The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-17
PLAN GREAT DRIVE
Germany's Peace Refusal Would
Release Great Allied HOrdes.
Foch Has Great Military Cam
paign All Mapped Out.
.YANKS WILL BE CENTER OF II
Program Provides for Three
Big Invasions Into Germany.
Foe Would Be Crushed, Allied
Strategists Say.
YANKS WILL Be CENTER OF II
BY HENRY WOOD.

Paris, June 17-If Germany refuses
! to sign the peace treaty, the allied
| armies will launch Immediately one of
the greatest and most decisive cam
| paigns in history.
While the public generally is in
clined to think of an advance into
Germany under present conditions as
| little more than triumphal parade.
| in which no resistance will be met,
Marshal Foch has been obliged to be
prepared for any emergency. The al
| lies would move forward with every
detail worked out for a campaign eX-
! tending from the Dutch to the Swiss
frontier-designed to give Germany a
death blow in the shortest possible
time-against the maximum force
which the united allied command
knows the Germans might throw into
action in a crisis.
The allied campaign, according to
| the highest French military critics and
authorities. would embrace three great
routes Of invasion, designed to break
down all possible defense, seize the
most important points in Germany and
cut that country completely in two.
The allies left wing, consisting of
the Belgian army, with the British
protecting its right flank at the Col
ogne bridgehead, would drive east
ward from Dusseldorf into the net
work of railways. of which Essen
only a days march away, is the GEN.
ter. With the British army in posi-
ton to execute q thanking movement
from the south. should this be ncces-
sary, Germany would lose at the out
set not only her great Krupp ord
nance and munitions works at Essen
but the entire surrounding minera
basin. This would open the way i'm.
mediately to Minden, where German,
has constructed a great fortress fol-
defending her plains from entrance
thru WeStphalia. Without doubt Ger.
many would make her supreme re
slstance against the allies left wins
before Minden.
Strike at Ulm from Alsace.
) simultaneously. however. the allies
right wing, composed exclusively o
the bulk of the French army, woul,
drive out from the Alsace-Lorrain,
front, where they have the adyantag
of a great depression before them ex
tending for 50 miles, and which woul,
lead them directly up to Germany
big southern fortress at Tim. Her
allied military authorities figure tha
Germany would have to make he
principal resistance along the Danube
between Ulm and Ingolstadt.
20 With these two actions in progress
the big decisive stroke would b.
, smashed home by the allied center
, composed of the American army cen
tered at Cobienz, the French Tent
army at 0ldySHCc anu the rIeHCi
/. army now in the Bavarian Palatinate
The allied center has before it tn
, great route of invasion of Germany b.
, way of the valley of the Main, whicl
flows into the Rhine below Frank
fort. The Main valley leads directl
: across Germany into the mountain
! on the Bohemian border. Altho tn
meandering of the river makes thi
route long, it is only ten days marcl
across Germany at this point. Thi
drive would separate completely tn
2 northern from the southern half @
l Germany. German military strate
gists have long considered this Ger
many's most vulnerable point, and 70
4 that reason figured that the ever