El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-06
GERMAN VAUNT5
GREAT ARMIES
Ignores the Fact That She
Took Best Men to West to
Meet 1917 0ffensives.
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permit the resumption OF internatiOna
! commerce. But the gentle German
I VIII probably not walt for the recon
Z struCtion OF the delicate machinery o
trade; II he sees what he wants. hs
viii take &c. regardless OF the Wlshei
/ OF the owners, and the only real prob
lem IS. therefore. that OF transport
The policy Of piracy has already beer
officially proclaimed, both by Ger
many and Austria, towards the I'M
happy Ukraine peoples republic"
Rightly or wrongly. the Germans
] pin great hopes TO the colossal often
sives which they think viii break the
I allied fronts In France and later In
italy and in the Balkans.
Al the beginning OF last year. be-
sides the 100000 soldiers OF Russia,
Britain and France each had some
thing over 100000 IN the zones Of
. operations and italy more than 1900
! 900 modified. Allowing for the forces
{ OF the smaller allies. IT was then cal
I culated that the entente had in the
/ field & 100000 men. AT the same time.
/ the fighting army OF Germany con-
I tained 100000 mel. Austria had
I 100000. Turkey very rouEhtlv 1.100.-
! 900. and Bulgaria about 40 900. The
central powers n January. 1917. thus
I disposed OF 100000 soldiers. a little
! less than 1000. 900 below the numbers
I OF the entente
Allies Forces Shrink.
Today, with Russia out and Ru-
mania and America Just beginning to
come IN. the numbers Of the allies
] have sunk by nearly G 900 900. The su-
perhuman efforts OF Germany are said
TO have made up the losses OF 1917 and
added 100000 men to her armies. while
I the strengths OF her vassal sta ties
have remained constant so that at
the moment. instead OF q deficit OF
100000. THE CENTRAL POWERS
Y AVE N THE WAR ZONES ? 600 OnO
MORE MEN THAN THEIR OPPO-
NENTS. This Is very nice for Ger
many but for various reasons these
figures are more imposing on paDer
than in the field. as viii be shown.
And not even German critics do much
Dragging about resources: for to Op-
pose to the millions OF potential SOL
diers in America, Germany, aside from
growing boys can call upon some
thing ike $4,000 more men Austria
upon $4,000. Turkev unon 10000. and
Bulgaria upon 5000. These are most
liberal estimates OF the final possible
comb out In the enemy countries. and
the total reserves Indicated OF 1885,
000 men represent not more than one
half to one-third the net losses the
central powers must expect 20 suffer
this year
Submarine a Trump Gard.
The submarine Is Germany's great
trump card against the forces OF west
ern civilization. II her offensives fall
The enemy claims. since the beginning
OF the war, to have sunk nearly half
OF the tOunaEe existing IN 1914. To
maintain a million Americans. the
Germans declare. 1900 tons OF cargo {
per day must be delivered IN France. [
and the ships do not exist TO DO this In
addition 20 supplying the minimum
needs OF the British, French and
Italian populations
Finally, an enormous military ad-
vantage Is claimed for Germany be- I
cause her general staff rules supreme I
over all the forces OF the central pow Z
ers unhindered by any democratic !
trumpery OF civilian control over the I
war lords, or by the conflicting de- {
sires OF allies IN an alliance in which 1
Prussia IS first and the others no
where The war council at Versailles. I
the efforts Of the allies IN aft@i~ uri+v- 4
of command. are sneered at By the
enemy. Our combinat ton Of a union .
OF equal democratic states is declared !
by the Germans incapable OF realizing ]
that singleness OF aim and method en-
bodied IN the Hindenburg-LudendorffI
The Case for the AHieS.
All German optimism. all allied pes
simism, IS based very largely on the I
put forward above.
Having set down the German case
fairly, as Interpreted from mass
Of reports and documents from enemy
llAAAAA'As1 anu AA4ll inc EAGlNA- HAEEa
7 VIII now show how IN the opinion i
OF the best judges here. we have no
real reason to be cast down at the
arguments by which the
enemy keeps Up his courage.
When the revolution broke out and
the revolutionary virus resulted IN
half the Russian soldiers going home
TO seek land, Germany commenced !
combing out her s. divisions IN the
east Drafts OF the youngest and
strongest soldiers we're ealied Tot ,T, rom
each regiment and sent to fiji the
gaps caused IN the west By the bloody
on the Aisne. at Arras and IN
FLANDERS These drafts were con-
tinued throughout the whole year. A
few firstclass fighting units were kept
In the east, and e IS these which have
Just performed prodigies Of marching.
against no opposition, and compelled
the Russians 20 sign a disEraceful
peace But the reserves OF firstclass
German troops on the east front at
the moment when peace was signed,
six or seven divisions. or about $4,000
men
Germany cannot have It both ways
She has used up IN the Artois and
Flanders her best men from the east;
she long ago discounted the peace
with Russia.
Germany Has Only DreEs Left.
America Is coming on. and against
these fresh young soldiers GERMANY
CAN BRING ONLY THE DREGS OF
HER ARMIES. RETAINED IN RUS
STA As NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO
FIGHT IN THE WEST. ancient land
5turmers and landwehr. It Is true that
from 100000 to l,250.000 OF these poor
soldiers can be. and are being. sent to
the west but at best they can only
be used 20 hold quiet sectors while
the good German divisions do the
IN the battle zones The mill
-ary situation on the west front Is Sc
-ious. for until America Is ready. the
7ntente has no fresh men 70 put in.
But the above considerations will
show how Tar from the facts are the
llarmist Views taken IN some quar-
.ers and assiduously circulated. and
The entra OF America has meant
GOD and more supplies for her allies.
las established their credits. and en-
ibled q real blockade ts be enforced
against Germany for the firt time;
md ! have seen piles OF statistics re-
yardiug shortage OF vital raw mate
ials in Germany caused during the
last year BY the stOppage Of leakages
rom Scandinavia and Holland that
ould not be prevented. before 1917.
Without running the risk OF trouble
With Washington.
The submarine situation Il not
20 bad a. the Germans would have
the world believe. II r. serious
enough, bat the combined imvcm-
tive brains OF England and Ameri-
co have brought into being de-
vices that the admiralty expects
VIII decrease the sinking.
Meanwhile pessimistic reports con-
srning the construction OF new ton