The Detroit Times

THE EUROPEAN CONFLICT AS SEEN FROM DAY TO DAY

By J. W. T. MASON.

(Written for the United Press.)

NEW YORK, June 15.—The time in France and Flanders may never return again. The time is particularly appropriate because Italy's main strategy has not been revealed, and the Austrians must use all their troops not employed against Russia to meet any of several possible offensives which Italy can develop. Hapsburg reinforcements for the German western front are, therefore, impossible.

While the German western defensive continues to remain in a weakened state, the British minister of munitions is delivering speeches trying to touch the hearts of British workers so that exhausted ammunition supplies may be replenished.

The Germans have massed a large force in Galicia and are relieving the Austrians of most of the work of driving the Russians back into their own territory.

Probably the maximum number of Germans that ever will be employed along the eastern front is now engaged against the Slavs. If the Russians eventually are compelled to evacuate all of Galicia, the Germans can resume their defensive and can safely weaken their southeastern line.

By the time the allies get ready, Germany probably will be prepared to reinforce her western line with her own eastern troops, and the opportunity will have been lost.

The favorable opportunity which the war has presented for bending back the Teutonic front in northern France and Belgium, and yet, coordination between the British and the French is lacking. The French are trying to move ahead alone, while the British are remaining quiescent, content, apparently, if they but prevent Ypres falling into German possession.

The German concentration in Galicia now presents for an allied offensive an encouraging sign of the allies' offensive power in the west.

In the western battle area that the British army is unable to assist the efforts of the French to nibble away at the German line. The present is the most favorable opportunity the war has presented for bending back the Teutonic front in northern France and Belgium, and yet, coordination between the British and the French is lacking. The French are trying to move ahead alone, while the British are remaining quiescent, content, apparently, if they but prevent Ypres falling into German possession.