Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
REPORT PLEASED
THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND
German Divisions Brought From
Russian Front Now Give Hun
More Men on the Western
Front
MAY MEAN SLIGHT SUCCESS
Too Late for the Russian People to
Change the Fearful Results
of Their Several Mistakes
Reciprocal News Service
BY X. Walter

Colonel Houses mission has made an
excellent impression in London.
More than any other statement it
gives an idea of the business-like ar
rangements concluded at the Paris
conference. There had been a certain
amount of pessimistic rumor owing to
the short duration of the conference,
which was denied by subsequent
statements in Paris and London and
has now been entirely swept aside by
Colonel Houses account of the syste-
matte coordination in all branches of
allied operations and supplies. 1t is
now evident that the short setting of
the conference was due only to the
strictly business manner of its DELHI
erations and not to any limitations of
the business it found itself able to
tackle.
The recommendation that the fight
ing forces of the United States
should be despatched to Europe with
the least possible delay is taken as
official assurance of a policy which
Washington adopted from the begin
ming, 1t will help to pursuade Curl
osity as to the number Of Americans
in France to give way to confidence
that, whatever their number, it will
be adequate to the military program.
1t is pretty generally taken for grant
ed, however, that the American forces
are not assembling behind the
French and British front at the same
speed with which Germany is piling
up her reserve from the surplus lib
Grated by the Russian debacle and it is
anticipated that Germany will make
an offensive greater than any yet
known, before the United States is
able to readjust the balance of mill
tary power. Until the Germans began
to bring divisions from Russia this
balance had grown to be in favor of
the Allies owing to the great increase
in the British strength. Today it is
commonly known that Germany can
put a larger number of men into the
field than are available on the side of
the Allies. For this reason it would
not be surprising should a German
offensive obtain some slight tempo
rary success in the capture of terri
tory or its evacuation by the Allies for
the purpose of taking up of posi-
tions already prepared for defense.
There is no question whatever of the
Germans breaking through or that
they will not be made to pay a price
for any gains or near gains of
ground, just as disastrous as that
which they paid at Verdun.
The British and French commands
are also quite wide awake as to the
possibility of turning a desperate
German offensive into an ever great
err disaster for the enemy, for desper-
ate, undoubtedly, will be the next
great military effort Of Hindenburg,
because it is evident that he cannot
count much longer upon public sup
port for many more such bloody sac
1t is just as we'll for Americans
to realize the serious state of the
military situation. Like the English,
they welcomed the Russian revolution
with a whole heart, little thinking of
the part they would have to play in
connection with the upheaval. In the
French revolution the French killed
each other; in the American revolu-
ton British and American killed each
but the Russian revolution has
already cost as many lives Of Italians
as of Russions; it is costing French
and British lives today, and tomorrow
it will claim its American sacrifices.
This is part of the price Of DEM
ocracy which it is hard to have to pay.
1t is impossible to believe that when
the Russian peoples realize what their
conduct have involved, they will sell
their democracy so cheaply to the Ger
mans, as until today, they seemed
about to do.
The German aim of a Mitteleurope
has been extended to the colossal OBJ
jeetive Of an extension of P~russiauism
a thousand miles to the east as well as
to the southeast. She hopes to DOM
mate all the people of the backward
Russian races and add many states
rich in material and man-power to her
other military vassals. Probably she
will everyday her hand and in the end
be punished for her political campaign
in Russia as thoroughly as Napoleon
suffered in his military venture. But
however soon the Russian peoples re-
alize their danger and face it, they
cannot now redeem the terrible price
which they are forcing up to pay to-
day for making the world, including
Russia, safe for democracy.
Tractors Made Good
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