Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-08-11
Germany, Russia and a Separate Pc


Whatever disappointment there may
be in Petrograd, the main fact is
not mistaken. The Romanoffs are not
more eager to bow 10 the Hohenzol-
lerns and the Hapsburgs now than
they were in July, 1914. If Russia
is utterly crushed. then she has no
choice. But when Napoleon was in
Moscow Russia received offers which
would have enabled the Russian Car
to divide the world win the French
emperor and they were rejected.
It is Germany and not Russia that
must make peace. Il is Germany and
not Russia that faces destruction II
! the work of another year of carnage
continues. Bernhard himself wrote
long before the present war that
Germany would be beaten in the great
conflict he foresaw unless she was
able to dispose of one TOE before the
other came on the field
The German people believed year
ago that France was disposed Of
They were mistaken They looked
for peace with France in early Sep
TENDER They had the French answer
at the Marine For nine months the
German general staff has been at
work on the most stupdendous and
splendid piece Of strategy the world
has ever seen. But the only posi-.
bic outcome which will satisfy Ger.
man necessities is the elimination OIL
Russia
While Germany has been holdins
on IN the west and using her re
serves, new formations, all her re
sources, with utter prodigality in thu
east, Italy has entered the war. Eng
land has got together new armies
and France has recognized he
troops and modified her industries
Germany IS not only outnumbered il
the west now, but unless Russia re
tires from the field she never car
again meet France and England mai
for man in Flanders ana Northern
France.
Patiently, Enthusiastically, Germany
Is bleeding to death. She strucl
France and France narried the blow
The western campaign cost not les
. than 100000 casualties to the Ger
mans and an equal number to the An
glo-French-Belgian armies. Her east
ern campaigns have cost 100000
, more. Germany-so rar as man pow
} er is concerned--is more than hal
done, and not one OF her foes ha
yet been crushed-unless Russia Is a
the point of yielding.
Peace alone can save Germany
peace with one Of her enemies, peac
with Russia or with France Com
, hined, France, England, Russia an
j Italy will defeat Germany as Ii,
= North defeated the South for pre-
cisely the same reasons. But at tn
! end Of the first year of the Civ
- War the showing Of the South was IN
r more impressive than Is that OF III
Z Germans now. What American
l should never mistake Is the fact thu
the Brit.6h French, RuA1lan and
e italian military leaders know thi
: The peoples Of these countries ma
l have doubts and fears, the militar
Y chiefs know the mortality statistic
q Germany cannot be defeated unit
n upward Of 100000 Germans hay
= been removed from the battle lir
q by death, capture or disability.
= Wall mean a casualty list as lars
q OF larger for the allies TO accor
h plish this. But their work Is Ia
n done. Germany has spent 1900 Oh
d men and has not won a decision.
d similar loss with o similar failu
e will mean defeat It will mean rui
IF The first crisis in the war We
n in the days when the Germans O
preached Paris. It was met by II
2 tripartite agreement If Russ
m follows the French example nov
T. the second crisis will nave end,
l. in a new German disaster, whiC
w Will not for long be concealed fro
II the German people themselves.
ID Russia yields, we shall then have I
20 problem as to whether German los
rs es in carrying Russian Poland ha
at left her permanently inferior in nul
in bers to France, England and Italy
s.? There never wa anything mo
ct certain than that Germany would L
an as Napoleon lost If she were rae
of with Napoleonic conditions. She I
as has been faced by them. she has W
b. triumphs wholly comparable W
&c those of Napoleon, but his peril
r. mains hers. His efforts in 1914 to
Is tach nations from the ranks of
ey enemies represented his last bid
o. existence. The German tactics
ed not different It remains to be 81
IS whether they will succeed; but
they fail, the end is assured.