New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 28, 1916, Page 10

LUXEMBERG CHOSEN their line they will be compelled to rely for their defence on the tacti- cal skill of their commanders and the doubtful ability of their rank and file ) T to stand up under heavy odds. With the development of the allied 1 strategy on the western front it be- comes more and more evident that the crucial struggle between the ne line and the Prus- Allies’ Strategists Hope t0 FOIGE | 5o Frantier wint come sargely on the Retreat Throngh Narrow Path Sept. 28.—The Prussian lines They are Picardy are cracking. little Duchy of Luxemburg, French to Block Escape. When the first sweep into France ‘began, in August two years ago, there wero four distinct routes not broken, but they are feeling the | of invasion, all of them following nat- strain that just precedes the break. 1 or artificial channels of travel. The strongest system -of fortified mili- | 'The first was the Valley of the Mo- tary engineering could devise has | selle, the Coblentz-Luxemburg rail- siven way before the Franco-British | Way and the Longwy gatetvay, which onslaughts. The result of two years | broughtythe crown prince to the Ar- of uninterrupted work hags been swept | gonne and the heights of the Meuse. away as sand dunes are engulfed in | The second was the valley of the a tidal wave. Mametz, Contalmaison, Thiepval, Pozieres, Combles, Flaucourt, Belloy, Meuse and the railway from Namur to. Mezieres. The third was the Sambre valley, and the fourth the great inter- Bstreeslabyrinths of death such as | National highway which leads from were not dreamed of five years ago— veritable Verduns all of them, have succumbed in three months to the power of the allied guns and the al- ljed infantrymen. The plan of operations by which the kaiser’'s legions are to be driven back to the Rhine, worked out in many councils here and in London, is developing accurately and speedily. The hardest work is done, Paris be- lleves. The Prussians have been pried from positions they, and much of the world, regarded as impregnable. No such positions can be constructed again under the pressure that is be- ing put on them by the armies of General Haig and General Foch. Dis- lodged, they are fighting a losing fight in shelters hastily constructed, thinly manned and on a terrain which places them at a very definite disadvantage. It is no wonder Paris ls certain the hardest task is over. The war in the west, for the first time since mid-Sep- tember, 1914, is approaching the stage where tactician will meet tac- ticlan, where the weight of the strug- gle will measure man for man and where maneuver of the armed mass, which is preponderately in favor of the French and the British, will de- cide the issue. This is the point toward which the allied high command has been work- ing. Numbers are overwhelmingly on the side of the Entente. Hereto- fore the Prussian staff has balanced this great superiority of rifles and ar- tillery by the intricate, powerful sys- tems of field works they were able to interpose on their front. With this system near the point of disinte- gration on the most vital section of A Fine Treatment for Weak Nerves How would you like to have a set of nerves like steel, able to stand up un- der any kind of a strain? Wouldn't it be great to be so chuck full of gin- ger all the time that trouble fell off your mind like water off a duck’s back so you could go to sleep at anight as soon as your head hit the feathers, and bound out again in the morning at the first tap of the bell feeling you we able to get somewhere in your business that day. Lots of people fuss around all day like a hen on a hot cake but never light any place. 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Every package carries a printed guarantee of money back if not satis- fled. i ——— PERFECTLY PASTEUR- 1ZED MILK SEIBERT AND SON, Park Street, Near Stanley, 6 teams. Tel. connections. it You Want Good Bottled Beer, Wine or Liquors, Order Same from PHILIP BARDECK, 185 Arch St. “Phone 482-2 ; PHILADELPHIA 1 Brussels to Paris. The natural Ines of retreat from French soil would follow these lines of advance. The Anglo-French com- mand, in their comprehensive plans, which are not confined to a battle or a campaign, but are areat enough in scope to carry to the day of the gen- cral armistics do not intend that these avenues of retreat will be open when the Prussians dash to the frontier be- gins. They intend that Luxemburg and the contiguous Ardennes shall be the Prussian Sedan. b Belgium shall be maore if mili it. The Prussian organization violated Luxemburg’s neutrality once and there are signs that the great gen- eral staff is prepared to violate it again and there make the last stand 10 cover the road to the country be- yond the Rhine. The entente pawers are anxidbus to save Luxemburg, just as they are anx- ious to save from destruction what iittle remains of the physical Bel- gium, Prussia, however, is challenging to a struggle and the allies are answer- ing the challenge with disconcerting directness. They are forcing the is- sue, as the further development of General Joffre’s plan of action will gisclose. In place of controlling their lines of withdrawal they are feeling now the pressure that will send them to the Fatherland, not over the routes of easy transport and easy marching, but through a narrow and constantly narrowing bottle neck, where they will be in constant and actual danger of complete envelopment and destrac- tion. The battles of the Somme—the struggle in Pleardy long ago passed the stage of one battle—have for thelr rurpose the capture of Cambria and St Quentin. The Anglo-French arm- tes, which have been engaged in the | fearful conflict, are within easy striking distance of bcth these centers vital to the maintenance of the Prus- sian front from the Belgian frontier to the Mcuse. They have passed the ridge, which cuts northwest France irregularly from bevond La Bassee to the Champagne and they are de- scending to the plain, on which the third and last Prussian defensive bar- 2ier was constructed. Once Cambria and St. Quentin are under fire, Prussian tenure of French soil is daomed. Retirement from these two cities means retirement from the Valley of the Aisne; it means withdrawal from Lille and ultimately it means the Prussian right must fall back from the North Sea coast, where it rests now just above Nieuport. That is General Joffre’s opportu- nity! That is the development on which the allied cgmmand is counting as a. certain forerunner of the destruction of Prussian power in the west, Vast Flanking Operations. Once the Prussian grip on the coast is relaxed the allied superiority in numbers will permit such a flanking operation as the war has not seen. Strategists here do not believe Tt will be possible for the Kaiser's staff to interpose a defence strong enough to halt it. The reasons for this confi- dence can be summed up briefly. Once a retirement from the Belgian frontier south is underway the Prus- sian positions along the Yser will be without support on the left and of necessity must be evacuated. This evacuation would include a retire- ment from the coast to the Scheldt— the only natural defensive line In Belgium, between the sea and the Meuse. Tt is generally understood that at the first sign of a withdrawal from the coast British transports and a fleet of British warships will be ready to land an army in the viciity of Ostend and Zeebrugge, directly on the exposed Prussian flank. Constantly increasing pressure, in the circumstances, would be exerted not only in turning this flank, but in forcing the whole Prussian right not in the direction of Aix-$a-Chapelle, but to the south and into the army groups falling back toward middle Meuse between Namur and Mezieres. This strategy, carried to a succes ful end, would close the two main Prussian exits - from France—that through Brussels and that of the Sombre and lower Meuse valleys. 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