The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-21
(By Associn,ed pres.A

| Neiinah ATHlleS In france, Jan. 10
via London. Jan. 20-"More OF suci
offensive treferring ID the present Of
fensive operations OF the Allies) can
! only be welcome to usr
THE British are good fighters, but
an army without the necessary Off.
GERS and non-commissioned officers is
scarcely an army"
| We are fully prepared f3r any at
tempt at landing in Belgium. the
sooner II comes the tetter.v
There nrv phrases. full Of quiet
optimism. of Lieutenant General IsrIc
Won Falkenhayn. the German minister
| OF war and chief Of stan of German
armies in the field. who today granted
The Associated Press the first inter-
view given any correspondent.
The general talked frankly of the
military operations and the prospects
! OF the war, which he does not expect
will be short one.
General Won Faulkenhnyn is the
man responsible, under the emperor
for the strategy in the great world
war. He is the youngest of any of the
leaders of the European armies, with
a tremendous capacity for hard, con-
| centrated work.
He is at his desk In an old French
government building, which houses
the German general staff. from dawn
until late at night. Here he performs
the dual functions of minister of war
and chief OF the general star. The
general flashed into public notice with
his memorable defense of the German
army In the Zabern debate In the
Reichstag.
This war is not war OF aggres-
sion." says General Falkenhayn. .'It
is not war brought about by a mill
| tary caste or military party, in Ger
many. but one of self defense. Az n
soldier, i cannot, of course, talk on
the political aspects OF the causes of
the war. but can speak from military
standpoint r
1T was forced on us by the Russian
mobilization in the face or which we
could do nothing but arm ourselves.
Russia has been warned that IL she
mobiiized We must, In self defense.
order general mobilization and take
steps to protect our national existence.
Russia, nevertheless, went ahead with
moftltzation, while continuing diplo-
matte negotiations.
III O man comes into your room for
q discussion with gun drawn YOU can
scarcely be expected to wait for him
70 cock and level II, before reaching
for your gun nsto defend your life.
Our present situation Is excellent.
We have no cause to complain. We
have carfied the war into the enemy.g
country on both fronts; we are stiil
there. after five months of war Our
present lines are strong; the advant-
age is all on our side thus far.
IL our 1rst advance against Paris
had succeeded fully it would have
been sreohoned a most brilliant
achievement. AS It stands n Is an ad.
mirable one. but one cannot expect
to carry on war without some checks
and when we fell back, we swung
over to the present line Of action, In
which We have been thoroughly sue
cessfnl. -
ut Is wrong to interpret operations
In FLANDERS as an attempt ON MIR
part to reach Calais and ontfank the
Allied armies. On the contrary, that
phase OF the campaign is the result
OF an attempt On ths part of the
French and British to force their way
north to separate us from the sea ar,
onyelop our risht flank and rear, re-
ieve Antwerp and otiige us tr re-
tire from Belgium.
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