Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-10-20
Wednesday, October 20, 1915,
BLEEDING GERMANY WHITE.

BLEEDING GERMANY WHITE
The war has resolved itself into mere competition in
slaughter. Territorial gains amount to little
The Germans, though triumphant in Russia have failed
their objective they did crush Russian
army destroy the Russian morale and their strategic
failure emphasized by fact that the Russians are
now generally taking the offensive again.
The Germans have likewise failed strategicaly in the
west because the French British armies are holding
their own with good promise of doing than
that
Germany has turned southwark in what looks like her
supreme effort strike decisive blow. If she can do
in the Balkans what could not do in Russia and
France-crush the armies that block her progressshe
might concevably dictate favorable peace.
But even that is far from certain For in the south
in the East and West Germany has to face the tragic
fact OF iufeuority OF manpower And though she
may sweep ,trumphantly through to Constantnople if
the Allies do not lose their nerve may prove Pyrrhic
victory for Germany. She AFFORD the human cost
Of it, If in breaking a way through the Balkans she
trades for She loses That the inescapable
truth that faces her every battle front.
AT the beginning Germany and Austria with 115OOOOOo
people challenged 235OOOOOO making the numerical adds
TWO to against them. The addition of Turkey tho
Central Powers and Italy the Triple Alliance has
left the odds about the Bulgaria may the
scale temporarily little even, but Greece or Ru
mania may Offset her
Even granting that the Germanic allies raise q
larger percentage of soldiers from their population than
their enemies can the odds are sti overwhelming Sup
pose The effective Of soldiers ultimately available
for the Allies only is four the Teutons three,
ucmely moderate estimate Suppose both sides lose
equally a supposition which isn't far from the truth
Then, when The Allies have onefourth Of their troops
the ratio becomes three two. When the Allies hav,
lost another fourth, the odds against tho
Germans. That process should insure the Allies victor
with mathematical certainty if the Allies simply han,
together and fight doggedly. To them. srateg,
has become simply matter Of killing Germans The,
must kim and kin until the German and Austrian nation
"bled white" Then with the Teutonc power Of
sistence gone the question lost territory will soly
itself
Up to October l. the Prussan losses estimated b,
the Dutch press to be nearly 100000 men That would
about 100000 for all Germany without reckonin
tha Austrian and Turkish Some of these losse
arc cancelled by the Of wounded the front
but the percentage is small.
o The and Austrian reserves are nearly an
hausted. It has been difficult assemble the army
for The Balkan Invasion That army is already meetin'
with terrific losses. Meanwhile the wastage of
necessarily along the 700 miles of the Russian from
and the 800 miles of the western front.
Day after day week after week month after month th
strength Of the mighty nation is draining
And the Allies continue their "nibbling"
vaster scale Apparently they trying to breal
through and roll up the German Hnes--yet They
baterng the lines the counteratack
then moving them down.
That can't last forever There are enough Ges