Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-18
GREAT ENGLISH PAPER
GIVES IMPRESSIONS
OF WAR CONDITIONS

| he could at his enemy's communica-
| tons and cut off the supplies Be
tween the North sea and the Vosges
we are confined to frontal assault
| The economic power which keeps the
German armies alive on the west rs
fed despite our sea-blockade from the
east There lies the taproot of their
ability TO continue the struggle. With
out the Rumanian, Balkan and Tur-
kish supplies which Just enabled our
enemy to scrape through this year,
Germany would have been brought TO
her knees last autumn and the war
would have been over by now The
military myopia OF our extreme west
crncrs WIN do all It can to defeat its
own object in spite Of itself as long
as there is no clear understanding of
the vital meaning Of the fact that the
very life Of Germany's western armies
depends on Germanys eastern COM
munications, and will be more and
more sustained from that quarter.
The Turks and Their Masters.
SO much Of the onemy's increasing
means Of supply We cannot deal to-
day with his total reserves Of man
power; that subject must be reserved
for separate discussion But we shall
state some conclusions in passing. As
We have already said, Germany Aus
tria, Bulgaria, Turkey, are now one
for all fighting as for all enConomic
purposes They are under an absO.
Lutte singleness of control That CON
troll with Hindenburg at the head is
welded with a vigor and decision
worthy of the war All these coun-
tries Of the central league are eN-
plotted for power, like everything
else, as in all history nations never
were before. Turks will be sent wher-
ever they are wanted. We hear Of
Turks for instance, at Riga. Turkey
when handled with this thoroughness,
viii yield more men than the allies
until very recently were willing to
suppose. Before the finish of this
war the central league will have had F
from the beginning to end nearly 90 T
100000 men under arms. our esti- .
mate is that the central league alto I
sether has 100000 men in reserve, +
counting all resources, to the end of I
next year, with a total annual con. .
.ingent afterwards Of not less than a
million men. To suggest that the enc
my for mere want of man-power will (
not be able to continue the struggle
FOR two years more is, as we conceive
lutte ludiCrous
StupcndOus Folly Admitted.
We now see the stupendoUS folly Of
he fumbling and vacillating policy
in the GallipoH with
travail That policy failed utterly to
AXE year ago the measures--inex-
lensive relatively to the object and
he cost Of western o0erations--whieh
would have Knocked Turkey out Of the
var, compelled Bulgaria to march
With the allies on terms compatible
With Serbian sEP-'ations, forced the
traits and the Black sea, and would
ave enabled the allies, closing on Aus
ria, to overthrow with certainty the
whole Iiapsburg empire. Then Ger I
nanys doom military and economic
would have been sealed. BY now So
100000 of population at least would
ave been shorn away from the fight
ng resources and total labor power Of
he central league COnstantinople is
Tot q mere local position like another
mt the key Of a whole vast change and
hift Of forces away from the enemy
nd i'm favor Of the allies. Had the !
light course been taken the war 10y
low would have been over or i'm sight {
f its end with overwhelming victory
or the allies and the assurance of s
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