Middletown transcript., 1918-04-06
aIDDLETOWN, DEL. APRIL 6. 1918
BIG HUN DRIVE HALTED

BIG HUN DRIVE HALTED
THE latest crisis on the western
! front in France seems to be past.
French and British valor have again
halted the bloody, Boosting Huns.
True, the barbarians have again over
run some $50 square miles Of suffering
France and a score of big towns and
villages have fallen prey to the brutal
German soldiery. But they have dearly
bought the territory they will occupy
only for a season, for their losses are
placed at $50, 900 to $4,000!
This rurderous failure is but repe
tition of similar one two years age.
when the Kaiser's precions young hope
full, the Crown Prince. eager to win hi,
war spurs though it cost an ocean OF
German blood. in a five-months-lon
folly inundated 500, 900 German soldiers
in vain attempt to take that glorious
pile of French rocks famous forever
now as Verdun. A ruined fortress oi
no military value whatever, merely a
heap of sacred, historic debris which
French pride swore no vandal Huns
foot should ever pollute
Thus again in Picardy, on the soil CT
France, is another world dev astatin:,
barbarian invasion stayed-the sixth
counting the earlier ones at Chalons i:
451 when the Franks and Burgundiars
halted the Huns, and at Tours in 7;2
when the French general Charles MAJ
tel routed the Moslems.
Although the danger is by no mear
quite over-for the Germans are within
II miles of the vital railway center at
4Amiens, the key to the whole whol.
transportation system of the Allies the
Hun invaders are once more "digging
ina confession that for the present
at least, they have failed
Then it would seem that mercifu'
Providence has raised up Moses who
shall lead the Allied hosts on to final
victory The greatest figure among
many illustrious warriors in the war
has at last been recognized in the per
son of General Ferdinand Foch, sad t
be the most brilliant strategist sire.
Napoleon. an6 to whose genius for wa:
manouvers the previous three grea
victories at Nancy. the Marne, and Yrres
were due.
The insistent demands of the French
seconded by the wisest English generals
and.later championed by our own Lii
tary men, that single leader be che 81
for the Allied forces. has at last, a =er
three costly years of divided ef'c-ts.
been granted, and this great French
man, Foch, been given the high honor
of Commander-in in. chief of the arm IS |
of France, England and America.
General Pershing with equal mo !c,.y
and wisdom has offered his American
troops for immediate service on The
hard-pressed Allied front.
These Allied hosts will now have to
hold the Huns at bay until = nerica an
raise, equip and train three Or five u.
lion more men, when Focn will So <
the three magic words which will c,
the Worlds most awful War,-"Ol 10
Berlin r. For the Allies terms nf
peace must be dictated in the Kai ers
Capital
But alas for the lack of wisdom
lPhich for three years in the face Of tie
Rlainest warnin . OF imminent danger,
tefused to lift finger to put cur cou~
w in position to defend herself For
Ejis wretched, needless blunder will
cost our land billions of money, aid
tens Of thousands Of yet more valual II
iyes-a terrible, double loss of the Ma
IONS blood and treasure that woul
bave been spared, had the Administra-
Ion needed the repeated protests Of
many leading patriots like Roosevelt,
Ten. Wood, Gardiner and others.
But in two years more. America, i
(alreadA perhaps, one half awake {, ;
aer terrible danger) will be able, Iyl |
eorking day and night, every ma, :
uan and Cd I'D in the land enthr-.- s
~ ly helping. to land in France the
n tn army Of FIVE millions which 4
j ~ the proud, brutal Hun the
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