Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-22
Wars Tide Once More
Turns on RiUer MQyne
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| the former the attempt was mastered
! on the first and broken on the
secondary by the skill of General
/ GOuraud.
/ The other harf Of the immediate e
design which was to take the French
stronghold, called the mountain or
Rheims, by development. was met
with great bravery and gathering ef-
feet by the armies of General de
Goutted and Berthorut, the former ON
the Marne, the latter on the hills out
living from the west side of the noun
tain of Rheims. They had to meet a
much superior force of about twenty
five divisions. With eight of these Won
Roehm effected the crossing of the
Marine. between Chateau-Thicrry and
Dormans, whence he began the risky
attempt to reach Epernay by the river
valley.
General Foch allowed him to com.
nit himself to this adventure. local
French troops being enough to pre-
vent him from extending it south
ward. Then he unveiled a maneuver
of the same chara cter as. but much
larger than, the counter-attack on the
Courcelles plateau, which virtually
ended the push toward Compaigne.
surprise was complete
At dawn on Thursday Mangin and De
Goutte suddenly struck out at what had
in effect become the flank of Won
! Boehm's army They scored as complete
| a surprise as the new tactics have ever
Welded to the enemy perhaps the most
complete in the whole war.
| In three days they have taken 10000
rrisoncrs-that is to say, the equivalent
! of the comhatants of two whole divisions
with 400 cannon and an immense
! quantity Of i sser materials. They have
! recovered the greater part of the terri
tory between the Nillers-Cotterets forest
: nd the SoissonsC Chateau Thierry high.
way. and they Immediately threatened
this important line of German commu.
nications with it's hridgeheads
| Thus in three days the character Of
the battle has undergone "A deep trans
! formation by a single stroke. The Al
lied seneralissimo has seizetl the initia
tive of the whole situation and ha!
driven the boche back everywhere to tn,
defensive.
The first symptom of the change wa
that Won Boehm had to draw seven di
visions from the remaining reserves q
the offensive and throw them forwar,
from the SOissons-Chateau Thierry rOa'
To stem the food OF Franco-AmeriCal
triumph As we see, it was retarded, bu
rot stopped. still less set back,
A more heroic step was necessary, an
the withdrawal from the south ban
of the Narnc was decided upon.
was executed during Friday night an
the early hours Of Saturday morning.
The French outposts between Blesme
and Oueilly were not caught nappint
They and their comrades of the Frenci
British and American air forces, as we
as the Czech, Italian and British force
, that have so well held the enemy o
/ the east side. have all had their shar
3 in the honors of the general change c
fortune.
), LuderdorF Cuts Losses
u The German grand staff under Luder
0 rT-Hindenhurg. by the way, seems
3 have disappeared, at least temporarily
preserves one of the lesser military vii
tues When in danger il does not ten
! porlze, but boldly cuts its losses.
n There are many differences betwee
l. the first and second battles of the Marn
L. but there are striking likenesses, and tn
is one of them.
y The essential maneuver in both was a
y Allied flank attack On the Ourcq TT
e. result in both cases was a rapid retrei
q across the Marne. Won Boehm has fo
N lowed the example of Won Kluck in Il
g. speed with which the odious decision WI
70 carried cut. The parallel may go
further.
z. The Msrne Is more than river,
h. verdun is more than a fortress The
re names are symbols and the one W
4 ring as the other did in the middle
/. the war, like a death knell across 4
/. Hands where the fear Of Berlin was on
accounted for ths beginning Of Wisdom.