Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-01
PROFITABLE GAME
 FOR THE ALLIES
Small Gains by Germans Cost More in Lives Than They Are Worth.

A military expert sums up tic war
 situation in the following cheerful, but
 practical manner:
 Won hindenburg continues his cease less slaughter of German power by de- i veloping double offensive towards
 Amiens and Ypres.
 No success of tactical importance re
 suited from the Amiens operations, but i the capture of Mont Kimmel in the
 northern area of operations has en- phasized the German threat against 1 Ypres. The net result of the weeks
 operations, however, has not given to the Germans sufficient territory to ! justify their losses. The capture Of
 Amiens is as far off as ever, and the fall of ypres would not have import ant strategic consequences for the
 Germans as long as the British lines
 hold immediately to the west The small sectors of territory oc- casionally yielded by the Allies are far more worrying the the nerves than their importance justifies.
 It is uncomfortable to read of the German advances, but if these little victories were not won there would be no temptation to Won Hindenburg to continue the merciiess slaughter of his own troops.
 There gre two possible ways by which Won Hindenburg can win the war in inc west-first, by separating the French and British armies and an- initiating one or the other of them; second, by wearing down the morale of the Allies. The first method has been practically impossible with the appointment of General Foch to the supreme command of the allied forces
 To win by the second method is Won HindenbuTg's purpose in necessarily hammering at the western lines for petty gains. If attacks of this charac- ter keep up long enough, it sometimes happens demoraliZation sets in among armies on the defensive. No indication of such a situation has been shown on the west front; and by continuing to guard against it the Allies can eventu- ally bring the game back into their own hands.
 The more the Germans are induced to attack the sooner will German man power begin to approach its inevitable end in military exhaustion. The terri torial gains Germany is winning are in no sense menacing as long as General Foch is able to maintain the morale of the allied armies at high level dur ! ing the present series of defensive combats.
 Foch is demonstrating more and more his abilities as a defensive lead CT. In this weeks battles, the renew ! al of spirited resistance by the Allies i after the loss of Mont Kennel has ! been very encouraging. Foch can re- cover this sector of ground by the em- : ployment of a sufficient number of re- serves, but it is questionable whether he thinks the tactical gain would con- | pensate for the future lessening of | his reserve power.
 Foch is conducting his defensive op- | erations with the help of very few re- serves, as he must, if German power \ is to be depleted first. It would only |. equaliZe casualties of each area won | by the Germans at'enormous cost were | it to be retaken by the Allies with the same casualties.
 When, therefore, position like Mont Kemmel is lost, Foch must de- eide whether it's recovery is worth what the Germans have spent upon it. In almost every in- stance since the present localized as- saults began. Foch has decided in the negative. Foch's judgment must be trusted. That he has highly devel- oped plan is cartain. It may require a number of months for this plan to work out in detail, but as long as the morale of the Allies wavers neither at home nor in the field, the plan will eventually meet with it's proper reali- zation.