Evening journal., 1919-06-17
Allied Armies Ready
TO Attack by Three
Routes of InUdsiOn,l
American A rmie S
Striking Foe from
COblenz. ID g CT IN e
Campaign if Peace
is Refused
CRUCIAL FIGHT
BEFORE MINDEN
ny HENRY WOOD.
iIrd prcss sInn lnrrcennndent.

United Press stan correspondent.
Copyright, 1919. by the United Press)
PARIS, June i7.-If Germany refuses
10 sign the peace treaty. the Allied
armies will launch Immediately one of
the greatest and most decisive cam
paianS Ia history.
while the public generally is inclined
10 think Of an adNrqce into Germany
under present cond on as little moro
than triumphal parade in which no
resistance will be made, Marshal Foch
has been Obliged 10 prepare for an
emergency. The Allies would move for
ward with every detail worked out for
campaign extending from the Dutch
10 the Swiss froniier-dcsqncd TO give
Germany a death blow in the shortest
possible time-against the maximum
force which the unified Allicd COM
mand knows the Germans might throw
into action in crisis.
The Allicd campaign. according 10 tho
| highest French military critics and
/ authorities. would embrace three great
routes of inyaSions designed 10 break
down all possible defense, seize tho
most important points In Germany and
cut the country completely in two.
The Miles left wing. consisting OF
the Belnian army. with the british pro-
icctinn its right Hank at the Cologne
hridenhcad. would drive eastward from
Dusseldorf into the network Of rail-
ways OF which Essen. only n days'
march WAY. i the rcnfcr with the
british army IN position 10 execute "A
Ranking Increment from the south.
should this De necessary. GERMANY
would lose az The outset not only her
great hrupp ordnance and munitions
works at Essen, bat the entire sur
rounding mineral basin. This would
/ opcn the way Immediately 10 Mindcn,
where Germany has constructed grcat
fortress FOR defending her plains from
entrance through Ncstphalia
Without doubt Germany would make
her supreme resistance against tho Al
les lcn wing before Minden.
simultaneously. however. The Niles
right wing. composed exclusively OF
The bulk Of the French army would
drive out from The Alsacc Lorraine.
front. where they have the advantage
Of great depression before them cN-
tending for 50 miles and which would
lead thcm directly up 10 Germany's
hin southern fortress ai Tim. Here
ilacd military authorities ngure that
Germany would have 10 make her
principal resistance alonn the Danube
between Tim aud Ingolstadt.
with the two actions in progress
the bH decisive stroke would he
smashed home by the illicd center.
comuoscd Of the American army cen
tered ai COblcnl, the French tenth
army at Mayencc and the French army
now in the Ba,arian palaiiuaic yhe
Allied center has before Il the great
route of invasion OF Germany by way
Of the valley of the Main which flows
INFO the Rhine below Frankfort
The Vain Valley leads directly
across Germany into the mountains on
the Bohemian border Although the
mcandcrng OF the river makes this
route long il iS only ten-day march
across Germany at this point This
drive would separate completely tho
northern from the southern half OF
Germany. German military straiegists
have long considered this Germany's
most vulnerable point and for that rca-
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