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ANOTHER YEAR OF WAR IS PREDICTED
Campaign of 1919 Seems Sure, Declares Simonds—French and
British Are Putting In Their Last Reserves, But American
Determination Will Eventually Down the Huns.
—
BY FRANK H. SI MON OS.
(Copyright, 1918, the New York Tribuno.)
At the moment when a new and
critical phase of the campaign of 1918
is about to open it may seem out of
place to open the discussion of a cam
paign of 1919. Yet the progress of
the present campaign has already
pretty clearly forecast the certainty of
another. In a word, it begins to be
reasonably patent that neither the Ger
mans nor our allies can hope for a
decisive victory this year. And it is
wortli noting that the German press,
which "goosesteps” at imperial com
mand, is already warning the German
public that a fifth winter of war is
inevitable.
There must be a campaign of 1919
because there is not the smallest evi
dence that either side can this year ac
complish results which will make a
peace inevitable, a peace by the sword.
Waterloo, Sedan, Jena, these triumphs
from which immediately flowed a na
tional defeat, are reckoned outside the
calculations of war in its present form,
when nations, not small professional
armies, fight, and restricted fronts
manned by huge forces make the old
fashioned style of battle out of the
question.
Peace this yqar can only be had un
der one of three conditions: First, that
the allies are beaten completely and
beyond rallying In the present cam
paign and as a result of the German
offensive. Second, that the allies are
able, having parried the German attack,
to take the offensive themselves and
do what the French and British were
unable to do at the Marne; namely,
transform a battlefield success, won in
a counter offensive, into a decisive vic
tory. Third, if the people behind the
line, the civil populations, either of the
allied or of the enemy nations, collapse
and compel the military forces to aban
don a struggle which in the field has so
far been indecisive.
Waterloo or Sedan Improbable.
Now, looking at the question of the
possible German victory, is there any
reason to believe that it can reach the
magnitude of a Sedan or a Waterloo;
that is, the magnitude of the conse
quences of these famous battles? Cer
tainly there is nothing to suggest it in
the progress of the campaign in its
first two months. It is possible that
the Germans may get to the channel,
that Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne will
have to be evacuated as a result of
further and far more considerable Ger
man advances in Flanders. The awk
ward and difficult configuration of the
British line north of the Scarpe, the
few lines of lateral communication
available for the transfer of troops
from south to north, the unmistakable
advantage gained by the German in his
opening attack both in and around
Flanders, may result in the slow with
drawal of the British toward the south
and tlie straightening out of the line.
This possibility is not a probability,
but short of an unforeseeen disaster
unlikely under existing conditions the
most that we have to fear is the slow
but sure advance of the German and
the equally deliberate shortening and
retiring of the British lines. The loss
of the channel ports will- not constitute
the sort of defeat which compels the
loser to abandon the fight. On- the con
trary, Britain, with tho kaiser at
Calais, will be forced to fight with re
newed energy, for it will be an even
more deadly peril than the presence
of German troops at Ostend and Zee
brugger
The German may choose to renew
his attempt to get Amiens and to sepa
rate the French and British. Here we
have a more deadly threat, but we have
a more obvious retort. To break the
connection between the British and
the French the German has not merely
to deal with one or two British armies,
reinforced by a certain number of
French reserves and even a certain
number of American regiments; he has
to deal with the main British force and
all of the French reserves, for it is
behind this critical point that the
French reserves must now be concen
trated.
May Get to Amiens.
It is conceivable that the impact of
the new German tiirust may enable him
to re^ph Amiens—but that it will per
mit him to get far beyond, with the
same promptness that he got across
the Somme two months ago, given the
fact that the main mass of allied re
serves is at hand, seems unbelievable.
Thus he may compel the British to
evacuate the north by his attack upon
the south, as he .may be able by at
tack in the north to force a similar
retirement, but he can hardly hope or
expect to interpose between the armies
now, aS he hoped to do when he set
cut.
In sum, on the military side it seems
to me that the largest conceivable
gain for the German this year will be
the occupation of the channel ports
and the dislocation of the British front
in sucli fashion as to force the British
armies south of the Somme. But once
this occurs then the allies, despite the
loss of territory of p*tent value, will
be in a stronger military position, for
their lines will be shortened and they
will no longer be threatened with dan
gers which grow- out of the geograph
ical circumstances of their present
posture in the north of France.
Now there remains, on the military
side, the question of the ability of the
allies, when the German lias at last
used up his.ieservese, to take the of
fensive themselves. This was some
what foolishly expected by most of us
at the crisis of the recent fighting be
fore Amiens, when there was little
exact knowledge as, to the strength of
allied reserves and a general misap
prehension of the extent of the British
defeat and the remoteness of the main
mass of French reserves, who were
then covering Baris against a thrust
from Kheims.
Frankly, such information as comes
to rue tends to dissipate all hope of
any immediate or even remote allied
counter offensive, save in the case of
some German breakdown, no more to
be expected than an equally complete
allied collapse. Focli has not more
troops than the Germans, nor Is he
likely to have any large excess. The
American troops, who are getting over
with admirable rapidity now, will not
be in a condition of training to make
them usefui in such an operation this
year, although many of them may be
employed to advantage in quiet sectors
or even brigaded ' with French and
British in some of the more active
sectors.
Foch Will Economize.
What seems to be the general ex
pectation is that Foch will hold on to
liis reseVves, use them with extreme
parsimony and—since it is a matter of
life and death- -avoid using them more
rapidly than Hindenburg uses his. Ho
must come to tire end of the campaign
with at least as many reserves in hand
as the German to avoid disaster; he
may hope to have a slight superiority,
but not a superiority warranting a
major offensive in October, after lie
and JIind*nbutg have both lost from
1,000,090 to 1.800 ena it- the struggles
that are bound to come.
Foch’s problem, then. Is not the
problem of taking the offensive at the
close of the German attack. He can- ‘
not hope, save in case of an accident,
to have enough reserves left for this.
His problem is to hold the German
this year, imposing as great casualties |
as possible and losing as few men as
possible* that there may be a cam
paign of 1919.
We must get the conditions of this
gigantic battle clearly In mind. It is a
colossal Waterloo, with the French
generalissimo playing the British role
and the Americans playing the role of
the Prussians a century ago. The Ger
man has decided, as did Napoleon, to
risk everything on a decisive battle be
fore all his enemies are ready. He
has won initial successes, as did Na
poleon. On a large scale his progress
to date suggests Ligny, but he has
still to win the decisive phase and he
must win it this year.
Watching the ebb and "flow of the
battle in the next weeks and months
we are bound to keep this essential
condition in mind. The German must
destroy the military power of Britcfin
or of France to win the war this year.
He may shift his attack to the French
and strike at Rheims instead of at
Amiens or at Calais, but he must dis
pose of one of his enemies, and if he
fails then there is an end of any hope
of winning a complete_victory, of end
ing the war by a western treaty of
Brest-Litovsk. He will tiave to nego
tiate with the prospect of facing a
new American army next year if he
does not get peace by negotiation.
Allies Will Not Crack. ^
And this brings me to my third'
point. Is there any change of a.col
lapse of the French or British public
under pressure which may compel
large dislocation of the British line
and considerable evacuation of French
territory? I do not believe it, and
credible and material evidence coming
to me from both France and Britain
seems to prove that neither country
will break under any strain that is
now conceivable. For Britain to break
now if the kaiser reached the channel
would be the ruin of the empire and
the end of security at home, for with
the kaiser at Calais, London would be
a closed port and the Straits of Dover
commanded by German cannon.
As for the French, their condition is
infinitely bettor than it was a year ago,
and so far they have suffered relatively
slight losses in the fighting of the cam
paign. Nor were their losses great last
year. It is upon the British that the
great strain has been put in the past
two years, but the strain has not suf
ficed to break them nor is there the
smallest reason for believing that they
will or can break now, when to fail
would be to surrender their position as
a great power and their own safety in
the British Isles.
We shall do well to recognize that the*
British have suffered terribly in the
past two years, and that it is unwise
and unjust to expect of them what we
now expect of ourselves. War weari
ness is a fact in Britain, as it is in
France. We have seen signs and w'e
shall probably see more signs of the
strain in the next few months. But it
is a good time to read about what hap
pened in the north in 1864 of our own
civil war.
In a sense, the situation comes down
to this: The British and French alike
are putting in their last reserves.
Neither will have any considerable re
serve when this present campaign is
over. They could not and would not
do this were it not for the visible dem
onstration that America is coming.
Their strength will enable them to hold
the line this year with such minor aid
as we can supply. But it would not
enable them to face another campaign
if there were not from 1,000,000 to
1,500,000 of American troops to count
on next year.
But the 1,000,000 is an established and
calculable fact: this being so there is
not "the smallest chance that French or
British publics will think of making
peace with the German, who has scored !
material but not decisive successes this ,
year and will seek to get peace by
negotiation based upon his present j
holdings and without regard to Ameri
can man power which is to intervene
next year. The French, having held the
line until we arrive, will not be ready
to make peace on the basis of 1914.
Alsace-Lorraine will be the smallest
price they can exact and are entitled to
exact. The British will not make peace
while their enemy still sits at Calais
and threatens India.
Germany’s Hope in East.
Unless Germany can hold Russia and
the Balkans, witlT their Asiatic fringes,
she cannot hope and does not hope to
escape the appropriate ruin which the
war promises for her. But none of the
allies can consent to the perpetuation
of German rule and domination in
Russia and along the Black sea with
out insuring future wars and preserv
ing the precise Prussian peril we are
all fighting to abolish. Tliis fact has^
conic home to the masts of the German
people, and explains in some slight de
gree their present unity, livery class
of German subject knows that ruin is
inevitable unless there be conquests
and indemnities.
Thus, when the present campaign
ends and the German begins his peace
maneuvers, as he certainly will if de
cisive victory has escaped him, his
very necessities will compel him to de
mand terms which his enemies could
ohlv accept if they were conquered.
And they will not be conquered, but
will have at their hand a great, new
force, a practically Inexhaustible reser
voir of American man power, while
German maa power, like their own,
will have been well nigh exhausted, at
least wasted, beyond the possibility of
another such offensive as we are now
facing in the west.
As for hunger and war weariness
driving the German people to rebellion
—they may rebel, but it is idle to ex
pert or hope that they will. Russia
yielded to her misery and permitted
internal disorder to lead to external
weakness, and the German people have
the spectacle of Russia before them
now to serve as a warning. And it will
serve as a warning. The eastern con
quests will contribute much to alle
viating the hunger and to supplying
necessary things which the blockade
has kept out of Germany. The worst
of the food problem will probably be
over permanently before next winter
closes.
It seems to nle that the German
leaders and rulers will still be able to
control their subjects, if not by prom
ises of fresh victories at least by the
fairly accurate representation of what
anything but a victorious peace will
now mean, not merely for the present,
hut for future generations of Germans.
Germany, l<ke the south in 1864 and
the early spring of 1865, will have no
choice iiut to fight, because she can
obtain no terms from her enemies
which would enable her to preserve
any part of the main purposes for
which she has. been fighting. ilcr
enemies, at least certain cf new as: ;s
tance and relieved of a considerable
part of the burden which they have
hart to bear, will not conseat to a peace
which will make their immediate
present dangerous and their future
dark.
If America were not arriving I feel
Bure that there would be peace by
negotiation at the close of this cam
paign and that Germany would be able
to harvest substantial profits from her
campaigns. Not In any spirit of vain
glory. but merely In a sense of respon
sibility, the American people must no*
recognizo that the winning of the war
In going to be In a large measure their
task. We nre the only lighting nation
which Is not war weary, which is not
weakened by terrible casualty lists and
shaken by all sorts of privations und
miseries.
Our youth ts the only youth which is
still untouched by the war; the best of
the young manhood of Britain, France
and Germany Is gone, and each of these
countries is steadily raising the age of
its troops; men of 50 are now in the
ranks, and the boys of 18 and 19 have
long been fighting In Germany. It is
foolish to expect In Europe today the
emotion and the spirit which amazed
ajul thrilled us all three years ago. One
has now to turn to America to find
universally the determination, the will
and the emotion which were so familiar
in France In the first two years of the
war and in Britain a little later.
The best of three great nations is
gone. The best of ours Is coming, and
behind It is a nation which has just
waked up to the truths which called
the youth of Britain and France to
arms nfid to death In the earlier days
of the war. Neither the British nor
the French make any pretense at dis
guising tlte facts that exist in Europe
today. There will be a campaign of
1919, because we shall be there to do
much of the fighting and to supply
not alone a great portion of the ma
terial, hut not a little of the moral
force. Without us the war could not
go forward; with us It will go for
ward to victory, because In the very
simple language of the street, we still
have the "punch," while for the Euro
pean nations the thing has become a
nightmare, an Inescapable scourge, and
no longer the cull to the spirit that it
was three years ago. The best of one
generation, of the vital generation, Is
buried between Paris and Liege or
hidden away crippled in the back
waters of the tvar.
There is courage, there arc strong
wills and brave hearts left; the Brit
ish and French are fighting on and
will fight on; even when we are there
with our first million and a half we
shall he outnumbered by the combined
British and French armies all through
the next campaign, but this will not
diminish the Importance of our con
tribution. The defeat of Germany, in
a very real sense, has become an Amer
ican task and because we have under
taken the tusk with a spitit of determi
nation and with unmistakable national
unity France and Britain will keep
on to the end, doing a vast deal of the
work, but relying upon us more and
more.
The Care of Finland.
Fgom the New Republic.
Finland's claim to recognition as an In
dependent state stands on an altogether
different footing from the claims of tho
Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland. The in
habitants of Finland, although divided
Into Swedish speaking and Finnish speak
ing groups, have a high degree of homo
geneity and an intense national conscious
ness. The country has enjoyed autonomy
since time out of mind and was able suc
cessfully to resist the recent tendencies
toward Russification. There ts no serious
question as to boundaries, nor is there
any question as to the representative
character of the Finnish government. Fin
land is not in the stage of provisional
governments, but has already a constitu
tion that approaches nearer to the demo
cratic Ideal than any other country tn
the world anjoys. Those who believe
that in the future the world ts to be par
celed out among a few great supernattonal
empires will regret the decision of Finland
to separate herself entirely from Russia.
They believe that Finnish Independence is
most likely to prove nothing but a prelude
to German dominance.
Alaska, the Superlative.
Ivathlene ■ B. Winter, In World Outlook.
Alaska scenery Is not scenery — lt'a
nature’s coup d’etat.
Her glaciers as tall as the dome of
the capitol at Washington gleam like
meadows of glass.
And now and again, when a berg Is
born, great sheets of water seem to splash
the very sky and angry waves toss the
baby glacier about as if it were a cork in
a basin of water.
Alaska's mountains out-Alp the Alps. A
mountain under 12,00(1 feet is ignored as a
mere foothill.
Alaska’s trees out giant California's
niammouth specimens. Here a canoe cap
able of carrying 60 warriors has been
made by the Indians from the trunk of a
single poplar tree.
And Alaska's mosquitoes out Jersey
Jersey’s fiercest. It is said that nothing
short of a coat of tar and lard will dis
courage these man eating animals. Ordi
narily unguents prove to be nothing more
than appetizing sauces. To kill a mosquito
Is mistaken judgment—so many relatives
gather for the funeral. Huge, apparently
self reliant bears have been so badly
stung about the eyes that they have be
come blind and unable to find food—mur<
dcred by these tiny posts.
Cheerful Greeting.
From the St. I.ouis Star.
The other day I went to a bakery shop
In the west end. While I was waiting for
my war bread In came a man In khaki
who had just returned from the front.
“Why, Lieutenant ——,” said the baker
ess. "are you back? I’ve been looking
anxiously for you every day In the
casualty list."
The Flag.
There Is something In a flag and a little
burnished eagle,
That Is more than emblematic. It Is
glorious, it is regal.
You may never live to feel it, you may
never bo In danger.
You may never visit foreign lands and
play the role of stranger,
You may never In tho army check the
march of an Invader,
You may never on the ocean cheer the
swarthy cannonader;
But If these should happen to you. then
when age Is op you pressing,
And your great big booby boy comes to
ask your final blessing —
You will tell him: Son of mine, be your
station proud or frugal,
When your country calls her children and
you hear the blare of bugle,
Don't you stop to think of Kansas, or
the quota of your county,
Don’t you go to asking questions, don't
you stop for pay or bounty,
But you volunteer at once and you go
where orders take you.
And obey them to the letter. If they make
you or they breuk you.
• *••••
Don't you ever dream of asking: "Is the
war a right or wrong one?"
You arc in it and your duty is to make
(lie fight a strong one,
And you stay till it ia over, lie the war a
short or ’.ong one.
If that flag roes down to ruin, time will
then without a warning
Turn the dial back to midnight, and ihe
world must wait t’il morning.
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