. Review of reviews and world's work. ve been too optimistic. But we do knowthat Germany had less men to start withthan her enemies; that her losses by compari-son with those of Russia or of Britain havebeen disproportionately high, regard beinghad for the total of available man-power,while they have been about equal—equal inpercentage, I mean—to the French. As forAustria, her losses as compared with Italianhave been enormous, and her existing re-sources cannot be larger than those of Italyalone, without regard to Russia. We may have a whole year of poundingbefore there is any real evidence of
. Review of reviews and world's work. ve been too optimistic. But we do knowthat Germany had less men to start withthan her enemies; that her losses by compari-son with those of Russia or of Britain havebeen disproportionately high, regard beinghad for the total of available man-power,while they have been about equal—equal inpercentage, I mean—to the French. As forAustria, her losses as compared with Italianhave been enormous, and her existing re-sources cannot be larger than those of Italyalone, without regard to Russia. We may have a whole year of poundingbefore there is any real evidence of exhaus-tion ; conceivably more, although this is un-likely, but the inexorable logic of a war ofattrition must not be mistaken, and the at-tention of observers should not be distractedfrom this sordid detail by any brilliant strat-egic combination which wins a local triumphagainst a new foe at the cost of another setof casualties, wiiich must hasten the day ofultimate exhaustion. GERMJNY STRIKES RUMJXIJ JXD SAVES THE BALKANS 515. CUNS ON THEIR WAY UP TO THE FRONT HAULED BY GREAT CATERPILLAR TRACTORS(From an official government photograph taken in France)
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