The Alaska daily empire., 1916-01-20

General Von II ndenburg does not believe that the end of the European war is imminent. according to state ment he made to representative of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, who on the occasion of the interview had ahmed with the General.
 "The French" said the General. still want Alsace.Lorralne, when we hold Lille. instead of their being in possession of Strassburg. That is hardly normal mental makeup. But f they want Alsace-Lorraine so badly why don't they come and get it. The English also seem bent upon contin- ting the war, despite the fact that
 wo Lords made beautiful peace
 peaches. or course. from India come .eports which should place a damper ipon the war spirit of the English. ,ut we must Walt to see f these re- ports are true. At any rate England has an Achilles heel, and when l say
 his I don't think of India alone.
 "The Russian Czar and his govern nent also want to continue the war nd the oftannounced revolution keeps
 eople waiting. The odd feature of
 he situation is that none of these ma. ions notice that they are sacr'fic- ng themselves fer England In short, t does not look like peace.
 Germany cannot sheath her sword. Certainly. there is no German who would not hail with joy the moment when this horrible spilling of blood
 hall have come to an end. But we
 re not to blame for the future spill 'ng of blood. They plunged us into
 hs war and now they obl!ge us to continue 1t. Can Germany make ,eace overtures? Such overtures in I'll probability would be interpreted ,s sign of weakness, and the en-
 ire hostile press would shout: Ger many can't go any further and has
 beg for peace. We are obliged
 therefore. to continue fighting until 'ur antagonists are convinced of the'r 'e'eat. which today they do not yet believe.
 Germany must not show that she g tired of the war. and what is more ye are not tired of the war"
 His plans for the future, the Field Marshal would not touch upon. "The "useian army still has human mater 'al." he said, "but the military value of th's material Is considerably low sr than that of the Russian soldiers turing the first year of the war The broth is getting thinner. For that -eason it is pure swindle when the Entente press speaks of the organi .ation of new Russian armies. Witl' he reserves who are now being call d n. the Russians can do no more Than fn up the organization already existing. New armies can not be be formed of them. The lack oi off, ,ers, too. would prevent them from accomplishing this. and this problem must be pressing indeed. when they make officers out of ydung students
 "Of ammunition they have enough 'apan, especially has furnished an i'm. nense lot. During the heavy light 'ng in July and August last tho Rus Hans may have occasionally been little short of ammunition, but to give this as a reason for the'r defeats is merely a lame excuse. At all import. ant noir,ts where decisive actions took place they had enough ammunition. In Kowno we found whole mountains of ammunition, and in Kowno especially it was shown that the defeats of the Russians were due to other causes. Its location alone made Kowno one of the stronghold fortresses. and when m army surrenders such position without holding 1t to the limit of en- durance it becomes clear that that army is demoralized. It does not in. dlcate that the morale of the Russian