The sun., 1916-12-03
Bv MAMMALIAN HARDEN,
THE eight hundred and eleventh
Ia., Of v,ar


day Of war.
Under German leadership
the troops of the Quadruple Alliance
have occupied the port Of Constance.
Already the Rumanians, driven out
Of Pennsylvania. thrown out Of the
Dobrudja, fighting for two months
past contrary to all promises alone
against Germans. Austro-Hungarians.
Bulgars and Turks. are trembling for
the %antiauated fortress and capital,
: Bucharest.
They might still be shovclling gold.
wading deep in the densely clouded
Jsctolus OF val profits. had not the
tcmpter's voice decoyed them out Of
their fattening neutrality and inspired
them with the idiotic idea that their
hour had struckSsummoning them to
take their place at the side OF the VIC
tor lest they be left when the spells
were divided.
A lightning quick invasion Of Tran
syl,ania, a Russian dash into Bull
earia. whose southern flank was to be
simultaneously attacked by Sarrail
IRON S%alonlca. two Powers separated
from the Q%uadrup.e Alliance, whose
enemies would then dominate the
lower Danube, operate at last on the
inner line, quickly arm Russia with
heavy artillery, receiving in exchange
Russian field fruits, cattle and raw
materials. and bar the two Kaisers'
. road to the Orient-this is a plan
which might well have scared the
timij.
But II went the way Of Churchill's
Turkish war pans: 1t failed.
To put it through. Russia, burning
for revenge on the Turks and Bulgars
= and DESTROYS Of securing the road to
Constantinople and making a quick
connection with her western allies, had
been forced to throw into the balance
the full weight Of her man power.
Nevertheless. Wallachia will be the
attacking base Of the German, instead
Of the Russian commander. The
Council OF Ten will have to evam
and revise its programme md resign
; itself TO a pro.ongation Of the war.
The following is from the pen of
Comrade Herve. who proved, no for
the first time. that the French censor
ship is after all quite bearable:
"The Germans want, first Of all,
Bucharest. Galatz and Braila. They
want the terrain between the plain Of
the Transylvanian Alps and the
mouth of the Danube. They want TO
cut the communication between Wal
lachia and Moldavia. They want to
garner Rumania's corn and petroleum
and put their protecting wing about
Turkey and Bulgaria for a consider
able while.
THE very fact hat Bulgaria Is not
yet crushed by a quick Russo-Rupa-
man invasion will prolong the war by
at east six months and heighten the
cost by fifteen billions.
'But the prestige. the moral and
financial power of the Entente Allies
would be far more seriously impaired
II they allowed Rumania to be crushed
as, for instance, Serbia was. For that
the governments. not only the COM
mariers, would be held responsible.
Unity OF action. or what good Is
this babble: II the chief conduct OF
the war were in one hand. Sarrail
would long since have had what he
n"cds for the crushing Of Bulgaria.
aad hearts would not be depressed by
al the clumsy plumbers which have
been made since Rumania's interview
ton.
one supreme international general
staff and political leadership of the
war: that is the need of the hour"
So far IIerve.
Our enemies are still determined TO
wait and see how Germany and her
allies will look mex spring. They are
stu certain hat during the winter
months they will catch up with the
new lead OF German industrial ca
pacity (which is noticeable on the
Somme).
We have come to the point where
only craftsmanship. not the sword
alone. can force an honorable end to
this whole business, an end which
would DO more than an armistice
dangerous even to the lone v%ictor).
That is why n week & ! asked
how long Germany will permit only
yelling fanatics to advertise them
selves to the world as genuine heralds
Of her will. Their uncouth clamor
has made a bad name for us, even
with disinterested parties. IA name
which no echo Of terrorizins victory
marches browns.
Against the Ligue du Souvenir,
founded in the Department OF
Observation-Disclosures, we can protect
ourselves. This souvenir league, in a
slxty-four page pamphlet entitled
'Leur Crimes" the German
army OF thievery and murder. arson
and rape. bold lies and cowardly tor
turing NJ humane. ~ nrOfeaapa tn