The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-26
'HERTL|NC'S PEACE
SPEECH INTENDED
FOR GERMAN EARS
Allied Military Men De-
clare Huns Cannot
Leave East Front.
DISASTER IS AHEAD
Central Powers T ace the
Probability Of Losing
turkey, Bulgaria
and Rumania.
DISASTER IS AHEAD


military analysis of Chancellor Won
Hertling's peace suggestions in his
speech to the Reic'lstag shows. ac-
cording to army officials. that it IS
Intentionally misleading and was put
out for home consumption.
The military experts paid especial
attention today to that part OF the
peace feeler which leads the German
people to believe that the status OF
German affairs in Russia will enable
Germany to withdraw troops from
Russia to the crnm bling western
front. They declare that the chan
cellor must have had Official news
of the progress of the drive in Ma
eedonia and of the British menace to
the Turkish lines at least in Pales-
Both Of these Developments it
was declared by competent military
authorities TODAY. make 1t impossible
for Germany To Withdraw any troops
from Russia or her own eastern front,
II She is not willing u surrender Tur-
key. Bulgaria and Roumania to the
entente allies"
1t is maintained by staff officers
that every soldier Germany can spare
must be sent to the balkans and that
already the eeaseIeSs drive OF the
Serbians, French and English has
made il impossible for such assis-
lance to arrive in time 10 be of much
value
Both diplomatic and military OBJ
servers say that all OF this must have
been known to the German chancel-
Tor when he admitted the serious re-
verses on the western front and tried
TO bolster up the situation by a fall
lacious promise thaI-the western
front would be reinforced by troops
from Russia"
The not too optomistic conjecture
of officials here seems to be that
German must soon = bandon Bulgaria
and Turkey to their fate. Turkey. it is
believed, already sees that there are
two ways of making campaign
against the Dardeneiies and that one
of them is by the British army I'M
der General Allenbv, Among mill
tary men here il is thought that Bull
garia is as good as gone and that an
early all-round finish is to he. expect
ed much earlier than these military
experts are willing he quoted as
saying just yet, Russia. they say is
also practically lost TO German. and
with Turkey. Bulgaria and Roumania
Eons--and these are all early proba-
hiiities-Germanv and Austria will
give up the game. That will happen
people find out ther" is no reinforce
ments in sight except hy the total
abandonment OF Russia and all the
gains in the east.
For reasons they do not give in de-
tail. staff officers say that the drive
through Macedonia is far and away
the most important development Of
the last year of the war The
only event comparable with It is the
Ga saJ I~xr
the Americans and French. The Ser
bans and their allies already have
cut the Bulgarian army in two with
the chances indicating that the riv-
isions on the right OF the allied ad-
vance will have to hnrrender----
Another phase OF the generally de-
pressing situation to Austria and Ger
many is that the alleged Bolshevik
army has not been able to repulse
either of the allied armies now adj
vancing into the heart of Russia The
Americans, English and French are
already about half way between
Arehangci and Nolosda. and are re-
building the railway lines from Arch
angel to that point as they advance.
The trans Siberian railway practi-
crlly as far as Samara. about $50
miles southeast of Moscow, is in the
hands OF the other allied army. The
Boishevik armies opposing these adj
vances are reinforced by Germans,
but the material Is the old bandit
Red Guard. which is falling back
steadily on both fronts
General March. the chief Of staff,
was obliged to omit his Wednesday
interview with the press today. He
however. doubtless shares the optim-
ism of the day as expressed by the OBJ
servers of military events he has
gathered around him. One Of his
staff said today that when the Brit
ish and the allies took GaMbrai the
situation as to Berlin would be what
il was to Paris when the Germans
were near Amiens