Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-01
Washington Thinks Supe.
rior Numbers Allow Huns
to Attack All Summer
PLAN TO COMB AUSTRIA
Germany Conscripts Faster
Than Allies Puts Problem
Up to u. S.
Bx CLINTON ". GILBERT

The opinion here is that Germany will
be able to keep up efforts on the present
scale against the Allies all summer. This
ia what the representatives of the
British and French have been saying
: right along since the beginning of the
March offensive and the present situa-
tion has brought 1t home to Washing
ton. which was inclined to be pleased
with it's own efforts in getting men
across and tended to be optimistic
about the possibility of restoring the
balance Of manpower on the western
front.
But the present demonstration Of
Gefnnany's reserve man power is most
impressive. Hindenburg has just car
rted throughza drive Of tremendous ex-
tent, and yet he has. all authorities
agree, reserve sufficient to strike now
and then a blo& OF great magnitude,
whenever he chooses, in the north at
Channel ports, on the Scissors salient.
so as b throw the present wedge and
the Picardy wedge into one. and on
some other part Of the battleline. Or
BY resting for while he may accumu-
late force and start new offensive as
great as.the present one and as the one
let loose in March.
Germany Increases Forces
Germany is. still increasing its forces
faster than the Allies have been able
to increase theirs. in spite of the Ameri-
cans being shipped abroad and in spite
Of the Italians sent into France.
The rushing of American troops to
France will have ITO be still further
speeded up Further shipping will have
to. be converted. both by this country
and by the Allies. to the use of the
American army. Up to the present,
Hindenburg has won the manpower
race. The statement by the British
general staff, published this morning,
the frankest comment of an official sort
ever published in the war. makes this
plain. The emphasis in it Is all on
manpower. Our inferiority In numbers
ID placed first among the disadvantages
from which the Allies suffer and all
the other disadvantages, exterior
lines! vulnerable points. and lack of
room to maneuver in the north, either
spring from shortage of men or are
made much worse by shortage of men.
Controls Austrian Army
Can Germany keep rushing men to the
west front faster than the Allies? At
tention is being directed to recent de.
velopments in Austria, the extension
Of Qermany's power over Austria and
the recent agreement between. the two
powers, letting Germany treat Austria's
soldiers as her own, Austria's railroads
as her own, and making the food prob.
lens OF certain parts of Austria a Ger.
man problem, for that is what the
agreement recently published virtually
amounts to. >Austrians are to be bri-
gaded with Germans and Germans with
Austrians. with officers of either power
over the soldiers Of the other.
That Is the polite way 1t is put, but u
doubtless means an absorption Of
Austrians into the German army under
German commanders
This can hardly mean anything but
the combins of Austria for men to VIII
the big fght in the west In the same wa,
GefnHny K4s hitherto been combed. VI
till now thd Austrians, except Austrian
artillery, have not been used on thu
western froft Austria has been afrait
to provoke ther people by sending hel
subjects to hight other than defensive
war But the Germanization of Austri;
is now complete, and II is expected tina
when Germany needs Austrians to keel
up the hamrhering on the west front sh'
viii take them.
Miscsltulate Enemy Numbers
The Allies appear to have totally mis-
calculated the manpower resources o
Germany Before the March drive be
gan the British war cabinet assured
the people Of England that German!
t6n m
western deadlock. After the disaster
st. Quentin Lloyd-George said In
speech In Parliament that in manpowe
both sides were about equal. AS mat
ter Of fact the inside ngures of our owl
War Department show that on the da,
the drive started, Allied strength In tn
west was slightly greater than that o
Germany. To-day. In spite OF I'm
Americans sent abroad. In spite OF Tn
Italians dispatched to the French from
. in spite Of the British hurried acros
the channel, German manpower exceed
: the Allied manpower. ana promises
do sol all summer to such an extent tina
punches at the line similar to those al
ready delivered, can be kept up as ION
A the. weather permits, or as long
Germany finds 1t profitable to contihu
Advantage In system
M,iitary men find Gernany's abiiit
10, brinr manpower to the front iaste
fhan the Allies to lie In the same tnoi
ouehE established system OF conscsni
tion That made her able. to strike M,
and hardest in 1914. When she wa, wan
the class Of 1920, she takes IT, WIZ
She wants the men of fifty-fve or sixt!
she takes them. England has to pas
ii, act Of Parliament to do what Gsl
MANY does at moments notice III
belief Is that the combing process, Whie
England only plans Germany mas
ready nut into effect. She Is THROWN
every spare man into the fght 10 W.
the. war this summer. And extendif
ker authority over Austria, she VIII M
men there when 1t becomes necessa'
70 keep up the drives she Is now maxim
a. as. frequent intervals as II Is po
sibie to prepare for Them
Drises Quickly Prepared
And II is possible to prepare onensiv,
now In brief time. because OF
ANAL part artillery is playing IN tne,
Formerly shells which II took mont,
"a ,nanufacture were EXPENDED III "
ar,ve on q few miles of front anu
vas months before another could
af{emDted. hut artillery work Is si,s =,
n, what Germany Is doing TO-DAY - -
dApsnds upon men. open nsne aY
kecn restored, for the trencnes o.
.r~..srssnrlements can be easily swe
sside 70 eet ready for an attack
cSyres no extensive manufacture
Sscs And the opinion Is that Germal :,
csn Keep pounding away for mon,I n ,a
S,,r,.s which great changes may va &c,
sHcs in tho conformation o. sns Ais' s,s'
,t.ssl Thsss changes become less sta,
NJ. IL yoa stsw What = rinss nspps.' vie