The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-11-13

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building defenses and bringing up
guns and supplies. although they
have engaged in some battles and in
conjunction with the Serbians have
achieved, if reports from Athens be
true, a valuable victory at Perlepe.
1t is announced that Lord Kitchen
err, who has not been at the war Of
fee for several days, has gone on an
important mission to the near east.
As Kitchener is not a diplomat, it is
reasonable to assume that his object
is to investigate the Balkan and OAR
danelles situations and decide wheth-
er it will pay the Allies to weaken
their forces in France to fight de-
cisively on those fronts. If the AL
lies determine to abandon the cam
paigns in the Balkans and on the
Gallipoli peninsula they will gain
some advantages and suffer some
considerable disadvantages.
First of all they must give up hope
of opening the Dardanelles and get
ting supplies to Russia, but this dis
advantage is not fatal, inasmuch as
Russia is being supplied from Vladi-
vostock and Archangel. In the Sec
ond place the Allies must surrender
Serbia and Montenegro to the Teu-
tons. Moreover, they must expect
the Turks and the Teutons to send
bigger armies against the Russians
in the trans-C aucasia, against the
English at the Suez canal and in
Mesopotamia.
The chief advantage for the Allies
would be that they could conduct a
concentrated offensive against the
Germans in France and would not be
under the necessity of supplying per-
haps a l 200, 900 men in the rear east
over a long line of communication
through the Mediterranean. At the
same time they would be able CON-
pletely to dominate the Mediterran-
can and Aegean seas with their war
ships. Norisit unreasonable to sup
pose that the Allies might then be
able to invade Germany by an ex-
petition sent into the Baltic. The
German fleet is still in the way. but
the French and English n~avies, with
the aid of the Russian navy. might
be able to take complete control OF
the Baltic and still have enough ships
to dominate the North sea. Already
the English are creating havoc in the
Baltic with their submarines. A
Baltic expedition. however, is un-
likely, as it presents tremendous diff
culties with which the Allies seem
unprepared to cope.
On the other front it cannot be said
that the Teutons have Jared well. In
France they recaptured the hill OF
Tahure. which the French took from
them ten days or two weeks ago, but
the French still hold the city of Ia
hure. A number of German attacks
have broken down before the French
artillery fire, but it is equally true
that several French attempts to ad-
vance have failed.
In Italy the publicity bureau which
has been so efficient since the out
break of the war. has been very
thrilling in its descriptions of the
wonderful offensive of the Roman
legions. AS usual, the Italians are
about where they started. And yet
such a statement of their movements
minimizes what they have accom-
piished since the beginning of their
attacks last May. AS a matter OF
fact, the Italians have made more
progress than any of their Allies. but
like their Allies they have failed to
gain a decisive advantage at any
point. The Austrians have conduct
ed a strictly defensive campaign and
have succeeded in preventing their
foe from capturing any fortified
point of crucial importance. The
Italians continue to be fertile in pre-
dictions. however, and every day OF
two we read that the fall of Goritza
or Trent is imminent.