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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

To entertain such. an error would
be, as subsequent study and evil
dence have proved, to misunderstood
the nature of the war and the psy-
chology of the opposing belligerents.
Trench warfare was certainly not
foreseen by the Allies, as certainly it
was not foreseen by the enemy. He
had prepared nothing for it. His just
appreciation of the value of machine
guns and his initial overwhelming
superiority therein were based upon
the idea that the machine gun would
be invaluable in the check of local
counter ofensives and even in the
prosecution Of rapid attack. It's
value for permanent defence he
seized when he was constrained to
that permanent defence. 1t is great
ly to his credit that he should so
rapidly have appreciated the new
conditions; but he did not plan them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Nothing but Guesses
AS to Their Plans

No one can possibly tell whether
the Germans intend or not to make
this attempt in the near future.
There have been plenty of guesses,
but they have been guesses only.
German prisoners taken by Allied
forces in raids in the last weeks have
alluded in large way to the immi-
nence of such a stroke, and expert
opinion on the Allied side is, upon
the whole, that some such attempt
will be made But some Of the most
acute observers of the war are still
OF the opinion that-in spite of, per-
haps because of, the wide ADVERTISE
ment that this coming offensive has
been given from the German side
it is a bluff that the Central En-
plres will not at this time risk the
very heavy losses which such an ex-
pertinent would entail and the posi-
bic collapse of their whole structure
to which such losses might lead.
The real crux in the judgment of
this question is between those who
think that the Germans must make
such an effort because Of the moral
and material condition Of their civil
ian population, and those who think
they can afford to postpone it in
spite of the increasing strain upon
their peoples, and that they can keep
the population in order in spite of
any discomfort which may develop
during the strain of waiting.
Meanwhile observation from the
air informs us that the Germans are
rehearsing their troops in forma-
tons for use in a war of move
ment" behind their lines, that they
are using large bodies of men in
this, probably in coordination with
their new tanks, and certainly with
an elaborate new organization pre-
pared for use when and if change
can be made from the trench war
fare of the last three years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Trains Armies
For Open Warfare

The belief that the Germans ever
voluntarily abandoned the war of
movement in the West is part of a
very general error into which the
present writer fell in common with
most others when this novel develop
ment of trench warfare first alp
peared. That error is the concep-
ton that this new phase was par.
Of deliberate plan already estab-
lished in the enemy's mind.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Better Chance on
Southern Wing

They would have a better chance
to break through the lines and estab-
fish war of movement on the south
ern end of that sector-that is in the
areas around St. Quentin and Cam
BRAZILIAN in the northern part, be-
cause at the southern the soils are
much drier; because a rupture at
this point would Immediately
threaten Paris; because though the
German communications are on the
whole better in the north, the COM
parison is to their advantage to the
south, where the British communi-
cations are longer and therefore
more difficult than they are at the
north.
All this is, of course, pure con-
lecture, but it is conjecture based
upon the only elements of calcula-
ton which are available.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Prussia Plans to Set Up Belt of
Weak States on Soil
of Russia
Copyright 1918-The Tribune Association

have already been heavily reduced
by the disasters which overlook them
in the early part of the war. Their
available resources are now mainly
occupied upon the Italian front. and
economic conditions throughout
Austria-Hungary are worse even
than those from which the German
empire now suffers. Moreover. the
civilian population is far less homo
geneous and more disconnected than
is that in Germany itself.
Some observers also have argued
that the new commitment of the
Central Empires to action in the
East, which they assumed when thew
began marching toward Petrograd
in the north and toward Kiev in the
south, will further hamper them and
deter them from any attack in the
West. But this is error. There is
no Russian army in existence-only
certain number of men, wearing
uniform it is true, but without disci-
pline, largely without arms ana enor-
mously reduced in numbers by de-
sertiOns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Allies Winning
Air Supremacy

Meanwhile very great dea,
would depend upon the comparative
strength of the opposing forces in
the air during the fighting season
which is now about to open. So far
as developments have yet taken place
the superiority is clearly upon the
Allied side in this respect, and would
seem to be increasing.
There has been continuous and
more and more intensive lombard
ment from the air of the German
western traffic and munitions GEN.
tres during the last two months
1reves, an exceedingly important
depot and passage for communica-
lions, has been heavily bombed six
times in five weeks; the vital junc-
ton just outside of Thionville in
Lorraine has suffered in much the
same fashion; and altogether there
have been in less than seven weeks
some fifty heavy commandments de-
llvered from Allied airplanes upon
special detectives behind the Ger
man front, especially upon munition
works and railway stations.
Nothing corresponding to this has
yet been attempted by the enemy be-
hind the Allied line. If the present
indications may be taken as guide
for the future it would seem as if ir
this vital matter of work in the air
the Allies were really establishing a
supremacy, but we do not know
whether the enemy may not be mere
ly holding back heavy forces of air
planes, or even some new types of
superior effectiveness, for use in q
special effort in the air to coincide
with the opening Of his attack on
the trenches. if this is made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Germans in West
Must Fight Alone

Theoretically the disappearance of
the Eastern front as a military fac
tor and the release of much of the
greater part of the men watching it
should allow the Central Powers to
throw the whole weight of their
armies into the attack or series of
attacks upon the lines in Northern
France. But in practice this attack
will have to rely upon German troops
almost alone. The Austrian forces
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

nevertheless they believe that this
efficiency has been developed only in
connection with and will be valuable
only for use in siege war or war of
positions.
They argue that the British have
had no experience in war of move
ment; that their junior officers
would find the novel task of hand
ling troops in such war too heavy
for them, and that the newly con-
structed stats would not be able to
conform themselves to it and to meet
its problems. If such war of move
ment could be restored, therefore
the Germans believe that it would
result in disaster to the Allies
through crumpling up of the Brit
ish sector.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
All Plans Were
For Open Warfare

All his plan was for a rapid often
sive, in which he was more or less
certain of an immediate or over
whelming success accident and cir
cumstance external to his design
were his tutors in this matter. The
trench warfare, which was estab-
lished in the third week of Septem-
Der, 1914, was imposed upon the
Germans by their defeat, and so far
from being complete system organ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Likely to Strike
British Near Cambria

In a former article discussed the
various sectors upon which a Ger
man attack might take place. 1t now
appears that the probabilities are
that the offensive will be launched.
if it is launched at all, against the
British front and toward the south
ern end of that front, but it is al
most certain that it will be accom-
panied also by very strong demon
STATIONS made against the French
line at the same time.
The reason that the military peo-
pie think this form of attack is prob
able is not that any special concen-
tration of German forces is as vet
observable on this sector. But the
Germans certainly believe that the
British would be especially handi-
capped if a war of movement could
be restored against them. They ad-
NIT that the new British armies have
arrived with unexpected rapidity at
a very high state of efficiency-a
thing which the Germans long be-
lieved to be impossible for troops
raised suddenly out Of purely civil
ian material and for stats with nc
long tradition behind them-but
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Small Force Onlv
Used in Russia

The forces which the Central En-
plres are now sending forward into
the heart of what once was Russia
are quite small. A certain proper
ton OF cavalry, accompanied by ar
tillery, is sufficient for the work, sup
ported as they are by the reduced
units OF poor grade infantry which
have been found all that was neces-
sary for use on the Eastern front in
recent months. Dvinsk, for instance,
was abandoned without a struggle
and already far more than a thou
sand guns, formerly provided by the
Allies to aid Russia, have been given
up without a blow. There is no real
fighting.
The only task of the small invad-
ing armies, in fact, is the garrison
ing and policing of such districts as
Germany chooses to have them oc-
cupy. And as the Ukraine is already
in sympathy with the Germans, and ,
as the local leaders and German
agents to the north have readily
surrendered all that was asked to the
Central Empires, the, German COM
manders may put the limit of the
advance Of their armes exactly wher-
ever they choose.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Prussia Fears
a Free Poland

One Of the chief objects in setting
up all these small states-especlally
the last named-is to create a weak
and diminished Poland. This is be-
cause Poland is a real nationality,
strongly patriotic, virile and pos
sessing the elements of national
greatness and power, so that it's
resurrection as a state is one Of the
things which Prussia most seriously
breads.
But all these arrangements de-
pend for their permanency upon
What happens on the Western front.
II the Germans can maintain their
line in the West, and can succeed in
forcing the Allied Powers to give
shem a peace which leaves them
strong and the undisputed masters
Of Central Europe, they would OBJ
Viously have won the war. They
would, Of course, evacuate Belgium
and Northern France; they would
mold referendum with pleasure in
Aisace-Lorraine, and they probably
would even tell Austria to give back
70 Italy the territory now occupied
ana ,he Trentino, that Italian valley
~ the Alps which Austria now rules.
OUT In spite of these concessions
Mey would come out Of such an ar
&~ngenent with powers and re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Germans Tire
of Poison Gas

A detail of military interest of
some Importance in the past week
has been the efforts which are being
indirectly made by the German gov
eminent to reestablish the conven-
ton prohibiting the use of poison
gas in war. They are working
through the Red Cross, and their
motives are obvious.
It was they who first introduced
this abomination in modern war not
quite three years ago, when they
sent flood of yellow chlorine drift
ing down toward the Allied trenches,
in April, 1915. 1t took the Allies by
surprise, and the Germans very
nearly succeeded in breaking the AL
lied line with it at the point where
the British and French armies then
Joined north of Ypres. The line was
only saved by the heroism and ter
rife losses of the Canadians.
For long time the Germans en-
.ioyed complete superiority over
the Allies in this form of attack, but
the superior civilization of the Allies
in this, as in every other experiment
tried in this war, not only caught up
with them but passed them. The AL
lies to-day have not only better gas
(more deadly and less easy to detect
and resist), but better protection
against gas than the enemy, and
their superiority in this is rapidly
increasing.
Such are the reasons and the only
reasons for the German move, and
as it's motives are as perfectly clear
as they are crude it will not succeed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Can Play for Small
Stake or Big One

There are two ways in which they
can attain this end a minimum Wav
and a maximum way.
The minimum way is to hold the
present siege line from the Channel
to the Adriatic intact, while they
continue to increase the pressure
upon Great Britain and the vital
communications of the Allies by a
larger and more effective use of the
submarine. They hope that even it
they have no better success than this
it will be sufficient power in the
field to upset the new balance
created by the detection of Russia
from the Allied cause, and in spite
OF any assistance which America
can give across three thousand
miles Of submarine-infested ocean.
But the maximum way would be
tar more satisfactory to the Ger
mans, because it would be shorter
and because it would be infinitely
more conclusive. It consists in
breaking up the Western line and re-
storing the war of movement"
which ended on the west when the
Germans were pinned into their
trenches from Switzerland to the
sea following their retreat after the
battle of the Marine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Wants States She
Can Dominate

It's object is to maintain these peo-
pie in such power as they have been
able to set up in what used to be the
Russian capital, and it's effect is to
complete a long belt Of small and
weak states, nominally Independent,
which Germany and Austria are
setting up in Eastern Europe. These
they will dominate politically and
economically and from them they
hope to draw military strength, so
that in practice. if they remain with
their present boundaries, they will
form parts Of a great Central Euro
pean empire under the leadership
and domination Of Prussia and its
rulers.
These small states are Livonia,
Esthonia. Courland, Lithuania, a
Germanized Rumania with a new
king, appointed by Germany, and
probably would be one of Prussia s
ruling family, and the Ukraine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
German Armies Behind Front
Train for a War Of
Movement
(Auhor of elements of the Great

By HILAIRE BELLOC
POLITICALLY the great inter
est of the war during the

POLITICALLY the great inter
est of the war during the
present week has been the
surrender of Northern Russia. But
the military interest, which is
supreme, for it must in the end con-
troll even the political arrangements
which have been set up between the
German government and Bolshevik
leaders, lies in a discussion upon
"the war of movement /" which the
German high command is apparent
~ planning to put into effect if pos
sible upon the Western as we'll as
upon the Eastern front.
The capitulation of Northern
Russia has taken place, of course,
without any consultation with its
people or attempt to determine their
wishes in the matter. 1t was signed
merely by the small cosmopolitan
group of men who are masters
through terrorism in Petrograd !;
some Of whom are actually agents of
the German government, and all of
whom are entirely Indifferent to any
national feeling for Russia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

Trenches were, indeed, dug upon
the Aisne position by troops still in
the rear after the first news of the
Marine was appreciated by the Ger
man command, but not before.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

sources which would insure that
they would be the future masters of
Europe.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-12-13
DAIRY STABLE Of
EASTERN DESIGN
Has Many Features That Are
Liked Wherever Tried.
FOR COLD OR WARM WEATHER
Central Duct In Floor Is Part of the
Excellent System Of Ventl-
Iation In This Barn
BIZ VAN. a. RApFoRp.

Mr.. William A. Radford will answc,
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects SaFtaining to the
subject of building work on the farm, for
the readers of this paper, On account of
his wide experience as Editor, Author and
Manufactures, he is without doubt the
highest authority on all these subjects
Address all inquiries to William A. Rad
ford, No. 1897 Prairie avenue, Chicago
ILL.,, and only inclose three-cent stamp for
reply.
This is an Eastern COW stable. It
has some features which are different
from other good stables, some Of which
are well liked by everyone who has
tried them out.
Where the winters are cold, as they
are where dairylng has been conducted
TO the best advantage, a stable really
should be built for warmth In winter
and clean, airy GOODNESS In summer.
This design sometimes is fitted with
outside blinds, painted dark green,
This is for the purpose of shutting 1t
up dark after the cows are MIXED
in the morning in summer. When the
blinds are shut the stable is so dark
that flies will not stay In 1t. Dairy
men have taken lessons from good
housekeepers in this respect. Flies
will crawl out of a ver' small crack
TO get from darkness to light. You
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-12-13

cir duct to admit fresh air. Over this
air duct is placed wooden walk, built
OF two-by-four cross pieces, with the
boards nailed on lengthwise. This
leaves an opening between the two-by-
four cross pieces for the entrance Of
air into the stable directly in front Of
the cows noses.
According to the principle OF warm
air circulation, this arrangement Is
theoretically correct. Air Is admitted
In the center Of the room that Is prop
erly proportioned and close enough
built to prevent the influence of out
side air currents. The cold air frov1
outside is heated by the lungs and the
BODY warmth Of the COWS. Warm air
win rise to the ceiling and spread in
every direction. As 1t loads up with
impurities. and as its temperature is
REDUCED the air becomes heavier. As
1t reaches the outer walls it de4rends
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-12-13

little girl and the man. becoming really
good comrades on this walk, met with
an adventure. At least to Carolyn
May 1t was a real adventure and one
she was not to forget for a. long, >long
time.
Prince suddenly bounded away,
barking, down pleasant glade,
through the bottom Of which flowed
brook. Carolyn May caught glimpse
of something brown moving down
there and she called shrllly to the dog
to come back.
'But that's somebody, Uncle Joe,"
Carolyn May said with assurance, as
the dog slowly returned. "Prince
never banks like that unless it's a per-
son. And / saw something move"
Somebody taking walk, like us.
Couldn't be q DEER" said Mr.. Stage.
"0h." cried Carolyn May later, II
see 1t again. That's a skirt i see.
Why, It's a ladyT
Mr.. Stage suddenly grew very stern
looking, as well as silent. All the
beauty Of the day and Of the glade
they had entered seemed lost on him.
He went on stubbornly, yet as though
loath to proceed.
"Why," murmured Carolyn May, ats
Miss Amanda Parlowl That's who 1t
I"
The carpenters daughter was sit
ting on bare brown log by the brook.
She was dressed very prettily, all in
brown.
Carolyn May wanted awfully to
speak to Miss Amanda. The brown
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-12-13

lady with the pretty roses in her
cheeks sat on a log by the brook, her
face turned from the path Joseph
Stage and his little niece were coming
along.
And Uncle Joe was quite stubborn.
BE stared straight ahead down the
path without letting the figure on the
log get into the focus Of his vision.
Hanging to Uncle Joe's hand but
looking longlngiy at the silent figure
on the log, Carolyn May was going
down to the stepping stones by which
they were to cross the brook, when
suddenly Prince came to q halt right
at the upper end of the log and his
body stiffened.
''What IS 1t. Princer whispered bis
little mistress. "Come here"
But the dog did not move. He even
growled-not ut Miss Amanda, Of
course, but at something on the log.
And 1t was Just then that Carolyn
May wanted TO Screum-and she could
notl
For there on the log, raising its fat,
wicked head out Of an aperture, was
a snaae. n horrid, silent, writing
creature, the look Of which held the
little girl horror-stricken and speech
less.
Uncle Joe glanced down impatiently,
to see what made her hold back so.
The chlld's feet seemed glued to the
earth. She could not take another
step.
Writing out Of the hole in the log
and coilIng. as it did so. into an atti-
tude to strike. the snake looked to be
dangerous indeed. The fact that It
was only a large blacksnake and nom
poisonous made no difference at that
moment 70 the dog or 70 the little
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-12-13

| fastened to the ceiling by screws
through threaded plates. A loft over
the stable like this Is not used for any
purpose except as an air space, and
the air is changed by having a win
dow in each gable. The silos are
placed between the stable and storage
barn, with room for a feed carrier to
pass through; this carrier track ex-
tends the whole length of the ctw
stable and runs far enough into the
storage barn to load the litter carrier.
DO Not Depend on Pasturage.
The value of this arrangement may
be better understood by the study Of
one fact-that north of the forty-sec-
ond parallel of latitude there is an
average of only six weeks of good pas
ture. There are droughts sandwiched
in between late spring and early fall
frost, so that dairymen are obliged to
supply manger feed for ten or eleven
months. In fact, some of the best
dairymen don't depend on pasture, ex-
cept to have a run for the cows for ex-
ercise, fresh air and general health.
OF course, they want cows to get some
picking, and this is necessary to In
duce the cows to travel about. But
when 1t comes to actual feeding, the
stable is depended upon in summer as
well as winter. The storage Of sllage
and the growing of alfalfa have
brought about this change.
The old plan of growing soillng
crops is not carried on to any great ex-
tent; labor is too expensive. Sllage
and alfalfa are better and cheaper. At
the same time, good COWS appreciate
feed once a day of green stuff. 1t may
be clover, oats, succotash, alfalfa, or
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