Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-04-02
Hinderburg to Throw Into
Field Entire Strength of En-
pire in Hope of Bringing War
to Victorious End in 1917.
NEXT POINT OF ATTACK
YELLED IN SECRECY
All Soldier and Industrial Ma
teriaI to Be Drained to
'DregS for Final Struggle, Is
Berlin News.
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Copenhagen, April ! (Via London,
11:0l a. m.)--Germany according to
information reaching here from Ber-
lin, now is gathering to the colors ev-
cry available man for a supreme eff
fort to bring the war to victorious
conclusion in this years campaign
a goal which Field Marshal Won Hin
denhurg and his advisers oonsid-
er by no means impossible of attain
inent.
without altering formally the law
of military service the German au-
thorities have in practice extended the
period of service beyond the forty
colors and in many instances for fight
ing duty in the front line, landsturm
men who have passed this age.
Hold All Possible Fighters.
The policy of the German war de-
partment, as stated in the reichstag
this week by a military representatives
is to withdraw those men over forty
five from the front line after they
have done six months of duty there
but military exigencies compel TIN
holding of the overage men for serv-
ice in regions behind the fighting
front
For some time the German authori
ties, in "a grand combing-out of men
earlier pronounced unfit for service
have been mastering men on the very
verge of the age limit, but up to the
present time they have announced
that the necessity has not yet arisen
for legislation raising the age limit to
sixty-fiVe, as has Eeen done in Aus
tria-Ilungary.
... To Reach Maximum.
The operations of the labor service
law, now in full swing, are further re-
leasing for service at the front every
available man behind the lines capa-
bic of carrying a rifle, so that the next
two or three months should see the
German armies at their maximum
size.
simultaneously with this draining
to the dregs of human reservoirs of
mobilization also is approaching
climax A scheme for converting ev-
cry available factory and employing
every available machine on war work
and manning them with labor OBJ
tanned under the labor service law is
contemplated
Secret Well Kept.
The secret of Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg's plan of the 1917 cam
It'll -.
tain whether the offensive will he di-
rected in the east or in the west, and
the Germans strategic reserve, at last
accounts still within Germany, has
not begun to move in either direction.
The German main headquarters,
according to reports received here,
is esta bished at Kreusnach on the
Rhine; the general staff headquarters
at Chareyvile and Meziers, twin
French towns where Emperor Will
liam's military capital was located for
almost two years until Won Hinden-
burgs appointment to the chief COM
mand having been abandoned shortly
before the Somme retirement.
Nearer Southern Sector.
This change IN headquarters per-
haps may throw some light on Won
Hindenburg's plans as the new choice,
while centrally located as regards the
whole western front, is better situated
for control of the operations along
the southern sector of that front than
was the former site.
On the surface there are indications
that the purpose of the Somme retire
ment appears to be developing not as
u scheme for bringing on great open
field engagement in that, particular
part of the front. but to avoid the inn
pending onslaught by the mighty ar
ray of Anglo-French artillery massed