The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-10

Thus, while the allies have reached and are prepared to maintain their full strength while awaiting the coming Of Americas great army, the enemy's re- sources are diminishing at the very mo- ment when the military situation de- mands that they increase.
 This shows" concludes the statement. sthe decisive character attending the operations of 1918 when three great dcmocracies. England. France and Amer ica, will unite their entire strength in cking the enemy, in conformity with the only sound principle of war"
 THE STATEMENT
 Tho commissions statement. issued formation. follows:
 "Both Franco-German fronts on the Aisne 1917 and verdun. 1916. have al- ready been compared, and 1t has been noted that they are practically of the same length. It has been stated thas tlie German forces occupying them be- fore the attack were equally compar- able; F and IA divisions. It h known today that during the same period. from May to September, the Germans en- gagged 25 fresh divisions at verdun, ana that they have been obliged to en- gage 45 on the Aisne. Furtherxnore, dur ing an equal period. the French took 5Sss rrisoners at verdun and s6ES on the A;sne.
 This comparison included cniy . nnaala sector of the French front But it showed a very interesting result due eo tise increase of the material forces ef the allies and the improved French | fighting methods since adopted hy the other armies, and also. as testified by the German stan itseIs. apropos of the battle of tic Solnn1e, in explaining their ' defeat; TO the perfect use of tech nical methods
 If the above comparison Is extended today to the entire Franco-E English front, if you consider that from April l5 to June 15, the enemy engaged ltn divisions against the Anglo-French forces. and. finally, if one bears in mind that the successes of the British of- fensive at Ypres, obliged the enemy to engage 1o divisions during the last le days, you can understand why the German losses on the western front grow heavier and heavier. (They admit the loss of 116.oo0 men durins the month or May, 10000 men are estimated by the allied staff during the month of June. etc.)
 FIGHTING NEVER CEASES
 This is because the fighting on the western front as a matter of fact, never
 ceases Whether in the French sectors of Nerdun or the. Aisne, OF in the Eng fish sectors of -Arras and Ypres, the fight
 ing is only discontinued at one point to
 be taken up at another. Tn addition to the big attacks. a number of carefulIv
 prepared small actions which have been
 crowned with success and of which the
 bulletins are not able to give clear
 idea, increase the attrition of the Ger
 mans
 This constant activity. coinciding with
 the weakness and inaction of the Rus
 sians. also explains why the Germans
 are obliged to maintain, and succeeded la
 efsectually maintaining, three timea
 larger forces on the French front than
 or. the Russian front. dn the begin.ains
 or the summer there were 156 German
 divisions to 100 kilometres on the French
 fr-,nt, as asainsct 13s Austro- German and , Bulgarian divisions. 77 of which sers
 German or the eastern front) It is known that the Russian winter pract.- cal!y puts . stop to all active opera tlons aud vhar sne reaction Af the iatsrnal . events in Russia on the eastern front
 has allowed Germany to consider 1t dur ing four months as a veritable reserve for the western front
 Tt clearly appears at present that tht German staff, remembering the critica , situation in which they found them selves following the Anglo-French sue cess in the somme in lsi6, fears to se' their western front broken by the allied
 offensive in 1917.
 , ".Al the measures they have taker 5 have been defensive in character. in Q tended to strengthen their resistance il ! the face of Anglo French forces. No
 content with declining to give battle ans withdrawing a portion Of their front or
 the Hindenburg position. they have trans : ported to the western front bctweel
 January and April. certain number Q divisions drawn from the eastern front :. LAS this did not suffice. they have draw
 the picked men from each of their com s panies on the eastern front, and witt
 the assistance of the class of 1913, hay q formed q new divisions, 2s of whicl 7 have appeared in France.
 ABANDONS PROGRAMME
 Not only has Germany been obliged t
 iabandon the latter part of her pro D gramme in spite of calling out a portiul V of the class of 1Sls but she has bee obliged to break up several newly formc' :, regiments to reinforce her lighting unit = and for the first time since the beginnin of the war a clear decrease in the tota 2 strength of the German forces is on roc | ord.
 | .9 Al the vefy time that her tots ' strength is diminishing. Germany find