Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-22
Loss in Big Guns Alone Will
Prove Serious Handicap in
Holding Enemy.
DISSATISFACTION GROWS
AMONG KAIsER's FORCES
Austria Again Shows Signs Of Keen
Desire to Conclude Sep
arate Peace.
RUSS FROWN ON MOVES
Denied That Slavs Will Treat With
Teutons-Germany's Internal
Troubles Increase Owing
to Strikes
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

Fbur nllion men To-Day are STRIVING
for one another's life blood on the fields
of France. Today the struggle of these
human beings. welded into gigantic
military machines. stands unsurpassed
in worlds history from the standpoint
of fury and fatalities. Life is held cheap
on this crimson-stained French soil.
One soldier is an atom to be scotched
beneath the heel of wars juggernauts
now in action. A cannon is nothing but
a popgun in comparison to the thou
sands of them constantly hurting tons
of deadly metal into enemy ranks.
Trenches heretofore considered I'M
pregnable are as dust cast before the
winds when placed under the scalding
fire of opposing batteries. A regiment
is small body of soldiers playing COM
paratively minor role in the inferno.
Only do bodies OF troops become i'm
portant when they number hundreds of
thousands, on such great scale is the
struggle being waged.
1t is absolutely impossible to paint
any word picture which in the most
meager fashion portrays the actual bat
tie line from the North sea to Alsace
and Lorraine
The very fathers of military tactics
probably never dreamed that some day
there would be waged struggle of
such proportions. 1t is gigantic-it is
terrible in its consequences Out
there, following up a veritable hell of
fire and bursting steel, French and
British forces. pitted against the flower
Of Germany. are smashing their way
forward The German armies are
crumbling. They are becoming nerv-
Gus. There are signs of discourage
ment. There is dissenSion in their
ranks. They seem only too willing to
Sr7NTR tt..s~
IRENE danger for comparative safety
in prisoners cages behind allied lines.
Won Eindenburg's men are weaken
ing under the terribly effective blows
of Gems. Nj
Germans Show velIe n
Haig.
Signs of Weakening. Allied as
pirations are nearer realization than
ever before, though much yet must be
wrought before the enemy will be
forced to lay down his arms. But they
are progressing. and with progress
springs a fire of determination in the
hearts and minds of entente soldiers to
finish the fearful business in as short
{, time as possible.
"On. on. on" is the battle cry of the
entente armies.
Hold. hold. hold is the wall of
Teutonic commanders.
just what the next six weeks will
bring forth is a question, but London
and Paris have every reason to look
forward to the future with utmost con-
fldence. There must prevail feeling
of keenest anxiety in Berlin.
The disintegration of the German
lines of defense on the western front
m n &rf ,erh Nav
may be surprise at the success French
and British armies already have scored,
there are well founded reasons why
they should succeed even further dur
Ing the spring and summer months of
the present year
The allies are better prepared to
wage the kind of warfare that is going
on along the western front than ever
before. They started with lack of
co-ordinated endeavor and pitifully
Small numbers of men and equally sorry
SnountS of munitions and equipment.
since the war started, and more particu-
tirly after the Germans were brought
y a halt in the battle of the Marine
Snere have been organized military ma
rtines the like of which never has been
known.
Supplies of munitions have gone to the
Cont in stupendous quantities, until at
4 present time il unquestionably is
h,ue. that the French and British have
Srreefold more supplies than have the
Where once the allied artillery was
Sittui in its endeavors against the won
Gerfui German batteries hewing a way
into the heart Of France today the
French and British have two guns to
rhe Germans one. The fact is admit
ted by Berlin experts
The system Of cooperative endeavor
perfected by the French and British has
practically nodded the entire British
French and Belgian armies into one
Where mistakes once were made in
tactical operations these have been re-
duced 10 an absolute minimum Each
general knows what the other is to do
Attacks over the whole front are as
systematic as clockwork The Germans
constantly are kept i'm suspense unless
days and days of intense artillery ac-
tVity Of the enemy betrays that infan-
try attacks are to he launched in the
particular section where the big guns
re busiest.
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This work Of the artillery is one of
the greatest developments of the war.
The British and
Artillery Wins French have been