GENERAL SIR HENRY SEYMOUR RAWLINSON (with portrait) TWO AMERICAN GENERALS (with portraits) GENERAL PEYTON C. MARCH SURGEON GENERAL WILLIAM C. GORGAS E. M. CHADWICK 670 677 TERMS: $3.00 a year; single copies, 25 cents. For Foreign Postage add $1.00. All rights reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Garden City, N. Y., as second class mail matter. Who, as commercial attaché of the British Embassy in Washington, has played a very important part in the management of the blockade of Germany, both before and since our entry into the war VOLUME XXXV THE WORLD'S WORK APRIL, 1918 NUMBER 6 O THE MARCH OF EVENTS IN THE sixth of this month 'we In most every way the contest has gone rather against us, and yet we have reason to believe that there is something in the situation like General Green's campaign in the Carolinas, in which he never won a battle but nevertheless finished the year with his adversary in a position in which he was doomed to defeat. We [meaning our allies and ourselves] have not subdued the U-boat menace and we have lost far more ships than we have built. The battle at sea has not been in our favor. The blockade was immediately tightened on the West when we entered the war, and very soon after collapsed on the East. Our victories in France and Turkey were balanced by our defeats in Russia and Italy. Altogether the fighting of 1917 was not to our advantage. Yet it is not on their armies or their navy that the Germans fix their hope of winning the war. Their hope lies in peace talk and propaganda. They know that ultimately, if they can not get their enemies off the battlefield by corruption or promises, their cause is lost. They have had most of the advantage so far, but the stakes are still on the table, and unless the game can be stopped they can not keep what they have. The disposition of everything will be in the hands of the final victor. The fate of Constantinople, Kiev, and Kiao Chow as well as of Porto Rico and the Philippines are all dependent on the final decision in France. Our defeats and mistakes put off the final day of victory, but it's still within our grasp. Success after success comes to the German arms, but final victory is just as unattainable to them as ever. The decision still rests with the armies on the western front. There sooner or later, according to how we in the United States do our part, the final victory will be won. Copyright, 1918, by Doubleday, Page & Co. All rights reserved |