TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1917-09-13

William DdydTQ RAE, me
well known special correspond
ent of The New York American,
who recently returned from
Europe, gives the following signi-
fcant comment on the latest
military and political aspects OF
the war situation:
German armies are advancing
with seven-league boots across
Roumania and into northern Rus
STA. They are, from the neigh
borhood Of Riga, directly threat
ening Petrograd-though / doubt
that, if they get there, they will
find anything but a deserted
capital.
In Stockholm a month ago I
was told by a dozen Russians
just out OF Petrograd that it
would be necessary practically
to abandon the capital before
cold weather set in. The Grip
pied railroads would no longer
be able to supply a population
even Of a few thousands with
the necessities of existence.
Few careers among those of
all the sons Of men rival in
romance that of the invalid pa
triot Kerensky, who, within a
few months, has risen from OBJ
security to the dictatorship of
all the Russians. But Kerens.
ky's iron hand will soon lose its
grasp, and is already failing.
RUSSIA A MOLLUSK.
Russia to-day is a mollusk
the sole and only vertebra that
it possesses will collapse with
Kerensky. There does not
exist on the surface of the earth
a personality, nor a group of
personalities, nor any influence,
political, social or military, that
could hope to rehabilitate the
Russia Of old as a fighting
power.
The question presents itself
whether the Teutonic allies have
inaugurated their astonishing
Russian offensive in order to
counteract the new French-E Eng
lish attack against their West
ern line, or whether the French
English launched their offensive
against the Germans in order
to draw thousands from the
Russian front, and more especial
~ to counteract the effects of
the Pope's appeal.
We may take our choice be-
tween the two theories, but we
should not forget that the
much advertised British French
successes on the west front,
purchased c~onfessedly at dread
ful sacrifice Of life, have won
only a score of square miles at
the utmost, while the march Of
the German armies further into
Rounania and into Northern
Russia has occupied within the
week certainly one hundred,
probably two hundred, times this
area.
STILL MEN TO SPARE.
Nor should we neglect to take
into consideration the astonish-
ing fact that the Germans, even
against the supplying resources
which the French and English
have accumulated on the western
line, still have men to spare for
a brilliant march into the enc
my's country along a zine of
several thousand miles in the
east.
Military observers and writ
ers may make what they will of
such facts as the above, but their
larger and undeniable aspects
cannot be concealed even from
I the layman.
If the world is going to crush.
Germany it will not be able to.
do it without the utmost effort
(; that America can put forth. II
i. Americans desire to see Ger
many crushed they must awaken
, to the act that no determine
{ ton can be too stern, no sacri.
fee too great, no effort too
I deadly or too instant to &C.
|. complish this result.
( But If Americans desire to
see the horror Of warfare cease
i without the agony Of innumer-
able American dead on tes basis
Of such q psaee a President