The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-04
French Minister Predicts End
of Prussian Dynasty.
0 SAVE HIS OWN FACE
Emperor Leads His People to a
Supreme Massacre.
But Final Blow Had To Be De-
Iivered Now or Never.
BY GABRIEL HANOTAUX.
Former French Minister of Foreign
Affairs.

Affairs.
: Paris, March with their Verdun
Offensive, the Germans are taking up
their campaign against France just
where they left off at the battle of
She Marine.
ern c;tadels which have always
RhackIed the German offensive
Through Belgium, and until that apex
rs smashed, any attack towards The
Exterior of France is exposed to being
Bitten off by our eastern jaws. Any
attack on Paris is taken in the rear
by our armies about those Lortresses.
Last German Drive.
I do not know whether it is true
4hat General Won Deimling told the
Fifteenth corps this was to be the
9ast adt1- French offensive, but, true
DOR untrue, the assertion expresses an
sexact verify.
4 Germany has arrived at that point
rwhere she is bound to make up her
sFnind to use her remaining resources
u learn from the most reliable source
7that during the last visit of the king
aof Saxony to his troops the officers
surrounded him and told him he war
anust be quickly finished and that the
Soldiers would be unable to undertake
~ new can paign
Prussians Suffer Most.
q 1t is noteworthy that. the troops
%who made the greatest sacrifice at
Nerdun were Prussians Pomeranian,
fSilesian and Rhenish soldiers fell by
thousands. The Prussians are nat
11rally the supreme champions of
Prussian militarism. Verdun has
capital importance regarded from the
viewpoint of the whole situation.
4 Speaking in the duma in the pres
fence of the car, Foreign Minister
aSazanoff said the allies would con-
ltinue the war until the hegemony eX-
hercised by Germany through Prus-
ssian mllitarisIn was broken For the
First time, the allies objective is
aclearly defined and the German fury
against Sazanoff can easily be under
STOOD.
Conservative organs in Germany
tare clamoring for the displacement of
Non Bethmann- Hollweg and the ap-
pointment of chancellor belonging
TO the miiitarist party such as Won
Hindenburg or Won Tirpitz German
H4ilitarism is now seeking TO DEFEND
tself With it's own men.
THE Faiser is at bay and has to
save. the. country and himself. At a
recent I'otsdam council he obtained
the opirions of Won Hindenburg, Won
! Mackensen, HaesSeler and Won Deim-
Eng on the situation.
I | The German chiefs saw the Russian
front consolidated. the cars armies
Reconstructed and assuming a VIC
torious offensive at different points.
lead nowhere. Many months would
have to pass before a decision against
abe Russians could be obtained.
X Turkey a Dead Weight.
e. In the Balkans, Germany would be
only working for the benefit of the
Rulgarians who are unable to make a
fresh effort for themselves. Saloniki
was seen to be impregnable. Greece
was veering and Rumania was no
longer sure
II In the direction of Egypt and Asia
the game was up. Through the cap
ture of ErZerum, Turkey had already
BECOME a dead weight Thus Ger
many was forced to look towards
France.
True. the republican army was pow
erful, valorous and resolved to die
where it stood rather than give up the
struggle. Its artillery and ammuni-
tion were a hundred times superior to
what they were when 1t repulsed the
furious German attacks at the User.
THESE considerations inflicted against
tt Had to Strike.
u But the blow had to be delivered
somewhere before spring should bring
the new Russian and British armies
Into line. before the Austro-German
bowers should undergo further de-
fcourage and the spirit of resistance
before the allies should really begin to
smash Prussian miIitarism.
II The king of Saxony reported to the
kaiser the pressure which his own
troops were bringing to bear upon
him The confederate states were
beginning to get restless. Therefore,
the kaiser ordered an offensive on the
French front.
u Back Where He Started.
III The emperor visited his son, called
around him all his old Prussian gem
erals, all that remained of the I'M
breakabIe iron phalanx and resumed
the desperate hammering at Verdun
with which he opened the war.
IL Every hour. every minute decides
1.-The result of this last, desperate gam
blers throw. The kaiser stands in
wolVed, not only before history. but
before his own people. He continues
10 lead his people to butchery. To
Save himself. he orders a supreme
massacre.
III But the hour has struck. Verdun
brings no luck to the Prussian dyn-
Rsty. 0
To Won Diemling's alleged assertion