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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-13
Slightly on Decline in Army
Camps Although There are
Still Many
Cases.
1872 DEATHS IN ~ DAY
Total Number of Cases Reported
Since Malady First Made Ap-
pearance Reaches
223, ,144.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
! WASHINGTON. Oct. 1.-THE cpl
demic of Spanish influenza appears
to be slightly on the decline in army
camps, according to a report issued
by the Office Of the surgeon general.
Twelve thousand and twenty-four
new cases were reported in the last
| twenty-four hours, a decrease of 297
cases over the preceding day.
The total number Of cases reported
from all army camps since the malady
made is first appearance is 223,144.
New cases of pneumonia reported
however, show slight increase over
previous reports.
Eight hundred and ninety-two
deaths occurred at the camps during
the day, most of them due to pneu
monia
Aviation camps, which up to this
time have been comparatively free
of influenza are reporting an increas
ing number of new cases each day
Because Of the influenza epidemic
the supreme court will not recon
vene for business until October 81
The court will adjourn Immediately
after it meets next Monday. Hiram
/ w. BeInap, manager of the safety sec
ton of the railroad administration
died here today Of pneumonia brought
on by influenza. Belnap before TAX
! ing up railroad safety work, was di
rector of the safety section of the
| Interstate commerce commission.
| Thought He Had It.
| PORTLAND. Ore. Oct 12.-Dr. J
| L. Trommert. 33, who thought he had
F, fatal attack of Spanish influenza
cut his throat from ear to ear today
and died. Doctors believe he did moi
have the Spanish influenza.
Death Percentage High.
| HARRISBURG. Pa, Oct. 12-Span
ish inuflenza still shows no signs oi
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-13
Keystone of Enemy's Resistance, St. Gobain
Massif is Rapidly Falling Into Hands
of the Allies
HUNS SENT STAGGERING BACKWARD.
Biggest Single Days Advance Since Allies Re-
sumed Offensive, Forces Prussians to
Give Way at Vital Point.

single blow received the west
defense front and the keystone Of the
the salient thus in
Goban forest eastward into the Asonne
andH twenty two mi o The
within their
twenty m o
St. Quentin
Of have
practi SURF
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New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Hindenburg Has
Napoleon's Problem

Foch's problem, then, is not the prob
lem of taking the offensive at the close
OF the German attack. He cannot hope
save in case Of an accident, to have
enough reserves left for this. His prob
lem IS to hold the German this year, i'm
posing as great casualties as possible
and losing as few men as possible, that
there may be.a campaign of 1919. 1t is
the necessity of Hindenburg to win be-
tore America gets up, as it was the ne
cesslty OF Napoleon at Waterloo to de-
feat wellington before Blucher arrived
Weilington's problem is Foch's. Had
Butcher not arrived Waterloo would at
most have been drawn battle.
In the Marne conflict the Germans
spent their force in the offensive and the
French were ableto win tactical success
by counter offensive, but they. like the
Germans, had consumed their last re.
serves, and neither had any considerable
fresh troops to put in, the one to hold.
the other to transform a success into q
decisive victory. Now this is what seems
most likely to be the end of the cam.
paign Of 1918. Such an end will never
theless be tremendous Allied victory.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

necessities will compel him to demand
terms which his enemies could only ac-
cept if they were conquered. And they
will not be conquered, but will have at
their hand a great, new force, practi-
cally inexhaustible reservoir of Ameri-
can man power, while German man
power, like their own, will have been
wellnigh exhausted, at least wasted,
beyond the possibility of another such
offensive as we are now facing in the
west
AS for hunger and war WEAKNESS
driving the German people to rebellion
they may rebel, but it is idle to expect or
hope that they will. Russia yielded to
her misery and permitted internal dis
order to lead to external weakness, and
the German people have the spectacle of
Russia before them now to serve as
warning. And it will serve as warn
ing. The eastern conquests will con-
tribute much to alleviating the hunger
and to supplying necessary things which
the blockade has kept out of Germany.
The worst of the food problem will
probably be over permanently before
next winter closes
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Foch Will Husband
Resources

Frankly, such information as comes
to me tends to dissipate all hope of anv
immediate or even remote Allied coun-
ter offensive, save in the case of some
German breakdown no more to be ex-
pected than an equally complete Allied
collapse. Foch has not more troops than
the Germans, nor is he likely to have
any large excess The American troops.
who are getting over with admirable
rapldlty now, will not be in a condition
OF training to make them useful in such
an operation this year, although manv
OF them may be employed to ADVANTAGE
IN quiet sectors or even brigaded with
French and British in some of the more
active sectors.
What seems to be the general expecta-
tion is that Foch will hold on to his re-
serves, use them with extreme parsimonv
and-since it is matter of life and
death-avoid using them more rapid1v
than Hindenburg uses his. He mus
come to the end of the campaign with at
least as many reserves in hand as the
German to avoid disaster; he NAV hope
to have slight superiority, but not a
superiority warranting major often
sive in October, after he and Hindenburg
have both lost from million to a mill
ION and half in the struggles that are
bound to come.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
We Alone Not
War Weary

1t seems to me that the German
leaders and rulers will still be able to
control their subjects, if not by promises
of fresh victories at least by the fairly
accurate representation of what any
thing but victorious peace will now
mean, not merely for the present, but
for future generations of Germans. Ger
many, like the South in 1864 and the
early spring of 1866, will have no choice
but to fight, because she can obtain no
terms from her enemies which would
enable her to preserve any part Of the
main purposes for which she has been
fighting. Her enemies, at last certain
of new assistance and relieved of a con-
siderable part Of the burden which they
have had to bear, will not consent to
peace which will make their immediate
present dangerous and their future
dark
If America were not arriving feel
sure that there would be peace by ne.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
German Must Dispose
OF An Enemy

We must get the conditions of this
gigantic battle clearly in mind. 1t is
colossal Waterloo, with the French gen.
eralissimo playing the British role and
the Americans playing the role of the
Prussians a century ago. The, German
has decided, as did Napoleon, to risk
everything on a decisive battle before
all his enemies are ready. He has won
initial successes, as did Napoleon. On
large scale his progress to date suggests
Ligny, but he has still to win the de-
cisive phase and he must win it this
year.
Watching the ebb and flow of the bat
tie in the next weeks and months we are
bound to keep this essential condition in
mind The German must destroy the
military power of Britain or of France
to win the war this year. He may shift
his attack to the French and strike at
Rheims instead of at Amiens or at
Calais, but he must dispose of one of his
enemies, and if he fails then there is an
end Of any hope of winning a complete
victory, of ending the war by Western
treaty of Brest-Litovsk. He will have to
negotiate with the prospect of facing
new American army next year if he
does not get peace by negotiation.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

now if the Kaiser reached the Channel
would be the ruin of the Empire and the
end of security at home, for with the
Kaiser at Calais London would be
closed port and the Straits of Dover
commanded by German cannon.
AS for the French, their condition is
infinitely better than it was year ago,
and so far they have suffered relatively
slight losses in the fighting of the cam
paign. Nor were their losses great last
year. 1t is upon the British that the
great strain has been put in the past two
years, but the strain has not sufficed to
break them nor is there the smallest rea-
son for believing that they will or can
break now, when to fail would be to sur
render their position as a great power
and their own safety in the British Isles.
We shall do we'll to recognize that the
British have suffered terribly in the past
two years, and that 1t is unwise and un-
just to expect of them what we now ex-
pect of ourselves War WEAKNESS is
fact in Britain, as it is in France. We
have seen signs and we shall probably
see more signs of the strain in the next
few months. But it is good time to
read about what happened in the North
in 1864 of our own Civil War.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
German Defeat
Americas Task

There is courage, there are strong
wills and brave hearts left; the British
and French are fighting on and will fight
on; even when we are there with our
first million and half we shall be out
numbered by the combined British and
French armies all through the next cam
palgn, but this will not diminish the i'm
portance of our contribution. The de-
feat of Germany, in very real sense.
has become an American task, and be-
cause we have undertaken the task with
a spirit of determination and with un-
mlstakable national unity France and
Britain will keep on to the end. DOING
a vast deal of the work, but relvinp
upon us more and more
Only by talking with those newlv re-
turned from Europe is it possible to un-
derstand the extent to which America
has become the driving force in the war.
even before our hosts are under fire
and on the line. The German realized
this when he undertook his present of-
1enslve. 1t was his last bid for the
domination of Europe before we could
save It, The chances are against his
winning now, heavily against it, and
the fashion in which we are rushing our
men over is all important factor. as II
releases Allied reserves; but the real
factor is moral rather than material. wa
are bringing spirit unshaken by the
horrors of four years; we are bringing
a young manhood intact; we are not
bringing as much as we should; we are
oenlnd the mark duty sets for us. But
we nave become in very real sense the
reserve Of civilization, which will decide
the issue for which Britain and France
nave fought so long and at such terrible
cost to themselves. Without us their
service and their sacrifice might prove
in vain.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Will Allied People
Collapse?

And this brings me to my third point.
Is there any chance of collapse Of the
French or British public under pressure
which may compel large dislocation of
the British line and considerable evacua-
tion of French territory? do not be-
lieve it. and credible and material evil
dence coming to me from both France
and Britain seems to prove that neither
country will break under any strain that
Ia now conceivable. For Britain to break
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Germany Cannot
Make Peace

Now as to German collapse nothing
is less likely The German has organ
lied the east and made great progress
in the west. He will probably make
further progress, slight, perhaps, indie
cisive certainly, but still unmistakable
He will stand on this and demand at the
very least the recognition by his enemies
of what he has created in the east of
Europe and the west of Asia. He can
not ask less and live, for the war has
brought substantial ruin and the Ger
tain exclusion from the markets which
took his manufactures and supplied him
with his raw material before the world
war began.
Unless Germany can hold Russia and
the Balkans, with their Asiatic fringes,
she cannot hope and does not hope to
escape the approximate ruin which the
war promises for her. But none of the
Allies can consent to the perpetuation
of German rule and domination in Rus
sia and along the Black Sea without in
suring future wars and preserving the
precise Prussian peril we are all fighting
to abolish. This fact has come home
to the mass of the German people. and
explains in some slight degree their
present unity. Every class of German
subject knows that ruin is ineluctable
unless there be conquests and indem-
mites.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

connection between the British and the
French the German has not merely to
deal with one or two British armies. re-
lnforced by certain number of French
reserves and even a certain number of
American regiments; he has to deal with
the main British force and all of the
French reserves, for it is behind this
critical point that the French reserves
must now be concentrated.
1t is conceivable that the impact of
the new German thrust may enable him
to reach Amiens-but that it will permit
him to get far beyond, with the same
promptness that he got across the
Somme two months ago, given the fact
that the main mass of Allied reserves
is at hand, seems unbelievable. Thus
he may compel the British to evacuate
the north by his attack upon the south,
as he may be able by attack in the
north to force a similar retirement. but
he can hardly hope or expect to inter-
pose between the armies now, as he
hoped to do when he set out
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Americas
Millions

In sense, the situation comes down to
this: The British and French alike are
putting in their last reserves. Neither
will have any considerable reserve when
this present campaign is over. They could
not and would not do this were it not for
the visible demonstration that America
is coming. Their strength will enable
them to hold the line this year with such
minor aid as we can supply. But it would
not enable them to face another cam
paign if there were not from million to
a million and half of American troops
to count on next year.
But the million is an established and
calculable fact; this being so there is not
the smallest chance that French or Brit
ish publics will think of making peace
with the German, who has scored materi
al but not decisive successes this year
and will saak to get peace by negotiation
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Victory Campaign
In 1919

There will be campaign of 1919, in
my Judgment, because the German can
not win the war this year and our
Allies are satisfied largely because OF
our aid to them that next year the Ger
man will lose it beyond doubt. / know
OF nothing at once more moving and
more SOLDERING than the voice that comes
to US now from our French and British
Allies. But it is interesting to think Of
what the Germans must now feel as 70
the statesmanship which challenged IN in
scorn only little more than 1 yasr arn
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
The Defeat of Ger
many Has Now
Become An
American
Task
Copyright, 191S-The Tribune
Association

gotiation at the close of this campaign
and that Germany would be able to
harvest substantial profits from her
campaigns Not in any spirit of vain
glory, but merely in sense of RESPONSE
bility, the American people must now
recognize that the winning of the war
is going to be in very large measure
their task We are the only fighting
nation which is. not war weary, which
is not weakened by terrible casualty
tions and miseries.
Three Nations
Gone
Our youth is the only youth which is
still untouched by the war; the best Of
the young manhood Of Britain, France
and Germany is gone, and each of these
countries is steadily raising the age Of
its troops; men of fifty are now in the
ranks, and the boys of eighteen and
nineteen have long been fighting in Ger
many. 1t is foolish to expect in Europe
to-day the emotion and the spirit which
amazed and thrilled US all three years
ago. One has now to turn to America
to find universally the determination,
the will and the emotion which were so
familiar in France in the first two years
of the war and in Britain little later.
The best of three great nations is
gone. The best of ours is coming, and
behind it is a nation which has just
walked up to the truths which called the
youth of Britain and France to arms
and to death in the earlier days of the
war. Neither the British nor the French
make any pretence at Disgusting the
facts that exist in Europe to-day. There
will be a campaign of 1919, because we
shall be there to do much of the fighting
and to supply not alone a great portion
of the material, but not little of the
moral force. Without us the war could
not go forward; with US it will go for
ward to victory, because, in the very
simple language of the street, we still
have the punch" while for the Euro
pean nations the thing has become a
nightmare, an inescapable scourge, and
no longer the call to the spirit that it
was three years ago. The best of one
generation, of the vital generation, is
buried between Paris and Liege or hid
den away crippled in the backwaters of
the war
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

because it will leave the road clear for
new operation next year, when the Allies
will have new reserve of at least
million American troops and the German
will be without any such fresh contribu-
tion.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

based upon his present holdings and
without regard to American man power
which is to intervene next year. The
French, having held the line until we
arrive, will not be ready to make peace
on the basis of 1914 Alsace-L Lorraine will
be the smallest price they can exact and
not make peace while their enemy still
sits at Calais and threatens India.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Russia's Example
A Warning

Thus, when the present campaign
ends and the German begins his peace
mannuvres, as he certainly will if de-
ciaivs victory has escaped him, his very
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Small Chance of Allied
Offensive

In sum, on the military side it seems
to me that the largest conceivable gain
for the German this year will be the
occupation of the Channel ports and the
dislocation of the British front in such
fashion as to force the British armies
south of the Somme. But once this oc
ours then the Allies, despite the loss of
territory of patent value, will be in a
stronger military position, for their
lines will be shortened and they will no
longer be threatened with dangers
which grow out of the geographical cir
cumstances of their present posture in
the north of France.
Now there remains, on the military
side, the question of the ability of the
Allies, when the German has at last
used up his reserves, to take the often
cive themselves. This was somewhat
foollshly expected by most of US at the
crisis of the recent fighting before
Amlens, when there was little exact
knowledge as to the strength of Allied
reserves and a general misapprehension
OF the extent of the British defeat and
the remoteness of the main mass of
French reserves, who were then COW
ering Paris against thrust from
Rheims
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
No Chance This Year of Peace by
the Sword or Peace Through
; Collapse-Allied Counter Of
fensive Unlikely y-Hindenburg
Faces Napoleon's Problem
By FRANK H. SIMONDS
Author of ''The World War" "They Shall Not Pass"

st the moment when new and
.,t;cal phase of the campaign of 1918
;s about to open it may seem out of
Mace to open the discussion of cam
,s;pn of 1919. Yet the progress of
.he present campaign has already pretty
clearly forecast the certainty of an
other In word, it begins to be reason
ably patent that neither the Germans
NOR our allies can hope for decisive
vetory this year. And it is worth not
mo that the German press, which goose
stens" at imperial command, is already
earning the German public that fifth
uinter of war is inevitable.
There must be campaign of 1919
because there is not the smallest evil
dence that either side can this year ac-
eomplish results which will make peace
Inevitable, a peace by the sword.
Waterloo, Sedan, Jena, these triumphs
from which Immediately flowed a ma
tional defeat, are reckoned outside the
calculations of war in its present form,
when nations, not small professional
armies, fight, and restricted fronts
manned by huge forces make the old
fashioned style of battle out Of the
question.
The Three Chances
OF Peace
Peace this year can only be had un-
der one of three conditions: First, that
the Allies are beaten completely and
beyond rallying in the present campaign
and as a result of the German offensive.
Second, that the Allies are able, hav-
ing parried the German attack, to take
the offensive themselves and do what
tie French and British were unable to
do at the Marne; namely, transform a
battlefield success. won in a counter Of
fensive, into decisive victory. Third,
il the people behind the line, the civil
populations, either of the Allied or of
the enemy nations, collapse and compel
the military forces to abandon
struggle which in the field has so far
been indecisive.
NoV, looking at the question Of the
possible German victory, is there any
reason to believe that it can reach the
magnitude of a Sedan or a Waterloo;
that is, the magnitude of the conse-
qpences Of these famous battles? Ger
tainly there is nothing to suggest it in
the progress OF the campaign in its
frst two months. 1t is possible that
the Germans may get to the Channel,
that Dunkirk, Calais ano Boulogne will
have to be evacuated as a result of
further and far more considerable Ger
man advances in Flanders. The awk-
ward and difficult confguration of the
British line north of the Scarpe, the
lew lines Of lateral communication
available Tor the transfer of troops
from south to north, the unmistakable
advantage gained by the German in his
opening attack both in and around
flanders, may result In the slow with
drawal of the British toward the south
and the Strengthening out of the line.
Allied N;......
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Allied Disaster
Unlikely

This possibility is not probability,
out short of an unforeseen disaster un-
likely under existing conditions the
most that we have to fear is the slow
out sure advance of the German and
the equally deliberate shortening and
retiring of the British lines. The loss
Of the Channel ports will not constitute
the sort Of defeat which compels the
loser to abandon the fight. On the. con-
uary, Britain, with the Kaiser at Calais,
Will be forced to fight with renewed
energy, for it will be an even more
deadly peril than the presence of Ger
man troops at Ostend and Zeebrygge.
And to get to the Channel ports will
take time and colossal human sacrifices.
surther, it is not to reach any city or to
Ake any province that the German set
out on his latest offensive. He under
.ook to crush the British army, and even
ne takes the Channel ports he will
not accomplish this, because he will not
separate the British from the French
nor close the road for the British re-
urement southward. When the cam
paign ends, should it see the German
established at Calais and Boulognc-
ana do not think it will---he would
sslii have failed to put one opponent
W.T. oe1ore new one arrived,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
French and British Cannot
Be Separated

The German may choose to renew
ms attempt to get Amiens and to sepa-
isse the French and British. Here we
|aave more deadly threat, but we have
nose obvious retort. TO break the