Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-27
CONTENT
TO AWAIT RESULTS
Their Armies Do Not Depend on
Sensational Victories for
Ultimate Success.
LIVES BEING CON SERVED
People Convinced That Only
Time, Is Necessary to Bring
Defeat Of Germany.
LIVES BEING CONSERVE
BY GEORGE DUFREsNE.

abroad are busy telling the people Of
the Few remaining neutral countries
that the people of France are beginning
TO snow considerable Impotence be-
cause the results of the French Of
fcnsive. of which so MUCH had been ex-
pected, do not come up to the general
expectation that by July the Germans
would have been driven out of France
and Belgium. and that the war from
now on would be conducted entirely on
German soil as far as her western
front is concerned
Nothing could be less in accordance
with truth. Every intelligent French
man feels that had General Joffre
wanted to make the sacrifice of tens
of thousands of French lives all along
the lines. the Germans might now be
on the defensive on the other side the
Rhine, but France would have been
weakened by the loss OF blood for years
to come. There is no necessity of this
FRENCH DO NOT DEPEND
ON SENSATIONAL VICTORIES
1t has repeatedly been emphasized
that the French military system unlike
the German. does not depend on SEN
sational rapid Successes TO make final
victory certain. This was evident even
before the entry of Italy into the war
and II is more than ever evident now
so evident in fact, that the few pcssi-
mists that existed in France have now
grown less in number, while the num-
Der Of German pessimists is rapidly
increasing.
The German military leaders know at
the present moment that the time Is
past when they will have a surplus of
troops TO send from the French TO the
Russian front and vice versa.
few weeks ago a dying German
officer. who was being treated In a
French hospital and whose wife had
been prevented by the German military
authorities from coming to his bedside
before he died. told his nurses that all
France had TO do was to hold on for
three months longer, when Germany
would have TO sue for peace because
she would be short of ammunition.
Nobody here has been inclined to
attach too much Importance to this
testimony Of dying man embittered
against the German military authori-
ties because they refused his last wish
but there are other symptoms indi-
eating that Germany is approaching
the beginning Of the end.
For some time the German govern
ment has ceased publishing it's official
casualty lists, undoubtedly because the
losses in Poland and Galicia have been
SO enormous that the publication of
them might create unrest, even in a
country as we'll disciplined as Germany.
LOSSES Of GERMANS
HAVE BEEN APPALLING
What the German losses in the last
few months have been we are unable
to say, but even here on our front
where no real big battles have been
fought they have been appalling, and 1t |
has been necessary for Germany TO fill
up the gaps in her ranks with men who
have had practically no military train
ing.
This is more than mere guesswork.
4 certain German company opposed to
the French in Flanders in less than
week lost 1856 of it's 10 men, and to
take the places of the dead and wound
ed, sevcnty-fivc men were hurricdly
sent from the reserve depots in Bel
GUM.
In subsequent Aght the French
captured eleven men belonging to this
particular company. Ten of these be-
longed to the recently arrived re-en
forcements. and all Of these were Of
the unframed Landsturm. One of them
was only twenty years of age. The st
we're between twenty-siX and thirty
two. but they had all previously heen
found UNIT for military service because
OF various weaknesses.
Called to the colors in March. they
had arrived at Client in the early part
of MAY. and had very little military
training, and this by officers who had
no experience in war. Only two OF
them had ever dug trenches. and the
remainder had simply been put through
the manual of arms. and while they had
a little target practice they knew moth
ing about the use of the bayonet.
Only one of them was worthy OF be-
ing called soldier. He was a Ge
freitcr. who had been in Belgium since
November last.
Having reached the firing lines these
men Immediately came under French
artillery fire and were completely de-
moralized.
Among all the prisoners taken byi
France during the present month not
a single private has known anything
about Italy's joining the allies. except
those who had been told so by the
French in the trenches opposite their
own. These had been informed by their
officers that the news was false and
invented by the French merely to dis
courage them.
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