El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-31
Teutonic Forces, Hemmed
in, Will Not Be Allowed
Rest Until War Ends.
BY SIR GILBTRT PARKER
IL the Request of the ASSOcinfed Press

\
= ONION. Eng jelly 51.-"Ycu ask
me to make a statement upon the
( - two years OF war in which Eng
land with her allies. France. Russia.
Italy. Belgium. Portugal. Serbia and
Montenegro have been engaged.
Three months ago the task would
have been far more difficult than it Is
-, today. Since then Great Britain and
! France have moved forward on their
, fronts and with tremendous effect
but Of that later. Also during that
time Russia has moved heavily on the
: troops OF the central empire and in
the southeastern corner Of the Russian
front. has driven in. league upon league,
the Austrian troops has captured sec
( tor upon sector, cit upon city in the
regions where Austria was dominant.
and has made prisoners OF 100000
men
Russian Victories Pile Up.
over in Asia Minor the field or con-
. quest has enlarged and developed. Err
zerum and Erzlngan have been cap
tured and other cecters OF Turkish
authority have been taken. The re-
nowned Won Hinderburg. up in the
lign district. has been driven back
mile after mile and Russian prowess
has proved itself beyond question. Rus
sian generals like Brussiloff and Grand
Duke Mich olas have established Rus
sian positions weakened at the begin
ming OF the war through lack Of NUM-
tons.
Looking back. one is forced TO Won
der how Germany as stayed in her
march Of conquest According 10 every
rule she should have been in Paris at
the time she herself appointed early in
the autumn Of 1919. She came Very
near IT, What STOPPED herr
German Gains Came Early.
she had left out % her calculations
the strategticaI skill which belong by
nature to the French army the new
French army from behind Paris and
the contemplate lt:le British army.-'
II is renarka bic thing that on the
western front the Only gains OF Ger
many We're achieved in the first few
weeks Of the war Those gains were
Of immence strategis al value to her.
They included the mining and indus
trial districts Of France and nearly the
" mole OF Belgium, from which she has
steadily drawn practical support and
again and again supplies. The wonder
IS not that the allies have done so well
but that. with all her preparations and
her perfect armament. Germany and
rer ooedient colleagues. Austrian and
badly
British Navy The BuIwnrk.
Apparently at the beginning Of the
war everything was i'm German hands.
everything except One-the British
navy If Germany could have ma stored
her as she mastered Belgium and "A
EoOdly portion or France. the war long
since would have been over. France
would have been a third rate power
under practical German control Rus
STA would have beer driven back into
her steppes and plan once more the
slave Of German influence and control I
and the British empire as We know il
would have become 2 thing Of the past I
y hat the British navy did was 10
sweep German merchant commerce !
from the seas. prevent Germany from
trading with the rast Of the world !
except by crooked methods. bottle up 1
her fleet to useless ness drive her south /
Atlantic fleet to the bottom Of the sea /
and throttle and choke German export !
TO an extent that great cities like !
Hamburg have lost the hum OF their I
activity, and outside the Baltic sea.
there is no stir of German commerce. 1
save in a freakish enterprise like that [
Of the Deutschland Those, however.
who count the work cf the Deutschland \
as extraordinary shoCld remember that |
1t Is not original since considerable !
number Of British submarines have |
crossed the Atlantic during the las. /
year safely and surely u is not strange i
that the Deutschland accomplished the I
feat II Will be strrn-e. however. IL |
that feat is repeated by many sister !
submarines
Takes More Than Submarines
German foreign commerce cannot be !
marines Since the batIle off IutIand |
II can be safely am surely said that I
the seas are still controlled overW helm
inly by the British fleet. The German /
fleet came out and then fled to cover
again after a stiff fight
Great Britain'S Part.
But now let US take the field or bat
tie on the western front. For a whole
States whose only idea Of warfare was