The sun., 1916-09-24

against England. broke down helplessly,
thanks to the skill and resourcefulness
OF the navy In developing new ways to
trap the U boats. and. thanks above all.
to the morale OF the merchant marine.
Germany believed that II she could sink
say, 10 per cent. Of the tonnage OF the
Allies and drown a few thousand sea-
men the crews of the other ships would
become panic stricken and refuse to put
to sea. This assumption has been
proved ~unfounded. and there has never
been any trouble. even when submarines
were most plentiful. In getting crews.
OF course. the promise to President Will
son to stop illegal sea warfare was
caused by the loss OF most OF the
Y boats. and the campaign will undoubt-
eddy be resumed when another fleet has
been built and the new crews are
trained, but the result will be the same
AS before.
Because OF her helplessness at sea
Germany is slowly strargling under the
grip OF the blockade. She cannot get
cotton. and her efforts to substitute wood
pulp for cotton In making high explo-
sives have failed disastrously. She lacks
copper and rubber. n when her allies
are beaten will be unable to get gasolene.
The foo shortage Is impairing the mo-
| rale OF the civilian population and the
| military efficiency of the soldiers. Ger
man credi. Is bankrupt. and her system
Of floating loan after loan secured only
by paper has depressed the confidence
| Of her weather. classes.
vepdun Broke Teut0n Offensive.
ION land Germany's last chance to
| win disappeared when her onslaught
failed at verdun and her high command
lost the initiative. She Is now strategy.
| cally on the defensive everywhere. and
! will remain 50 until she 10 beaten. We
have already overcome her at one time
enormous lead in supplies OF canno
machine guns and shells. The disparity
OF strength Is increasing continually. Tor
our manufacturing resources. now tui!!
developed. are greater than those OF the
Central Powers, even without the impor-
tant aid OF the United States. In the
other all important factor OF land war
fare man power - the advantage Is
overwhelmingly with us, and Is increas-
ing every day. Germany no longer mas
any strategic reserve of men left with
which 10 undertake a great blow. and II
Hindenburg wants to get such reserve
he must shorten his fronts and so release
men from the trench lines. an operation
",,S u d,saster In any case. we al
r.adv outnumber the Teutonic allies
-. a. 20 ,hree counting only men
an,raa. ,bev have already nut al!
their men in the field. excepting y
who are coming OF age. while Russia mas
unlimited human material left and Eng
land has arranged matters so she can
keep her field army Of eighty-s.x divi-
49, - -oo oOo man at full rengt
sIons' ~ ,o,s aven II she loses
no 0oo msn between now and that
$1,000 ~
.n ara mn. soo,r and they
u""n 80. M. u,alj ms we do.
Mnow - u.s.. Lnou, tina, their ~position IL
- "a ,ha, - III ., on fighting
nope's ~ ~, nriv lose NOR. men and
u".y ,hsm.eive. economically still
o,nrs but increase the severity OF our
noI., Ts.rn,ore they may at any tim
telI"s. "urranaar ana s,on the war
oec'ue " n"ss,hIs that the conflict may
"a vsrw loon and most improbable tina
e"u 81 .aas hayond NEXT wear
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.- r..,. N. ue.ten.,
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So much for the viewpoint OF th'
Allies. Intelligent German CRITICS loon
at the same facts In TINS nsht: =,
Germany can never he pea,en' u
our allies are eventually crushed We
will hght on VIGOROUSLY against q
world Of enemies until they realize iheS
can never break through into TN
fatherland. and then they VIII stop ah'
conclude a reasonable peace, when u
all we ask. We admit our helplessnes'
at sea for the moment. although Zeppe'
lins and submarines MAJ cause ou'
chief enemy, England. 10 change ne
tune before the war ehds' TAX py gu
enemies about our fnanc means moth
ing for we are supplying ourselves will
the materials of war, and so long as GU
own people accept our paper there car
be no trouble. They Will continue 10 az
so regardless Of questions OF gold re
serves, because OF the lo'ty spiritua
which our cold bloodcd enemies viii
) never understand Tn" same spirl
causes us TO accept ioou pI.a''o