The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-12-03
GERMAN SUCCESSES
HAVE REACHED Crest
while Teu.ons Grow Weaker, AL
lies Grow Stronger-Pichon
Reviews the War.

France. to turn back Russia, to hum
bIc Great Britain, and to become mis-
srcss of the west.
How, then. does she stand after
rnore than Is months of Infatuated
struggle, after her desperate efforts
in Belgium, in Flanders, in Lorraine
IN Poland, in Galicia, in Courland
She has not beaten down France, she
has not vauquished Russia, she has
moi hnmbled Britain and she has
never been further from becoming
mistress of the west.
AS set-off she has effected a
ShjRful diplomatic maneuver in the
kiaIhans, and she has successfully
prosecuted military maneuvers. She
hns MP to the present preserved Aus
IRA from Russian invasion. She has
saved the narrows of the Dardanelies
which guard Constantinople, where
ber emperor should shortly arrive,
and put her hand on the east where
fer great while she has had her
dream of Moslem domination.
Let us look squarely at the posi-
sion and on the factors favorable
sn the German cause. Let us note
ssso those which are sources of weak
Dcss TO it, and ask ourselves what
viii he the upshot Of the cataclysm
which it pleased the emperors of Ber-
Yin and Vienna to let loose on the
world The time is opportune to
ash ourselves these perplexing ques-
tions and to throw all possible light
ON q situation which cannot be al
bowed 10 be in the least obscure.
The advantage that Germany can
bope To reap from her eastern sue
es-zE are far from making up for her
Give her neither Paris nor Calais, nor
Moscow nor Petrograd. They leave
rntooched the problems presented in
Britain, France. Belgium. and Rus |
ssIa- Their value is mainly one of
T-ss,-T,l effect. which must not be de- !
SpLsed- for the conquest of the Bal !
n0p1e are mOmentous events. But /
they will decide nothing in the prin-
ssp.iI theater of war, the only theater
where there can be a decision. They /
can BE- Il menace to certain French
CIR british possessions. They can
furnish a reserve of men for certain
centuries which are far from easy
One may perhaps say far from reason
able The kaiser will find them a
vain glorious penache (plume), a
theatrical setting.
So at the end of the second en-
pire, giiitered Gen. Boum in operet-
tas, which were the rage Of Paris.
There is more resemblance than one
vsnla think between William III and
Zen. s,p,In.
~; for the weakness which her east
.r1 aGss Itures entails on Germany.
they siar6 MS i'll the face. Not with !
Irp1nity Goes the Prussian general 8
stac extend its military operations .
uyer so many fronts. 1t made a fine
hcyi1l,iHy in the war. with admirable ,
with immense re-
source' with troops perfectly train
ri, guh ineXhaustible munitions and /,
l;mii'cEs assurances. 1t is today ,
with -insurmountab,e diff !
ra:siss
GpTis.g rs armies have beer deci- G
'ns,s.1i. her recruits are not equal by '
\ great deal to those of the first @
months of the war. her resources are I
much diminished, her munitions have
40 longer the quality and quantity v
Whit gave them marked supriority. v
md her faith in her ultimate triumph I
s dead. r
To continue in these conditions Y
ne campaign on ell the old fronts [
IN stretch it on new, to fight from
ke North Sea TO the Baltic, from s
be- Mediterranean to the Black Sea, n
rom the Adriatic to the Bosphorous, n
ADd from the Caucasus to the Suez |
Aoai--ihat is destiny which must \
i've pause to think even to those
'tratcgists who are least inclined to a
hrirE from the most disconcerting d
h
- is more than doubtful if oven the
1oOd OF the statue of Hindenburg Il
SOuld not be in some little degree Ii
EnpT esscd, and the famous wood of h
he horse OF Troy would be found big b
Tough for Surreptitious conveyance c.
MIR 80 many places of all the forces q
necessary for conquest. {,
ygSile Germany thus spends itself q
y the parsuit of impossible victory. "
craase pne. cannot obtain victory in
q large number of regions. the al q
ies take counsel together and in
reasc IN strength. Britain, as the