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New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
New Frontiers Against an
4 y Old Barbarisrn

France saved US at the Marne, hut
France herself remains in part in the
enemy's hands. The German still holds
regions and provinces seized in 1914 and
in 1871. Without both France is incon.
rlete, indefensible, and her moral claim
to FLANDERS and to Champagne is no
stronger than her moral title to Alsace
and Lorraine. We are to erect new
frontiers against an old barbarisra, and
we must erect them in such fashion AZ
to make certain that if the need ever
comes again France can again hold the
gateway-not this time at the Marne.
but at the Rhine.
French provinces stolen IN 1871 baye
been the foundation of German strategy
in 1914. Without Metz and Strassburs
Germany could not have undertaken III,
Belgian adventure without risking csy.
tain ruin. French iron has supplied
Germany with the essential material for
her onslaught, and Rheims Cathedral
has been destroyed by the shells MADE Of
iron found in French soil. Without this
ore new German attack will be i'm.
possible
And there IS vet another aspect to the
case. The loss Of her provinces-her
by every claim. hers by The viii Of TIE
people who inhabited them, hers bv lne
voluntary decision of men of other pea
eratlons IN certain cases-,yas for France
q moral even more than a material blow
a beaten France suffered over more thaa
forty years with q deep sense of the lr.
Jury other nations bad done the rrer-s
people by consenting to this sncasto.,
And now, when France has 30 mu.n
added to tho debt all civilized Nanhnd
owes to her, now when The fourth roni.
Tersary Of the Marine brings such power.
Jul reminders Of the French consriDu.
uon, now is tie time for Pritsa
and for America to resole, tha.
rance shall emerge from the struggle,
"hlch VIII be won thanks 20 French
sacflhce and devotion in the time before
Britain and America could prepare. re.
stored to her rightful limits and her
proper extent We do not know what
sor1 or Germany we shall face in tie
Iuture, but we do know that in all fut.
tfe time France win remain the guar
oiah OF the gateway, and for that rea.
So'i the gateway must be made strong.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

tories had not gone to their brains, as
the wine Of Champagne went to the
brains Of many of their soldiers, who,
still drunk, were captured by Foch's sol
diers in La Fere Champenoise.
In the first days Of September Calais
and Boulogne were open to the smallest
German attack German garrisons oc-
fupied Amiens and Chalons, cutting the
main line of French communication with
their British ally and practically isolat-
ing the French eastern fortresses from
Paris. Verdun was almost surrounded
and doomed to fall like ripe fruit into
German hands, Maubeuge was on the
point Of surrender and its surrender
would have opened the only essential
line of communication between German
and Northern France.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
NE est Between
L. Two Civilizations

At the very bottom of things the First
Battle Of the Marnc was the test be-
tween two civilizations-be between the
civilization Of the savage heart and the
scientific brain and the civilization which
IS the common heritage of the Western
and democratic nations. The contrast
was as great the issue as unmistakable
at the A1arne as at Marathon, the Ger
man idea as deadly to Western civiliza-
ton as was the Persian, the victory in
France and within the hearing Of Paris
as significant in human history as that
other triumph the news of which was
according to legend, brought to Athens
by messenger who could run the short
distance in a few hours.
And, by comparison with the Marine
all the other battles of this war have
been lesser events. Even the enic Of
Nerdun compares only in its human
qualities. The reason is simple: at no
time since the First Marne has there
been the same obvious menace of Sill
preme disaster following defeat. For
forty-four years the German planned
and prepared-the sum total of his
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
~hey Denied Theye Had
n Been Any Battle

And to this very day the German ex-
planation Of the Marnc remains un-
made. Ior three years. indeed, the Ger
mans denied that there had been Bat
tie Of the Marne Their official state
ments went dumb in the very first days
of September, when the fight was be-
ginning. The battle itself, the Battle
for Paris was covered by the reports
OF Hlnden5urgs triumph at Tannenberg.
Only after the retreat to the Aisne was
over did the official utterances begin
again to take up the fortunes of the
army which had reached the very en-
virons of Paris And this return to the
western campaign for brief hour was
only because for that space of time
the Germans were convinced, the Cen
eral Staff was convinced, that they had
repaired their mistakes and were now
about to resume their offensive. which
had been interrupted at the N1arne.
But it was too late. Joffre had al
ready begun that turning movement on
fields which in recent days have seen an
other mighty struggle and new victory
of French genius and British and French
devotion. The race to the sea" had be-
gun. and the active front moved away
from Paris until the last German hone
Of swift victory and short war per-
ished in the mud and fog of Flanders.
where Britain, France and Belgium
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

such that it is beyond question that
France would have been incapable of
that mighty reorganization which made
1T possible for the French army to con-
tlnue it's resistance over four more
years
The proof of this is on the map; had
the Germans never been able to advance
beyond the Marne they would still have
necessarily taken the eastern fortresses,
already almost .enveoped; they would
have taken the last Of French iron fields
IN Lorraine. Nancy and its surrounding
Industrial regions would have passed
like the coal regions of the north to
German hands. Seated at the edge Of
the Channel, too, the Germans would
nave been able, without the loss Of
man, to do those things for the chance
to do which they sacrificed masses Of
men a few weeks later in the final act of
the Marne campaign, which was the
Battle of Ypres. Never was there q bet
ter example of the fashion in which lost
opportunities do not return. A division
of Lancsturm could have taken Calais
IN the first days of September; all the
kaiser's best corps failed in the same
task in October and November
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

and the road to Calais was OPEN But
once through it halted, seemed to lack
any commanding spirit to direct it, hest
tated until guns were brought from no.
where and handful of men assembled
out Of thin air attacked and destroyed
the Victors
A certain section of the French peo-
pie call the Marne ''niracle." 1t was
not a miracle, because it was the result of
the cool, essentially French logic, which
conceived, ordered and executed the bat
tie plans. But, at the least, the losing Of
the Marne was miracle. Even at this
day it is hard to sec how The Germans
lost, not the battle, but the campaign, or
why they threw away the decisive ad
vantage which they had acquired by
September / in mad rush south Of the
Marine. But they did, and after four
Marne stand unamended, unmoditied
All the Germans failures have been
repetitions Of the Marine; all his oppor-
tunties have been thrown away in the
same fashion.
1t is only four years since the Marne
was fought, but it has already become
remote and most of its chief figures
legendary Joffre is a marshal and
memory. Moltke the younger is dead
perhaps of a broken heart. Klucll.
Bulow, Hausen have disappeared from
the battle line. If the Grown Prince re-
mains, it is as a battered figurehcad. On
The French side Galli3ni, who recognized
the moment and the opportunity when
Kluclz exposed his flank to Paris, IS
dead. Maunoury, who delivered the first
blow, IS blind and retired. Franchet
d'Esperey is in Greece. Sarrail has dis
appeared. Castelnai, still commands On
the Nancy front; only Foch remains
present power-but what power.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Genius Of
France Achieved
the Victory
of Civili-
zation
Copyright, lsls-The New Yo,k
Tribune Inc.

man mastered the machine. That tb,
should have twice happened at q.
Marine is one Of the rarest Of all II,
condolences OF written history.
Last week all over the United ssa,a,
there was a double celebration-the oh.
servation Of the anniversary of Lafav.
cite and Of the Marine. The tribute ~
all America was laid at the feet Of orr
oldest ally, bcnefactor in the preso,.
as in the earlier century. But as va
approach the point where the end o.,
the war settlements may again be dis.
cussed it seems to me these details
which affect France must be viewed IN
the light Of the Marne and what il
meant to US, to all civilized men and
women. for all Of whom German victory
would have been peril personally and
for their children
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

genius and his resources was expressed
in this drive from Liege to Meaux-
from the German frontier to the envi-
rons of Paris--and the sum total was
insufficient in the face of French genius
and French devotion.
After the Marine the German sought
to reconstruct his edihce-his material
resources were enormous. He could
come again and yet again to the Western
front with superior numbers and su-
perior weapons, but his military genius
was insufficient. Joifre had beaten
Moltke, Petain defeated Falkenhayn.
Focn overwhelmed Ludendorff the
French mind was invariably the master
Of the German machine.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Me Outcome of the War
Was Decided in 1914

Today men and women are thinking
OF contemporary battles and contempo.
rary events, and the First Battle Of the
Marne is already thing remote, ike
Nalmy-alnost like Marathon. Yet
make no excuse for dealing with /.
rather than with the contemporary
struggles, because l believe that the out
come OF the war was decided on the
battlefield between Paris and Verdua
between September and September 10,
1914. Ever since that period the Ger
man has sought by every frantic and
calculated device to abolish the decision
then had that he could not overthrow
Western civilization or supplant Western
democracy by the Prussian gospel of
force. We have trennblod before eacn
attack. We have seen each attack fall
and now as we enter the final phase a
the war, at last possessed Of the num-
bers and the material necessary for the
task, we are out exploiting the victor!
OF the Marine, carrying cut the loglea
and ineluctable decision made on Sep
tember 8, in the late afternoon, when
foch attacked westward of La Fere
Champenoise and by his success insured
a German retreat from the Oise to tie
Meuse. But the genius was not ths
genius of Foch or of Joffre-it was tns
genius of France, and the victory was
the victory of the civilization Frame
like ourselves, held to; the civilization
France had already twice saved, again"
the Huns at Chalons ard against Il"
Saracens at Poitiers. Like Maratheo'
the Battle of the Marne did not over
"hem the common enemy immediatsh'
bat, like Marathon, its wound w''
mortal.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Cermany Would Have Held
~ France to Ransom

Had Moltke, had the German General
Staff but contented itself with mo-
ment's pause, with brief withdrawal
over a few miles to defensive positions
at the Marne, it would have been posi-
bic, simple, to have Strengthened the
line across France to the channel. Calais
and Boulognc would have fallen, unde-
Tended. The line Of the Somme would
have been occupied, and thus, on
straight and short front from the sea to
the Argornc, behind The Marne, Ger
many would have held Frence to ran
som; could have proceeded to the capt
duction of France as one eats an ar
tichoke, leaf by leaf
All these immense and patent posi-
bilities were surrendered to the gran
diose dream Of the superman, to the in
toxication Of the first successes. The
German failed to see realities; he saw
only the swift end, the final destruction
Of the French armies, which in his vision
had already succumbed where they had
only retreated "Six weeks to Paris"
had been the timetable of the High
Command, and since it was there must
be realization of the timetable.
literally
This mistake of the First Marine was
repeated at the Second, was illustrated
at Verdun. Three times the German
convinced himself that he was irrcsisti-
BILE, and three times, acting on the con-
vction, he met defeat But if he had
decided upon a temporary halt on the
first days OF September, when his armies
had reached the Marine; if he had then
dug in as he dug in few days later
after the Marne and behind the Aisne,
his hold upon France would have been
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
\ u Army Assembled Out
"a of Thin Air

There is record of the Prussian
Guards in the last phase of the Battle of
lpres which somehow seems to sum the
who'e German case up. At a critical
moment, when the last British reserves
were in and Field Marshal French was
collecting cooks and hostlers to make a
'scratch' reserve, the Prussan Guards
attacked and broke the British line. It
advanced over the wrecks of the last
British resistance; it was clean throuoh
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
IF the Germans Had
B. Grasped Realities

On the military side, knowing as we
snow now that the war Of positions was
bound inevitably to come, it is impossi-
ble to escape a sense of retrospective
horror at what might have been the
consequences had the Germans grasped
realities instead of clinging to the futile
notion that decadent France was
bound to succumb to German might: if
The amazing cycle of preliminary vic
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

stood in the last ditch, and, with the sin
gle commander, Foch, raised dixie
across the pathway of the masses which,
under the very eye of the Kaiser, sought
to back their way to the Channel They
had lost Paris in September; they finally
lost Calais in November, and the six
weeks dash to Paris was over
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-26

encourage of intriguers and mischief
makers, the only class of men who seemed
to be able TO hold his confidence. II was
generally known that the Chief-ofSStaff,
General Alcxeyeff, had told the Tzar
bluntly that he could not attend the
social functions to which the Tar always
gave first attention. On the writer s
return trip from the front, the train
in which he Travelled, which was military
train, was side-tracked for II hours, to
allow the special trains of the Tar and
his court the exclusive use of the tracks,
to urn from their ''jaunt' to the capital.
PUT SELF ABOVE STATE.
In 1916, at the moment of the Brusiloif
drive on the southwestern front, The Tar
insisted on holding his usual birthday
party" All the members of the Imperial
family and many of the Ministers had TO
come down to headquarters, each IN hIs
special train One Russian remarked to
the writer at the time. "Ilow many lives
will this act of Nicholas cost Russia?
Our already lmping railway service will
be completely dcmora!ized for three or
four DAYS Just when we must get tood
and equipment to the fighting line :
During the first months of the revo-
luton little attention was paid to the
dcpoScd sovereign, except III the dis
patches 10 foreign countries, describing
the personal hfc Of the former Tar >
COST RUSSIA DEARLY.
Nicholas Romanoff as Tar of Russia,
cost Russia dearly He gave to Russian
foreign policy the direction which made
il deserve the suspicion of the world In
doing So however he was playing into
the hands of his more predatory nclghhor
In fact he was being used 10y Wilhelm,
who knew how to avail himself of Nicho-
las Weaknesses and get him 10 sign
secret treaties, of which even his For
cign Minister had no knowledge till
after the Tar had affixed his sigma
ture for 1S0, 900 600 human beings.
As Tar he WAS able to block all efforts
on the part Of such men rs Wltte or
Stolvpin TO bring about changes IN
the internal rs we'll as the foreign
policy of Russia Th,sc men wished
to save the dynasty and also the
country from he DISASTER which they
saw must come unless the changes
were genuinely effected
He made il impossible for men like
Prince Ivotf Guchkof. Miyoukof or
kcrenskv TO work III the interest OF
their country and in time TO save It
from d,sintcgratIon Many Of his purely
personal acts dictated only by personal
vanity cost Russia the lives OF thousands
Of her sons How this puny man was
able to hold on as long rs he did, was
the question which was often asked.
is BONDAGE TO SYSTEM.
The answer would seem 10 b that the
Whites and the Stolvpins were power
less. because Of tho system the Mil
youkofis and kcrenskvs were unable
10 break through the intrcnchcd positions
Of this system and all the tune ii
was the system Of the Kaiser, even
literally So. because the Kaiser had
learned how to make Nicholas ht in
with his schemes Christian see rce
Monitor.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-26
FUNERAL OF MRS. KEITH.

Special Correspondence Of Every Evening
Dover. Aug. 26.-The funeral Of Mrs.
Mary Keith, wife OF Earl Keith Of Smyrna
who died Friday at q Wilmington hos
pital took place here yesterday afternoon
at , o'clock from the residence Of her
parents, Mir and Mrs John y. Thomas
on Governor avenue and was largely
attended by people from all over the
State.
Services were conducted both at the
house BY Rev. William Lamnlng, pastor
OF ST. Luke's P. f Church, Wilmington,
Del, who had visited the deceased IL
the hospital in Wilmington. and Rev. a.
Victor Iighttourne. pastor Of the Peoples
Christian Church, Of this town. The
pallbea reTs included AyTes J. Shockley.
Leslie NJ Hirons. Harry Joch, George
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-26
NEWS OF A DAY
DOWN DELAWARE
F. L. Hardcsty of Dover Badly
Injured When an Autom obile
Made Wild Dash.
LEG BROKEN IN ACCIDENT
Kent County Local Board Regis
tiers % White and Is Colored
Young Men, Just of Age.
snocial Correspondcnce Of Every Eveninr

Special Correspondence of Every Evening
Dover. Aug. 26-H. |. Beers and John
c. HOPKINS. members Of Kent County
Exemption Board sitting here, Saturday,
: to register young mon coming OF age
since June ), registered 1926 white and
Is coIored as follows:
White Charles Henry Baker, Farming
ton: Louis Edward Ennis, Paul Downs,
William Louis Jacobs, Lester Eerghorn,
Flovd Casson. Ogle Dory Nelson, SMYRNA
jeremiah Legatcs, Hayward Hands, Sam
uel 4 Short Ir, Augustus Schauh Raugh-
lev. Cornelius V. Robbins, Harnngton;
Clarence Bodlne. Milford; Samuel Hunter
Hall Louis Harper SicoX. Arthur Carlton.
lynch Howard Leslie Mcfann, Alfred
T Moore, Dover: Edward Addlcks Walker
John Earle Wcbbert, Hartly; Nolan
Cooper. Magnolia: William Earl Downcs,
Sandtown. Harvey Jacobs, Frcderica !:
Charlie +. Warren, Hervey +. Rentz,
FELTON,. Stephen G. Walker kcnton.
Colored Boys James Sordcn, Charles
Turner, Robert Wayman Wanslcy Dover;
Matthew W RaccuS Clayton. William
Leon Page. SMYRNA. Roy SudlCr, Nyo-
ming: Louis llanslcy, Magnolia; Alex
andcr Forrest. Milford; Jeremiah Ridge
way. Calvin \ Seeney. Chcswold, William
Elijah Hicks, Harrington Francls Il +.
Wilson. Winfrcd f. Sammons, llartly.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-26
BADLY HURT BY AUTO DASH.
Special Correspondence of Every Evening

Special Correspondence of Every Evening
Dover, Aug 26-Saturday evening
about O'Clock car driven by Mr.. Dauls
of near Magnolia, ran amuck on Gov
ernor's avenue. The driver losirg con-
troll of the wheel, and dashed into the
garage of T. l.. Hardesty, striking Mr..
Hardcsty. who was sitting IN front of his
place of business. The ear also broke
large plate glass window, shatterlng
it in a thousand pieces
MIR Hardesty sustained very serious
injuries, including deep cuts on the face,
head and arms, one cut on tho check
penetrating clear through TO the mouth.
One leg was badly torn by the cranklng
lever of the machine and he was other
wise bruised and jared. Drs. James
and Bishop were called IN attendance
and administered aid, after which he was
taken to his home ON north state street,
Ills condition was reported only slightly
improved. yesterday.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-26
DELAW ARE CITY.

Special Correspondence Of Every Evening
Delaware City, Aug PC. Rev. Mr..
Lewis Of Upland, Pa, conducted services
in the Presbyterian Church, Sunday morn
ing and evening
DR.. AIitcheII Of Delaware College
addressed the Young Mems Christian
Association at Fort du Pont, last evening.
Mr. and Mrs. William Nichols are being.
congratulated on the birth of 4 son.
Miss Cardelle Williams OF Florida has
been quite i'll at the home Of Miss Gather
inc Schunder with whom she IS visiting.
Jack Reyhold, employed At Cape Hem
lopen BY r. G. Collins, government con
tractor. has returned home. after spending
a month at that place.
Frank Davidson employed on the
[, 5 Survey boat NlifHin, spent Sunday
here with his family.
Lieutenant Benjamin Miller Of Camp
Dix, spent the sweek-end here with his
parents.
Miss Margaret Evans OF Middletown,
is spending a few days here with Mrs.
Harry Rose
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-26
BATH T[IPLED PRICE
OF AMELICAs PEAL
Took Experts TO Detect the Gems
Treated by Hi ndoo
Chemist.

Paris. Aug u How an American
white pearl worth $4,000 was treated
with chemical, gwen temporarily the
ROSY hue Cf an tncntal pearl ard then
sold for S52 600 has been disclosed here
For dong tins, Barboza. a pearl broker,
and NaTIra i HIndoo, We're fined and
sentenced 10 Imprisonment for taking
By use Of chemicals they cndeavored
to Increase the value of the pearls four fold
This case clears up the mystery which
has existed in the farlS market for tve
years since a dealer IN precious stones
first learned that manipulated pearls
were being sold here
Narma, who is lapdary, claimed in
court that he possessed Il method OF
Improving American pearls and that
he had been promised - share Iii all the
profits derived in treating the one which
led TO his detection, II il were sold for
more than $3I 800 lie was al work at
1t when it was seized by the police The
evidence showed that Narma has used
on the pearl acetate Of amv and collodiOn
4 pearl expert, Reinach told the
Judge that Narma had given the pearl
the ROSY tint Of the Oriental pearl bV
glazing il with chemicals but that the
glazing disappeared when the pearl was
placed in acoh0l Narma was sentenced
to SIX months IN prison and to pay fine
Of 81 900, while Rarboza was sentenced
for three months and to pay a fine Of 500
In its judgement the court stated that
sea pearls from he Orient are very um-
nous and attain high prices, while fresh
water pearls called American, are less
fine, generally white and OF lower value
The pearl treated hy Narma, the court
added had been offered to leading Paris
failed to detect the deception he had
practiced The court declared that Var
mas treatment added no value to the
pearl and that it had only temporary
effect which disappeared if the pearl
were rubbed OF pIaccd In alcohol
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-26
DELINQUENT S. s. MEN.

Charged with being n Stacker John
Saunders is locked up at the police station
and will be turned over Ia the United
States authorities He was arrested by
Patrolman Burchenal
For violations of the selective service
regulations in failing to fill out their ques-
tionnares or reporting for service when
called, five registrants have been sent to
Fort du Pont They are Albert Reese,
registered with Local Board No 4,
Anton Shkvarch, registered at Brooklyn,
y. Y; John Goss, lately of Mt Pleasant,
Del, but who registered at Bozreh,
Conn, where he was employed; Furna
Fiorentino, registered in Harrisburg, Pa
and Peter Schcbclski Al were recently
arrested rs dclnulcnts