The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1918-08-03
Germany Hope OF
Victory Goes Glimmering
Second Great Battle of the Marine Smashes Whole Ger
man Plan to Win Decisive Victory in 1918
BY WILLIS J. ABBOT

of which any general might well be
proud.
This emphatic check administered
to the Germans means much more
than merely saving Paris from Ger
man capture. 1t has unsettled, prob
ebly hopelessly wrecked. all the
grand strategy of the German cam
paign for this Summer.
1t is obvious enough that this sea-
son should have been the period OF
Germany's greatest efforts. Only to
could they hope to win the wal be-
fore the coming of United States
troops to the battle-ground made
their cause hopeless. Their plan for
conquest this summer contemplated
not only the successful drive Of Lud-
endorff upon Paris, but one by Prince
Rupprecht against the British army
and the channel ports.
The failure of the n has disar-
ranged the preparations for the other
R%upprecht's army has been stripped
to aid the Germans fighting for life
in the Marine pocket.
To organize a great drive takes
weeks of preparation. Almost five
weeks were spent by the Germans in
preparation for the movement upon
the Marine which has ended so dis
astrously. The Summer does not al
low time for many more such periods
of preparation. Even Rupprecht's
army will require time to put it in
striking condition again, while two
months is none too much time to al
low for the reorganization and re-
equipment Of the troops now des-
perately fighting their way from the
clutch of Foch's pincers.
1t is worth noting that at the very
height of this battle the Germans
put forth, through the friendly offices
of Spain, certain peace f~eelers."
This was in a new type of diplomatic
strategy for the Teutons. Heretofore
their peace drives have been delivered
Immediately after their victories
when the allied world might be ex-
pected to be respondent and war
weary. Now they come forward at
the moment of their own disaster,
perhaps in the hope that the allies
may be feeling magnanimous, but
were probably in the expectation
that proposals of peace put forth at
such a moment will be regarded more
as made in good faith than the earlier
ones.
The present proposals, however,
go far to justify the opinion that no
heed can be given to such overtures
until German military power is ut
terly and completely destroyed.
1t is of the utmost significance that
Germany expresses in these over
lures a willingness to surrender all
that she has won in the West. but
clings emphatically to her gains in
the East. Even Alsace-Lorraine,
about which two years ago the world
thought the real controversy in the
peace campaign would aim, is of less
Importance in German thought to-
day than retention of her hold in the
east. For. if the Brest-Litovsk
treaty, and the treaty with Rouman-
ia be allowed to stand, as the Spanish
proposals suggest, if Germany be al
lowed to dominate the Ukraine,
Lithuania, Poland and Rumania, and
be left a free hand in Turkey, she
will be able within a quarter of a
century to raise and equip such
armies as not all the rest of the
world can cope with. Then she can
sweep back upon Belgium, France
and England and work her will.
That all this is in the German mind,
no one who studies her position in
the light of her past history can
doubt.
Chinese Desert