The Robesonian., 1918-08-05
HAS A GLORIOUS ENDING.

The Fourth Year of the War, the
GI0omiest of the Struggle, Has a
Glorious Ending Fer the Entente
Nations.
Sunday, July %, was the fourth an
niyersary of Austria-Hungary's decla-
ration Of war on Serbia-the BEGIN
ming of the world war. Reviewing
the four years of war and the condi-
tions as they are now, F. H. Simonds
eminent military critic, writing in the
New York Tribune, says:
The fourth year of the world war,
for the western nations the gloomiest
of the whole struggle, is ending under
conditions which are more favorable
and give more real cause for optimism
than any that have existed in the past
II months. We are entering the fifth
year of the contest not with any pros
pect Of peace now or even within the
period of another year, but under cir
cumstances strikingly recalling the
situation after the first battle of the
Marne. The second. and we may be-
lieve the final blow of Germany. has
been parried, if. not broken. If we
have not brought the new Napoleonic
edlfice to the ruin of Waterloo. there
are signs that the recent defeat NAV
prove in some degree suggestive Of
Leipsic.
It seems now, just four months af-
ter Ludendorff's first blow in Picardy
that the worst is over, the conse-
quences OF the Russian collapse have
been iquidated. If we may not yet
wisely fix the time when victory will
IN the largest sense De won we have
Come to the hour when the danger Of
defeat is passing, probably has pass
ed The second battle of the Marne
has already had consequences recall
ing the first, as did the French STRAIT
egy; after four months and at the
close Of tremendous exertions the Ger
mans are retiring on a bread front
from the Marne; the Paris front is
disappearing, and on their heels
American as well as French soldiers
are pressing, while the flood of Amer
lcan troops continues to flow toward
France.
The German problem in 1918 was
his problem in 1914. Four years ago
British unreadiness and Russian slow
ness in mobilization gave him six
weeks IN which to dispose of France
the full weight of his mill
larry establishment against France.
ne used the SIX weeks, he won manv !
battles and drew near to Paris, but !
The close of the period saw him in re- !
treat, his time exhausted, his blow ,
oarr1ed; the Russian menace in tho
east; no longer to be neglected entire
y, destined to make ever-growing 1e-
nands upon him until he was forced
o go east and seek what he fourd-
''ctofy y, and the destruction of Russia
Inc Germans Have Failed.
IN March, 1918, the kaiser's new
could count not upon
,h weeks out on something like six
nOhtns IN which to bring home the
1ctory. Russia's collapse gave him
oack q X the advantages of the first weeks
- tne war. But again, he had to win
= tne tlme fixed, for by the end Of
TX y months Americas aid would begin
- oecome effectlve and if he failed int
ne campaign Of 1918 to put one of his
great Toes out he would automaticallv
1se q the initiative, the offensive. the
nance Tor victory in the next cam
arrived. ''os'S hao
And now, in late July, we see Ger
nan armies again retiring from tho
Marne after severe defeat the extant
u which is still unrevealed. M dc.
aSter 'S may come now, as none came in /
l9i4. The German may presently
gather up his strength and STRIKE
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