GERMANY’S PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 16033, 9 February 1916, Page 6

GERMANY’S PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.

LOXDOX, February 8. (Received February 9, afc 8.5 a.m.) Colonel Repington, ‘The TimesV military correspondent, points out that General Falkenhayn has not revealed his plan of campaign for the coming year. The recent attack on Friese shows that our western front is not invulnerable. “Wo know that the Gentians have brought 17 divisions to the westward from Russia, and we have been told-that Germany has a great massing of heavy guns.- (Nevertheless, General Falkenhayn may only give us battle on the west, and then turn and seek to overwhelm Russia bv a stroke at Petrograd, where Russia’s greatest supply of war material is located. It might be possible, too, to destroy the Russian fleet, but in order to accomplish this it will be necessary to draw Russia’s attention to the southward until Marshal Von Hindenburg is ready. There is no evidence that there are 50,000 Germans on the south of the Danube, and there are possiblv none, except that there may have -been some stiffening of the German forces on the way to Syria and Bagdad. One hundred thousands Bulgars may ho engaged in upholding 200,000 of the Allies at Salonika. Germany hopes, by means of a Turkish attack on Egypt, to divert 600,000 British from' the principal theatre of war at the decisive hour. The Allies ought to display a plan of their own.”