The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-06-15
Germany's Waning Power.

All goes well with the allies in battle. The heaviest
strokes of this war have been delivered and warded off
Germany is fighting furiousy but the German armies lack
the hitting power which they possessed in March and
April They are slowly advancing southwest of Scissors,
but since the danger of the advance there consisted
the possibly outfanking Of the French and since that
danger has been eliminated by timely action the advance
has lost its object and may be expected Else
where the French British and American forces are either
pushing the French British and Americans forces are
either pushing the Germans back or holding the lines with
mpregnabe solidty In one or two places the Germans
have placed themselves in dangerous positions and are
destructive bombardments from which they
cannot extricate themselves for the tine being.
AS abandonment of the attck upon the allied armies
would defeat and decentralization of the German
forces and perhaps of the German empire the attack will
go on, whatever the COST until it will break down under
the superior strength be suspended by the approach
of winter Every day and hour gain for the
allies and loss for the Germans nj relative strength
The American army is rapidly increasing nj numbers
the German army is apidly decreasing So far as the
great objective was concerned-the destruction of the
allied armiesthat is longer the list Of living hopes.
The German people do not yet know that their army has
failed to win them safety with Soils but the German
peror and his advisors know the truth Hence in the
reichsag and in bombasc kilograms the emperor and his
the struggle while the armies on both sides are active
it is possible for the German war lords to deceive their
people. In short time they wol not be able to do
even that much
The military situation is satisfactory France and Bel
GUM have sufficient food Their soldiers well fed
and we'll clothed and well armed. The allies have i'm
stores of supplies and increasing their
plies and improving the methods of transporting them
The shipments of materials and food form the United
States go forward in good volume notwithstanding the
unprecedented transportation of troops The round
trip time Of transports has been greatly reduced by the
embarkaon service, and this reduction of running time
is equivalent to of tonnage The expedition
with which troOpshp is loaded conveyed, unoaded and
returned to its dock in the United States is marvel to the
tween the army and navy in this overseas transport SER
vice leaves nothing to be desired.
The burden of the present struggle falls upon the
French army But that army is marvelously keen and
dangerous weapon when handled by such masters as
Gen. Foch 1t is incredibly flexible and resilient The mo-
rae of the French soldiers was never more admirable
1t is based upon solid grounds Of veteran knowledge and
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by their increasing numbers and their prowess in battle
The Americans have convinced both friends and enemies
of their teadfasnes their cooperative sense and their
battle courage The French has seen in these Qualities
double Of victory and the German command
ers know that their worn and disprted troops
never hope to defeat equal number of Americans u
der any conditions of battle
is to the interest of humanity that the battle should
go to the finish May the German emperor and his
commanders be obsessed by the false hope of snachne
victory from situation that is hourly revealing more
clearly their inevitable collapse Blood will be saved
the Germans plunge forward in disregard Of fe The
desperate the struggle becomes the more deperae
will be the German sacrifice In whirwnd of destruc-
ton the assaant of the world struggles on vany hoping
that his antagonists vii succumb or that outraged fate
viii lsomehOw reent and give him the mastery If the
allies could command the workings of the German brain
they could not more sklfuy lure the German to his
DOOM The only change to be apprehended by Gen. Foch
lis that his enemy will SUDDENLY his and re-
coil before the avenging blade can be thrust into his
vitals.-Washngton Post
Won Trpitz the German admiral says that after the
Germans have pushed the Allies back on the other side
of aPris they will be ready to attack the British and
American fleet Il will be wall for the German eat if n