The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-03

work of months, perhaps Of ycare.
3 TO accomplish this millions of men
may have to die as upward Of 1000.
600 have already per'~hcd. Rut The
/ sacrifice of German life is not merely
an immediate loss IT Is "A victory for
| England induStrally. while every
month that the German flag Is ban
ished from the sea. neutral aud Bri,-
ish shipping lays now hold upon the
conGucstS Of Germany I'm peace
No sign Of wankcnlnp.
For Germany there remains the
possibility thai her enemies viii tire.
that the people of the hostile cou:.
/ tries will grow weary of thC blood
price of conquest before her own
! But not yet mas there been any
where the slightest sign Of IT, On
the contrary, in France. IN Great
Britain. in Russia the same spirit is
unmistakabic, the determination To
have done for all time with the Ger
man peril. with German rivalry. -
crush Germany as the North cru>h,I
/ the South If need he. Rheims. Lon
vain. Scarborough. these are watch.
words Of the Western nations who
! are lighting Germany and Russia
finds her driving power alike IN the
! Pan-Slav spirit and in the realization
that predominance in Europe and
possession at the Golden Horn are
The visible rewards of victory in adj
dition to the title TO Austrian prov
iuces now occupied.
. As the seventh month opens there
j. nowhere the smallest Sign NJ peace.
With all her real successes Germany
has won nothing approaching de-
ciSivc victory. What her enemies have
suffered is to them but an incentive To
fresh effort. new sacrifice. greater
struggle. So far aS man can now see
Ia'i that has happened has been little
more than prelude to the real strug-
gle that Is TO come when General
February shall have followed Marshal
January of the battlehelds and cam
paigns are again possible.
With the spring It is conceivable
that Germany will he able to make
one more bid for conquest. II is more
likely. as the Kaiser is reported to
have said recently. that she will stand
on the defensive, content herself with
the holding Of what she has won and
make the price Of allied advance 81
terrible as TO "stagccr humanity"
make the Allies turn Belgium and
northern France into blackened
wastes. into desert places by their
struggles 10 rescue them. The victory.
Marshal Won Hindenburg assured the
world months ago. would he 10 the
strongest nerves, ana German nerves
are as yet mistaken.
In the military sense half year Of
war has only decided the question Of
whether Germany could crush France.
Russia and England before they could
unite forces. She failed at the Marine.
and with that failure her chance
passed. All that has happened since
has been proof of how terrible the
task will he to defeat Germany and
regain what she took in the early
months Of the war. SO far the Allies
have failed utterly in their attempts
Ia do this since the Germans took
their stand behind the Aisne. From
September II to February the ad-
ynnces and retreats in the West have
been fairly equal, thc lines but lIt.lc
changed, and as frequently to Ger
man as to allied advantage
In these six months German loss
has been placed MS high as 1000 900
killed. wounded and captured, the
Russian ut more rather than less,
France and Austria have lost more
than a million each, Belgium and
Servia together more than Il quarter
Of Il million and England more than
10000. What is most appalling
about this loss is the fact that il
represents no actual progress toward
peace, The ranks have been closed
mp ana more millions are waiting. If
any contestant is ready for peace,
save poor beaten Austria. there i
still no proof, and Austria cannot
even make peace herself now.
With far greater prospects of sue
cess than Germany has. Napoleon
failed 10 conquer Europe, but with Il
nation no more completely united
than Germany he kept up the fight
for IL decade, and It was not until
1914 that the enemy reached the
frontiers Of his empire. He failed
in the end because there was reused
against him the national spirit OF
the countries opposing him. The
same spirit Is abroad in Europe to.
day. More and more the contest
comes to resemble that OF n century