The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-22

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 The work of the W1lhelmstrasse, like the patient and artful labors of the white ant, is not apparent until the edifce attacked is either threat ened with ruin or is giving way.
 BoIoism In Italy.
 The military forces only interfere to give the death blow.
 It is the history of the Russia of the Soviets; it is also that of Italy of yesterday, stopped for a time on the fatal slope of nuetrality and Bolo- ism. It will be that of every nation too weak to resolutely cut off the tentacles of the German octopus, or too foolishly liberal and hospitable to courageously take by the scruff of the neck the suspected agents, conscious or unconscious, small or great, of German propaganda
 GerTnany's Methods.
 The strong thrust on the Isonzo, which has carried the Imperial forces with a spring an average of seven kilometres daily right up to the banks of the Piave, is, for the Allies, a warning and a salutary lesson. It marks the end of particular fronts, where each. by obstinately localising the war, leaves also to the German su- preme communicable uncontested head of the armies of four vasal na- tions-the liberty to launch when he likes, and at the points the least pro- tected of the world battlefront, his terrible offensives.
 This method has permitted Ger many to occupy vast territories, to ob- tain supplies and raw materials, or, by scandalous financial methods, to degrade to the vilest slavery entire populations, and confning her oppon- ents to a wearing and tearing war, from which she separates whichever party she desires by all kinds of de- pressing propaganda.
 It is strikingly evident that the great Liberal Powers would not tolerate for moment a military yoke analogous to that which Germany places upon it's enslaved Coalitionists. Unity of command fully agreed upon and un- der defined conditions would be no inf1iction upon any of the Allied Pow CTS, if, after three years of war, they would snatch from a still redoubtable foe the last superiority it enjoys. The situation is by no means a new one.
 The Greeks besieging Troy waited ten years before resolving to listen to Ulysses the Wise, who never ceased to impress upon them that govern ment by too many could only end in disaster.
 Folly of Armour Propre." The creation of an Inter-Allied War Council, provided it does not degener- ate into a kind of military parliament, | is a sensible improvement on past er- rors This improvement, nevertheless, does not constitute the solution which it imposes.
 ! We are at the decisive turn of the war, where the ''amour propre'' of the Allied nations must efface itself before the inperious necessity of win ming.
 | We have gone to Italy, not only for the salvation of an Ally 1nomentarily disabled, but to satisfy the Entente l itself.
 The offensive on the Venetian plain resembles in no way the war which has been carried on since the Marne victory on the Western front. The enemy must be compelled to fight g decisive battle, which will permit thf 1 Allies to throw him back, once and fol all beyond the mountains whence he 1 descended like an avalanche. If ht | were allowed to create on any part O the Italian plain a new Flanders front, which, with the aid of powerful artillery, he could fortdfy and main tain, the consequences of 8 simila. state of things would quickly become disastrous.
 Next Offensive.
 Germany, free from danger as fal as Russia. is concerned, would have a her disposal strong forces for an of fensive which must be looked for il Albania and on the Macedonian front It means, then, the establishment, no only in the peninsula, of a war O movement and manoeuvring, but ma! yet perhaps call for the appointment at the head of the Allied armies of { , tactician of the highest order capaibl' of controlling large forces with a SUIT l;..d penetrating eye, and conversan with all the great scientific militar! principles drawn from the high schooli of modern warfare. To a von Buelow ) absolute master of the Austro-Ger } man operations, one does not optSs. Q kind of president or technical hd . wiser of a small military academy. | Deeds must be opposed by deeds, .