The nonchalant manner in which Germany offended one Power after another in 1914 scarcely "staggered humanity" but it drew forth the assertion that the German Emperor must be mad to so surround self with enemies. It was unavoi able, after the attacks upon Servii and Belgium, that the Central Powers would have to face the Entente Powers, but Germany proceeded to act in such manner as to indicate complete disregard for all the then neutral Powers. To-day our enemies are feeling the strait it was inevitable that they should, particularly when a second winter campaign was forced upon them. As a fighting machine Germany has accomplished some terrific tasks. but her troops have lacked the personal ascendancy claimed for them and have never been able to secure a decisive victory. So soon as the enemies of Germany began to put their houses in order for a prolonged war fought on German lines, her fate was sealed. The telegrams of the past two days indicate that the enemy has been compelled to recognize his limitations on the Russian front, as he did long ago on the Western front, and the statement published by a _pro-German paper in Athens that "an Austro-German attack on Salonika would be useless" and "the only result of a successful attack by the Austrains and Germans would be the transference of the Anglo-French inal from
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