The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1918-12-07
HOW IT WAS DONE

Tr Youths Companion Is perfect
resume Of the Allied Offensive during
the last four months It Is so excellent
that We commend Is To the careful per.
ugal ~ every one # ogr readers. and
nugsest that teachers require their
pupils 10 read and then write a synop
sis Of the article
Within the wonderful four moaihs
from july to November the Allied
armies finally destroyed lha prestige
of the pfussIau military machine but
the fghilHg has boea so continuous and
over No vide front that many persons
fail 20 see IL as e snCceEslau o' tntellI
gihIc battles and DO not understand
the strategy ~ Foph az recognize the
critical point IN the whole campaign
The campaign that began elth The
German drive on March = reached tts
climax W July at the second battle ~
the Aarue There the Germans we're
finally stopped and thrown back Their"
Fueh began 10 reveal his strategtcai
plan That plan was twofoif first, hy
attacks skiilhiti, directed at the weak
points of the salient created b} the
successive German drives 10 force the
enemy 90 retreat so the Iiindsnhnls
line. from which be set out SO coma |
IDENTITY In March, second. to break tha, |
supposedly impregusble line. TO drive
the Germans out Of belgium and
France aud II possible, to crush the
German army as hghting force
The first object he achieved in iast |
tao months by September Is the re
treating Germans were behind the
lines that they had held since the first |
months OF the war
The great battle To prove whether
the German army vas insineibls tn
defense began on September g On
that day Feeh threw Lisgetts Amert.
can army and uouraud's French army
against the German left flank between
verduu aud Champagne The Allies
drove forward up the Mouse and the
Aisns and through the Argonne for
several miles. The advance threatened
the aii.importani line rail communities.
slass AsAss.ss -sstsss~ a s--ass.
and i.udendoffF hurried of every sol.
der he could spare TO cheek II Then
foeh started smashing attack on the
other flank; King Alber,'s Belgians
and Plumers' British army crossed the
User. swept the Germans of the Mes
since aud paachendasle ridges and
created q wedge that threatened the
German hold both on Lille and on the
Belgian coast The worried Ludendorn
dispatched the rest Of his reserves to
head on that dangerous thrust Hav.
ing put both the German tanks Ia dit.
neulty Foch then hurled the British
armies OF itorGe HYng and RawiinsoH.
supported by the French army OF DE
beney, against the strongest part OF
the Hlndenbnrg line between Camhrai {
aud NJ Quentin That war oh October !
u vas the decisive blow The fam. L
ous Hindenhnrg line WAS crossed.
smashed left far behind The Allies
advanced dozen miles into the open {
country and. already near Valen, 4
eiennes. began Ia threaten the line ~ I
the ssheldi IL
The German defeat VAS decisive II n
wss followed by cd pressure un
the lief, flank In the Argoune and on the '
risht flank IN belgium pressure that i
led To the immediate evacuation ~ a
Lille. Loan, Douai. Ostend Zeebrugge II
and Bruges The Germans we're not il
routed theF withdrew their beaten y
armies With great skill. bar Ha one who &
understood What happened least of >
ali their own leaders had any illu
sions about the meaning ~ The great '
battle Germany might still hight des
perate delaying actions. but II had been
beaten on the lines Of It's oWHI
choice II Foch could do what he had Il
done against a still stronR and coma e
dent German army. what he would do \
with another mjllea Of American re- =
serves against beaten and iiscour Il
aged foe was ouiY too ctear The allies
Ut Germany iet away bulgaria then ID
Turkey. thea Austria
The esmrateu has been perhaps the
most extraordinary Ia military hlst0ry. c
and the triumphant ease wlth which 81
Marshal Foch has manoeusered armies d
II unexampled sire along a battle front al
Il unheaFdo' length marks him A.
'ne Of the master strategists Of all "
ime 4
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