El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-11
Military Critic Says Every
Square Foot Of Ground
Costs Two LiUes.
RUSSIA WEAKENED
BY HEAVY LOSSES?
Says Russia Has Lost About
100000 Officers and
100000 Men.

II ERLIN. Germany, Nov. iL-Maj.
Morant, the famous military critic
- OF the Berlin Tageblatt, has
Joined the optimists. He expressed the
4 conviction today that the plans OF the
allies have failed on all fronts and
that the central powers are stronger
than ever He said:
Chancellor Won Bethmann HoHweg
described the situation accurately.
when he said in the Reichstag- The
front have not changed the general
aspect Of the war We continue VIC
toriously TO resist the pressure from
all sides and the east and west
says Offensive Is Failure.
THE great FrancO-British offensive
which was begun in July with 90 di-
visions is slowly ebbing away With
an army of 100000 men the allies
quered AZ small villages and a few
farms with a total population Of $4,000
people. TheterritorE gained by them
is hardly one-thIrd OF one percent OF
the area in the possession of the Ger
mans in Belgium and France They
have sacrificed between 100000 and
100000 men and accomplishing praeti-
cally nothing. No wonder that they
are becoming tired, at least Temporal
azThe struggle on the somn1e win
T am convinced that the allies must
give up their efforts 10 drive US from
french and Belgian soil in the end.
because their offensive is too costly and
our lines cannot be broken
Two Men for Every Square Yard.
NO army can for any length OF time
afford to sacrifice two men for every
square yard of ground gained Severe
battles will still have to be fought in
Pfcardv. because the enemy has enorm-
Gus masses Of artillery and unlimited
supplies Of munitions. which are con-
stantly replenished by shipments from
America, but we are well a bic to meet
the lavish expenditure Of shells on
u hich the enemy bases his hopes The
loss Of a little more territory viii be
OF no consequence, as long as the al
lies have TO paw dearly for It and are
weakened by their successes
Russia's Heavy Losses.
The British war minister Lloyd
George, has declared that Russia will
fight until death The only question
is when the military death OF the Rus
sian giant will occur Russia Is strong
IN man power. but weak in materials
The former has suffered fesrfully since
Gen Brussiloff started his offensive In
Volhynia. Galicia and the Bukow.ina
OF June l. Proof for this fact is fur
nished by the central Identification
bureau in Kieff, which reports that
the Russians have lost nearly 100000
officers and over 100000 men in their
vain efforts to reach Lemberg.
In the offensive the Russians have
about exhausted their ammunition and
as the hsrbor of Archangel will soon
be closed by ice and transportation OF
supplies over the Siberian railroad IS
difficult and uncertain in winter. they
are again as badly off as they were
year ago at this time. Their desperate
situation may prompt them to strike
against Sweden to reach open ports,
If England succeeds in dragging Nor
Way into the war. The danger that the
terrible conflict will be carried to the
Scandinavian countries is far more
real than most people imagine, but
the German general staff has reckoned
with this possibility and made its
plans accordingly.
Rumania n Liability.
TN the Balkans the plans Of the
allies have failed completely. The Bull
garians were to be crushed between
Sie Rumanians and Russians advancing
krom the north and the allied army in
Macedonia, which was TO march north,
reconquer Servia and cut the Orient
railroad, but this dream has come to
uaught- Gen Serial Is not able to
move with his forces consisting Of
more than half a dozen different ma
tiOnalities. and the Russo-Rumanian
danger from the north has been defin-
itely removed by the swift and vic
torious strokes Of Mackenson in the
Dobrudia and the advance Of Gen Won
Falkenhavn's army into Rumania-
Instead of being an asset 10 the allies
tsumania has become a liability and
she viii soon be completely out Of the
war