The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-01-08
Report Says Jotfre Now Plans
to Garry War Into Germany.
GALLIENI TO LEAD FORCES.
The Object 10 to Bring Horrors Home
to kaiser's Subjects, While Cities Will
Be Ransomsd and His Troops Com.
PEELED to Withdraw From the North.
Fsverish Haste In Preparation.

The invasion Of upper Alsace, com
bined with a south to north movement
along the Rhine. it Is learned on the
most trustworthy authority. is the
foremost feature of the French plan
to carry the war into Germany. says a
London correspondent.
The present French activity in upper
Alsace and the Vosges and the bonn
bardment Of the Metz forts-of which
nothing has been said oficially-are
the first steps in the great scheme,
but the general offensive will come
soon. when the French armament max
ers have given the army a clear su-
periority in heavy guns.
A captain deputy on fifteen days
leave from the east to attend the brief
meeting of parliament in Paris said in
the Hobbies Of the chamber of deputies:
More quickly than is generally be.
lieved We shall strike a swift and
deadly blow ut Germany from the
southeast of the battle line.
General Joffre declares he could
end the war by the early spring If the
re-~enforcements of 10000 900 troops
from England could be put in the field
at once. But as their training Is not
complete that is out Of the question.
Nevertheless Joffre means to give the
Prussians. Wurttembergers and Bava.
rians a taste of military invasion be-
fore many weeks have passed."
A ThreefoId Object.
The new plan, which has been work
ed out in detail since the deadlock on
the Aisne and In Flanders was estab
Iished. is designed with the triple OBJ
ject of bringing home to the German
people the horrors Of war, ransoming
cities near the Rhine and
forcing the kaiser to withdraw his
troops from the north.
The allies original plan for clearing
france and Flanders was based on the
assumption that the Muscovite army
would rout Won Hindenburg in Poland
and thus make the German retreat in
the western theater Of the war q stra.
tegical certainty.
Wnen. however. it was realized Won
was capable Of holding up
the Russians in Poland for an indeh.
mite period the French general staff
was confronted with the problem of
devising a powerful offensive move
In the west.
or the two alternatives OF strikin-
the Germans violently all along the
inc or throwing an army across the
Rhine near Fribourg. General .Joffrp
selected the latter because It is more
likely to succeed and will cost fewer
lives.
General Gallieni, the present military
governor of Paris. will m the
forces which will make the attempt
and which will be called the army of
the Rhine.
II he succeeds Gallieni will be made
a marshal Of France. not because his
work will necessarily be finer than that
already accomplished by Generals
Foch. De Castelnau. Dubail and 9th.
ers. but because he will have fulfilled
the tacitly formulated army regulation
which came into force after the 1870
war that future French marshals must
flsh up their batons in the Rhine.
simultaneously the same dignity-a
is a dignity. not a rank
would be conferred on .Joffre.
Rapidly Pushing Preparations.
Meanwhile preparations for the
coup are being pushed ahead with
haste. Thousands Of workers
have been withdrawn tom the trench
rs and garrisons and sem to the great
armament factories OF Creusot and
schneider for the intensive manufac-
Of guns.
1t Is also II positive fact that 10000
are employed at Creusot's
building light transportable
Iron bridges. which will be thrown
across the Rhine for the French army
to pass over the river.
l also learn from Il creditable mill.
tary source, continues the correspond.
ent. that the French are making n
heavy siege gun which will eclipse
l\rupp's famous seventeen inch NOR