New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-05
Toward the End.

g Tho words of the new French Premier
IN the subject Of peace. AT single 'hIUS'
thev denohsh all the editice OF nope anu
co,6dence which German sympathlzers ana
cor,,,an statesmen have been erecting
abroad and at home. These wofoS Vi
Rr;ord are but echoed in London, and
from the Eastern front comes the report Oh
= successful Russian offensive.
Talk of peace must once more De leie-
GATED 70 the neutrals and the pacins's'
What Is now ahead is another winter Oh
any and beyond that perhaps summer
Of campaigns. France, Great Britain nus
ala are equally resolved TO persevere 70
Tho end the end visible already to their
military leaders and becoming visible 70
the whole world.
l. neace alone. early peace, has there
been any hope of German victory. "hen
Germany approached Paris her press ana
her spokesmen burst into chorus ciamor-
inc for peace. When Warsaw fell ana tne
destruction of the Cars armies seemed
certain there was the same German
clamor. Now when the door TO the Golden
Horn is swinging open there is thlrd out
burst.
The reason is not far TO seek. Outnum-
bered. Germany has so far prevailed De-
cause her smaller numbers were ready IN
ferior in resources, she has trlumphed De-
cause her lesser resources were more
promptly modified. Her victories over
France Russia and the British expedi-
tionarv army were natural consequences OF
superior preparation and more iihliie-
diately available resources.
But the conditions of ultimate German
victory were never obscure. They cannon
now be mistaken when fifteen months OF
nrosperitv have filled the world with the
splendor of German military achieve-
nent. She must win promptly she
must get the decision before her more
numerous and richer foes were prepared
ar she must detach one from the NUMBER
aud make a SEPARATE peace. In any other
set of circumstances ultimate defeat was
inevitable.
Germany has bid for decision IN Rus
STA and in France. She has sought 10
compel France and Russia TO make sepa-
rate peace. Against Great Britain she
has launched the Zeppelin and the subma-
rine. To-day she is making new threat
bv her march to Constantinople 10 all
this Paris. London and Petrograd have
made steady answers on the battlefield and
in council.
Every parallel that history supplies
noints TO German defeat. What Napoleon
attempted with France, Germany mas at
tempted without Napoleon. None OF mel
successes have been temporarily decisive
Napoleon several times disposed Of ma
lions for the time being. Yet Napoleon
lost and fell.
What the South faced in our own his
cory after Gettysburg Germany now con
fronts after the Marine and the Russian
failures. Wealth, numbers, the resources
of the neutral nations made available b!
the open sea, in addition the resources O
great and rich colonies, these are within
the grasp of the Allies. AS for Germany
British submarines in the Baltic hav
closed the last bit of open water. She i
encircled by her foes.
No one should exaggerate the meaning
of the reports of food shortage that nov
FIJI the press and come from German
sources. Germany is not yet starving, blu
the peril Of starvation, the vision of hun
ger is daily in German eyes as one NOR
article of food passes under government
regulation and some new increase in pric
reduces the food supply Of the millions.
Germany may not yet grasp the fact
Months may yet be ahead, months o
battle along the siege lines of the west ant
the east; the German offensive may reacl
Suez, conceivably overflow into Egypt
\ but the end Of the war is written in tn
declarations of Asquith and BRAND and il
the resolution of Russia written on tn
battlefield.
Americans will do we'll TO recall tina
nine months before Richmond fell Con
gress appointed day of national humilia
ton and fasting, but while the North wa
respondent Lincoln's representatives wer
refusing the terms of peace Of the Soutf
were in fact writing the death sentence o
the Confederacy.
Germany must have peace because Ger
man losses have been stupendous. In Pc
land and Galicia, in Lithuania and o
the edges of Old Russia she has expende
hundreds of thousands of lives in the val
hope Of achieving a decision. In the frs
fifteen months Of the war her permanen
losses approximate 100000. They may b
greater. More than half, and by far tn
better half, Of her available manhood ha
been used up.
Contrast with this the British loss o
Eao O00 France has lost perhaps 1000