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The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1918-08-09
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WASHINGTON. ~. G.. Aug. s.
The output Of bituminous coal In the
United States declined approximately
I per cent during the week Of July
27th. Tho production tincludinE liR-
mite and coal coked) " estimated at
i2.s03.0O net tons. n decrease COM
pared with the week preceding OF a
hundred and twcnty-one thousand net
tons. hut an Increase over the COR
responding week OF last year of L.
t7i.0O0 net tons or ~ per cent. The
average daily production IL estimated
at 2.i3t.000 net tons NJ against g.
$4,000 net tons during the week Of
July goth and ~ compared with L.
sss. 900 net tons during the week of
July -. 1917.
The present weeks output. while
$4,000 net tons or approximately Z
per cent IN excess OF weekly require
mcntS 81 i2.ts9,o0o net tons during
the balance OF the coal year 10 make
up the deficit 20 date. n nevertheless
one million throe hundred thousand
not tons or . per cent behind the
weekly requirements during the ball
nucc of the summer months Ca make
up the deficit a. date. Tho difference
between the summer requirements
and those specified Tor the balance Of
the coal year h. accounted for by the
necessity 10 ship practically all lake
coal during the summer months and
so per cent more tidcwatcr coal 60
New England during the summer
than Ia the winter.
Production TO date h approximately
fifteen million net tons behind sched-
uic. and In order 10 meet all require
mcnt rs outlined by the United States
fuel administration. u win be necca-
aary that the output of coal during
the last Of the summer months. Aug.
unt and September. he equivalent to
over fourteen million net tons per
week. seven hundred and fourteen
thousand net tons or t.S per cent In
excess OF the record week 10 date
The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1918-08-09

Production OF beehive coke In the
United States declined slightly during
the week OF July 27th. Preliminary
estimates place production at 6iT.0oo
net tons. an average per working day
Of 1903. 900 net tons as against 100000
net tons per working day during the
week preceding
The principal operators In the
Conceivable. Greensburg and La
trobe districts ~ Pennsylvania report
production during the week OF July
27th at S4S.iSO nct tons and operation
of the plants at IT'S per cent Of pres
ent capacity as compared with Is,s
per cent during the week preceding
Yard labor losses amounted Ca ls.f
per cent and losses of time due 10 all
other causes 60 81 per cent.
The same operators produced 1885,
$50 net tons Of hituminous coal dur
ing the week OF July 27th.
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Little Variation.

Working conditions Of the hyprod-
uct Industry In the United States var
led but little during the week ended
July 27th. The operators Of the cOun-
Try produced 5i7,66t net tons, work
Ing their plants al 81 per cent OF their
present capacity as against Ga per
cent during the week preceding,
Material increases occurred during
the week In Maryland and hassaehus-
etts. while Kentucky Was the one
state reporting a material decrease.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
Me und Gott

leaving the sea at Neuport, near Os-
tend, and coming over to the Disc River
above Noyon. There the lines turned
corner and ran generally from east to
west as far as Vcrdun, passing near Sos-
sons and Rheims and through the Ar
gonne Forest. Then at Verdun the third
branch began. The line turned another
corner and ran south again past St.
Mihiel, in front of Nancy and along the
Vosges Mountains to the Swiss frontier
The main communications Of this line
TOR the Germans are two sheafs Of road
and railway, one going back to the Ger
man bases through Belgium by way of
Namur and Brussels to Liegc and Co.
logne, and the other going through Lor-
raine by way Of Luxembourg and Metz
to the Rhine at Mayence and other cross
ings.
These main communications were ON
the perpendicular to the then main front
and were therefore we'll protected. Also,
they could work in one with the other,
each supporting the other by cross lines
which joined them up in France The
Germans were superior in number Of
men and in fire power-that is, guns and
munitions.
The Allies, on the other hand, had for
their main communications by which
they had to move munitions back and
forth a set Of roads and railways run
ming parallel to their line and imme-
diately behind it. Theirs was the main
road system and railway running from
Calais and Boulogne to Paris by way of
Amiens. 1t was continued by the main
road system and railway running from
Paris to Verdun and Nancy by the way
of Chateau Thierry, Epernay and Cha
Ions. If these were cut the Allies would
be compelled to serve their front by
slower, roundabout lines, and even these
would be in peril as the enemy ad-
vanced.
The enemy distributed his men wisely
in view of such situation. His dis
position was excellent for the attack
which his greater numbers and possess
sion of the initiative made possible.
He massed by far the greater part of
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
w hat They Faced When
w the Tide Had Turned

The Allied higher command struck blow
after blow, each successfully more to the
north. Each had to be met by the Ger
mans sending troops up and further
northward, when their crying need was
for reinforcements in the south Their
policy, if they could effect it in time. was
clear. They must convert a very bad
strategical situation into a good one,
or at any rate one less bad, or they were
doomed. To effect this they must retire
so as to % shorten the line and (2) to
save men to send south and eliminate the
now terribly dangerous open flank be-
tween the Argonne and the Vosges.
The American reader can discover bv
a rough parallel on the map of his own
country how bad the German strategical
situation had become when the Allied
attacks developed all the way from
Rheims to Arras by the end of August.
Imagine an army on the defensive and
facing westward in the state of Indiana.
Its extreme right rests on Lake Michi
gan, just east of Chicago. It's line thence
runs south to Indianapolis and at first
turns abruptly eastward to the neighbor
hood of Columbus, in the state of Ohio.
whence it bends southwark again and
runs to the West Virginia mountains, be-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

mediately what had been an excellent
strategic situation became and remained
exceedingly bad.
The vast concentration of men in the
north, which had been their strength in
attack, became congested mass and de-
veloped into a weakness Of defence. The
initiative passed wholly to the Allies and
at the moment when the future showed a
gradually increasing numerical superb
ority of men on the Allied side, as Ameri-
can recruitment poured in. The southern
part of the line, from the Argonne to
Verdun and the Vosges, which the Ger
man could neglect when the attack was
imperilling the existence of the Allied
armies, was now a most dangerous open
flank. They must reinforce it at all cost,
but they were not permitted to-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

his men in the large bulge or salient be-
tween the sea and the Forest of the Ar
gonne, leaving only quarter of them to
look out for the southern part of his line.
lie thus had his whole weight where it
could do the most work and he was free
to attack either of the two fronts of his
salient, between Noyon and the sea-on
the Amiens front--or between Noyon and
the Argonne on the Rheims front.
Both lay before him at his choice and
his opponents could not say which would
be chosen. He could strike westward or
southwark at will and he had ample room
in which to maneuvre. His great con-
centration here might be expected to
force back the Allies and cut one or both
OF the two branches of their main lines of
communication, that through Amicns or
the one through Chateau Thierrv. Fur
ther, such an advance directly menaced
Paris. Again, this great force could
strike now here, now there, from within
the bend far more quickly than the Allies
could move their forces around the out
side of it to meet this new blow.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

"They doubtless could. That is not the
point The reason why they must have
wheat is that wheat can be prepared for eat
ing with less labor than any other cereal
II the substitution of other cereals be nee
essary, then we are the ones who must carry
the extra burden of labor which their use
involves.
ut should be understood that this differ
ence in labor is far from trihing. Fifty per
cent of the food eaten in French village.
for instance, comes from the village bake
shop-which is just another way of saying,
first, that so per cent Of a Frenchman's diet
is bread; and second, that French women
bake no bread at home
"lf the French had to depend on other
cereals than wheat, however, French women
would have to abandon their dependence on
the bakeshop for half their food and do
more cooking. They would have to get up
earlier and 60 to bed later. They would be
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

advance comes the opening of the Ger
man political campaign. What is clear
as crystal is that the same people are
directing the military operations and
managing the political game. No
amount of camoufage can hide this fact.
Ludendorff, the master of German mill
tarism, is the dictator of Germany's po-
litical policy. That is 100 per cent war
efficiency, but is the very thing which
the Allies are pledged to crush.
The last week has shown unrest in
Germany. Factors which cause ncreas-
ing dlsatfection are CD Foch's victory,
(2) the shortage of necessaries which
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

The Foes Future
Is Packed
With "Ifs''
Copyright, 1918,
New York Tribune Inc.

yond which, we will suppose, is neutral
territory.
Imagine such an army to have three
quarters of its whole strength in the
state of Indiana alone and only the re-
naming quarter stretched on all the re-
naming front through Ohio to West Vir-
gina. Imagine it's opponent to be fully
holding it and even compelling it to re-
treat along all the Indiana front from the
lake to Indianapolis and at the same time
to be holding very large force in South
ern Indiana, Southern Ohio and Ken
lucky, with headquarters at Louisville,
and this right wing to be increasing rap
idly in numbers through continuous west
ern recruitment which the defending
army cannot match. The strategic stu
alton clearly shows the decisive sector to
be the thinly held line through the states
at Ohio and West. Virginia, and that is
very roughly the position of the Germans
in France to-day.
To. retreat SO as to shorten his line.
then, and reinforce his lily held left is
imperative to the enemy But he is not
retreating as he should if he were both
politically and militarily free to act. The
obvious policy in such situation is to
straighten the line as completely as posi-
BILE and as rapidly as possible and send
the men thus saved to reinforce the
southern and eastern portion of YOUR line
That means for the Germans in France
retreat to the line of the Meuse and the
sending of thirty divisions at least-a
prompt withdrawal might even save forty
to Lorraine.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

deprived of labor saving arrangement of
greatest Importance. Wheat they can eat
without other food Most other cereals call
for milk or sugar or fats or meats-some-
thing to go with them, usually something
expensive, and generally the combination
requires special cooking.
French women can i'll afford either the
time or the extra material American women.
on the other hand do have both time and
material. The burden should fall on US.
Seventy per cent of the men4 have left
the French farms and villages The women
are taking their place. The excessive work
and the attriton of war, and the loss or
peril of loved ones, and devastating taxes
these things have barely touched us here.
The conclusion is plain. France, whose
diet is 90 per cent wheat; Italy, whose diet
is AZ per cent wheat; England, whose diet is
33 per cent wheat, must have wheat We
must take what is left"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

make life bearable, however unhappy
the lack of luxuries may make the peo-
pie, and (3) the war WEAKNESS of Aus
tria- Hungary, which has nothing to gain
and everything to lose by further fight
ing.
Much has been written about the
thoroughness of the Germans, but it is
no exaggeration to say that their pres
ent peace play is being produced with
an eye to detail unapproached hitherto.
Their skill produces and bellies all
stories of internal revolution.
Suppose the play is a failure; suppose
it does not appeal to the British, French
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

and Italians. Ludendorff will have a
stronger position than he has TO-DAY.
Perhaps he reasons something like this:
II shall form moderate government
1t VIII be coalition government, COM
posed of Pan-Germans like Hintze.
moaerates like Solf and Erzberger and
SOCIALISTS like Scheidemann. No enemy
can then charge us with being ruled bv
mlhtarlsts. Through the Reichstag we
shaL suggest peace terms. They NAV
or may not accept it; probably not But
the Kaiser can turn to the neonla and
say; See, we have shown our desire
for reasonable peace and to bring to an
END this awful bloodshed, but our enc
mics will not listen
Thus we solidify our people and we
have stronger grip on Austria and our
other allies, who have become faint
hearted, that will carry US through win
ter and divert every ones attention from
the held, and we shall be ready in the
spring Meantime much may happen in
Russia; if we are skilful, perhaps we can
get help there to Offset that stream Of
Americans which prevented us from
winning the decision this summer and
now threatens us with annihilation.v
The militarists are gamblers and thew
speculate with life as if it were so manv
dollars they had invested in the stock
market. Not only the enemy characters
but neutrals will be brought into the
cast Even the Scandinavian kings are
being encouraged to take part. There
have been hints during the week that
queen Wlihelmina and King Alfonso
VIII De invited to help make the peace
play success Enough evidence has
already been produced to show that we
are about to witness the greatest peace
spectacle of the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
p rior to July 5 Foe Strategic
Il Position Was Good

The German packing of men, then, in
the salient of st. Quentin from the North
Sea to Rheims was right and their stra-
tegic situation was good. They used it
we'll. They first drove heavy blow west
ward and put the Amiens railway out of
use, then struck in the north and COM
PEELED the Allies to a difficult, long and
costly counter concentration to save the
Channel ports
Hardly had that operation terminated
than they struck southwark on the other
faces of the salient, reached Chateau
Thierry and so cut the Allies main east
ern line of communication. With these
advantages in hand and their foremost
troops not thirty miles from the outer
suburbs of Paris they prepared the final
blow which was deliver ed on either side
of Rheims on July Is. Short Of a blunder
they now had the war in their hands.
American recruitment was reducing the
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
The Greatest Peace Spectacle of the War

break the German morale by propa-
ganda. Ludendorff has worked "accord-
ing to plan" until anything is possible.
Hintze has told how anxious he is to
consider reasonable peace. And now
comes Count Czernin With the indorse-
ment of the league of nations scheme.
There is a lot of melodrama about
political developments in the Central
Powers. Some of it is farcical, some
tragic, some pathetic and a lot is dip
lonatic cleverness.
In many ways the political develop
ment overshadows the military manuu
vres of last week. On the heels of Fochs
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
Why 1t Must Be Wheat

UST why we in America must have
our "wheatless days" in order that
~ our comrades in arms may have
wheat, and why they could not just
as we'll have corn shipped to them, i.
made clear by the following explanation
from 1.-THE Nations Business" published
by the National Chamber Of Commerce
in Washington:
ITO many Americans 1t is not clear why
wheat is vital in Europe Why shouldn't
Europeans learn to use corn, and to eat corn
ponethe food on which the South fought
during the Civil War? Why can't we send
them less wheat and more of other cereals
"Those are reasonable questions; and they
not answered by simple statement that
Europeans must be given their cereal in the
form their habits demand. 1t still remains
far from clear why they could not easily be-
come used to something else.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15

"to have shaken off" the AL
lies. Such is the language Of
his last dispatches, and there
;sa measure of truth in it.
It is true that lie has left rear guards
who have fought we'll and obstructed the
nursuit. 1t is true that he has with
drawn the bulk of his forces between
the Scarpe and the Disc to prepared
lines. which are those of the old Hinden-
burg line up to Mnuvres and north Of
Mpuvres the Canal du Nord. 1t is
true that for five days, from the morn
ing of September to the night Of the
7th he has had rest from direct at
tacks 1t is true that he has at last
conducted true retirement in order,
at the expense of his sacrificed rear
guards and the loss in seven weeks, dur
ing which he was first hesitating and
then hampered, of at least 100000 men
and at least 1000 guns. But he has
effected no general strategic change,
and that is all that counts. His strategic
situation is as bad as ever and unless
he can change it to his advantage he is
beaten.
Let me explain. Two things make
~ the strategical situation: the ground
and the disposition of the troops The
obstacles in favor of the defence, the
avenues of communication and the open
space for the development of the at
tack, all such features are included
under the term ground or terrain. The
shape of the line on which your troops
stand, either your choice or the enemy's,
the distribution Of strength along that
line and all similar elements are in
cluded under the term disposition. These
Two elements between them decide the
strategical situation and determine
whether it is favorable or unfavorable.
For instance, suppos1ng in face of
somewhat superior enemy the shape Of
your line is straight, that over one half is
formidable obstacle, such as a great
forest, and over the other half is open
ground; suppose your main line of COM
munication runs close behind your front
and nearly parallel to it; suppose that
by some blunder or misfortune in the
immediate past the bulk Of your troops
are punched behind the obstacle and
only small portion of them are holding
the open front of your line. That stra-
tegic situation is bad.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15


some strange characters are be-
ing drafted for the important roles.
Solf, the Colonial Minister, who has
had what the English call "cushy" job
for the last four years, is being trained
to succeed Count Won Hertling, the hon
est old Junker. Scheidemann, leader of
the majority Socialists, will have a part
to satisfy the Socialists and the working
class Of Germany, and Erzberger, leader
of the Catholic Centre party, which is
composed of millions of Catholics in
South Germany, will also have share
because he originated the "No indemni-
ties, no annexations" phrase and is one
of the fathers of the Reichstag majority
resolution of the summer of 1917.
Before the play is produced the Ger
mans have endeavored to create a peace
atmosphere. The Crown Prince, Ad-
miral Won Hintze, Hertling, Hindenburg
and Ludendorff have all taken hand in
the preliminary work. The heir to the
throne has defined victory as the ability
of Germany to prevent it from being
annihilated. Hertling has said that the
fate of the Hohenzollern dynasty de-
pends on franchise changes, and Hinden-
burg has bewailed the Allied efforts to
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
Current
of GOtt

Allied inferiority, but it had not yet Civ
en- equality in numbers, and the in
itiative was fully in German hands.
Then they committed the blunder. 1t
was a trife. They failed to keep secret
the hour of their attack. They failed to
stop General Gourauds retirement of his
main force east of Rheims. They failed
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
4 Nerv Perilous
"A Situation

Most of your men are concentrated
where they are needed least-that is,
where obstacles impede an attack
upon you and where your lines are nat
uraliy the strongest and can be held by
a few men. Where there is no obstacle
and where, therefore, an attack on you
has the best chances of succeeding, in
the open half of the line, it is just there
YOU have the fewest men. If that half
is forced back even a little way your
enemy gets across your communications
by which your army is kept alive and
served with munitions. For these COM
munications main line railway, let us
say, runs nearly parallel to your line and
Immediately behind it. But if the enemy
does thus get across your communica-
tions, as in view of your faulty de-
fensive it is probable that he will, then
your army is at once deprived of food
and munitions and in military sense is
destroyed. 1t must surrender or perish.
Such a strategcal situation is bad
one A general finding himself in that
situation must try to change it into
good one before it is too late His
course Of effecting such change is
clear. He must, above ALL Immediately
redlstribute his forces. He must, if he
can, bring down most of his men from
behind the obstacle where they are not
wanted and put them on the open half
OF his line which needs most protec-
uon. He must also, if he can, establish
new line Of communications not par
allel to the front but perpendicular to
T. SO that even if his opponents do ef-
lect some advance these communica-
Vlons will not be reached, but can serve
uim continually, even if he has to retire.
II q general can do these two things
IN time before the enemy is ready to at
TACK IN force, but especially if he can
40 the first, he has converted the stra-
'egic situation from bad to good
lhe dominant fact now governing the
"nole of the vast operations in France
IS TINS: That up to July Is the strategic
situation of the German army was good,
between July Is and 18 it was doubtful,
since July l8 it has been very bad. 1t
'oheinues bad, and unless the enemy can
convert 1t in time into good he will be
defeated.
10 understand why this is so one must
look at the map Of Western France-the
s''npiest one will do-and appreciate
now the armies stood before and after
tue critical dates of July Is and 18.
The Germans first stood last March on
iine which in its most general shape
was made up of three branches, as l
nave previously described. First there
was the stretch from north to south,
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
"Ffaff You Seen Gott LateIy?"
From The Nashaiue Tennesseea7a

to note the Franco-American concentra-
ton in the region of Scissors. July Is,
therefore, they lunged into void, not
complete void, of course, but a voi1 full
of guns, and threw away $4,000 men in
two days for nothing. On July 18 they
suffered a tremendous, unexpected blow
on their open flank at Scissors, and i'm
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
By Arthur S. Draper

Especial Cable to The Tribune)
Copyright, 1913 New York Tribune Incl
LONDON, September Ia.
Germans are setting the stage
for great peace play. A new
cast is being organized and
CT nh "a. Lo
New-York tribune., 1918-09-15
Ludendorff's Posi-
ton Turned From
Goodto VeryBad
By HlLAlRE BELLOC
Author Of elements of the Great
War" and Britain's Most Dis
tinguished Military Critic

1@HE enemy in full retreat claims
"to have shaken off" the AL
lies. Such is the language Of
his last dispatches, and there