Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-01
MARCH SAYS ARMIES READY TO DO ALL HARM TO ONE ANoTH- ER AND KILL AS MANY OF OP- POSING FORCES AS MAY BE FOUND POSSIBLE
NEW ARMY SCHEMES s
OUTLINES IN BRIEF PLANS oF GOVERNMENT FOR INCREASING FLOW OF TROOPS TO WAR ZONE; MANY NEW GENERAL OFFICERS TO BE NAMED
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WASHINGTON, July B. - An odd calm fell over the Aisne- Marne battle area today with only the thunder cf the guns to tell of new and more ter rible gusts of the war storm to come. Paris and Berlin both noted it. The infantry had paused for breath while the artillery pounded new roads of ad- vance for General Foch's victorious armies.
 Just what the luli may prove was not apparent. Possibly the enemy is alreadv on the move after the decisive defeat he met in the battle which be- gan Saturday and centered on the American positions along the north bank of the Ourcq. Here the Amer ican third division and the now famous Forty-second division, the Rainbow di- vision. composed of former nanonal guardsmen of many states, have made good their positions against the en- emys best fighting units. They have met, outfought and forced backward by their fierce ardor picked Prussian and Bavarian divisions brought fresh tc the field with orders to hold the line Oi the Ourcq at all costs.
 That line has been broken. The American spearhead. driven forward again, finally broke the fighting edge of the enemy defense. When suppOr. ing columns surged forward across the Ourcq to consolidate the grognd so va- liantiy won and held by the first rush, enemy hopes of ciinging to the present line dwindled. Holding the apex of the allied line at the center, the Amer jeans had paved the way for the dash ing capture of ChalmOnt Butte to tle westward by the British forces. Allied guns now dominate the enemy's lines from this height foretelling new inroads to his positions and the strong probability that he will be compelled to fall back to the Vesle line.
 The victory was given new signifi- canoe by General March, who told the newspaper men at his mid-week con ference, that each army now was bent on the destruction of the other; all lessed strategic objectives having beer swept away on both sides.
 The mission of each is to kill; to de- stToy the fighting power of the other. It is the ultimate military objective that both are seeking and there cal. be no halting short of the goal.
 As General March never before has talked at these conferences in general terms, when he turned today from the pin-dotted map where the turn ana sway of the battle was outlined in detail, and for the first time disclosed the true significance of the strugg:e in the narrow confines, his words car ried conviction on his hearers.
 Whatever the enemy's objective was at the start of the drive" he said, picking his words carefully, and what. ever our hope was in the counter of- fensive on the flank of this salient, it is now perfectly evident that these aims have been set aside.
 'The objective of each army is the other army; each one of them wants to kill as many of the others as pos sible.
 The holding back of the jaws (Of the salient) by the Germans at Sois- sons and near Rheims has made it practically impossible for us to expect a bag. They have had two weeks now Go withdraw from the dangerous points down near the Marne, and the objec- tive of each army is the other army"
 The chief of staff had prefaced this new conception of the great struggle with a careful outline of the battle positions, showing that since last Sat urday another ten miles had been cut out of the length of the battle line by allied successes. It is now barely fifty four miles around the flattened salient in which the enemy has massed al- most a million men as against seventy four miles when the counter assault was set in motion. From Chateau Thierry the Americans have made the maximum advance. covering fourteen miles to reach the positions where they rested today, preparing for new advances.
 Coming to the army being trained here to support the men at the front General March said he had ordered six new divisions created. Again regular regiments will be used as the center on which each division is built.
 The chief of staff made it plain that it is a monthly program of increase upon which the war department has The cycle appears to be an army corps a month to be shipped abroad. its place to be taken at once by new corps to be created here. The men. quarters. and equipment are
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