Evening star., 1917-04-08

Allied armies have therefore to con-
slider first Of all the liberation of the
territories occupied by Germany. Their
program is quite comparable with that
Of the opponents of Napoleon, who,
after many hesitations, finally agreed
to continue the war until France was
restricted to the boundaries of 1888.
Conceivably. allied purpose will take
another leaf out of the book of the con-
querors OF Napoleon and presently
agree to make no peace save a peace
predicated upon the removal of the
Hohenzollerns; but this for the future.
The German Block.
The political aspects dominate the
military. Germany has created solid
Baltic to Asia Minor, from the Elbe to
tho Tigris and from the vistula and the
lower Danube to the channel, which
is as completely under the domination
Of Berlin as was Napoleon's empire un-
der his direction from Paris. Just as
Napoleon, for his invasion of Russia,
was able to use Prussian, Polish, Saxon
and Italian troops. German high COM
mand Is today using Turk, Bulgar, Hun
gartan and even the Austrian Slavs
against her foes.
The allied military problem is simple
to perceive. Germany's new empire
must be destroyed by force of arms:
German power must be restricted to
the limits of Germany in 1870, at the
least. as France was reduced in 1914
to the limit of 1888.
What the soldiers and the statesmen
Of the allied countries have resolved is
this: Peace is Impossible SO long as
Germany retains any Of the fruits of
would be an incentive to new aggres-
sions. Allied peoples are recalling the
German formula of the last century,
the formula which led to three vic
torious wars and gave Germany the
basis on which she has erected her
present structure.
The mission of the allied armies. in
Europe and in Asia, on the east front
the west front and the two southern
fronts. the Italian and the Balkan, is tC
keep up that unending pressure which
will presently lead to German disaster
as a similar pressure brought Napoleon
to Leipsic and then to the Marne.
The whole problem is simple. The Rus
sian armies in Armenia. the British in
Mesopotamia and the Holy Land, the
allied forces in Macedonia are perform
ing something like the duty that yelling
tons army performed in Spain century
ago. while the main campaigns were being
fought in Silesia and Saxony.
Wellingtons army ultimately freed
Spain and provided an opportunity for
enrolling the Spanish nation against the
French invader conceivably the British
troops in Mesopotamia will rouse the
Arabs against the Turks or the Russo
British pressure will lead to the exhaus-
ton and collapse of the Turks. The Sa-
loniki army will have short work with
the Bulsarians. if the German and Aus
trian supports go home.
Abolition of Austria.
But peace which sent Germany back to
the frontiers of 1914. with a further re-
duction incident to the return of Alsace-
Lorraine to France. would be INSULT
cient, because Germany has SO COM
pletely established herself in Austria
Hungary that Austria has practically
ceased to be an independent nation ana
counts as a German conquest quite as
much as Serbia or Belgium. Granted
that Austria Hungary were left in ex-
istence, Germany would still be able to
direct some millions of Slays and Hun
garians as well as Germans of Aus
trian nationality, against her enemies