The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-10-02
GERMAN PRESS SAYS
LINES WILL HOLD
Declare That, While Great and Pain
ful Loeses May BE Suffered. At
Hackers VIII BE Beaten.
WILL ALL COME no GRIEF.
Ultimate Aim Of Allies, II Is Asserted,
Will BE Frustrated BY Preparations
Made and Precision of Troop
Movement.

j ne great alarm felt over the allies
/ successes in the west is manifested by
editorial expressions in paper.
throughout the empire. Despite the
efforts of semi official organs to mini
mize the losses 1t Is felt certain that
deep impression has been created
by the huge preparation which pre-
coded the allies attack.
The Tageblatt remarks that moth
( ing would be more foolish than to
overlook the terrible seriousness of
the recent battles in the west and
admits that the definite results of
the fighting now going on there may
decide the whole war.
The Strassburger Post says: We
must not underestimate the bravery
! OF the adversary referring to the
losses unhappily have been very
heavy, notably In prisoners. In
. trench warfare captures are unavoid-
/ able when men remain to the end.
/ 1t Is not Yet known whether the
French figures are exact but they
may be correct. Our losses are pain
full, but we will be compensated by
the results.
Making Formidable Attempts.
The koenische Zetung voicing the
| official view. says editorially:
Our enemies in the west are maxi
T ing forrftda BITE attempts after months
OF preparation to pierce the German
front We must not be surprised.
/ therefore, If at isolated sections they
succeeded in pushing back the de-
tenders into second-line trenches The
Importance Of the successes achieved
/ by our adversaries Is not at all COM
mensurate with the sacrifices they en-
/ tailed
| Between the Anglo-French pierre
/ ing attempts in Flanders and in the
! Champagne and the Germa Aus
/ trian penetration in Galicia the con-
trast- now becomes very marked. Our
| piercing movement on far wider
/ front succeeded at the first attempt
| while the French and British, after
many days of fighting. only contrived
| to become masters OF a few import
| No Decisive Success.
| Everywhere else they were driven
/ back with tremendous losses. Our
! foes, of course, would have liked best
| to be able to boast OF real decisive
success. Such success, however. Is
/ very improbable as by now their 1ni-
| tiative squirt has no doubt been
played out
we may depend as heretofore on
| the toughness and endurance of our
! brave troops"
The same paper publishes a dis
| patch from its correspondent in Ber-
/ lin saying in part:
I'VE may be sure there fights kill
continue with great violence for sew
/ eral days longer. but their final aim
| cannot be regarded as having already
! been brought to grief Our lines
stand firm everywhere. Reserves have
arrived punctually wherever there
were critical points on our front. sc
We can contemplate with absolute
calm the further developments of the
fights. OF course, these fights are o.
a serious kind, but our brave troop.
will defeat all efforts OF the enemies
The Frankfurter Zeitung says
! What difference between Gorlice and
Tarnow and the battle In the west Ir
| the former case the Germans broke
| through the Russian lines az they
pleased. They fixed the hour ant
the place.
Gan Initiate SheIls---Not Men.
I'm the west on the contrary. the
I British and French remained sus
pended as soon as they emerged from
the area which had been desolated b,
the explosive force of their shells
/ i nat the uSElSlNe uIltcTeGCt iHel
can initiate our shells. but they can.
not initiate our men.
There Is not the least occasion fol-
anxiety The German lines in thu
west are so firm, no enemy can break
through them no matter how much
ammunition of his own manufacture
or ammunition purchased from kline
neutrals he may like to waste.
Nor will our enemies succeed ir
delaying by their furious attack II
the west the decision in the Balkans.
The Leipsiger Neueste Nachrightol
says:
There can be no doubt about 1t
The new offensive. of Joffre an6
French has begun. the chieftains o,
the Basutos. the Gurkhas, Senegalest
and Zulus having at length consented
to lend their valuable assistance tc
the adventurous enterprise. 1t is pos
sible, that the start has been made
that the intention Of Joffre really tt
attack along the whole front thus may
attain the object of his longings and
that battle on the Rhine in the I'm
mediate future will decide.
kitchcner's Paper Armies.
"One thing is certain. The time
for the most violent combats, per
haps the time of the final decision o.
/
has reserved victory for the Germans
He will cause the strength OF the
French army and nation to be utter
ly exhausted and the spirit of the PEG
pie to become so depressed that al
the paper armies OF Kitchener will
be unable to hold them In the belize
of ultimate victory.
Our enemies are again, as they
have been since the war began, hope
lessly out OF their reckoning, Nov
that half the world has sent then
her colored sons they think them
selves far superior to the Germans
1t Ia a bloody error. as they will find
to their cost in the hour or days o.
perhaps weeks OF record breaking
greatness that are before u.s."
Toronto Boycotts Ford.
Toronto. Oct. Toronto ha
closed ita door against any fyYrthal