The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-06
GERMANY BEsIEGED.

The acceptance by Austria Hungary Of the armstiee
imposed on her by the allies and the United States in
dictates that the empire viii no longer play any part in
the present world conflict Germany is alone face
to face with the world in arms The collapse Of Bulgaria
Turkey and Hungary sets free the Italian army
in the Trentno under Gen. Daz the army Of the Orient
under Gen. Franchet dEsperey, the FrancOItaan army
operating in Albania, the Palestine army under Gen.
Aenby the British army in Mesopotamia and the British
army Egypt for service elsewhere In addition there
is now no reason why the ROumanian army should not
again take the field as Field Marshal Mackensen
forced to ovacuate the territory of King Ferdinand
and do hurredy he desires to escape capture
These combined forces of the entente powers amount
to at least two and half million men, Deducting half
a million the army Of occupation in Asia Minor,
Bulgaria and the dual monarchy the allies have at their
disposal force Of two million for operations against
Germanys southern frontier The concentration of this
force should not take very long prove very difficult
Masters of the Black Sea- the allied fleets can convey the
armies in Asia Minor to the Bulgarian and Roumanian
ports They further hold two lines of railway running
Through Bulgaria to the Hungarian and ROamanian from
tiers The Danube is navgable from its delta in the
Black Sea right up to Vienna. Through the Adratic
troops be conveyed Fume and Trieste and thence
by rail through Austrian territory Bavaria Saxony and
Slesa thus directly menaced 1t is not the territory
of Prussia alone that is now threatened Munich and
Dresden already the invading armies advancing with
giant strides
Where then, will Germany find the men to defend her
southern frontiers? AL THAT she can at present count
upon is the army Of Field Msrshal Mackensen pro-
vided he is lucky enough to escape in time from the
Danubian kingdom. If Germany decides to evacuate
Poland the troops in garrison there may swell the
number of Mackensens army. But it is notorious
that the army of occupation in Poland is composed of
very inferior troops, mostly landwehr and even land
sturm elements which would have little chance against
the seasoned troops of France Italy, Britain and Serbia
1t is probable too that if the allies should promise
that the provinces wrested from Denmark in 1864 shall
be returned to her. that country would take the field
against Germany and cut her off from all communication
with the outer world by the north Denmark few days
the first indication that she is prepared to take
steps have the wrong done her in 1854 repaired when
she called upon Germany to carry out the clause Of the
treaty of peace of 1854 providing for pbscite Of the
inhabitants of north Holsten to whether they want
to be Danes or Germans. AS the allies have solemnly
promised the Poles that their ancient kingdom shall be
restored with outlet to the sea- they may be trusted
to mount guard Germanys eastern frontier and thus
complete her enlightenment and isolation from the out
side world.
In a few weeks Germany will be beseged fortress
educed to subsst entirely on her own resources This
tate of affairs already realized for few months in
1914 and the beginning Of 1916 but the allies were not
'arseeing powerful enough to maintain the ring Of
1ayonets around the empire of the kaiser and allowed
ron Mackensen to burst the circle on the Danube and
open up the route from Germany to Asia Minor which
permitted the Huns to successfully defy the world up
% two months ago. But repetition of this exploit is
low impossible The ring of STEEL tipped with 10000
300 bayones is slowly but surely increasing its pressure
crushing the German empire in its fatal grasp Surren
der unconditional surrender the only way it can es
cape destructon--Wa Washington Post.