The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-03-25
INVULNERABL
IS FORTRESS
IN The west
Germans Have, Declares a Cor
respondent, Who Visits and
Inspect the Front.

Correspondence of Associated PressO
BERLIN, Mar. 25...I have come
back from the front as convinced
Ioptimist, even II there are some
things which / cannot explain
writes correspondent of the Frank
furter Zeitung, who recently has
been making a round OF the German
trenches In Belgium and Northern:
France He was particularly inn
pressed with the work which the
German authorities have accomplish
Led in the occupied districts OF both
Belgium and#France,W where, he says,
every conceivable provision has been
made for, the time when our pow
erful army shall break over tn eebor-.
ders into the interior Of France. 4 All
the railways and roads, he observes.
have been brought to the highest Eff
t-hcIency for that objective. He con.
Etinues..
Advantageous Pause.
| 1.-The pause has been used to the
utmost advantage. The north OF
France and Belgium have been trans
formed into German border pro-
vince. twhose granaries, ammuntti on
tdepotss and bases for the provision OF
war supplies are Overlooking and
ready, at 81 gn, to send thousands
of tons to the front while the hos
lspitals and transports for the wound
ed are marvel usly organized. All
I the warlike preparations in the west
have been placed on a new and ex-t
Extraordinary strong footing.
..In many respects these prepara-
ttions surpass even our Gernansmob-s
lilization Here in the depotss you.
| feel how this preparation for Var.
I has been thought OUT in the M sts con-
tcentrated way. An unprecedented
energy is devoted to it. While greater
land greater masses OF men are being
hurled against our wall outside
with only afwave now and then
| breaking over the dam, while our
trenches are sending the storming
parties home again with bloody cost.
Tell the time our inner fortress Is
ibeing more heavily armed until the
4 signal for anew offensive can be Civ
4 en-. Kitchener's mil lions and the new
4 French army have never alarmed US,
iIalthough we must not und erestimate
them. But 1t Is one Of our cha-ac-
i3teristics to look only to the front and
to believe only in the existence OF
4 NV hat we can clearly perceive.
!. Before went to the front all ac-
counts and stories OF the war left me
unconvinced Even when passed
through the trenches In front Of
I Rheims. where the front Of the tow
Eers OF the Cath dral will star d8out al
| M ost unini ured VIXEN i walked over
! the heights that dominate Arras. that
4 junction OF Important railways and
roads: when / heard the thunder Of
Il the cannon by Yares where the
trenches are driven right up to the
4 town, I had a. lively ID sire to criti-
Ecise Why had we not held. on TO
Il these towns? We were once In them.
i Why had we not closed the gap be-
tween our light wing and the North
Sea in the days when Antwerp was
.;5being token, so that Calais and Dun
/ Kirk might now be In our possessions
THE 6Argonne and on the Marine?
Excellent Dispositions.
When began TO talk bout my
doubts and to complain, and began
to question this person and that, in
Il order to gain information to con-
vince the Philistines at home. they
fsimply put 4 map in my hands, Which
4 was marked with a blue pencil round
4 the broad plain by Rheims.
\ * was invited to regard with my
I own eyes our excel lent disp ositfons on
i the plateau which oyerlooks the
4 Aisne. was shown the crest OF the
j hill in front OF AREAS on which our
/ front leans, the Kemme her, the CEN
Ter 81 our en- my.s position IN Elan
iders. the high road In the west In
1 The Court OF East Resort
] Around the stove Of. the cross roads
|r-ocery is the real court OF last resort.
5ttfnr IT. finally over-rules all others.
4 Chamherlain's Cough Remedy has
4bean brought before this court In al;
most every cross roads grocery this
Icountry. and has always received q,