Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-07-30
Bg WILLIAM PHILIP s1MMs

Bv WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
PARIS, July 9o-one year ago tomor-
II. ,he general mobilization order was
...,sd in France calling the men to the
'..ors This was war. Today her lead
=, consider the crisis passed and that
r,iory is only question of time.
rbe Minister of War, M. Alexander
raicrand, has announced that the Ger
~ offensive is broken and that the
ssfensive soon will be. Prime Minister
1 asne yiviani, in an interview granted
4, declared German resources in money
I'd supplies to be in bad way. and NJ
victor Augagneur, Minister of the Navy,
sts told me that Germanys submarine
N cannot have any effect on the final
hsae.
france, therefore, is confident, but not
sv,ftonfdent. She realizes that there is
Nj mach work to be done. She argues,
however, that II Germany, with her fy-
ibe start and an army in the pink of
ambition and at it's maximum strength,
could not shatter the French army,
s,ught off its guard by "brusk at
rck." the Kaiser's forces are helpless
now For not only has France recovered
rom that sudden first blow when she
sood alone to receive 1t, but is filter
row than at the start of the war. The
English are daily increasing In number
and the Russian avalanche is considered
lnsxhaustible.
QUESTION OF TIME.
Any Frenchman or Frenchwoman will
len you 1t is only question of time.
france has astonished the world by her
liaying qualities. by her unanimity of.
I.r ~.
Here are some of her deeds during the
frst year of the war:
She accomplished her own solidarity.
She frustrated Germanys original plan
u campaign.
she won the victory of the Marne, saw
hg Paris.
She defeated the German attempt to
AXE Dunkirk, Calais, Boulogne and other
English Channel ports.
She forced the Germans to accept either
liirsment from France and Belgium or a
winter campaign in trenches
she completed the reorganization of her
amy under way when war caught her.
She made an army OF individuals, tenn
pessmentalists and thinkers into an army
q tenacious veterans, two-to-one more
Efficient than at the outset of the war.
She banlshed the ghost of 1870.
She learned to fight as the other fellow
ishis, by burrowing.
shs retook part of Alsace. her lost
proFince.
she stopped the Crown Prince at
ierdun.
she held Nancy, the eastern gate to
she created heavy artillery. lacking at
& start.
She ouetad ,btrt,.r, -. -
lck OF the line and sent them to the
tnches, and brought out of the trenches
eehanics. engineers and others needed
y war material factories.
she sent large eXpeditionary force to
e Dardanelles.
She bottled the Austrian fleet in the Ad-
luc Just as England bottled the German
et at Kiel, keeping the Mediterranean |
len.
FINANCES ALL RIGHT.
she successfully launched all war
lancial measures.
she abolished absinthe and put other
loxicants under control.
she provided for the families of soldiers.
ne cared for her own refugees and
ovided homes and nourishment for Bel
ms.
ne placed women in mems jobs and
pt the economic life of the country
ing.
ihe kept calm despite invasion of
territory; backed her soldiers with "A
nen1, toiling, united citizenry; and,
leh to her credit. has yet to utter the
q word Of criticism against any one of
I allies.
rance was never 30 calm as now. She
suifered-and is still suffering cruelty
lut she has not complained. Her feeling
na TOO deep for outward show. this re-
aing little-lSnown trait of the French.
edging by what France has accom-
shed during the first year of the war
by her present deadly calm, the
Ners OF Central Europe haze a hot time
store for them during the second year
ne war which begins Sunday.