Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1915-04-08

LONDON, March 81. Correspond
ence Of the Associated Press. --
The ninth and tenth instalments OF
the French official review of the war,
winch IN previous chapters has dealt
win the German effort, the using M
OF German troops and officers and
the material and moral wastage of
inc German army, deal respectively
with military supplies and the con
cluslons OF the war UP to date as fol
lows, by the writer
Under the caption. the scarcity of
primary material for projectiles," the
review points out that the chief eA-
pianation of the imperfections noted
IN the German prOjectiles is to be
found IN the bad quailty OF the pri-
mary material. II declares there Is Il
terrible scarcity OF rubber" and that
still more serious Is the scarcity OF
copper, which Is Indispensable for Tie
manufacture Of shells and munitions"
The same condition, II is asserted,
holds true Of salt petre and OF the
nitrates necessary Tor It's manulac-
cure.
The review then deals at grea,
length and presents tables and quo
tations from German writer's to prove
the scarcity OF food supplies, within
the empire. 1t says:
1T has been observed on several
occasions that the revictuallying of
the German army has not been as
regular as that OF the French. In the
case of the battle of the Marne ana
in the weeks which followed the Ger
man prisoners were famished and de-
clared they had eaten nothing for sew
eral days"
In the tenth and last installment
the writer proceeds to draw his con.
clusions which he places under four
heads, as follows:
THE bearing OF the German defeat;
the bearing OF the French success"
the three French superiorities," and
tho offensive faith of the French
army"
The Bearing Of the German Defeat.
Under this caption he SAYS: "Of
the events of which an abridged re-
cital has now been completed, 1t re-
mains to appraise the results OF these
six months of war and to define the
possibilities which those results have
in store for us in the further opera
tiOns. II may first Of all be affirm
ed that the fundamental plan of the
German general staff has completely
failed. This plan has been super
abundantly set forth by German mil
itary writer's as also in the reich
stag by the ministers of war. 1t aim
ed at crushing France by an over
whelming attack and at reducing her
to condition OF helplessness in less
than a month.
Germany has not succeeded in
this. Our army is, as We have seen,
not only intact, but strengthened,
full of trust in It's leaders and pro-
foundly premeated with the certainty
of final success. Germany has not
attained then the essential object
which is publicly set before it. But
the defeat which she has sustained
does not apply to her fundamental
plan. 1t extends also to the various
operations which she had essayed to
secure partial advantage over US in
default of the decisive advantage in
which she had failed.
''To sum up, the German general
staff has placed upon its record since
the beginning of the campaign, apart
from the failure OF its general plan,
which aimed at the crushing OF
France in q few weeks-seven de-
feats of high significance. namely, de-
feat Of the sudden attack on Nancy,
defeat of the rapid march on Paris,
defeat of the development of our left
in August, defeat of the same envelop-
ment in November. defeat of the at
tempt to break through our center in
September, defeat of the coast attack
on Dunkirk and Calais, and the de-
feat of the attack on Ypres.
THE German army, powerful and
courageous as 1t may be, has there
fore succeeded in gaining the advant-
age upon no single point and it's
forced halt after six monthe of war
condemns it to a retreat. the pace of
which may be accelerated by the Rus
sian successes, but the necessity of
which is now foregone conclusion
independently of those successes"
The Bearing Of the French Successes.
Against the extent of German de-
feats has to be placed that OF the
French success. All that our enemies
have failed to gain we have gained.
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