Empress Theater
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9-10.
EDITH TALIAFERRO IN
“YOUNG ROMANCE”
FOUR ACTS
A Comedy of Romantic
Youth.
How Cupid Conquers
Over All Pretenses.
CHESTER CONKLIN
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“THE CANNON BALL”
7:30 and 9:00 p. m.
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LONDON, Nov. 10. — “You will
have to ask Germany."
This was the answer of a distin
guished English officer recently back
from the front when the familiar query
was put to him: “When will the war
end?”
“We know what we can give them,”
he continued, “but we do not know
as yet just how much they are pre
pared to sand, or are willing to stand.
In the meantime we will increase the
pressure more and more until the
break comes.”
With the turning of the tide on the
western battlefields there was natu
rally a disposition here to feel that
hostilities soon would be over. The
officers and men of the army do not
share these views, however, and are
constantly cautioning the people at
home against the idea that the issue
will be settled within the next few
months.
From conversations with scores of
officers familiar with the situation at
the front it can be stated that they
do not expect the war to end at the
earliest before next autumn. There
are many who believe there are two
more years of fighting before the al
lied nations.
“We have got a long way to go."
said General Sir William Robertson.
Kitchener's successor, a few days ago.
“And we must be ready to go all the
way," he added. “Fight to a finish
is the order. There must be no slack
ening off. On the contrary, there must
be a great tightening up.”
No good soldier will make a defi
nite prediction as to the end of the
war.
“We must be prepared to go on for
a period of time which it is impossible
to estimate,” said Sir William. And
that expresses the opinion of the
army. There may be various influ
ences at work which they know noth
■ ing of, there is the constant talk heard j
' here of internal troubles in Germany, !
I but the army officer only “looks at !
• the map.” He still sees a long road j
ahead before the victory he has in
mind can become a reality. The mili
tary defeat of Germany, and that is
the only defeat the army looks for
ward to, means an invasion of the I
Berman empire. General Sir O'Moore
t'reagh, the distinguished Irish “V.
0.,” has said:
“The Indian lancers may never ride
through the Brandenburg gates, but
the end of the war will not come until
It is possible for them to do so."
Things are going so well at the
western front that it is difficult even
tor any words of warning to dull the
spirit of elation in London. With
Bermany on the defensive it is felt
here that the enemy is no longer fight
ing to retain all he seized in the first
great onslaught of the war, but is
rather struggling to hold as much as
possible until peace shall come. There
is the predicted “shortening of the
western lines,” which Londoners con
fidently look for from day to day.
On the other hand, Is the state
ment of General Foch, the French
commander, who declares the Ger
mans are so tightly held in the west
it is impossible for them to either ad
vance or to retreat in any great mini
ber.
"We are on them," he said, “like a
corrosive acid. We have eaten into
their flanks and they can't throw us
off. You cannot see acid at work,
but the disintegrating process is go
ing on all the time.”
The artillery of the allies on the
Somme, where tHe great armies of
the belligerents are massed, com
mands such an overwhelming influ
ence as to prevent a retreat, it is said
The shelling behind the German lines
is just as intense as it is in front. The
expenditure of English and French
shells has frankly amazed the Ger
mans, the military critics here all
agree, and the artillery activity has
brought about a distinct new phase in
the fighting. It has driven the once
closely locked trenches further and
further apart. It has solved the pro
blem of dealing w ith a "dug-in" enemy.
It has been discovered that the way
to successfully take a trench is to
obliterate it, to flatten it out with
shell fire. Recent allied advances
have been bought with ammunition
rather than with blood. This has led
George Queri, the German critic, to
write in the Berliner Tageblatt:
"Every German killed costs a for
tune to the French. The enemy is do
voting all of its attention to artillery.
The whole concentrated experience of
two years finds expression in shells
and more shells. His infantry is used
only to test the bridge made by shells
to the German trenches. Infantry
fighting is no longer man against man
The trench is only rushed by infan
try when it has been blown to dust
It is a confession by the enemy that
his infantry is of poor quality."
Ttiis fling at the infantry, accord
ing to British officers is merely put
in to cover up the real tribute to the
artillery of the allies. The military
authorities here have been somewhat
surprised at the deep impression the
artillery lias made in Germany. They
were quite delighted with a report
by a German military expert quoted
as having said:
"British infantry never had any
value. The French infantry now is
only a miserable shadow of what it
was two years ago. The French in
fantry nowadays attacks only when
the artillery has done its work so per
feetly that they have only to occupy
the shattered trenches."
Those officers who believe the war
" hw wu iwi mu t tai n iuii^ci aui j
it has taken two years to put Germany
really on the defensive and they an
ticipate it will take two years to make
her acknowledge the defeat which the
allies believe is inevitable. As to in
ternal conditions, the army man takes
it into consideration only as to its
effect upon the moral of the fighting
men. It is undeniable that great sac
rifices are being demanded of the ci
vilian population in Germany, and it
is contended no army long remains
wholly superior to home influences.
Those who believe in an earlier end
ing of the war base their belief — or
perhaps their hope — upon the mili
tary assumption that an army cannot
offer the same resistance in third or
fourth or fifth line trenches that It
did in the first line. They declare
that when the French and the English
were retreating at the beginning of
the war it was a retreat of unprepared
ness. The German retreat, they as
sert, is a retreat of exhaustion. These
they say are the vital physical and
moral facts of the laws of war. An
army driven from one strong position
cannot fall back unshaken upon an
other.
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