germany would
hold the road to the East. British
rule in India would become impossible
Australia and New Zealand would be
cut off from the motherland and Brit
ish trade would be strangled by a
people as ruthless in commerce as
they are in war.
The Baltimore Sun in referring to
the present status of the war in Eu-
rope says:
Germany's great advantage in this
war has been due not only to her
trained troops and to her system of
military preparedness, but TO the
trained men who have directed opera
tions. They have conducted the wal
on scientific principles and have been
constantly seeking to reach vital
point in the anatomy Of their enemies
They have not wasted their strength
in idle and unrelated blows. All Their
movements have had special pur-
pose, but each has been part Of a
carefully studied-oIt plan, worked out
in advance scientifically and thorouh-
~, just as they would have taken up
a problem in industry or in physics.
Germany has recognized from the
first that Great Britain is the life Of
the confederation against her, and her
great object from the outset has been
to get stranglehold on that anita
gonist and choke it into submission.
Hence her submarine warfare and her
Zeppelin raids on England, and hence
the promptness with which she Sc
cured the support of Turkey as es-
sential to the far reaching campaign
which she planned. Her success in de-
taching Bulgaria from her natural
allies and in keeping Roumania ard
Greece quiet even in the face cf
operations that clearly imperil their
future indicates how earnestly she
has worked against British diplomacy
in those quarters, how much impor-
lance she attached to this move on
the chessboard. and how intimately
it was connected with the general
scheme which she had marked oct
for herself
The contrast between Germany ami
Great Britain has been the contras st
between trained and scientific ma
ton and an unframed and unsclen-
tifc one. Germany had made mill
tary survey Of the whole situation
before the war began. and she has
developed her campaigns on a regu-
lar and scientifis basis. with view
always to getting that fatal under
hold on her British antagonist. Great
Britain has been fighting gallantiy,
but in haphazard, happy go-lucky
style. with scarcely any broard science
or provision. rarely anticipating Ger
many's next move, doing the wrong
thing first, or doing the right thing
too late.
Her national supremacy trembles
in the balance. The next two or three
months may decide her fate.