New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-03
DAYS
Carlos SaIzedo, Harpist
Quits Warfare for Music
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Player Relates rms TX
perenccs of Six Months Warfare at DoiS-'e-
Pretre with the Germans 50 Yards Away

become confused and don't know what
10 do Their officers are fine gentlemen
ard eplnndid sportsmen, but they have
not been trained for war. Probably IN
another year they viii be efficient, Dut
at present we expect from them ilttle
real aid. When we attacked NJ Arms,
i'm June. we could have taken Liile h l,.
the English supported as properly We
rained our object with comparatively
small loss. The English attacked, dled
bravely and accomplished absolutely
nothing The English give generously
Of their lives. but they have not beeh
military nation. and it will take at least
a year 70 whip them into shape,
1.-THE Germans fight brayely because
OF their iron discipline. Their eihclency
is marvellous and they are well LED. Inc
French officers consider HindenDure
great genius. They also consider ING
Crown Prince a great fool; we can
him The Clown Prince! Inc crown
Prince is. moreover, dislIked by his own
men. They consider him both arrogant
and incompetent. ~.
General Joifre is beloved by ms
army and is all-powerful IN france
Had he wished to he could have over
thrown the government, and last Oct3-
Der there was fear Of coup detat. ne
has relentlessly dismissed the Old ON
GERS and put young men IN their places
One of my friends was captain "nen
the war began. He IS now a general
And this is no exception
Nr. Salzedo then declared that the
impression in the army Is that there
never will be any general offensive.
General JofTre loves his children and
lesslv. His policy is 10 wear out the
enemy. 10 kin two Germans 70 one
Frenchman. and in this policy he has
been successful especially IN the hrSy
part OF the war, when the Germans
probably lost as high at times as FOUR
to one. myself do not believe that
either side will ever be able 10 break
through the other-the fortiicatlons
arc too strong Why. in the bois-le-
P,etre. where I was stationed, the
trenches are only fifty yards apart ana
for the last six months there hasn
been a hundred yards gain one way
or the other. General Johre would
be only too glad to have the Germans
attempt to break through. we are
now ready in every way. Our neaVy,
artillery is equal 10 the Germans ana
our light is superior. But l don't pc
lieve the Germans will be toollsn
enough 10 make the attempt though
IN 10 now their generals, unlike cen
eral Joffre. have shown an utter car
lousness as 10 the lives Of their men:
But If they keep up the past ratio o.
losses they must realize that defeat
will soon stare them in the race. 49,,
at is my opinion that the war Will
soon resolve itself into financial ana
economic struggle, during when tne
western battle lines Will remain prac-
ticallv where they have been since last
October. Both armies look with dread
TO another winter in thc trenches' put
such a winter ia in prospect. we French
are a mercurial nation and our splrit
has been wonderful; If 1T mad not
been we would have given up long ago
for no one at the beginning OF the war
expected that it would last longer thar
three months.
"Tbe week after I was discharged
from the hospital and given sick leave
Charles Dalmores. the tenor, who had
been with me in the trenches, was also
Diven sick leave. Poor Dalmores is N
terrible condition, with Assesses all
over him. Maurice Renaud IS now a
captain. and a handsome one ! can tell
YOU. I know Of no singers or musicians
who have been killed except Aiberic
,Naygnard. who was killed just before
the battle of the Marne, in defending
his house"
Mr.. Salzedo states further that the
German prisoners are splendidly treat
ed in France. though sometimes the
Frenchwomen have been unkind to them
Tronob and English prisoners in Ger
nan camps. on the other hand. he says
arc treated abominably, and though
hundreds Of German soldiers desert TO
the French. the French rarely desert to
the Germans.