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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1919-02-07, Page 3GERMANliMANiLINESTO BRING MEN HOME • AMERICAN AND A.tw i.'r•A.LiAN • TROOPS RETURNED New Armistice A ;:dement !'laces Large rian ei teatmshipe at the Disposal of Allies. All the 'treat German liner:, and the more important' of the other German passenger steamships, the net includ- ing the huge Imperator, may be placed on. the North Atlantic route to transport me ican troops home- ward, under the agreement fur the extension of the German armiretice signed at 'reeves. The German mer- cantile fleet, virtually in its entirety, is placed at the disposal of the asso- ciated government to be distributed among them in acordance with the needs of the various nations. Only same of the smaller steamships aro left to the Germans. The allotment of the steamships among the associated Powers will be governed partly by the respective needs of the nations and partly by the suitability of the steamships for use on -particular routes. The giant liners, like the Ilnperator and the other big modern steamships finished during the war, are too deep in draft to pass through the Suez Canal. Hence Great Britain will take the moderate- sized steamships for the Australian service, The smaller steamships that are. left to the Germans are for their needs in the Baltic coastal traffic. Food to Pay for Ships. The money will be applied in pay- ment for the foodstuffs furnished to Germany undei: another part of the agreement. Equitable remuneration for the use of these ships is to be paid to Ger- many. The supplies to be furnished include 70,000 tons of pork to satisfy the rgent need of Germany for fats. The furnishing of 200,000 tons of cereals is provided for, but for part of this amount condensed milk may be substituted. The meetings at which the shipping • arrangement was elaborated were held separately from those- of the regular iarmistice commission and .z ;;ere _the first civilian deliberations -7'4. between the Germans and the repre- sentatives of the associated govern- ments since the conclusion of hos- tilities. They were marked by a less formal spirit than the strictly military deliberations of the armistice com- missioners. Germany to Deliver Ships. Marshal Foch planned to have the agreement drafted and signed at one short meeting, but the shipping ex- pects found this to be impossible. Three meetings, lasting over midnight on Thursday and several hours into Friday, were necessary for the dis- cussion of the details. Another meet- ing is planned to be held at the end of the month. The delegates of the associated gov- ernments proposed that the Germans furnish the coal and the ships' stores. The Germans protested that this was impossible, specifying the lubricants particularly as something they were unable to furnish. It was finally ar- ranged that tiro Germans furnish.the coal and the stores, and take the steamships to ports designated by the Allies. who will thel'i take them over and man them. The Germans stated that the steam- ships were in shape for immediate service, having been kept in repair by the skeleton crews maintained aboard thein daring the war. Ettrope's Most Corrupt City. The Prussian capital has been known for many years as tie :nest corrupt city in Europe, but few Ger- man newspapers have spokc'i so frankly about it as the Cologne Volks • zeitung since tilt censor's ban was lifted. Here is its 1ateet indict'nentt "We should rejoice to see a. ;ire deemed from heaven and reduce to cinders the horrible label of Berlin. "To hell with the Berliners, people without soul and without heart, im- placable foes of all Kultur. In the great record book of 1 n1:lenity a mon- strous debt of blood is inscribed against Berlin. He who has not yet made himself acquainted with the re- volting sentiments which have pre - Veiled in the Prussian capital for centuries is wilfully blind. Berlin is an immense moral cess- pool. We refuse any longer to be under its sway." f1. "Yank" and a "Tommy," thrown together in France, were vying With each other in telling tall stories. ATI output of close an rbo 225 +ban's Of honey was the result oaf the past year's industry myon the part of the busy bees of British Columbia, an iini- crease over the 101'7 crop of about 65 w.... sp i iii if Vet St4e ' !yil+J'�'ini3 _,==== t MAR STY L. Emuuxol.motezgarour.Aeramy. For igen, Women end Chi siren /110 BOOTS, SHOE$ and RAINCOATS. SENT FREE Write for a copy to BELL CLOTHING CO. P.O. BOX 426 - TORONTO HAIL'S VALUES DASHED HUN HOPE KAISER'S GRAND OFFENSIVES 01? 1918 Wrecked by the Unyielding Front Presented by British Infantry, Teuton Expert Admits. Wellington used to say he had spent his military life in trying to guess what was going on on the other side of the hill, says a war correspondent. History has to estimate these stra- egic guesses, and already the time has come when the pioneers of his- tory are beginning to reduce'thc chaos of the war to order. I have before me evidence which shows more clearly than anything yet published what was happening on the German side of the hill during those anxious months in the spring of. 1918. Captain von Schwink began the war as a gunner; then he went into the air service and worked with artillery fighting and bombing squadrons. He received a htaff appointment in 1917. When General von Below was on the Italian front in 1917, Schwink served with him. When the scene of German activity and German hopes shifted to France, von Below was put in com- mand of the Seventeenth Army, and Schwink went with him. The German Object. The main idea of the great German offensive in 1918, he says, was to break through to the sea, cutting the British army into two parts, one of which was to be driven back on the channel ports while the other was to be thrown southward in disorder upon the French. All that happened after- ward was in the nature of attempts to repair the plan which had gone awry, or to substitute some other which had not been originally con- templated. For the plan, acording to Von Schwink, did go, awry from the first day. Even while the Kaiser was send- ing about telegrams, while the British public was reading anxiously of that hurried retreat upon Amiens, the Ger- man staff knew that they had failed. So different are facts from imperial desires, so different things look on the other side of the hill. For in that great offensive of March 21 the main weight of the attack was to have fallen north of the Somme. The Germans had no intention of massing divisions south of a line drawn from St. Quentin to Amiens, and so the actual results of the severe check to the northern section of the offensive and their great advance in IT Coffee Disagree ;lea e's an easy way out. ` Beres n© head- ache no sleep- lessness, fl9 hieP VOUSsfCSS it"LA A pleasant coffee -like flavor end en economy n ease I1C2i m akin) will soon make it your avorR''Ce eblc drink . "Thera, a Reasc'n" 11 t i -L1:. i3�j([I'iltQ�I It�trfirli1:10110* i.{I.Ile'' the south woe eteleidtec3 ler the Ger Iran staffeel. horror,- the very guard- ed phi^ "us somee hat #1 the nae tcu•e of u fail -e e," The attack, in fine. did not euceee:l. as bad been expected. except smith St. Quentin, The swift :idvan'sethere '.vas judged to be :'ref merely minor importance. The Gernians had hoped. to 'gain an equal suocors rill alpn.g the line. It remained to try main. The next attempt may be called another version of the origin; idea. On March 23 an attack letw.een Oppy and Neuville- St. Yeast wee launched in order to extend the southern success. The German staff were confident that they would recover Vimy Ridge and •e.xp-; ture Arras by the weight of the first blow. As is known, they failed 'dome pletely. Unyielding Valor of British: The reasons for the failure which appeared on the German side of the hill were: First, the artillery prepare, tion was not sufficient, because •they could not bring up enough ammuni- tion fast enough; and second, the re- sistance of the British infantry went beyond all German calculation, Again it became necessary to rea consider the situation, and this time more profoundly, the resistance had been so strong, the check so discour- aging and the losses so heavy that the German stair decided to give up' altogether the original plan to break through to the sea north of Amiens. They looked for a new scene of ac- tion in which they could work with smaller forces and 'with some chance of success, but still the sea was the lure. • Reading this German history of the campaign •of 1918 one finds himself thinking of some caged beast tearing and biting at the bars that shut him in, unable to understand how hopeless the fighting is and yielding only when battered and, wounded by his own desperation, he sinks exhausted still in his cage. Still trying for the sea the Germans. organized the attack on April 9, south of Ypres. This, says Schwink, had Dunkirk and Calais as its objective, - and from the opening of the attack it was intended to push right through. Again, it seems, the problem of feed- ing the guns had not been sufiicientiy studied and again this branch of the service compromised in retreat. The difficulty of the ground, I am told, prevented the • heavy artillery and ammunition being brought tip, a.1.7,eee. certain German divisions in their ad- vance found quantities of wine, put it to its natural use and got drunk. Finally and as usual "the resistance of the English troops, especially about Givenchy, led to delay." ,,- • • -.-.. -w •"ti The Latest De8ig What an abundance of grace in the soft folds of this draped skirt! And the blouse, too, has all the grace that edlnplieity gives to a gown. M'eCalI Pattern No. 8676, Ladies' Basque. In 6 sizes, 34 to 44 bust. Price, 20 cents. No. 8677, Ladies' Three -Piece Skirt In 6 sizes, 22 to 32 waist. Prince, 20 cents. - Two Big Miscalculations. It is curious how closely the story of this northern offensive resembles that of the first great attempt to the south. Both began with a spectacular success which the general staff con- sidered a fai:ure; in both there fol- lows an attempt to repair the damage, to set the plan on its legs again. The attack of April, 1918, on the Given- chy-Merville faant was made to open out the no :•there salient and give a chance of further advance as original- ly intended. This also failed and then the German staff threw up the gate in the north and put aside their hopes of the sea. Von Schwink, who may, perhaps, speak for one school of German mili- tary opinion, thinks that this was a serious mistake. His view is that if every man had been thrown into the offensive on the Bethune -Ypres front the Germans would "almost certain- ly" have reached the channel ports. In the fighting of the whole cam- paign of 1918 what most impressed Schwink was the discrepancy between the German staff's estimate of the fighting value of the British divisions and the actual value. The German general staff consistently and con- siderably underestimated the value of the British divisions which had been engaged. Last and most irritating of all these chapters of disillusion ninet have been the discovery that, as Schwink puts it, "the fighting value of the German divisions was generally overesti- mated." What They're Getting. "The Germans for the next genera- tion," said Mrs. Edith Wharton at a Y.M.C.A. tea in Paris, "are going to be pariahs. Wherever they go they're going to be abused. And it will be useless for them to complain. "A German diplomat spent tha Stemmer at St. Moritz, in the Swiss Engadine. One morning beside the lake he stopped to talk to some neu- tral ladies,and a little girl who was in the party, whispered something to her mamma. 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