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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1914-11-5, Page 3TILE SIGNAL : G(DERICH : ONTARIO T11011ISDAT, Novzsr.s 5, 1014 $ The Strategy of the Campaigns A Most Lucid and Illuminating Account of the Inva- sion of France by Germany, Written for the Review of Reviews by Frank H. Simonds, Editor of the New York Evening Sun 1. -THS Gamlen Oreuneive- In any review of the military op- erations of the Europeen weir during September, the histol y of the Getman offensive thrust foto France periwar ily commands attention almost to the reclusion of all elite. In Poland and Galicia mighty battles bave been toughs ; victories destined pe: haps to contribute more t'•an the es -stern bat- tles to the nest u.ap-making in Eur- ope were achieved. Hut it war the .truggle from Brur.els to the gates of Paris that held the attention of the weld. Primarily this was Lecatw the su- preme military machine of the world was here subjected to its first trial in neatly half a century. From Sedan to the Battle of the Marne the Ger- man army had been held the greatest military weapon in the world, and er,ited with it the German Kaiser had dominated the ooun,elii .,f Europe dur- ing his whole reign. Minae Waterloo destroyed the Napoleonic army no troops, save those of the German enf- pire. had enjoyed en equal fame. In the trial of September, too, the Geroan army showed itself not un- worthy of its reputation. To me•eure the magnitude of the German offen- sive thrust utuet be the work of general *taffy of the future but at the present mont•ut, close to the event. for spec- tacle of a nation launching more than a million of magnificently trained, fully equipped melt. whore courage ',quelled their efficiency, in ono eigantic drive sending them in three weeks forward Over more then tau hundred railer !runt victory W victory in bevies far surpiaasine the N.podeooic struggles in numbers engaged, and rivalling the iturao-J•panem war in the sacrifice of life, seems in all our written bistney 'comparable only with dispatch of the myriad• of Xerxes against Greece and I the Armada of Spain against England. a. -Toe ATTACK UPON Fit ANVIL. In the examination of the gigantic military operations three distinct I things must be considered. ie neces.ary, first, to esplein why Ger- many should have iecided to utilise ' practically all of her enormous mili- lary machine in a thrust at France ; second, why the route through Bel- gium war selected, despite the fact THE SIGNAL'S CLUBBING LIST 1914 The Signal and Toronto Daily Globe $3.75 The Signal and Daily Globe to persons with rural postal boxes the price is. 3.5o The Signal and DailyMail and Empire 3.75 The Signal and Daily Mail and Empire to persons with rural postal boxes the price i3 3.5o i'he Signal and Montreal Family Herald and Weekly Star 1.85 The Signal and Saturday Illustrated Globe1.85 The Signal and Weekly Sun (Toronto)1.75 The Signal and Toronto Daily Star ... 2.25 The Signal and Toronto Daily World 3.25 The Signal and Toronto Daily News 2.30 The Signal and Toronto Weekly Mail and Empire r•6o The Signal and Farmer's Advocate 2.35 The.Signal and Canadian Farm1.85 The Signal and Farm and Dairy New 1.6o Renewal.... . 1.85 The Signal and The Country Gentleman 3.25 The Signal and Canadian Poultry News1.35 The Signal and Grain Growers'. 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BRADWIN iUBLISHER THS SIGNAL Goderich Ontario that the violation of Belgian owleal• 1 STORYETTES It y insured the appearance of Orwell Britalu io the r►0 a of her "'nil"; Berlioz used to tell a story about a third, it rewires co review the actual military operations themselves ID their three separate phases, the drive at the left flsok, the thrust at the centre, and the recoil. Garman attack upon France was dictated by the following considera- tions : In • war with France, Russia, Great Britain and Set -via, having cooly Austria as an ally, it was certain that when e11 her furs had their military strength in the field, Germany would lw decirivrl outnumbered. But at the out.et of the e.infiict only F. twos could mobilize with approxiwately the sarur Promptitude as Germany. The rise of Russia, the inadequacy of her system of conirnunicatlons, the rom- p.rative inefficiency of her gruer& staff, as Bet lin raw it, the lung delay Gust would he necesary before Great iitiuin could put anything but a. small rxpediiton•ry force in the field, all these citcuustanrrs combined to give Germany a period of scene week* dur- ing which she could strike at France. If. while England war raieing an army and Russia *lowly cowing up, restrained by a thin screen of Ger- mans and snout of the field army of Austria, Germany could deal France a swift, tremendous, decisive blow, not defeatine, but destroying her mili- tary force, n-peating in 1911 the suc ceases of inti) on a cul.»sal Male, thus Oeru.any aright hope to he finally rid of one fir b. -fore the others were up. At Perls she roup dictate French sub- mission end tura her victorious artily against Itussie. '1'he Kaiser's position was precisely that of Napoleon at the outset of his last campaign. 1n Belgium, Britian and Prussian armies wereon foot ; from Austria. Russia, te rest of Europe. new armies were sure to come; Napoleon's plan was to crush the armies in Belgium before the other, came up, and deal with them in turn. For tide purpose he fought the Wateilxt campaign. :i. -THIS ADVAMCE THROUGH BILLOW'S Precisely the same necessities com- pelled the Gerwrns to go through Bel- gium as inspired their attack upon France. Granted that for six weeks they were free to use their massive machine against France almost ex- clusively, it was equally necr...,s that they should have a wiry to get to France promptly, to be at the throat of the enemy w.tl outdelay Hence it young woolen lo a music store. mademoiselle," suggest ed the clerk, "will not Ibis piece in ttv- sharps per- haps 1s rather difficult ?" 'Pooh !" •he replied disdainfully. "That is all o w oar te. Whenever I find more than two sharps or flat• 1 wretch them out with my penknife." • • • A men who stuttered very hadly went to a specialist, arid after ten diffi- cult lessons learned to say quite dis- tinctly, "Peter Piper picked • peck of pickled peppers. His (tient', ain- gr•atulated bins upon his splendid achievement, "Yee,"said the men, doubtfully, "lent it's s -.-such a d -d -deucedly d d -difficult ram cult w-ni-ark W w•w-work into en or d-in-ary c -c -co 0- vetsation, y'know." • • • A noted wag met an Irishman in the street one day and thought he wnufd he funny at hie exlwose. "Hollow, Pat," he said. •'1'11 give you eight in panne for • shilling. •'Will ye, now ?" said Pat.' "Yes," he re- plied. The Irishman handed over the 'shilling, and his friend put eight pence into his palm in return. "Bight in pence," he explained. "Not bad, is it ?" "No," answered Pat, -but the shilling is." • • • 'Whir conduct of tori much modern Hnaoeiering reed's Reginald Manning. He was a clubman of good birth, bad .uarvellou1 succus at bridge and poker, but whenever he tried his band at the races he was sure to lose. R ••eggie," • man said to him one day. "bow the deuce fait that you always.. win with the cards and 1... with the horses ?""Well, you see," said Reg- inald, "I dont shuffle the horses.-' • • • 11 was at a concert The eminent pianist was embarked upon •n ambit - tons dewiest p.-ogramme. The single individual present who bed paid fcr his ticket turned to his right-hand neighbor, oh. foody by his bored end superior sir • person whose business it was to attend concerts -a tnunical critic. "Beg pardon." said the individ- ual, "but isn't that something of Chopin's-that lest number?" "It ie," replied the critic morosely, "when somebody else playa it." • was impossible to attack Fiance from A commercialtraveller went hone the Franco -(ii roan frontier. Here one day and said to his wife : i have from the vet y morning of her terrible done something today deist 1 should defeat in 187o, France had been build- have done when 1 first started on . the ing treinrndous forts. Verdun, Toul, road. I have taken out an accident Epinal. Belfort barred this approach insurance policy on my life If I ase and behind thea was a second line killed the company p.ys $111,1101; if 1 hardly lees formidahle. ■m injured, then I get $-.5 it week." It was true that none of these fort- The nest morning when he started on lasses were impregnable, but to smash through thew with the whole Held army of France manning therm -this would consume time and there ass lacking to the Germans time for such an operation. Not through the Vos- ges could their swift and terrible thrust lie sent. There retrained the Belgian gateway. Westward from Aix -la Chapelle in Germany to Liege in Belgium ran one of the great trunk railroads in Europe. %Vest of Liege the line opened into several douMe- track routes across the plain to Brus- sels. From Brussels south to Paris yet more trunk lines flowed over level country destitute of Perste rivers, high mountains, or other natural obstacles to the quick advance of an invading army. Germany were to .rush France by one blow, then, here was her only pos- sible avenue of apprnacb. Taking it, she could hope to come at Paris and overwhelm French military strength either by weight of_ number's or ■kill of her strategical dispositions within the time allotted her. Accordingly, without the slightsit hesitation. sbe chose the Belgium route and the first roar of hostile artillery in the world war was heard under the forts of Liege, almost before the flat declare - tion of war was forth. 4.-THI SHADOW OF SICDAN. From the attack on Liege on August 4th until the German mobilisation' was complete, a period of twelve dale, the press of the world was filled with the reports of the gallantry of the Belgium army, which with apparent success fought off thl cavalry .ctvens sent forward by the Germans while they gathered their masses. In the first flush of Belgium resistance the suspicion went abroad that German military strength had been overesti- mated, that the machine was breaking down at the very start, But for .11 disrespect shown in those days the press of the Allies was to pay dearly and without delay. Thus on or about August 17th the German invading army, hardly lea than • million strong, finally stepped forward, crushed down Belgian resist- ance with scarcely an effort, swot the shattered fragment,. of the B.Igian army back upon Antwerp, occupied Brussels on August 2 )tb and wheeling to the left began its tremendous drive atrPariw *ponies east asst -west ass *1 ad yawed Now what was tbe state of the French army on August Rk i, when this overwhelming blow was about to fall ? At bast two-thirds of it.s num- ber were fighting far off along the Meuse and the Vosges. Before Nancy the much -advertised "counteroffen- sive" had come to grief and after a brief foray into German Lorraine had been sent tinanother shattered. South he -1 fore }Self o$t another invading army clung to Muelhausen, which it had taken. lost and retaken. Along the Meuse a third experiment to the of- fensive had ended equal) unhappily. On the north between Paris and the German Band a few army corps were barely beginning to take position just beyond the French frontlet along the Sambre from Cha Terni to Namur and along the Meuse 'from Namur to Mere iete., where junction wart made with the l-eeten force retiring from the re- cent offensive. West ward toward Lille and toward Mons two Britbb army corp. were ►leo taking pp•..sitior., but were not yet ready. All told, there were perhaps in the north Anglo- French troops amounting in a third of the German maw. When they wheeled left in Brussele and started toward Pari. the Germans were actually nearer to the French capital tb.n either of ther•eat French armies on the east. If the conld cnuh the allied fore* before thew,, nit outflank it and roll It east away from Paris, they could envelope the whole (iootJnoed on page 1 his journey she threw her arms around him and ci fed : "Now, John, for heaven's sake, whatever you do, dont get injured." • • • Stories of the raw but patriotic re- cruit are getting numerous in Eng- land, and one is being told on the Liverpool cotton exchange just now with respect to is young fellow who was stopped in the street for failing to salute an ottteer. The volunteer seri- fussed his ignorunee of the regulations, whereupon the officer explained the 1 mode of procedure proper Its the cir- cumstances, and the two parted. 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