The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-10
Fast Being Worn Down by
Constant Offensive of the
Allied Forces
KAISER CALLS OUT
YOUNGEST RESERVES
Anglo-French Combination, Well Armed
and Full of Fighting Spirit, Prepared
to Keep Up Attacks Until Americans
Are Ready to Join.

NASHINFION, Oct. III. - Ger
many S military strength now shows
clear decrease for the first time since
the war began, according to review
based ON data of the French general
staff made public here by the French
high commission.
/ Worn down and driven back by the
Iuevcr-e6ling pounding of the allies on
1.-THE western front, the statement says, |
the Germans have made their supreme
military effort after drawing heavily /
ON their inactive armies in the east and |
calling out their 1913 and part of the !
1919 reserves.
Thus while the allies have reached /
and are prepared to maintain their fun
strength while awaiting the coming of
America S great army the enemy S re
sources are diminishing at the very
moment when the military situation de
mands that they increase. This
shows, concludes the statement, 1.-THE
decisive character attending the oper-
ations i'm 1918 when three great de
mocracies, England, France and Amcri-
ca, win unite their entire strength i'm at
lacking the enemy i'm conformity with
the only sound principle OF war
The commission $ statement issued
through the committee ON public in
formation follows:
% Both Francu-Germau fronts ON the
Aisuc, 1917, and Nerdun, 1916, have
/ already been compared and il has
been noted that they are practically
of the same length. 1t has been stated
that the German forces occupying them
before the attack were equally compare
BILE: - aud IA divisions. 1t is known
today that during the same period from
May to September the Germans en-
gagged - fresh divisions Mt Eerdm and
that they have been obliged to engage
w. on ,I' ls''e' "ltlIeImofe. e., curing 1.S
prisoners at NcrIun and $3.50 on the
: Aisue
. This comparison inclBdod only a
small sector of the French front. Bat
it showed a very interesting result
due 30 the increase at the material
forces of the allies and the improved
French fighting methods since adopted
hv the other armies aud also as tcSti-
y fled by the German staff itself aprouos
81 OF the battle of the Somme, ian explain
iug their dcteat:
oil. To the perfect use of technical
methods.
eff the above raunarison is extend
\ cd today to the entire Franco English
Z front. If vou consider that from April
D 18TH 10 June 18TH the enemy euo3oed
\ los divisions apainst tine Anglo- French
forces and finally If one bears in mind
4 tbat the Successes of the British often
siyc mt Npres Obliged thu. enemy to en-
Z garc Is divisions duriuu the last 10
4 days YOU can understand why the Ger
z man losses ON the western front GROW
5 heavier. They admit the loss of ll6.-
4 600 mcu during the month of Nav: ia
y 600 men are estimated bv thr allied staff
4 during the month of june. cte.4
A45ii'iH5 De'ei Nedse9'
"This is because the fighting ON the
a western ifont as matter OF fact prac-
B French sectors Of Nrrdpn or tnc Aisnc
a or i'm the English sectors of Arras and
] Yprcs the fighting is only discontinued
d nj one point To he taken nm Mt another
I'm gddition. Ia .tha biu attacks a ouon.
tit, az carefully. nranaraa enou ar+iops
v-J.frb bava haen e,lv.,,.d ,,i+h snc.nss
n .ard of which the bnllatipe .,r,, r,,t .I,1e
y to olive a rIear idea incraasa. tl,a attr;
b tion of the Germans
..Tbis constant activity coincidino
with the weakness and inaction Of tbG
= Russians also explains VIII the German,
: are OBLIGED ia maintain and succeed IN
& |cfrectua5lv mafu+aining tbree tirn,
J laroer for.es am tho rron.b front tbar
! ON the Russian front I'm the beoin
Z .uipo of fine summer tbora vrare 176 Cor
/: man divisions ia -0o kilopetors am fin,
! man aud PnIga,i9n d;,.ieinns "a
n which o-rrn Ga,nan on tbo oostar,
\ 'front.'. n is Known tbat tba PnssiaI
I! winter ,racticoll, nn+s > sion IA n
n active operations and that the reaction
/! eastrrn front has aiiowad csor,aon, =, +,