Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-08-13
WITH POLAND's CAPITAL
FALLEN, WHAT NEXT?
GERMANS MAY TURN WEST IN THE
DIRECTION OF CALAIS OR PARIS.


captured by the Teutonic allies whs
are the German forces going to do i
the west, in France and Belgium? TIL
Daily Mail says the enemy is now fire.
to move some two millions of hi
forces in the east, leaving two mil
lions to act on the defensive agains
the weakened Russian armies The in
terest in the problem concerns thu
employment of these two million men
They might, as German strategists
have suggested be employed in coerc-
ing Roumania, selling Bessarabia and
occupying Odessa. In this way Ger
many can join hands with Turkey
through the Black Sea and aid Turkey
in striking at the British in the Dard
anelles, or in Egypt. Suez as an OBJ
session with Germans is only second
in importance to Calais.
They may, as the Austrians doubt
less desire, be employed in finally
smashing the Serbians, hacking a
way" to Salonica ,intimidating Bu:-
garia, and thus joining hands with
Turkey and aiming at Suez by another
route. The objections to such a cam
paign are, however, strong. The roai
and railway communications in Ser
bia are not good for a very large army
and small army would risk defeat.
Bulgaria, though she does not love
Serbia, loves Germany still less, and
the brave and devoted Bulgarian ma
ton has no wish to become the min
ion of the All-Highest, after shaking
of the tyranny of the Sultan. Greece
would stand to lose Salonica and all
the fruits of her sacrifices.
1t is not at all probable that any
offensive on vast scale will be at
tempted against Italy. The mountain
region on the italian frontier is Of
such difficult formation that millions Of
men could not deploy there, and could,
indeed do little more than modest de-
tachments are accomplishing at pres
emit.
The probabilities point rather to the
use of these masses in another great
attack in the west, either in the direc-
ton of Calais, or in final effort
against Paris. Count Recentlow, who
VIGOROUSLY represents Admiral Til
pitt, who again is notoriously powerful
at German headquarters, has said that
everything depends on the capture OF
the French shore of the Channel,
which, he has persuaded himself, lis
of enormous and vital value to Great
Britain"
Once at Calais the Germans would
be able to lombard considerable
part of Kent with their long-range
naval guns, and would also render the
passage of the channel risky in clear
weather by day. Their airship and
submarine attacks would be greatly
facilitated. They would have bases
for invasion should an opportunity
for it offer They would be in a posi-
ton to strike blows at Great Britain
herself and to vent their hatred upon
her people. Calais, therefore, seems
rather more probable as their goal
than Paris or any other point II
would not be surprising if they de-
1ivered their attack in the portion or
front between Armentieres and A.
ras. where, if successful, they would
not only pierce the allied front anu
divide the allied forces, but would also
have every prospect of capturing
large part of the French coast on tue
channel, including LIE Touquet'
Etaples Boulogne and Berck Plage'
as we'll as Calais and Dunkirk.
Wherever they attack we may De
certain that it will be with the most
furious violence and with every de-
vice known to man and to the deVllish
ingenuity of their engineers. Air tor
pedoes, Zeppelins, armoured battle
Aeroplanes, poisonous gases, Will all
he called in to aid the monster guns
and bowitzers which will be brought
to bear, not by the half dozen put OS
hurdreds upon the selected points G.