Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-04
Pressure!

After twenty days of battling the allies still continue their strong pressure upon the German lines all the way from Soissons to Rheims. This second battle of the Marne has upset all calculations upon both sides, from the most gloomy to the most glorious. Few of the most ardent of the allied friends expected to see the offensive last more than week On the other hand there were many who expected to see the German army pinched in the allied claw and suffer dis aster But what has really happened to date was expected by no one.
 It seems that Foch has undertaken no spectacular achievement. He has simply called in something over a quarter of mil lion of his fresh American reserves and few picked English divisions and French army and set them against the Marne sali- ent like bulldog against husky tramp in the back garden Day and night the pressure continues. The Germans retail fate fiercely at times and at times they re- treat without resistance. Again they re- sort to machine gun defenses and again to artillery They have thrown in fresh troops by the hundreds of thousands and they have thrown in picked troops by the di- vision. But always the result Is the same. The pressure continues and the German lines fall back.
 Village after village falls to the advanc- ing allies and line after line and wood after wood and heighth after heighth And now Soissons, the anchor post of the German right flank, has fallen, and still the pres sure continues on to the eastward of this most important city. The Tardenois Vile and the Tardenois Fere, vital flank posi- tions, have both fallen And so the battle goes.
 That the Germans withdrew their troops in fair order from the lower part of the pocket must be admitted, and that they took away the most of their heavy guns Is fact also, but they were crowded close enough to lose hundreds and thousands of tons of shells and an immense amount ot stores and munitions. And while the allies hopes of German disaster have gone glim- mering many times in the past three weeks, yet there IS still hope of just such an ending to this mighty struggle. The loss of Sois- sons and the caving in of the western side of the V salient has again endangered the German lines They seem to be free ot the pocket, but 1t seems they will never be tree again of the allied pressure, that deadly pressure that Is now crumpling and under mining those German lines that struggled so fiercely against it a few days ago that every one thought Foch had been stopped for good.
 There is something relentless, mysteri- ous, awesome, terrifying, about this steady pressure upon the reueating Prussian hosts. They do say that the German staff has thrown million men, all told, within this pocket, but the pressure of the allies Is the same and the retreat of the Germans continues after the spasmodic counter at tack Is over
 Last Sunday morning marked German withdrawal and fine allied gain. This morning marks, after week of desperate and frightfuh effort, further allied ad- vance upon the heels of the crown princes retreating legions Where it will all end no ore can say. No one is making any pro- phecies right now. Too many prophets both the gloomy and the gay, have gone wrong since July l5 to encourage any more predictions. Therefore, let us expect noth- ing and hope for everything from this ever lasting, energetic, eternal pressure that Foch Is exerting upon the once proud and advancing hosts of the Hun.
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