The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-03-09
Kaiser, at Bay, Makins last
Frantic Thrust, Says Cab.
rielIe Hanotaux, Former
French Minister.
vERDUN LAST HOPE. CLAIM
Failure to Smash French Posi-
tions Marks Beginning Of
End Of Prussianism, De
clares Writer.
BY GABRIELLE HANOTAux.
Former Minister Of Foreien Affairs,

Former minister OF ttFtAsf
Paris, March with their verdMn
offensive h Germans are taking -
their campaign against France jast
where they left off at the battse Of
the Marine.
verdun Is the apex OF these eastern
citadels which have always shaokied
the German offensive through Belgium,
attack toward the iAterior OF rance
is exposed to being bitten sff ~. :
eastern jaws. Any attack on Paris IS
taken in the rear by our armies about
those fortresses.
I do not know whether 1t is true that
General Won Deimling to&1 the Eff
teenth corps that this was to be the
last anti French offensive, but true
or untrue, the assertion expresses an
exact verify.
Germany has arrived at that paint
where she IS bound to make UP her
mind to use her remaining
l learn from the most reliable source
that during he last visit Of the KING
of Saxony to his troc9s the efHcers
surrounded him and told fdm the war
must be quickly finished and that the
soldiers would be nab to undertake.
a new campaign.
Using Loyal Troops.
1t is noteworthy that he troops who
made the greatest sacrifice at VeTduM
were Prussians. Pomeranian. SAosiaR
and Rhenish soldiers fell by the thou
sands. These are naturally h su-
preme Champions Of Prassian militar-
ism. Verdun has capital lmportaace
regarded from the viewpoint Of the
whole situation.
Speaking in the duma in the pres
zanoff said the allies would continue
the war until the hegemony exercised
by Germany through Prussian mili-
tarism was broken. For the first time
the allies objective is clearly aefined
and the German fury againsf SaaaIaofI
can easily be understood.
Conservative organs in Germany are
clamoring for the displacement Of Ven
Bethmann-Hollweg and the appoint
ment of a chancellor belonging 70 tho
militarist party, suoh as Won Htnden-
burg or Won Tirpitz. German Mtftar-
ism Is now seeking to de1end Aself
, with its wv men.
Kaiser at Bay, He says.
The kaiser is at bay, and has to save
the country and himself. At a recent
) Potsdam council, he obtained the opin-
ions of Hindenburg. Mackengen. Haes-
seller and Daimfing on the situattoA.
The German chiefs saw the Russian
: front consolidated, the cZsr's aIxAtes
! reconstructed and assuming a victoTtoAs
offensive at different points. Ger
i man effort in his theater weuid lead
nowhere. Many months would have
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Russians could be obtained
3 In the Balkans, Germany would be
. only working for the benefit OF the Bul-
e garians, who are unable to make q
:. fresh effort for themselves. salsails1
e was seen to be impregnable. Greece
was veering and Rumania was nc
longer sure.
: In the direction of Egypt and Asia
the game was up. Through b CAP
e ture of ErZerum, Turkey had already
become a dead weight.
9 France Last Hope?
Thus Germany was forced to look
: toward France. True. the republican
army was powerful y~alorous, and re-
: solved to die where it stood rather thar
give up the struggle Its artillery adat
a~mmunittons were 10e times snperiol
to what they were when it repailsed tn.
furious German attacks at the User
These considerations initiated agains
the nae blow.
But the blow had to be dehvere,
somewhere before spring should brin,
. the new Russian and British armies in
to line before the Austro-Germal
powers should undergo further decaine
before the people should lose oouTag
y and the spirit of observation-disclosures til
allies should really begin to sInasl
Prussian militarism.
The king of Saxony reported to tn
n kaiser the pressure which his ow7
troops were bringing to bear upon him
The confederated states were begin
ming to get restless. Therefore, th
kaiser ordered an offensive on tn
French front.
The emperor visited his san. caHe
around him all his old Prussiai gen
erals, all that remained OF the un
nc b%reakable iron phalanx, and resume
ct the desperate hammering at Verdi
with which he opened the war.
n Every hour, every minute, decide
the result of this last desperate gambl
er's throw. The kaiser stands involve
not only before history, but before IA
ak own people. He continues to lead h
ad people to butchery. To save hiInsel
he orders a supreme massacre.
But the hour has struck. Verdi
m brings no luck to the Prussian dynast,
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