PROFESSOR MEINECKE'S REMARKABLE ARTICLE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2969, 5 January 1917, Page 5

PROFESSOR MEINECKE'S REMARKABLE ARTICLE

WHAT THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME TAUGHT GERMANY . London, January 3. Professor Memecke s article in tho "Frankfurter Zeitung" says; "Only in a political souse did Germany begin tho war as a defensive war. In a military sense, it was a knock-out war, intended to knock out Franco ' and Russia; then Germany would have been able to compromise with England who would hay© been disarmed." ' After referring to the Marno collapse, he says: "The attack on Verdun was a politico-military move to provo to the French that it was better to end a war which they could not win. Germany's enemies pulled themselves together for a gigantic achievement, and a great double offensive began in the East and West. The Battlo of the Somme led to the conviction in Germany that it was no longer possible to arrive at a military decision in .a. full peace-compelling sense._ It was therefore statesmanlike, intelligent, and wise to abandon the intention of a destruction and seek a. reasonable compromise. The war had proved that there were limits to the possibilities of knock-out strategy. Between the German Powers the motto in future would ha not overthrow, bub balance."—Aue).-N.Z. Gable Assn.

j -li' 1 P"' , ''i ! ' lor ' yesterday it was slated ihat Professor Meinecko admitted that Germany intended military aggression, but the brilliantly-begun campaign collapsed at tho iUarno, which ,was a strategical French success. Ho admitted that, tho attacks at Verdun wero a failure. Ha warned small nations to consider tho fato of .Belgium, Serbia, and .Rumania, and stated that they imperilled their lives if they attempted to touch the deadly electric wire of .the Contra] Powers. "Tho Times," commenting on this, said it was tho most remarkable German war artiole yet published, and was tlia Grsb free admission of tho truth.