El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-11-04
A WONDERFUL CAMPAIGN POSSIBILITY
UNFOLDS ITSELF TO ALLIED NATIONS

LONE and frendless abandoned by the last av Ger
many faces the bitter prospect of surrender or Of
being attacked from the and south well as west by
constantly increasing allied troops
The surrender Of Turkey is momentous event IN its
possibilities That Of Austria Hungary announced Sunday
VIII be important as opening up opportunities
for enlarged warfare against Germany.
The armisioe with Turkey provides among many other
things, for the opening of the Dardanelles and the Bos-
phOrus That that within month allied ships will
be passing through into the Black and campaigning up
the Danube The allies planned that move in 1915 Fail
wrest the Dardanees from its powerful and hard
fighting TurcoGeman defenders forced the abandonment
Of the campaign
The Danube navigabe for light arships clear up to
the back door OF Germany and permits the speedy ber-
alton Of brave little Rumauia That of itself viii be
highly important. Partly for the sake of the queen
OF Rumana, who never, in the darkest hours of Hun
domination has hating denouncing openly
enemies of the allies the latter extremely anxious
restore Rumana to its rghtful owners The socaed peace
treaty between the central powers and Rumana, signed
Immediately after the BrestLtovsk treaty between the
central powers and Russia left Rumana real independ
whstever.
Restoration Of Rumania also means removal from leu
ton possession Of the great oil fields of that country and
from Teutonc appropriation the big harvest which have
greatly aided Germany this year. Furthermore it VIII cut
Germany off from the direct route the Black prov
of Russia whence Germany has been obtaining fire.
queut shipments Of supplies
Turkey having capitulated, the allied army of Asia
Minor VIII become the army of the Danube joining
forces with the allied army operating in clearing up Ser
via and Montenegro It complete the subugation of
Austa-Hungary, if necessary, but it work more eff
fectivey If the aTmstice with Austa-Hungay is arranged
to allow the free passage Of allied troops the Ger
border. This border describes huge letter IS" An
army attacking from the would drive against the up
Per half Of the letter. probably aiming Dresden which
lies about 20 miles beyond the Austrian border The
half Of the letter would be attacked by the allied army
driving up from Italy, with Munich, capital of Bavaria
the first objective Munich SIS miles inside the German
Italian frontier small of Austria and pass
ing through Innsbruck and Rottenburg
Such the possibilities of attack opened up the
allies by of the surrender Of Turkey and Austria
Hungary.
absolutely impossible for Germany to defend sue
eesuly the west front and this letter IS" the same
tine
The south and east frontiers which form the letter
would make line longer by half than the west front which
Germany is unable to hold intact with the uti
zstiOn Of nearly all available forces.
There certain number Of German troops in Rus
STA and Finland and in Rumania and handful with
the Turkish army and possibly few divisions with the
Hungarans in Italy. All the rest the west
front with the exception of small detachments mostly in
electives that duty the interior Of Germany. 1t
IS impossible for Germany to form line of defence on
the south and east without stripping the west front Of d.
visions which cannot properly be spared.
This is the desperate situation which faces the
proaches its climax.