Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-10
KAISER FEELS
NEED OF MEN
ON WEST FRONT
German Man-Power Crumb-
ling in Crisis; Teuton
Hosts Diminishing

Washington, Oct. 10.-German re-
sources are diminishing at the mo-
ment when the military situation re,
quires they should be increasing, ana
the Kaiser is arranging wholesale
transfer of picked men from the Rus-
sian front for divisions exhausted on
military effort of the enemy has been
made and the Allied armies Will main
tain their enormous strength until the
end of the war.
The foregoing is the substance OF
a statement issued to-day by the
French High Commission through the
Committee on Public Information and
based on official data of the French
general staff.
pear that were it not for the inef-
fectiveness of the Russian armies,
the army lines on the west would
wholesale Withdrawals from the east
to, the west would have been impos-
sible.
The statement in part says:
Both Franco German fronts on the
Aisne. 1917. and Verdun. 1915, have
already been compared. and 1t has
been noted that they are virtually Of
the same length. 1t has been stated
them before the attack We're equally
comparable. twelve and fourteen di-
visions. 1t is known to-day that dur
ing the same period, from May to
twenty-five fresh divisions at Verdun
and that they have been obliged to
engage forty-five on the Aisne; Fur
French took 5.s63 prisoners at Yer
dun and S.552 on the Aisne. This
comparison included only a small
number, on the French front.
fighting methods since adopted by
the other armies and also as testified
by the German staff itself. apropos
planning their defeat to the perfect
use of technical methods.
IF the above communication is eX-
tended to-day to. the entire Franco
from April Is to June Is the enemy
engaged los divisions against the
Anglo-French forces, and, finally. il
one bears in mind that the successes
obliged the enemy to engage fifteen
divisions during the last ten days.
you can understand why the German
heavier and heavier (they admit the
less of $4,000 men during the month
of May. 10000 are estimated by the
Allied staff during the, month of
on the western front virtually never
ceases.
Carefully prepared small actions
cess and of which the bulletins are
not able to give clear idea increase
the attrition of the Germans. All
the measures they have taken have
been defensive in character, intended
to strengthen their resistance in the
face of Anglo French forces.
Germany has made her supreme
military effort. This is evidenced in
the two following statements. which
should be compared for future en-
lightenment:
After the formation of the twenty
seven divisions Germany had intend
ed to create ten more divisions with
the regiments of the series 601-602
Not only has she been Obliged to
abandon the latter part of her pro-
gram, in spite of calling out por-
tion of the class of 1919. but she has
been Obliged to break up several
newly formed regiments to reinforce
her lighting, units. and for. the first
a clear decrease in the total regi-
ments of the German armies is on
record
"At the very time that her total
strength is diminishing Germany
finds herself obliged to Increase her
reserves on the French front to forty
DIVISIONS. with the sole aim of pro-
viding relay and resistance.
Germany has still great powers of
resistance which will take all the AL
lied forces to break. She is capable
fensives. On the other hand, British
and French armies have reached their
full strength in men and material and
are capable, with help of America,
of maintaining the enormous strength
which they have gained to the end of
the war. To this strength will be
added the great American Army"