HINDENBURG'S PLANS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2975, 12 January 1917, Page 5

HINDENBURG'S PLANS

A MILITARY EXPERT'S VIEWS London, January 10. Colonel Repington, "The Times" military correspondent, discussing tho 1917 campaign, says: "Hindenburg will probably adopt tho defensive on the West front, lessening the German inferiority by massing vast supplies of heavy guns and men. He still aims at orashing Russia. Hindenburg"s present is to secure the Sereth andl Pruth. lines- and the Danube mouths, and to,, shorten his lines after the Rumanian. campaign, thus giving -.Him moro reserves to use where ho desires. An attractive German, programmo will be to Beize'the lower and send submarines to the Black Sea, thus , afArmenian and Eastern Mediterranean campaigns. Russia must prepare an'anvil for the, German hammer of 1917, and make plana accordingly. The economic stranglehold may also impel the Austrian and German jiavies to malce a united desperate effort to break out and attack our sea lines." —"The Times." SWISS NATION. ALARMED , • London, January 10. Tho "Daily News" correspondent at .Lausanne says that, despite German denials, the Swiss are preoccupied! with the possibility of & German invasion in a desperate attempt to secure peace in three months by a smashing blow in the West. Threo ways of invasion, are discussed: Firstly, from Austria 1 through' Grisons and St. Gothard into Italy; secondly, from Genhany, via Porrontruy, threatening Belfort; and thirdly, via SchafFhausen, threatening the industrial heart of Franco. ' Swiss military osperts aro of opinion that Germany isquito likely to attack at the three points simultaneously.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.