The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-07

BY Newspaper Enterprise Association
For the hundredth time in this wal
history is about to repeat itself.
General Ferdinand Foch, command
er-in.chief of the allied armies, Is pre-
pairing to throw all the forces at his
command against the German line tt
save Paris.
1t was FOch, even more than Papa
Joffre, who turned the German march
on Paris into rOut at the Marine in
1914. Then he was only French
general at the head of an army OF
100000 men, opposing German force
Of 100000.
Nov, the allies generalissimo-liter.
lilly biggest general" -7Ocmmanding
an army estimated at 5000, 900 men,
he is awaiting his opportunity to re-
peat his victory in the first Battle OF
the Marine.
Z, Playing a waiting game, falling back
before the Germans and letting them
spend countless lives to gain few
miles of territory, Foch is carrying
out the conception of modern warfare
which he himself expressed as fol!
lows: lIg stg3
4 '%'I never throw away my, own sol
diers. 1T Is Germans that sacrifice. .
Cooks for Weak Spot
Foch today is following the same
course that won for him the first
battle Of the Marine waiting until the
Germans have so exhausted them
selves that weak spots appear in their
line.
81 That is what he did in the memoir
able fight Of September, 1914.
8 The Germans had swept forward
into France almost to Paris. The
line extended through the valley of
The Marine to Verdun. General Joffre
was the leader of the French forces,
and Foch was in command in the
center.
General Won Kluck's advance on Par
Is was threatening to envelop the allied
left wing and capture the capital.
JOffre decided the time had come to
assume the offensive. Accordingly
he issued the order:
1.-THE moment has come for the ar
my to advance at all costs and allow
itself to be slain where It stands,
rather than give way
In obedience to his command the
French left wing, reinforced by an
army hastily collected and driven to
the front from Paris in taxicabs, NOV.
ed forward and thanked Won Kluck's
forces.
Won kluck's Plan Fooled.
F Won Kluck, finding that his plans to
m0rch into Paris had miscarried,
turned to the east and redispOsed his
forces with the intention of driving
through the French center With the
Prussian guard and the Saxon army,
q total of 100000 men, Won Kluck at.
tackled Foch and the Ninth French ar.
my of only 10000.
The French wings recoiled under the
terrific onslaught, and the center bore
the principal weight of the attack
For five days Won Kluck battered
F0ch's little army with ever increasing
force.
Finally, on Sept 9, the crisis came.
The French line was breaking, but
the Germans were pulling their line
further to the east, thus thinning the
front before FOch's center.
Instantly Foch saw his opportunity.
He sent to General Joffre this message
which will live in history as long as
General Grants famous decision to
slight 1t ont along this line II 1t takes
ill summer:
my right has been driven In, my
left has been driven in-therefore
with all that have left In my center
! will attack"
Concentrating his artillery on the
weakest point in the German front
Foch threw his army against the foe
with such indomitable courage that
the Germans fell back in confusion
From that day began the great retrea,
from the. Marine.
Caves Day at Ypres.
Only six weeks later, Foch AGAR
saved the day for the allies at Ypres
where he CLOSED the bikes and flood
I'D the Germans with Frenchmen.'
British historians credit him witt
having saved the channel ports from
the Germans. For his victory Kline
George bestowed upon him the Ordel
iof the Bath, and General Joftre called