Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-23
ARMIES OF ALLIES,
WELDING IRON RING
Americans and French Complete
That Part Which Threat
ems Germany.
ITALIANS READY TO STRIKE
international Force Will Menace
Moscow From Samara, in
Orenberg Province.
ITALIANS READY TO STRIKE

" ASiilNGTON. September o2-Th.
n'ihtary maps at the War Department,
SNOW mat allied and American armies
: slowly hut continually. ADVANCING
again: are perfcctinE "a ring of irn,
around the Tcutonc nations.
On the western front the America,
ana French field armies. by taking no
sitions opposite the natural gateway.
INTO Germany. via Metz. have comr,e,nd
mat part of the ring ihat threatens
Germany from the west.
On the Italian front Italy. with rc
emniiorccmcnts from the Americans and
allies Is part Of the ring. ana IS
standing ready to strike again "
on the Macedonian front The s.rh
lans. backed by british. French ana
Greeks. are cutting OF Turkey from
the two German nations
ON tcrmany's eastern frnuti.-
cloud is gathering which with the as
sistance OF the patriotic people of Rus
sia, viii seriously menace Germany and
her so-called liberated provinces NEXT
I" the RUSSIAN western border
Ihc ring of iron from the land sides
VIII be actually military fact when
a. a: heretofore pointed out. the Anglo
frcnch- American army. moving south
ward from the MurmanSk psninsuI,
meets and combines with the CZccilo-
SloNaks. British. American and jap
anese forces which are steadily nnsh
ing on towards Samara in the urov-
ince of Orcnbcrg. This Junction whose
strategic purpose and Importance is
peins more and more revealed will
l;berate Russia proper and enable her
again to take up arms against the CEN
trail powers.
The very appearance of an in;erna-
ticnai army threatening Moscow from
Sanara, in Orcnberg. ii is though. here
will cause the people of Russia to rally
Ia their old standard for the overthrow
OF the political elements which only
yesterday were emphaticaily denounced
by the state Department AS outlaws
PROJECT TO ENCIRCLE
GERMANY CAN DE viSUALlZED
This. fer the nrs, time since the en-
trance into the war of America as a
lighting ally. the vast project of en-
circlinS Germany and crushing her with
slowly contracting ring. is being Wis
calized and realized as we'll
The somewhat celebrated ring OF
blood and iron which Bismarck en-
p!oyed at Sedan is sooner or later to
be repeated at Berlin
IL anything were needed to complete
the military isolation of the central
powers. it is to be found in two ad-
ditional considerations:
() The fleet q: France is holding
Turkey and .Aus;r:7T from the Easte,n
Great Britain. Italy aud the United
states are bottlinE UP the Austrian
ships of war from the rest of that sea.
t.iready the Anglo American ti.et has
-
home waters. and has made the cgress
of the old Russian Baltic fleet, sup
posed now to he in the hands of Ger
many. impossible The greater part
OF this old fleet may already have join
ed the German naval forces at kiei.
CD The revolutionary attitude OF
Roumania, the uncertain attitude of
The Ukraine and the absence OF any
Kind Of commerce. except that which
may be had from already p!undered
provinces.
Commenting on the simple recitation
Of the accommodating weights crushing
the central powers from within and the
Ger on the genera! stan said to-day
that Germany could not "StaSgcr very
long under her Internal and external
load"
AS to the situation on the western
front il WAS pointed out to-day mat
from which 10 launch an attack. Be
sides this. the Americans mold the most
Important. salient. which has been
thrust into the German line opposite
the Old German salient OF 81. Mihie!.
For this reason, and in view of the
daily reports that the Germans are nat
urally concentrating for tn" defense
OF the highway into Germany. which
runs by Metz coupled with the deter
mination of General PcrshinS to ad-
vance on the road. military opinion
here is crystallizing into the belief ihht
the Americans and French soon vii!
swing beyond Metz. shell the trenches
from lires parallel TO them ana iake
them by assault.
Meantime. il is necessary to adNnnc"
along the MoScllc towards 'agny. That
advance, with artillery preparation. ac-
counts for the frequent references TO
the 'hombardmen OF Metz.