The story of the great war . man foes in the east were beatenand victory then made final. Though the Russian army had beenconsidered beaten in 1915, had been again demolished in 1916, its 213 214 THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR continued existence alone compelled the Germans to retain a strongforce of men on the eastern front. They therefore schemed in the win-ter of 1917 to removeRussia permanentlyfrom the conflict andto conquer her for thepresent and for thefuture. They precipi-tated the RussianRevolution in March/to put Russia definitelyout of the war and torelease the Germanarmies on the eastfr
The story of the great war . man foes in the east were beatenand victory then made final. Though the Russian army had beenconsidered beaten in 1915, had been again demolished in 1916, its 213 214 THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR continued existence alone compelled the Germans to retain a strongforce of men on the eastern front. They therefore schemed in the win-ter of 1917 to removeRussia permanentlyfrom the conflict andto conquer her for thepresent and for thefuture. They precipi-tated the RussianRevolution in March/to put Russia definitelyout of the war and torelease the Germanarmies on the eastfront. They wouldthen throw large forcesagainst Italy in thefall of the year, at theseason most favorable 1 As will presently ap-pear, the outbreak of theRussian Revolution wasdue to various causes, butthere seems to be no rea-sonable doubt that theGerman agents thoughtthey controlled the situa-tion and beheved when theRevolution came that itwas their own work. Itdid therefore form a partof the plans of the GermanHigh Review of Reviews Allied Gain in 1917 in Detail Note on adjoining map how small the area is com-pared to the whole battle line. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1917 215 for the campaigning in the south, and treat her as they had treatedPoland and Rumania. They could then end the war in 1918. Meanwhile Von Tirpitz was to attempt to bring England to herknees by means of unrestricted submarine warfare. For twoyears now the submarine had sunk British shipping where it could,but, despite their general lack of humanity, the Germans hadobserved some of the rules and practices of the past. They nowannounced to the world that from February 1, 1917, they wouldsink any and all ships that the submarines might meet. Theydeclared a danger zone around the British Isles and the Frenchcoast within which no ship, however neutral, should be thus rescinded all the promises they had made to the UnitedStates and other nations of warning to vessels in order to allow thecrew and passen
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