The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-26
AMERICANS UNDERSTAND.

RESIDENT WILSON, in his message to Field Marshal Halg
expresses truly the belief and confidence of the Amerl
people They understand They know that the forces OF
democracy cannot be beaten
latest news of battle eloquent with facts that prove
the enemy sackenng in his effort that days of fighting loss
of blood and much slaughter making his progress slower
The bulk of his conquest came in the first hours OF his
drive then the bulk of his prisoners guns and terri
tory days go on taken less territory
is acquired and the shaded portions of the diminished
AS the British retire. their fighting power shffens They
go toward their the enemy comes away from his
The enemy has not recapured the ground ne voluntarily
abandoned only few months ago.
Every report is dramatic with the tale of slaughter
inflicted upon the Kaiser's soldiers.
During fighting before Tempeux la Foisse two batter
field guns fired for four hours at from 800
yards down into the of the enemy What killing was
inflicted by mere handful men, who afterwards withdrew
but leaving their guns behind them!
And such incidents in phase or another through
out all accounts of the battle.
Those facts which discourage the reader of
seizure territory the capture of prisoners and the taking
of guns.
elements not sufficient to show the course OF VIC
tory Each of them relative fact The enemy takes terri
tory the territory worth to him? He takes prison
ers but how many casualties were incurred thereby?
guns it set down part of the elementary rules
of guns used for repeng attack at close quarters
cannot usually be if the attack reaches its immediate
objective It is a doubtful question with commanders
what portion his artillery shall be set with the object of its
what shall be stationed with the view that may
have to be sacrificed.
IF the Germans have taken 900 guns they obtained
no more than might anticipated gun used in the face of
an attack must be the last instant of effectiveness
moved at earlier period Fancy saving out ten OF fifteen
minutes to save gun which is firing point blank into the
enemy yards and UNDER That must be uset
up the last second the srest way to get It's value as al
instrument of slaughter and of victory.
The Germans have moved forward somewhat but the Brit
ish hem and will be before them until the Kaiser
yields.
America knows by its tense and anxious mind that this il
indeed her There is American OF imagination but In
qures of himself what would happen the British line SHOULD
fall and should be followed by German conquest
almost ntuvely know, in the presence OF tn
ordeal that again through long year could tn
United States anything but armed in which scienc
and industry would engage in endless toll against the day whe
the forces Germany and her vassas should be aunche
against American shores
Then too is the selfish consciousness that the Ger
mans the British Destroy the fewer will remain to be desroye
by soldiers and the fewer the American lives tina
will be sacrificed in the process.
If the Germans lost half million before Verdun, wha
will they lose this offensive. Every Prussian down is on
less for American boys to down.
The American heart swe with pride because of the Br
q ish line that bends but does not break.