The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-07-27
for the benefit and in the interest of
the populations concerned.

! shall be met with the utmost satisfac-
ton consistent with the future peace.
Pope Benedict, in a pastoral letter
issued at Easter, made another appeal
for concord among the peoples or the
world, but it brought forth no tangi-
BILE results. At the pope's behest,
prayers were offered in Catholic
churches throughout the world on St.
Peters day, June %.
In April there came revelations
from Paris that Emperor Charles of
Austria had written letters to Prince
Sixtus of Bourbon, a relative. In these
communications the Austrian monarch
conceded the claim of France to AL
SAGE and Lorraine and limited hat
peace overtures would be welcomed.
! AS a result of this, Count Czernin,
the Austrian foreign minister, was re-
moved from Office.
The most recent addresses on the
subject of peace have been delivered
in the German reichstag, one by DR..
Richard Won Kuelhmann, the foreign
minister, and the other by Imperial
Chancellor Won Hertling. The formers
sensational admission that the sword
by itself could not bring peace result
ed in his resignation, and Won Hert-
ling's address voiced the sentiment
that as long as the allies were intent
upon destroying Germany, the war
must go on.
The Enemy Offensive.
Last winter it became known that
the Germans were massing forces on
the western front. Reports came that
large units were training behind the
lines and that new and more terrible
engines of war than had been known
before were to be used in a German
effort to break the allied lines, crush
their armies and force them to make
peace The drive was well advertised,
and even the place where it was TO be
launched was known with comparative
certainty.
On the morning of March Fl the
Germans began their attack from the
vicinity of Arras, on the north, to La
Fere, on the south, and centering their
heaviest columns against the British
forces, under General Cough, at st.
Quentin. "
Staggering before the impact of the
blow, the British army fell back rap
idly. For eight days the Germans
poured through the old allied line in
an effort to crush the British and drive
a wedge between them and the
French, who were holding the lines to
the south.
Then came period of reaction and
the Germans came to stop. They
had driven ahead for thirty-five miles
along a front extending more than
fifty miles before they were halted
! Hardly had their legions been held
before Amiens than new offensive
was begun in Flanders on April 2. 1t
swept the British back through Ar
mentieres, but did not break their
lines. The British, with the French
who were rushed sup to the front,
stopped the Germans after they had
reached the hills southwest of Ypres.
There, on April 8, the Germans suffer-
ed terrible defeat that halted their
offensive in that quarter.
Foch in Supreme Command.
In the midst Of the drive in the sec
tor towards Amiens the allied nations
took a vitality importart step. They
named General Ferdinand. Foch, hero
of the first battle of the Marine, gem
eralissimo of the allied forces on the
western front, which includes all the
line in Italv g yell as in France.
Even the LeCrl an coast in northern
Russia, has been held to be under his
command.
After period of quiet, the Germans
attacked once more, this time on the
Aisne river, and in seven days they
reached the Marine at Chateau Their
ry, making a penetration of about
twenty-eight miles. At the Marine
they were checked and the impetus of
: the blow was broken.
With hardly days pause for reor-
ganization of their forces, the Ger
mans again attacked, choosing the
sector between Montdidier and Novon,
on The southern side of the salient
driven into the allied line during the
March offensive, as the stage of their
onslaught. This offensive ran for five
days and was stopped north of Com
piegne after losses which were de-
sc1"bad as unprecedented had been in
f1ic+ed upon the Germans.
From June Ia to July Is the Ger
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