The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1918, Page 6

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MASON. war. Yet there has been no opportun: | Famous American Military Expert. Victory is probable in 1918 only if the German people realize that the war has reached the point where Teu- tonic man-power is disappearing from the world at a greater proportionate rate than the man-power of any other ; belligerent. It is too much to expect that events will so develop in 1918 as to permit the allies to deliver a knockout blow resulting in the unconditional surrend- er of the German armies. But, 1918 will see British, French, Italian and American troops all en- gaged ‘in the business of killing Ger-! mans. Germany, in her turn will also kill, but WITH 'THE ODDS TERRIBLY AGAINST HER. The most important event of the war in 1918 may be the raising of the American flag over the Rhine. Somewhere along the Rhine, prob- ably between the Swiss border, where the Rhine rises, and the vicinity of Strassburg, 75 miles north, the first American’ objective of the war is pre- sumed to be concealed. During the course’ of the new year this conceal- ment will be riped wide open by a million American fighters. Von Hindenburg and the kaiser know what ‘is coming, so far as the general lirection of the American ad- vance is concerned, but they don’t know the point of contact with the Rhine. They will be kept guessing along their historic waterfront until the blow falls. ‘When it loes fall, the most import- ant hapening of the war, and one of the most vital developments in the his- tory of civilization will have occurred. The Rhine will have been cap- tured by the first army from the western hemisphere to engage in an offensive military campaign in Europe. - The problem of crossing the Rhine ‘was considered from every angle of possibility early in the war by British atid French army engineers. It will River , ity for France to go at the problem for a second effort, with knowledge gained from experience. By the time; the experience was ready, France hadn’t the men to spare for a new advance to the Rhine. | Sometime during 1918, nearly four years after France’s failure, a MIL- LION MEN FROM AMERICA WILL AKE AN FFORT TO SOLVE NEW THE PROBLEM OF THE VOSGES MOUNTAIN BARRIER. The | principal strategic aims of the Americ- tan army in the year, thus, will probably take this order: (1) Making a secure passage through the Vosges Mountains for a military advance into Germany; 4 (2) Marching across Alsace or Lorraine toward the Rhine; (3) Forcing a passage across the Rhine into Germany proper. This looks like an enormous pro- gram for a single year, when compar- ed with what the allies have been try- nig to do for nearly three and one- half years along the west front. But 1918 IS DESTINED TO SEE NEW CONDITIONS OF FIGHTING. After three and one-half years of slaughter, he best soldier material in the central empir well as among \the allies has been killed or perman- ently incapacitated. n the second best has been annihilated. Opposed to the third and fourth best of the central empires, the United States will have this year in Europe, not only her best, but HER SUPER-BEST. A seconl condition that should make the fighting in 1918 different from the ‘usual offensive methods of previous years of the war, is the ‘proof the British gave at Cambrai of the value of their tanks as offensive weapons. Since the Cambrai engagement, a second use of the tanks for a surprise offensive has been made temporarily inopportune because of the heavy re- inforcements Germany has concen- trated along the British front. But with American tanks in profusion at fall, however, to engineers from West the southern end of the western front Point to direct the solution in 1918,'this year, anl with plenty of British if'the problem is to be solved at all. tanks at the northern end, the Teut- This question of military engineering ons will find the problem of adequate skill will come as the climax to a concentration of their reserves well drive through German tterritory, that will test American generalship to its utmost. The starting point of the drive will de revealdd' in the spring or summer, when the American offensive begins. General Pershing is preparing to} hold the southernmost part of the western’ battlefront. It is'a stretch of at least 100 miles, as the trenches turn and twist, from one end of this line to the other. The extréme southern part of the line is; inside Alsace and is about 15 miles now resting his forces. Never since from the Rhine; the northern part is ey lics away. The distances between | night insuperable. Over 300 miles will then separate the areas of possible American and British offensives. Real surprise will have been reintroduced into modern warfare on a gigantic scale. Apart from American's participa- tion in the war during 1918, chief in- terest ought to center in the co-ordin- ated offensives of the British with the American armies. It is in accord with the best prin- ciples or strategy that General Haig is the war began have the allies been able to co-orlinate their major attacks for ary length of time. This haphazard ry. ‘It would seem logical that the near-{ method of fighting to which Germany ér to the Rhine the American assault begins, the quicker will the objective be reached. But the lines of com- munication leading to the battlefront owes so much, is to be abandoned in 1918 by the allies. Except to repel a possible German assault, the British forces probably will remain compar- _ part of the “American front” than be- are much better behind the northern gtively quiet from now until America gets ready to strike. oZOL this7ahaelilcpEs.ptteoxeeer! THEN WILL COME SIMUL- TANEOUS OFFENSIVES at the northern and southern ends of the western line, FORCING THE GERMANS ON THE DEFENS IVE under conditions such as they have not yet encountered luring the war. The French armies between the. hin! the southern part. - 5 The decision to be taken will be the most fateful of the year 4918, and may turn out to be the most fatefal of the war. The problem of getting supplies across the Vosges Mountains, which separate France from Alsace and part of Loraine, was one that the French als did not solve earlier in the Fred Toney has been arrested for trying to evade the draft Jaw. Last year Fred Toney was one of the biggest men in gasegall. He pitched a 10-inning, no-hit game, some- thing which few pitchers have .ac- complished since the day of A. G Spaulding. He won more than: 20 games in the National league and won a bonus from the Cincinnati clug for it. Fred Toney was slated to be one of the gig men of gaseball in 1918. Regardless of how Toney iomes out in his suit, regardless of what Toney did last year, he will not be sustained gy the patriotir sporting element of America which rose in applause when Hank Gowdy enlisted. American and the British will prob- ably not play a strongly ofensive role in the 1918 fighting, except as sup- ports of the combats on the two ex- ‘tremes of the western front. France has borne a more exhausting part of the warfare during the past hree and one-half years than has England and France has earned the right to rest until her help is urgently needed. Enough ought to be expected of Rus- sia, as to uncertainty, during 1918, to keep a considerable force of Germans watchful along ‘the eastern front. STOCKHOLDER’S MEETING The annual meeting and election of; the board of directors of the Bismarck | Building and Loan Association, will be held at the office of the secretary in the First National Bank Building on the 14th day of January, 1918, at 7:30 o'clock p. m. F. L. CONKLIN, “SAY,C UKE \S A PANNBROKER. ARLES, WHY A DRUNKARD? % YES— BECAUSE HE TAKES: ft LEDGE BUT SELDOM ~ HOW ABOUT FRED TONEY? Madeline Holbert, Benjie Holbert,{ Margaret Dittmer, Mary Sawyer, Mar- garet Dittmer, L. L. Baker, B. A. Ba- ker, G. L. Baker, John Farmer, O. P. Snock, F. S. Hunt, and Mrs. Clara B. Fisk, respondents. The State of North Dakota, to the above named respondents and all per- sons interested in the estate of A. B. Holbert, deceased: You and each of you age hereby notified that Elma D. 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