The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-09
WAR ECHOES

Dr. Ivan Yovitchevitch. in the American Review of Reviews for March: No con clude then, we can say with certainty that the Russians and their allies have the best of it, and that this terrible struggle will end in the complete de- feat of Germany and Austria-Hungary. And what will be the result? The out come of the present war may be con ceived thus:
 l. Russia will expand at the expense or Austria Hungary, will annex Galicia, and will demand from Turkey the occupation of Cunstantinople and part of Asia Minor.
 g. France will regain her two former provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. 3. England will be benefited by gaining possession of the German colonies, as well as u part of Asia Minor.
 4. Belgium will receive as recompense for her stoic resistance the Duchy of Luxemburg.
 5. The two kindred kingdoms of Servia and Montenegro will receive as a reward for struggle not less stoical, the two Austrian provinces peopled by the Serb raca.
 G. Italy as a reward of her neutrality would receive the provinces of Austria Hungary inhabited by Italians.
 :. Roumania for the same reason would receive Bukovina, an Austrian province peopled largely by Roumanians.
 As to Turkey, which has been dragged
 into the war by German political intrigue, she will be erased from the map as an independent country. It will be the same with Albania, for her inhabitants, who are in a state of perpetual anarchy. can not long exist as an independent people.
 This, then, is my view of the condi- tions that will be imposed upon the con- queced. Perhaps changes may be even greater, for it is possible that Austria Hungary. like Turkey, may cease to ex- ist as an independent empire. Nor Is It inconceivable that certain provinces might be snatched from Germany, as for example German Poland. But here you have in few words my opinion of the actual situation now existing in Europe, and my predictions for the future.
 New York Herald In view of the some- what sudden cessation of submarine ac- tivities in the new war zone theoretical ly established by the Germans, many questions are asked as to the proved ef- ficiency and the probable remaining num- be. of this war type the Kaiser has at his disposition. To begin with, little has been heard of the British submarine fo- tillas, while the Germans have had, or have made, more opportunities, for they have sunk at least nine of the enemy s ships of war and have operated with such effect at long distances from their bases that traffic between the islands and the continent have at times been in- terrupted. Most important of all, per- haps, tho possibility of their entrance into the final stage of the action off the Dagger banks prevented the British push ing fomo the victory following the de- struction of the Butcher.
 On the other hand, German submarines have not interfered in the least degree ish soldiers to the continent. While the extent of their losses Is unknown, it is also certain that some have been sunk, and it is beyond question that many of their attempts have failed and that in several instances, even when their tor pedoes have got home on the target, the attacked ships have been able to reach ports Of refuge.
 So far as the number of German sub marines fig concerned not more than 50 were on hand, built or building at the out break of the war, and of these only 36 were Immediately available. Assuming that the earlier types had only limited radius of action, not more than IS can be set down as belonging to the class of first importance. Necessities of replenish- ment Of stores, fuel and torpedoes and of recruitment of the crows probably would limit the number actively engaged at one time over fairly long distances to a possible 10, and this surely is a meager array to carry forward the hypothetical blockade of the area included in the Ger man manifesto.