The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-01-07
France stR Wants ,Aisace.Lor.
raine and Britain Insists
Upon More Strife
GERMANY is OBLIGED oe~
TO KEEP ON FIGHTING
Russia Has Human Material IN
Reserve But Broth Is Getting
Thinner


cuce Of The Associated Press) - Field
Marshal General Won Hindenburg does
Lot believe that the end of the Euro
pean war Is imminent, according TO
statement he made to a representative
of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, who,
on the occasion of the interview, dined
with the general.
"Tse French" said the field mar
shall, "still want Alsace- Lorraine, when
we hold Lille instead of their being in
! ossession of Strassburg. That is hard
ly normal mental makeup. But II
they want Alsace Lorraine so badly, why
don I they come and get III The Eng
lish also seem bent upon continuing the
war, despite the fact that two lords make
beautiful peace speeches. OF course,
from India come reports which should
Tlace damper upon the war spirit of
the English, but we must wait to see If
these reports are true. At any rate,
England has an Achilles heel, and when
l say this I don I think of India alone.
"The Russian car and his govern.
ment also want to continue the war,
and the oft-announced revolution keeps
X.
situation is that none of these nations
notice that they are sacrificing them
selves for England. In short, it does
not look like peace.
Germany Must Fight
Germany cannot sheath her sword,
Certainly, there Is no German who would
not hail with joy the moment when this
horrible splitting of hood shall have
come to an end. But we are not to
blame for the future spilling of blood.
They plunged us into. this war and now
they oblige us to continue it. Can Ger
many make peace overturesf Such over
lures would be interpreted as a sign of
weakness, and the entire hostile press
would shout: Germany can t 60 any
further and has to beg for peace We
arc obliged, therefore, to continue fghts
ing until our antagonists are convinced
Of their defeat, which today they do not
yet believe.
Germany must not show that she
is tired of the war, and what is more,
we are not tired of the war. The stu
alton is constantly improving for us.
Even the road to the Orient is now
olen. For US it is not a question of
seeing this thing through, of persevering,
but Of being victorious.
Positions Are Strong
Speaking Of the military situation, Won
Hindenburg said that the tactical posi-
tiOn of the German. forces was excellent.
The German troops in the east occupied
a most favorable strategical line. His
plans FOR the future, the field marshal
wonId not touch upon. The Russian army
still had "hunian material" he said
"but the military value of this mate
rial Is considerably lower than that of
the Russian soldiers during the first year
of the, war. The broth is getting thin,
ncr. For that reason it is pure swinde
when the Entente press speaks of the
Organization Of new Russian armies. With
the reserves who are now being called
in, the Russians can do no more than
oil up tile organizations already existing
New armies can not be formed of them
The lack of officers, too, would prevent
this, and this problem must be pressing
indeed when they make officers out of
young. students.
Russ Have Ammunition
"Of ammunition they have enough
Japan, especially, has furnished great
deal. During the heavy fighting in July
and August, the Russians may have Oc
casionally been little short of ammu
milton, but to give this as the reason fol-
their defeats is merely lame excuse
At all important points where decisive
actions took place they had enough am
munition. In Kown0 we found whole
mountains of ammunition, and in KowmC
especially it was shown that the defeat,
Of the Russians were due TO Other
causes, Its location alone made KOwnC
one of the strongest Of fOrtresses, and
when an army surrenders such posi-
ton without holding it to the limit Of
endurance, it becomes clear that that
army Is demoralized 1t does not seen
that the morale of the Russian army
las improved since then. Our soldier,
take prisoners of war who fall upor
their captors' necks and with tears il
their eyes thank them for having beer
captured.'' '"
Offensive Not Probable
To the question whether or not b,
thought new Russian offensive likely
field Marshal Won Hindenburg replied
"a new Russian offensive is not prob
uHle, but they may try one neverthe
less. In war one gets rid of the pro
,Ihetic habit, particularly when dealing
with intentions of the antagonist"
OF the possibility Of having to NEE
simultaneously an offensive east an
west, the field marshal said:
"If they attack us east and west
we shah beat them back east an
vest"
Won Etindthbu+g was generous in hi
praise of the, Bulgarian army, an
spoke in, glowing terms Of the AustrC
Ifungaridns, especially Of their genera
staf chief, Conrad Won Hoetzendorf.
az crushing defeat OF the Italian
would particularly please me-" he said