The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-06-21
Where the Allies Should Strike.

dlll6d IOECes next lew weeks
many may be expected to go on the defensive for year
or two while she is engaged in developing army
in Russia She probably feels that if she cannot beat
the allies, neither can they beat her. By presenting
solid front and maintaining waiting attitude Germany
doubtless calculates that the allies and America cannot
drive her back to the Rhine before she raise i'm
army of Russians Then, with fresh army of say
100 900 men, with reserves of 100000 to draw
upon, Germany could resume the offensive with very
good prospects of becoming the mistress of the world
Who is preventing Germany from exploiting Russia?
Who has stepped in and Kept Germany out of Courand
Esthonia Poland. Bessarabia Ukrania and Finland?
No That territory is German The population
longer Russian The ablebodied of those prov
nces are subject to service in the German army They
are putting the German uniform and acquiring
the goose step. Individually they may protest. but col
lectivey they obey When Germany needs more Russian
territory she has but to show her teeth snar over Russa
crime in muddying the water downstream and annex
few million square versts and few million candidates
for fodder The Germanizng of Russia in Short
is already in full swing.
If Germany now is temporarily on the decline in man
power while the allies through Americas help are be-
coming stronger is evidently the right moment to
strike for the purpose of disabling Germany and pre-
venting her raising fresh army Where shell the stroke
be delivered? If in France and Flanders it must be in
decisive just Germanys heaviest strokes have failed
to break down the allies 1t would require an enormous
army vastly greater than the Americans have in mind
defeat the German armies in France and Flanders Be-
fore the allies can raise such army Germany may have
doubled her forces from the Russian reservoir
The enemy should be struck at It's weak point as we'll
where he is and doubeshotted If Ger
many had chosen France field of defeatsm and dis
Indignation, and had tried to set up French Lenne and
French Trotzky traitors to deliver France over to
destruction there would have been different story
Germany sought out the weak point in the allied armor
and found it Russia Them by supelative cunning and
energy she broke down Russia and achieved greater r
umph than has been achieved by force of arms The
German victory in Russia has cost the lives of hundreds
of thousands of Frenchmen Brtshers and Italians and
many Americans doomed to die because of the alb
sence of Russia from the battle line.
Why not give Germany dose of this terrible medicine
by breaking down Austria? Germany is cunning but she
has monopoly of brains The allies can command first
class intellect for the accomplishment of the disruption
of Austria The heavy artillery needed is intellect with
bullets incidental aids Austria is in worse condition
than Russia when Germany saw and acted upon her
opportunity to bring about marvellous change in the
war. Instead of combining her ambition to the Berlin
Bagdad scheme Germany expanded it to include the Ham
burg Herat hegemony. Unless she is disabled she will
face within few months with every prospect of ex-
tending these possessions Germanys weak point is Aus
tra and the two smaller satellites Bulgaria and Turkey
The allies should strike at these and demosh them with
out conjunction of delay If the allies do not strike
betimes they themselves will be compelled to fight Ger
many plus Russia prospect sufficient to appall the
stoutest hearts either side of the Atlantic
If Japan is willing to go into Russia to hold back the
Germans the allies should bid her godspeed The jap
peril" if it should materiaze can be looked after
when it comes. Let us have one peril at a time The
immediate peril is Germany. 1t would be supremey fool
ish to forego the opportunity to deal heavy blow at
Germany for fear that aJpan would not keep faith jap
an has kept faith Germany has not. Japan may ask
compensation for saving Russia cry WELL let her have
generous compensation tt is better that Japan should
have part of Russia than that Germany should have all Of
it. The ne-spun theory that the Russian bolsheviki
would have their sensibtes offended by the presence
of Japanese the sacred soil of Russia does not appeal
to those who have just the bolshev sell this soil
to Germany for a song
While Japan doing her best to stem the German food
in the Far East the allies should strike hard at Austria by
EVERY means in their power but principally by reyou
tionary propaganda, aided by naval aggression in the
Adiratc. The Italian French and American fleets are
free to operate there They should be bombardng and
destroying Pola, occupying Trieste and Fume and out
thanking the Austrian forces on the Piave-Wa Washington
Post.
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