Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-02
Mistakes

 lamented of men. In England these mis- takes began before the war. England would not heed the warning of Germany's prep arations and increasing arrogance. She would not make preparations for war. Hence when Germany violated Belgium the crime found England sadly wanting in about everything that had to do with the conduct of modern war upon big scale.
 The French made terrible mistake when they rushed into Alsace-Lorraine and thus divided their effective forces at the begin ming, and they paid for it with loss of Bel gium and northern France.
 The next allied mistake was the failure of the English to vigorously press the ad- vantage at the Marne and thus allow Won Kluck to stop and fortify his Flanders and Picardy lines.
 Then came the mistake at Gallipoli when the bombardrnent of the Turkish forts was given up just at the edge of victory.
 Next was the failure to come in time to the aid of Serbia.
 Rumania made fatal blunder when she rushed her troops blindly into Hungary in- stead of concentrating all her military strength and using it for one blow and then assuming defensive.
 Russia mistakes were legion, the worst of them being the trap of the Mazurian lakes into which several army corps blundered
 Italy nearly lost her national life when she was caught asleep by the great offen- sive last fall.
 Time and again allied successes on the western front have gone for naught be- cause of lack of support for victorious units.
 The greatest diplomatic mistake of the allies was the refusal to allow Greece to make war upon Turkey. And, speaking of Turkey, 1t is declared that prompt and intelligent action would have kept both Turkey and Bulgaria out of the German net.
 America slumbered on and on after the deadly warning and terrible crime of the Lusitania and made no preparation at all for war upon this Hunnish power that had shown so plainly that it was striking for world dominion.
 Yes, the mistakes of the allies have been many and very bad, and that they have not resulted in defeat time and again has been due to the courage and devotion and resolution of the people of the allied na- tions.
 And the German; the Prussian the superman They have made no mistakes? Bah They have made as many, if not more than the allies But all the mistakes they have made; the folly of invading Bel 4I, Iv,f, fhka war; the frantic rush on Paris and fatal ex- tension of their lines too far; the strange hesitation at Ypres when the way to the channel ports were clear; the shambles at Verdun All these blunders, and those of the allies enumerated above; all these added and multiplied are as mere nothings; they are as a grain of sand on the seashore, a puff of thistledown in gale; an atom in the scheme of creation in comparison with the one great and fatal mistake that Ger many has made
 For sheer, cTass, raw, gross, colossal stupidity and folly of the rawest, rankest, costliest kind ever perPetrated by any na- tional government since the shepherd kings established the house of Rameses in Egypt somewhere back about the beginning of things Germany act in forcing war upon the United States of America, stands by itself as the worst mistake in the history of the world without a peer and without a rival.
 Not even the bolsheviki of Russia have approached 1t for inefficiency in the con duct of affairs or in costly results to their country.
 The results of that mistake are just be- ginning to enter from the wings upon the