"BRINGING DOWN THE WORLD"

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2655, 29 December 1915, Page 8

"BRINGING DOWN THE WORLD"

, Ail Italian military critic who lias ! been investigating German, military ' .strategy during the war has comc to : the conclusion that the German General . Staff must fight henceforth without any , !sort of programme. ■ Ho thus advances his arguments. Germany has fought with the sole object of conquering and occupying territory, hut during fifteen months she lias at- [ tained 110 serious objective, and, above > all, she has not been ablo to strike one L lilow at her principal adversary, England. AH the German successes are but Pyrrhic victories, and in lier efforts to i obtain tlißiii she has only exhausted 1 herself. Her expedition to the Balkans is ;\n act of folly prompted by despera--1 tion. Knowing she cannot savo hexself, 1 Germany is carrying tho flaming brand • wherever she can. She understands she ! . must perish, and before her own des- [ truction she aims at' bringing' it upon I the entire world.' 1 But. without the command of tho sen. 1 Germany, despito all her victories. \Vill be always a defeated nation. Nevertheless;, under these conditions, the war ; may last some years—it will last until Germany is destroyed. Yet before • slici is destroyed by her adversaries it may well be that slio will fmd her. own ruin in her own country. A colosisnl revolution is not a Utopian vision. Xt nia-v be nearer than tho world thinks, and it may be also that this oxneditiou into MlO Balkans has been taken with the object, of keeping this fearful bugbear temporarily at a distance.