Evening star., 1918-06-07
MUST FIGHT HUNS
FROM EAST FRONT
Only Way United States Can
Beat Them Thoroughly,
Officer Declares.
BY EDWARD PRICE BELL.

Cablegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.
LONDON, juno I've never shall
win the war in the sense of being
able to force our terms on Germany
unless we again mako trouble for her
in the east" said an of1icer just home
from Russia to mo today. Lasting
peace can come only with the de-
struction Of the Hohenzollern mania,
and this mania can be destroyed only
by destroying the Hohenzollern mill
tary party. This party we can de-
stroy only by overwhelmingly mill
tary operations against Germany, and
these operations can be carried out
only by attacking our formidable
enemy on two fronts.
America looks forward to a de-
cisive offensive Of her own. supported
by the British and French. 1t is her
great ambition thus to play her part
assuming that we are not all beaten
into the dust before she can attack
at the point in the west, which prom
ises to enable her and the armies CO.
operating with her to subject the Ger
mans to the greatest possible mill
ment, there could be no sounder plan.
1t reflects with entire intelligibility
the practical quality Of the American
mind.
Only Way to Beat Huns.
but I hope this offensive will not
be begun Independently of nor prior
object and achieving the effect of re-
ducing the German military strength
in the west by embarrassing the Ger
man high command with menaces
from two directions. This, think,
and I speak with knowledge of the
way to beat the enemy thoroughly. If
at all.
Enormous bloodshed on the part
of Americans. Britons. Frenchmen
and others on the west might cause
a great German retirement and might
borders. but seriously doubt whether
1t could do more. The modern mill
tary line is excessively hard to break.
There Is a better way and that Is to
approach from tho east. Before the
final offensive In the west the allies
should build up in the east a mill
tary condition leaving the Germans
no alternative but to weaken them
selves hero in order to enjoy any sort
of safety there.
How to Treat Bolsheviki.
IT the bolsheviki are pro-German
they should be swept out of the way;
IL they are Russian patriots but can
not be made to see the danger in the
existing situation to themselves and
all other lovers of freedom they still
should be swept out of the way. Amer
lea and the allies should say to them:
If you yourselves will not fight for a
free civilization you ought not, and
shall not. prevent the democracies of
the world from doing what is essen
tia1 to their salvation
'"The bolsheviki hold the power in
Russia, but they are not representa-
tive of Russia Their ideas and ethics
are not Characteristic Of anything
native to the Russian soil. They are
International anarchists. They are
very aggressive and have the nation
intimidated. Unless 1t is aided from
the outside 1t may remain under the
spell of bolshevik arrogance and
brutality Indefinitely. But II the
armed forces of democracy 90 into
the country accompanied by the prop
er propa ganda bolshevikism will fall
before them and the real Russia will
gather to their support. I see no
other way under heaven to save Rus