New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

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pen. We shall presently have deadlock,
or in some relatively early time the enor
nous loss of blood will compel the Ger
mans to abandon their present tactics.
They are raining one blow after another
upon the British. They are pressing for
ward by brute strength and in colossal
numbers to one attack after another in
the hope that presently the British ad-
vance will slow down; that the British or
ganization, which is still young, still in
complete, will be shaken and broken by
the force of their blows.
We are seeing desperate effort because
the Germans have not the reserves that
the British possess. They are stripping
their Russian front to stop the Western
attack. If they stop the Western attack
and succeed in making peace with the
Russians, their gamble will be great sue
cess. If they strip their Eastern front
end fail to stop the British advance, their
gamble will be lost and they will be with
cut further reserves. If, meantime, Russia
should resume her attack, then a German
collapse would be inevitable, because there
are no longer on the Eastern front sufii-
Gent German troops to undergo a sus-
tanned campaign like that of the first eight
months of the war.
Germany hopes and believes that by
stopping the British offensive in the West,
as she has already stopped the French Of
fensive, she can postpone any decision for
this year, and that the pressure upon her
enemies both by her submarines and by
economic conditions will compel them to
negotiate rather than to proceed. Ger
many is using up all of her resources in
desperate effort to avoid defeat this year,
with the profound conviction that if defeat
is avoided during the present summer
campaign she will escape from the conse-
ouences of a prolongaton of the war into
next year.
We are looking upon one of the greatest
military episodes of all history. We are
looking upon one of the most stupendous
fights that any army has ever made on
behalf of any nation. 1t would be idle and
unjust not to recognize the courage, the
devotion and the discipline that are being
displayed by the German troops in the lat
est phase of the fight. The French at
tack has been checked. 1t seems now
unlikely that it will be resumed. The
situation along the British front remains
fluid. Great Britain and Germany are
fighting one of the bloodiest and most ter
rible conflicts of this war, and the deci-
sion of the war may very well be reached
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ley of the Scarpe. AS long as Germany
can continue to fling her reserves into the
fighting there can be no prospect of any
considerable advance on the British side.
The struggle is one Of exhaustion, but if
the Germans are the first to break the re-
suit will be farreaching. No one should
fail to remember that Napoleon, having
lost the Battle Of Leipsic, fought his next
campaign in the valley of the Marine. No
one should now measure the present con-
fict by gains or losses in miles or villages.
II is a totally different kind of fight, a
fgh. which represents the ultimate
strength of two great nations. For the
war has become at last a battle between
tho Teuton and the Anglo-SaXon.