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The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-10-12
LEADER REAL ESTATE COMPANY
OUR Pr r.:

Those wanting a certain kind of
property are invited to send US a de-
scription of the want. We will adver-
tise this want while the name of the
party interested will be unknown,
This is the most fair and sure method
of satisfying a prospective puyer.
Also if properties for sale are listed
with us, we will advertise them, and
thus bring buyer and seller together
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-10-12
Tarpon Springs
HAS

Up-to-date city improvements and
convenlences; seven miles of brick
paved streets and two miles of otker
paving; fifteen miles of concrete side
walks; municipal water works capa-
bic of maintaining a supply of 1885,
600 gallons of pure water pumped
from deep wells drilled through rock
strata; best and extensive sewer sys-
tenn; electric lights, with "White
Way; local ice factory; telephone
service, local and long distance:
Standard Oil and Gulf Refining COM
panies' supply depots; a cigar factory
and two cigarette factor; Two tour
lst hotels; Te,'r:q"s denominations
and all the leading secret orders
well represented; stores representing
almost every line found in the large
cities, and first class in every respect;
schools in the accredited list of the
state; board of trade; civic club and
woman's cemetery association; un-
surpassed waterfront home sites.
On the Anclote river, the north
boundary of the city, are located sew
eral large industries; the sponge in
dustry, bringing in about a million
dollars a year; two shipbuilding yards
doing government work Zone contract
of one million dollars); two large fish
houses, handling 100000 pounds of
fish week; two lumber mills.
Paved highways (mostly of brick)
connect with all neighboring towns,
with automobile stage service twice
a day. "Finest climate in the world"
ESQ say the doctors); prosperity on a
solid business foundation.
LEADER REAL ESTATE CO.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-10-12

Choice lot in Welsh subdivision; 81
feet front on Lemon street. This is
q choice building site that will IN
rraase in value. Q2-S.)
House and lot on E. Lemon street.
near t. & G. C. depot. Lot 46 feet
front by 40 feet deep. $11OO. Q3-S)
Beautiful residence on Spring boule-
ward, fronting on Spring bayou. No
more desirable home ste in the city,
A bargain that won't wait long; a
good investment. Owner located IN
the north. (14-S.)
House, II rooms, or E. Tarpon Ave
nue. near 1iado}e He ell All Modern
Improvements. $500.
'i'''''
Water-view lot, 50xlIo feet, on
Spring boulevard. Che Of The cnolc-
est building sites il the city. Has
water and sewer connections. (Z-S.)
Two house and lot bargains in I. 3,
Reads subdivision Of Tarpon Heights.
Six-room bungalow, with city plumb
ing, on lot 50x100, for $500.
Also smaller Groom house in same
subdivision for $1100.
These places could not be built for
the prices asked. Reason for selling:
owner moved away. (3-S.)
Fine site for a commercial hotel.
Centrally located between the A. C.
L. and the T. & G. C. depots. 100 feet
'ront by 1875 feet deep. Surrounded
~ street and alleys. A rare chance.
(4-S.)
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-10-12

After the storm, sunshine and smiles amid the
Debris 1t was really wonderful
the promptness with which the streets were cleaned
up in Tarpon Springs the same day after the recent
hurricane.
In very short time stranger would not know
that there had been such storm here. 1t never
happened before it may never happen again.
Tarpon Springs is all right Business is good,
and getting better!
NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY!
WE NEED MORE HOUSES TO RENT!
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-10-12
Il A Il u ~ PEsIN G s.
Tarpnn SpriitnH. glnrina
The Venice of the South
LUCIAN L. LUCAS
J. C. BEEKMAN

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Mxad Hsde
termed" the South
d to aoeso
a day.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-10-12
Can You Beat 1t?

A town of between 5000 and 1000, with
Million Dollars Year Sponge Business
Two Fish Companies shipping about 500
Barrels of Fish Week
Two Shipbuilding Companies with Govern
ment Contracts of over a Million Dollars
One Cigar Factory
Three Cigarette Factories
The Main Street (Tarpon Avenue) crowd
ed every night and Business Good
TARPON SPRINGS is UNEQUALED in
the STATE for TOURIST ATTRACT
IONS and WILL GROW and CROW
THAT'S CERTAIN!
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
26 Solid black Territory liberated since Sept &C.

supreme victory. 1t was not won over a
denloralized enemy. On the contrary, the
Germans fought with great persistence
and bravery. 1t was not the conse
quencc Of q collapse of their high com
mand, for even after the defeat was as
sured the German armies were drawn
back with great skill and unmistakablc
military efficiency. 1t was not in the
first three weeks a rout, as Lcipsic had
not been a rout, but it was one of the
most clearly cut victories in all military
history and for the Germans it was a
defeat which terminated all hope, not
merely Of winning the war, but Of I'M
posing a deadlock. After the Battle of
the Hndenburg Line the certainty of
military decision, if not anticipated by
German surrender. was unmistakable.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

miles south of Nalenciennes on the line
OF the Selle River, just north of LIE
Cateau, but their halt was exactly like
that OF the operative forces on the
flanhs. They had accomplished their
purpose, they had broken the Hinden
burg hnc, they had driven wedge
deeply into thc German front and the
Germans both in Lille and in all the
new salient to the south between the
Disc and the Aisne including Laon and
the st. Gobain forest and facing Rheims.
were IN dangerous posture. The
centre had performed its mission; it was
time for the fanks to come to~life again.
Once more the Americans and Gou-
raud, aided by Berthelot's army facing
Rheims, struck northward What fok
lowed was swift German retirement
between the Argonne and Rheims, the
surrender of all the positions held since
the retreat from the First Marine in
September, 1914, including the old forts
above Rheims, from which the cathe
dral had been ruined and the CITY de-
stroyed. Less precipitately, but no less
inevitably, the Germans began a retire
ment between the Ose and the Aisne
Which cleared l-aon and the ST. Cobain
rorest and surrendered that great CEN
trai stronghold on which all their line
m Northern France had been based
Meantime the Americans, far out be-
yond the Argonne, were slowly blasting
their way forward and had reached the
Grandpre Gap, having cleared the Ar
gonne. Thus the pressure upon the
hank, instead of diminishing. grew and
the Second American Army arrived in
the battle line to add to the pressure.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

ders IN 1917. Their problem was
to make the Allied advance so slow and
so costly that it would achieve no ma
terial results before bad weather ended
the campaign and gave their diplomacy
the opportunity, using the military dead
lock as the basis for argument, to seek
negotiated peace based upon the idea
that no military decision was possible.
In this contest the Germans were out
numbered and outgunncd, but not in
any overwhelming degree. They had
Just as good chance to win defensive
victory, SO far as surface conditions were
concerned as they had in three pre-
vious years.
The task of Foch was equally simple,
but of unexampled magnitude He had,
in the few remaining weeks of the cam
paigning season, to break the German
line, to force the German armies back
over the whole front and to inflict upon
them such defeat as would abolish all
question of the impossibility Of mill
tary decision and demonstrate that the
war could be won by arms, and that
therefore there was left to the Germans
only the choice between immediate sur
render and persistence in war
which could have but one end and
would, before that end came, bring the
invasion of Germany itself
Given the magnitude of the numbers
involved and the extent of the front,
there was small chance that Foch could
achieve a Sedan, or even Waterloo,
unless there should be sudden collapse
Of German morale, such as was not fore
cast by any recent event, and did not, as
the event proved, occur during the
course of the actual battle itself What
he had to do was to infict a decisive de-
feat, which would once and for all put
an end to the idea that war of positions
could have no other termination than
deadlock He had to win such a victory
as to prove that an oId-fashioned, de-
cisive military triumph could occur even
in contemporary warfare
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

anticipate IN which direction the next
blow was to fall. In word, you have
the difference between a brute and man
trained in selfdefence. The brute un-
dertook to destroy his antagonist bv a
few terrible blows Foch parricd or
lodged these, and then began to play
ms antagonist putting him on the de-
fcnsive at the Second Marine Worrying
INN at the Third Somme and making his
ultimate defeat beyond question at the
Battle of the Hindenburg Line. Never
was the superiority of French to Ger
man military science more perfectly re-
vcaled. French, like German, strategy
is based upon Napoeonic principles. but
while the German only initiated Napo-
leon, the Allied commander in chief in
terpreted him.
In sense all that is to come here
after must be an anti-climax The bat
tie which we have witnessed at the Hin
denpurg line is unquestionably the
greatest battle of the present war. as it
IS the most tremendous e3nflict of all
human history. And in it has Leen re-
vealed one of the supreme soldiers Of all
time. Henceforth and because of the
achievement which has just unrolled be-
tore our own eyes Foch will be recoc
nized as one of the half dozen great com
manders of armies, the master of the
greatest armies in human history and
the successful wielder of the most in
trlcate and colossal military machine of
which we have any knowledge. His
shree months from the Marne to the
1eholdt, MS campaign in Northern
rance IN July, August, September and
October Of the current year, with his
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
title That Won the War-Foch's Victory

But Foch was now done for The mo-
mcnt both with the German centre and
left. Turning to the right. about Lille,
to which front he had hurried De-
goutte's French army, last heard Of
south of the Marine in July, he again
pushed his wing forward, broke
through all the German lines of defence
and swept onward to the Lys in the
southeast, to Roulcrs and Thiclt, in the
north, and to Bruges and Ostcnd in the
northwest. A swift collapse Of German
resistance followed. BY October 16 the
Germans were gone from the coast,
Lille, Roubaix and Tourcong we're
evacuated, the Germans were retiring
behind the Scheldt from Ghent south
ward. On the other side of the Lille
salient Douai had fallen and by the
end of the week Hornc's troops were ap-
preaching Valcncicnncs from north of
the Scnsee Canal, while Byng's army
WAS thrusting toward it from the south
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

tween the Scheldt and the sea, Luden-
dorff was obliged to gain time in which
to remove the enormous accumulation
of supplies and guns in the doomed re-
gion. Accordingly he sent more re-
serve divisions to Flanders and for the
moment the AngloFrench drive slowed
down. 1t did not stop; neither here nor
between the Mouse and the Argonne
was pressure relaxed, but for the mo-
ment Allied purpose was achieved and
no useless sacrifice of men was made
IN too eager exploitation Of undeniable
success.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
'J~he Collapse of the
Il German Offensive

Between March 21 and September 26
the Germans had tried and failed to win
the war by colossal offensive. Their
failure had cost them many prisoners
and many guns, but they had not vet lost
more prisoners or more guns than they
had taken in the successful phase of
their offensive. 1t may even be doubted
if their total losses were much greater
than those of their foe, although their
practice of selecting the best clements
in their armies and grouping them in
storm units had exposed them to much
heavier losses in their best material.
All things considered, the Germans
stood in much the same position in which
they had in previous years beaten off
Allied otfensives, notably at the Sommc
in 1916 and at the Aisne and in Elan
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
Createst British Achievement
~ in All British Warfare

Having made Ludendorf anxious for
both his flanks, Foch was now ready
for his master stroke. Already the
British between the Scsrpc and the
Sommc, between Douai and st. Quentin,
had been active, had pushed forward
and taken many valuable jumping off,
places. But on October s, OH the front
between Cambria anu St Quentin,
aided by Debeney's French army be-
tween st. Quentin and the Disc, three
British armies, those Of Horne, Byng
and Rawinson, struck. What happened
was the greatest British achievement in
all the centuries of British warfare on
the Continent. All the past disappoint-
ments were tbanished, all the old defeats
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
TT ow the Long Night OF
Il j. Slavery Ended

Thus in three weeks Foch had upset
the equilibrium of the whole German
front from the sea to the Meuse. He had
compelled The retreat from the Linden
burg line, with all its various anncxes,
he had insured a retirement out of all
French territory west Of the Meuse, he
had liberated Belgium west Of the
Schcldt, he had defeated the German
army in battle which they had ac-
cepted, on their own ground prepared
by them over four years. The ultimate
consequences of his success were still
problema tical; no man could say exactly
at what point the Germans would un-
dcrtake to make a stand; but it was al
ready certain that they would be unable
to stand within French territory, the
liberation of France had been accom-
plishcd the advancing Allied. armies
were welcomed by thousands Of French
men and women, who had endured four
years Of slavery; for them the long
night was over.
Such, in its toughest form, was Foch's
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
The Result Was the Most Wonderful
Climax of Any Military
Campaign
Copyright, 1918, New York Tribune Inc.

three great successes, Second a.rro
Third Somme and the Battle Of the H..
denburg Line, must be memorable fos
all later generations Of soldiers ,rba
study the method or of frcemen who on
JOY the benefits.
Such, then, was the Battle Of .ho
Hindenburg Line, as | see it, the Icins;o
of the German imitators of Napoleon;c
ambitions as well as Of Napoleo,;~
strategy But even this grandiose cam.
paign was but one phase of the Focb
strategy. He set out to drive the Gov
mans out of France, to rout them if he
could, to win the decisive battle in any
event, and to this extent he held to tho
familiar theory of the "Westerners ;
that only in the west could the war no
won' or lost. But in doing this he dia
not forget the east. On the contrary
he timed his western operation to coin.
eide with two great campaigns in tho
Near East.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
breaking the Legend of an
~ Invincible Machine

In sum, he had to do exactly what the
Allied commanders fighting Napoleon
had to do--he had to defeat his an
tagonist in such fashion as to demon
strate that ultimate and irrevocable de-
feat for the great foe was neither i'm
possible nor improbable. He had to
break the legend of the invincible Ger
man machine, now on the defensive, as
the Allies of 1913 had to break the Ma
poleonic legend. This, all of it, he did
accomplish between September &c and
October Is. In that time the whole
opinion Of the civilized world, Teutonic
and nonTeutonic, was brought to the
common point of recognition that Ger
many had lost the war irrevocablv. and
all that could occur in the future would
be the victorious exploitation of the
Battle Of the Hindenburg Line.
In solving his grandiose tactical prob
lem, Foch opened his battle on the hanks,
reserving his main thrust for the centre
and for the appropriate moment. Thus,
on September 26, it was Liggett's First
American Army, In conjunction with
Gouraud's Fourth French Army, which
delivered the blow on the German left,
while King Albert's Belgian Army and
Plumer's Second British Army delivered
the blow on the German right.
The Franco American blow resulted
in a swift advance by the Americans
north of Nerdun, the capture of Mont
faucon and dozen other towns and
villages on the west bank of the Mcuse
and between the Meuse and the Ar
gonnc, villages famous in the campaign
for Nerdun of 1916. One immediate
effect of this advance was to break the
German domination of the Paris Cha
lons-Nerdun railway, which had been
cut by indirect fire for more than four
years Gouraud, on his side of the
Argonne, pushed north and took all the
ground famous in the Battle of Cham
pagne of September, 1915, which had
begun one day earlier
This advance was then halted, as was
inevitable, because it was an immediate
threat to all the German lines of COM
munication between Alsace-L Lorraine
and the Rhcims-Laon front and partc-
ularly to the Metz Mezieres -Valen-
ciennes railroad. Ludendorff lad to
send reserves to the endangered front
at once, and these reserves, on their ar
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

draft upon Ludcndorf's reserves, and
not impossibly led to weakening on the
decisive front.
But, of course, all parallels are dccep-
tive and we are now dealing with
struggle on two hundred miles Of front,
where Gettysburg covered less than ten.
Nor is it wholly true to speak OF only
three thrusts; there were three major
blows, but there were also long series
of minor thrusts by other armies. The
whole thing was not series OF detached
movements, but one perfectly coordlnated
operation by nearly dozen armies, each
of them larger than the combined forces
of Meade and Lee at Gettysburg.
The trouble with all previous Allied
offensivcs had lain in the fact that all
resources were concentrated on a narrow
front and the concentration betrayed to
the enemy the direction in which the at
tack was coming and enabled him to
make counter concentration. The
fault with the German offensives Of this
year has lain in the fact that they con-
sumed all their energy and resources in
dealing one colossal blow, and when that
failed to achieve decision they had to
stop and prepare a new blow, giving the
enemy equal opportunity to prepare ana
to recover from the consequences Of the
first blow.
The merit Of Foch S strategy has lain
in his ability to expand the pressure over
a very wide front and multiply his par
tial thrusts so that the enemy was never
able to get his breath and never able to
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

rival, succeeded, not in stopping either
the French or the Americans, but in
slowing down their advance. The pur-
pose Of the operation had, however,
been already achieved by the strain
made upon German reserves
Meantime the Bclgians and British
had been ever more successful. Emerg-
ing from Ypres and the old User front,
they had taken Dixmudc the Forest Of
Houthulst and all the ground won in
the offensive last year and lost this
spring. They had crossed the Pass
chcndaclc Ridge and broken out upon the
FLANDERS plain, swiftly advancing tow
ard Roulers on the north and toward
Menin on the southeast. \ wedge was
thus driven between the German armic;
on the coast and about Lille Lille it.
self was threatened with cnvelopmcnt
and, as the event proved, the German
hold upon the Belgian coast was broken
Once more q new strain was put upon
German man power. Although he must
have recognized that nc could not per
manently hold the Belgian districts be-
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
E>och Was Able to Coordinate
4 His Three Strokes

If one wanted parallel for Foch's
tactics, one might perhaps cite the meth
cd Of Lee at Gettysburg. In this battle
the great Southern general attacked first
by the left flank, then by the right, and
finally threw Pickett upon the Union
centre. Both of his flank operations we're
mcasurably successful, although neither
led to any decisive advantage, but in the
case Of the centre Pickett was utterly
unsuccessful and suffered bloody re-
pulse which left Lees army incapable of
renewing the offensive Foch. on the
contrary, was able to coordinate his
three strokes in such fashion that when
he struck the centre the blows already
delivered on the TANKS had madt heavy
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

were avenged; in three days the British
drove straight through the twelve miles
of the 1Iindenburg line on the front
where it was strongest, and pushed out
into the open country beyond. BY Octo-
Der IL they were in lie Cateau, St.
Quentin had fallen, the fall of Cam
brai was assured, the old battlefield of
First Cambrai, where Smith-Dorrien's
half of Sir John French's expedition
airy army was almost destroyed, had
been crossed by the victorious British.
The Hindenburg line was a memory.
This fact, too, should be emphasized,
tho British thrust was the final thrust
OF the whole battle In the decisive
battle of the World War Foch had
called upon Haig's armies, as Napoleon
was accustomed to call upon his Old
Guard, and the British had made the
response of the Old Guard. For the
British this battle was the Third Battle
Of Cambria, detail in the vast battle
Of Foch, but it was for the world the
decisive stroke in the winning of the
war.
TIE consequences Of the British
success were Immediately enormous.
Their own advance was checked few
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
the World Upside
Il Down-for Gcrmanyl

The Foch strategy has to be seen
wholly to be appreciated in its full splen-
dor He used all the resources which he
had. He coordlnated the operations in
Palestine and Macedonia with those IN
Flanders and Champagne. The result
was the most wonderful climax Of any
military campaign. Damascus, Beirut,
Uskub, Nish, Lille, Douai, Cambria and
st. Quentin fell, if not at the same mo-
ment, at least in rapid succession; the
world, German as well as allied neutra,
had the sudden impression Of the vlsl-
bic collapse, the simultaneous collapse
OF all the various clements in the Ger
man world empire In the second week
OF September that empire reached the
Jordan and the Euphrates on the south
and touched the North Sea on the BEL
elan coast. BY the end Of the second
week in October it stopped at the Dan
ube and was rapidly receding from the
Belgian coast. It's Austrian fraction
was crumbling into ruins and its Bul-
Garian and Turkish departments were
IN dust and ashes. Belgium and Serbia
were emerging from the German waves;
France was rapidly clearing of German
occupation: for the German the whole
world had suddenly turned upside down
for the rest of US it was assuming It's
normal position.
The Battle of the Hindenburg Line
won the war The Germans still have
unbroken armies, great resources in
numbers and in material; they are capa-
bic on the military side of repeating
Napoleon's achievement after Leips;
and fighting one more campaign
Whether they do or not depends upon
the home front, not the military fron'.
as | see it on Monday. October p, when
this article is closed.