The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1915 WHY GERMANY MUST FAIL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 10, 15 December 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1915 WHY GERMANY MUST FAIL.

There, can be no possible doubt about tlie ultimate defeat of Germany despite all the bluff that is being put nj) to deceive the German people into making still greater sacrifice. The New York Times not long ago pointed this out, explaining that Germany is to-day in the plight of a chess player, handicapped by having fewer pieces, whose brilliant and audacious attack has failed. His adversary, even with no plan of attack, can win the game simply by forcing an exchange of pieces until at last the advantage of a mere pawn is insurmountable. Germany cannot afford to exchange pieces; yet will ,be obliged to do so. The Huns cannot afford to compete in killing on even terms ; yet that is what their enemies now are in a I position to force upon them. I lie j

i writer goes on to say that the elementary principles of warfare are I very simple. You beat your enemy in one* of two ways only; you kill him or you capture him. To besiege, to starve, to break him economically, that is only to capture him by rules defined The arithmetic of the position of Germany and Austria was clear from the beginning. With 1 10,000,000 people they challenged ibid,(II10,000. That was one against two in terms of population. In terms of soldiery i(, would be practically the same, not at first, perhaps, but nil: mately so, for the ratio of effective lighting males to the population does not vary greatly among the countries of Europe, except, of course, as onemay be better prepared than another for first offensives. Therefore, warfare in which for each Englishman, each. Frenchman, each Russian, and each Italian soldier killed a German f p| Austrian soldier also- lost his jife was a kind of warfare utterly

without hope of success to Germany. One German might in vhc average kill his man and a half (no Teutonic militarist could expect more), and the disaster to Germany would he only a short time postponed. Reasoning on these lines the American paper con-* < lodes that German strategy having failed from the commencement to win the war against superior numbers, it is now too late, because every German effort has, in reality, failed. No army has been captured, no great military decision lias been won; but, on the contrary, nou-Teutonic Europe’s potential force has become actual, and Germany’s enemies in their own way may exchange Englishmen-, Frenchmen. Russians, and Italians for Germans with absolute certainty that the supply of Germans will run out. Apparently the Turks and Bulgars have been omitted from the calculation, but if the New York paper's reasoning is at all sound, their advent merely prolongs- the struggle, even if it is fought right out -to the very end.