The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-06-10


rludinK 4 separate peace with
M = evident that the whole
- - TAuton forces must BE-
x6A8ing on the western front
S1fkcA. America has entered tbs
49, its vast potential resources
money and materials, il IA
4dant that Won Hindenburg
~ rushing forces from all otnes
II ffonfa with the determination
- france and win the decision
kMSs pointed out that the allied
~ should retire at once, while
66f In order 10 possible, and make
GtnHd on the old Somme front,
~ thay would be strongest, plac-
~ German armies In the de-
~ naA lands between the linden
oloQt and the Somme front.
~ ID OF This II ssSnns We are
n9g on sending railroad and con-
E44n engineers TO help rebuild
- Iands, II uEmolested, our en-
~ q their best, could not have
- lands In order by the time the
G5Dn0 Armies expect TO enter Paris.
1ays Allies Have Failed
u not necessary to waIx sUe
oI9 TO see that the allies under
tolicies have failed. utterly
[ 49, ]. IN the AreateN WAY unQeTtAk :
Df history. II does not take the
"a prophecy to see that while such
~ continues, the future is hope
~ flrSf move TO save the des-
1&Ske situation Is TO change COM
D&<IaY the policy OF the allied coun-
IN Xn3s viii be no easy task. Some
70 ~ leading English Statesman are
s(etS" To them life Is largely a
l<1ug proposition. To them this
&k htgnESic Of the nations and
60 x1ese have been from the begin
1Me eo1Atialiy "A sporting PROPOSE
= Their very doEEedness and
SGth OF character have made
M sports VIGOROUSLY ID
IAs But, however difflcuit the
when the inevitable reverses
u changed
u. ID - fundamental error has been
= Il marrow horizon
2ng1t1h Rnlcd BY Ceuaor.
- horizon OF the English states
- Allts6 councils until recently
rm9 mot only to have been circum-
o414e4 70 til limits of the British
aro bat largely to the limitations
Dngtiah policies. For awhile it
49, - the policies OF the allies In
: 1Nful eataclysm. where millions
1&ious human beings are perish
Nofe largely determined by Rroups
= cultured English aristocracy
44G the game OF politics between
T. teeaves.
Ii ~ inatrument b. which they kent
A3ne IN their own hands 80 long
r. ont OF the hands Of the great.
@rifacing English people has been
consor. They have undertaken
Il Aetermine public opinion, outside
~ Ia laws of nature and natures
mat underlie the eternal truth
Aeem to have been Obvious to
TIT that loyalty to the truth is
- very essence of the God like nuas-
II ~ man. Italy also seemed guided
AZ thit narrow nationalistic policy.
.X1 vii ask = few questions whose
1efD may search out the truth
hat the supreme crisis is near
~ Ind In France, what is the status
d - man power OF the allies at the
lMf Of struggle? The Casualties
w 4 sombre light upon the m.
The Casualties of little France
~ ReNn greater than those Of the
N1Mge German empire
he crisis nnds German man.
p9Jer ErSt, steadily rising, prepared
~ the supreme effort German man
14Oer. with Its great population be-
~ hss been carefully husbar,ded
ooen man power, with hardly half
- stipulation and not fraction of
- rate Of increase, has been seuan.
44d; French blood. az gallant as
- ever offered 10 the sacrifice, prob
l11T passed ont Hike water.
Fought German Game.
WY did they keep fghting.. fos.
~ more than the Germans, in many
aeg twice ~ many. game the Ger
UeherAI stan was glad TO pro-
IT certainly was not fruitful
81 Oxratory. few square miles of de-
IA laHA-fet fractfon Of the
l14 Won Hindenburg evacuated to
10 = little time and lay a tactical
~ into which the allies have fallen
n which they bfindly remain.
- but It Was good politics In Eng
good sport. as long az the
oIish made Il big showing on a lit
81 front sumcient, In the hands oil
- censor: to make a rood appear-
49, without material sacrifices.
1oefe IL only one wav to account
ia thte wastare OF the man power
ID France. along wsth the outstanding
~ ne man power ~ Britain II was
eliey. due to English domination
4u14d councils to -exeenA French,
4-ppwer for the allies TO wear
- the enemy hv attr.tion. anr m
o9tre British man-power In the
Aefs 81 the British empire and
- politics,
m second question. AZ the hour
40N srtktnr. where is Russia?
~ the hght--what is the real
In two wears more Russian
a14nlIes thar ro'6iers in the c~r.
10 armies, British casualties in the
y Derfcd beirr about 4 per cent Of
} kAenasties At the allies Was RJs,
= ready TO hurl her great man
~ into the hght with eficiancv.
"A the nature Of things, Russia
fhe great reservoir 81 man power.
endint time to permit Russian
tARs0AH4-ef-s.a tttf.r1u rtrrr-rrr-
et0ns and war materials. and for
accumulation Of vast stocks of
maeerlais to make the man
|1nk eWNctiv.
&4sn-fowrr OF Britain.
thirA question. Now tina, the
s.risins where Is the man
~ ~ Britain?
la4e DrsAA report from Washing
1ls0WNd to pass the censor yfves
N34t1oh siren eth on the wes+ern
Al a.Ato. oan men and the
80 IN EnxlanA md elsewhere A
100 men The reports was.
3mAA esys sAe sss reached the
om at ~ effort