Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-23
Tuesday Morning, March 23, 1915
WHEN THE GRAND RUSH" COMES

WHEN THE GRAND RUSH" COMES
 Next to the hammerng of the allied fleet at the Oar dancles defenses perhaps the most significant military event of recent weeks has the Brish gain against the Germans on the battle fronta Neuye Cha belle.
 Not that the gain in itself was of great importance It happens to have been the biggest advance al any part of the long line since the Germans fell back from the AIarne the Asne but it would take scores of such victories to drve the Germans back to the Rhine
 It is the method that makes the capture of Neuve Chapeue of supreme significance. The British have proved once for all that trenches, trench cs no matter how elaboratey dug covered and defend ed. are not impreguabe They have proved by such display of artillery fire as was never seen before in all the history of warfare. It was victory crediby heavy sheing from concentrated heldguns and 
 All accounts agree that British artillery won com plete triumph. and won 1t simply because there on the British side an immense superiority Of gunpow er It would be interesting to know just how many chine guns. field cannon and howitzers assembled to pour their fire into that mile or two of trenches There were enough any rate that in the noise of their discharge all individuality of and batteries
  than separate "cracks" when battery of Gatling operates at full speed. There was only vast roar. louder and more horrible than been heard since the world began, a in which mingled all the boom ing of the guns and the screaming the shells in their flight and their explosion when they fell
 Thiry-ave minutes of that beIching uproar sufHceo do what six months of struggle had failed to do While the cannonade lasted the Germans covered in their
 t. ,f.. their heads When the firing ceased, tLc- assalant rushed forward with their bayonets according the usual method but there was scarcely anything them to do That tornado of fire and steel had wrought in- credible havoc The wide wire entanglements were swept away The ground was by titantc blow shares and full of gaping holes-eyerywhere perilou. footing heaps of earth, stones, concrete and tim bers smoking from the cordite bombs The defender. Those who were not torn yshrapne or buried alive were mostly overwhelmed ruins of their trenches lay yelowed by the novious from the shells onc dazed by the din, incapable resistance In few min utes the pursuers of the three series o trenches
 It is SO that the allies win sweep the invaders back into Germany-f they ever drive them back othe' means are unavaling against the trench defenses that q is war has evolved. Campaigns become weary sieges Against maze or CleNeIly aug anu piOleOtcu ult'e masses of men hurl themselves in vain. But it is now demonstrated that the ortresstenches can be blown t' bits by siegeguns-that in andhghting. not th' biggest guns as in sea-hghtng but the greatest quan tty of shells delivered in given at time vii win
 The British and French started at a disadvantage II armament For eight months they have been feyersh! making guns and ammunition Now it reported tho they have the superiority
 Soon will come the great drive" for which Che allie have been planning all winter. Perhaps it has reall started though Lord Kitchener announced it for May When it comes great numbers of win be rushed two or three strategic spots and then there WILL b cannouading.
 They may try to batter their way in ou the extrem west driving the Germans slowly eastward out of Be eium and northern France; they may conceniEat near Verdun. in effort to cut the German fine q communication from Metz. forcing the Germans to hgl desperately three sides at once retreat into Gel many