The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-06-18
QUIET AGAIN ON
Big BATTLEFRONT
LAST GERMAN OFFENSIVE is
CHECKMATED WHEN ARMY
OF FRANCE UNCOILS.
UNANIMOUSLY AGREED THAT
TUETONS WILL STRIKE AGs " {
Austrians Have Begun Big Offensive
Against Italians. U-Boats Still at
Work OFF Atlantic Coast. Nearly
Million Americans in Europe.

Million Americans IN Europe.
From the bloody weller of Eu-
ropes carnage during the last ten
weeks, during which time more than
a million and a quarter men have
been sent to hospitals or to their
graves, Europe has learned the lesson
which Americans, enjoying a better
perspective, have realized for some
time. This is that the United States
of America is destined to go down in
history as the dominant factor in the
great world war which began in 1914.
England and France were loath to
realize this fact, but the bloody
weeks since March 81 have taught
them that the young, virile manhood
of America is the one power that can,
that will save human liberty to the
world.
America the Hope of Civilization.
The entente leaders, Great Britain
and France, are now playing their
last big role in this tragic drama of
Europe. Their backs to the wall,
they are fighting desperately, not in
the despair Of impending defeat, but
in the hope of eventual victory, for
behind them is constantly growing
louder the tramp, tramp, tramp of
the warriors from across the Allan
tic. With the British and French
armies it is now a case of hold fast
until the millions from over the sea
restore first the balance of numeri-
cal strength, and then the allied pre-
ponderance of numbers which is to
sweep Germany and everything Ger
man to ultimate defeat
A Lull on Fighting Sectors.
Allied strategy and tenacity in
combat have again checkmated blows
by massed bodies of German troops
and the German crown prince has
given up his second offensive within
month without either of them hav-
ing affected seriously the general sit
uation on the western front. Except
for artillery duels a lull has come
to the fighting sectors, but a new
enemy assault is expected soon
In the offensive which began ten
days ago Sunday the Germans used
large masses of troops on a short
front. For three days they gained
ground and were rapidly forcing
their way southwark along the Aisne.
French resistance stiffened, and then
the French took the offensive. Ger
man efforts to strike south of the
Aisne and reach the Disc south of
Compeigne also failed after a slight
gain.
Berlin reports the number of guns
captured since May 81 by the crown
price as 1,050. In the Latest offensive
the Germans gained $50 square miles
OF territory and captured $4,000
prisoners and $50 guns, the poorest
showing in any of the four major
movements since March 81.
While the American infantry has
been inactive on all sectors Ameri-
can aviatOrs on the Toul front have
been bombing towns behind the Ger
man lines. The first American bomb
ing raid was against Dommary-Ba
oncourt, northeast of Verdun, on
Wednesday. This was followed Fri
~ ~ oilOLliCl lilCuISIOIl Oh Which,
seventy-nine bombs were dropped on
Contains.
A New Assault Expected.
1t is believed in Paris and London
mat not many days will elapse before
lhe Germans begin a new assault
against the allies. It is known that
CfoWn Prince Ruppercht of Bavaria
mas large reserves which are some
where along the Somme and Flanders
fronts. Opinion is divided as to the
POINT against which the blow will be
struck, Paris believing that the Ger
mans will continue their thrust to-
ward the capital either by a contin-
ooaauon of the fighting west of the
use, or new assault farther south
toward the Marine.
~ London, however, believes that the
GERMAN drives along the Aisne and