Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-09-13
GEnMANl,s DESPERATE rLIGmr

News that high officials ot the
Central empires bloc are about 20
confer on project to bring Turk
ish and Bulgarian troops 10 the
western front need cause no sur
prise IL Is the logical reply to the
events OF the past few weeks and TO
the increasing threat of American.
strength In France. says the Detroit
Free Press,
The action IN plain admission Of
German weakness and OF the con-
stornation with which even the Teu-
tonic high command regards tho ap-
proaehing period OF the war Foch
is preparing 10 play his trump card
tho American manpower, Won
HindenburE In preparing to counter
for the pnrpose OF winrins at least
draw. with his last card, the avail
able manpower Of the allies Of Ger
many.
II is obvious that this Turkish.
Bulgarian and Austrian manpower
has been saved by the Germans for
Just such an emergency az the ap-
preaching one. There have been
many occasions In the past when
they must have been soreiy tempted
20 call upon tho Turk. the Bul-
EarlRn and evan the Austrian. hard.
pressed as they were for some re-
turn In manpower for tho frequent
and decisive help rendered TO them
In tho pas, four years
Not for nothing have the kaiser'u
troops been running all over central
and southwestern Europe TO turn
the scales OF battle for tho armies OF
oermany'a allies II is not through
any dlsintereHted. altrulstic friend
ship that Austrian troops 10 ualicla
we're strengthened by an infusion OF
German soldiers. or that Rumania
was overrun by Faikcnheyn. or that
German shock troops broke the ital-
ian line along the lsonEo An these
things had their price. Rs had the
German millions loaned 90 Turkey,
the Krupp guns and munitions
poured Into Constantinople. the
German officers loaned TO the sui
tan's armies Won Mackensen ala
not overrun the DobrudJa merely to
turn q over 60 Bulgaria without oh.
liERtlon nor dld German troops as.
Hlst Turkey and Bulgaria IN winning
Macedonia without a very plain and
specific understanding regarding tho
future. In which. we may be sure,
Just such an eventuRlity as now faces
Germany was the principal item.
But the kaiser would never have
called upon his allies :or this help
had he not been In desperate straits
Austrian. Turk and Bulgarian would
have had nothing to do with German
shock troops or German officers n
they had been able to stand alone,
Just how large a combined force
Germany's allies will bc able 20 lend
hor probably no one In the United
States or In any ally country Is in a
position 10 calculate. Probably the
kaiser has set his generals and allies
the task Of balancing the prospective
superiority Of 500 600 troops In the
west which our own military men
are confidently looking forward TO
not later than next June
Il is possible that IA order TO 40
this, other fronts viii bc sacrificed
II the Teutons decide. us have the
allies and the United statcs. Tat the
western front is the decisive one and
that there, and thcro alone. the war
can be decided we probably shall
zee the italian, the Russian. tho trk
ranian, the Macedonian. and even
the Asletic fronts stripped ot AN
except defensive forces and eigau-
nc concentration made In France.