Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-03-05

| two, and that by so doing Russla
could be forced into II separate peace
and the allies compelled TO yield.
| Their British comrades hold that
| break of the German lines east or
west would bring about instant col
lapgc. The common characteristic
Of the three schools mentioned is
that they all rcpudiatc the dispersion
of energy outside the two theatres
of war where alone a decision can
be found Major Mohraht of Berlin
belongs To the second school, COL
oncl Repington of London to the
first, COloncy Shumsky Of Petrograd
TO the third The latter two critics
lnvcigh without ccasing against the
concentration in Gnllipoli. Mesopo-
tamia, the Caucasus, Salon'ki and
Egypt, while Major Mohraht VINO
dare not be so free in his utterances,
obviously dsapproVes as strongly, on
the same grounds of the German
adventure I'm Serbia and the whole !
eastern drift of Toutonic policy.
The fourth school of thought be- !
licVcs both the western and eastern
fronts to be imprcgnablc against at
tack by either side, but contends that
the war can be decided by fighting |
i'm the east where mobility has not |
been destroyed The firth school, !
which includes many army officers
Of high rank. but which naturally
keeps its thoughts pretty much To IT. !
self regards the war as hopeless
draw. II accepts the theory of the |
fourth school that the main fronts !
are impregnable and rejects the be- !
lief that a decision can be reached
anywhere else.
one of the most interesting tasks
of the future historian will be the
study of these five ways Of looking at
the same problem and how first one
view and then another captiVatcd one
or the other of the higher commands.
To attempt to analyZc the views of
the allied commanders at present
would bring me into violent collision
with the defense of the realm act. and
must not be attempted, but II is OBJ
Vious to anyone that w / $ % n
Churchill a year ago persuaded the
government to adopt the fourth point
of view and to attack the Darda-
nclles, and II is also obvious that
when armies were poured into the
east last autumn the fourth view
point. If not In control, was widely
held. At this time it was believed in
high circles that allied armies could
march up the Nardar from Salonica,
cross the Danube and strike Ger
many To the heart by crushing Aus
tria from her unEuarded south
front, that Constantinople could be
captured by armies landed stimuli
| taucOusly I'm Thrace and Asia Minor
1 and that other ambitious projects
/ could he carried out with the aid Of
/ the British army that was to-but
/ did nut-capturc Bagdad. and the
/ Russian army that was to-and did
| advance through the Caucasus and
force the mountain passes. The
fourth school, which held these
dreams, seems to the outsider the
poorest rcasoner Of the five, and has
received little support from the In
formed public. which ascribes its
partial victory to the cries of Save
Serbia" and to Churchlls blum
dering.
Clinching Argument
The crushing argument employed
against the fourth school by the ad-
herents of the others in England is
that Bulgars and Turks won't do
much damage If let alone. There are
$4,000 British and French troops
employed In the orient against Turks
and >Bulgars at present, with very
few Germans I'm the ranks of their
| enemies. III those troops had not
been sent out. claim the western
ers" of the first school they might
have turned the scale In France, while
the Germans could never persuade
their oriental allies to transfer their
| armies to the west front and fight
for IA cause which means nothing to
| them.
| To the second school, which con-
tends that only on the east front can
victory he won, belong those Britons
who want this country to stop send
Ing men To the war and TO concen-
trate on her normal export trade. so
as to be able to continue to finance
l.. Il
output of her munitions factories.
Their arguments seem selfish and
have aroused much ill-fccling. but
they are sound II II he granted that
all efforts on the west front are
doomed 20 failure, for II is not prac-
ticable to send British troops to re-
inforcc the Russians.
II Is believed In the bost Informed
circles In England that Germany Is
preparing an attack upon an unpar-
allclcd scale, to strike blow that
shall bring one of her enemies to the
! ground and break up the coalition
against her. The Turkish campaigns
In Mesopotamia and Egypt will bc
carried out under German officer,
and with some German artillery
: merely as diversions TO keep allied
troops away from tho western front
is the belief OF those who think tn,
blow will fall I'm the west
Tho reason why II is held that Ger
, many must stake all on n great thrust
IL to be found I'm the analysis of re-
manning numbers. Unless n favor
able decision can be reached during
, the campaigning weather this year
/, German armies will begin to wust,
away and before the beginning OF tn,
, third winter thcy may be too veal
To withstand their enemies.
: p,,.iS uitI,In
{ The west front is indisputably tn,
, place whore q decision could b,
> reached more quickly II victory b,
won. The German limos at Noyor
3 are only fifty miles from Paris. "But"
said Il prominent oasterner In dis
5 pute with n still moro prominent wes
tcrner during lunch nj the Carltor
r yesterday. 'it is absurd to suppos,
/; they will attack us now, when fol
{ eighteen months we have been gettini
, ready for them, when with numer
teal superiority Of six to one they
{ could not break through oul
scratched shelter trenches a
, Yprcs and Arras in 1914"
, "You forget" said his opponent
| that in 1914 drum fire had not beoi
9 conceived. We employed II at Ncuv'