Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-02
1t Is Up to America

There is no use disguising the fact that the news from the battle front Is bad. Very bad Since March 2l, of this year, the Ger man armies have made three offensives and driven wedges ten and twenty miles deep into the allied lines, and what Is more, have held all their gains. They seem to be able to gain ten miles at time at will. They can make troop concentrations at a certain point without the knowledge of the allied fliers and then hurl overwhelming masses against thinly held lines and take thousands of prisoners and many guns and much war plunder Then, when the momentum of the rush is gone, the allies gather men and hold them
 But the fact remains that the Prussians have the edge on the French and British so far during the 1918 campaign. They seem to have the jump on them, to use a slang expression, and they are keeping them guessing and fighting against heavy odds all the time In the long run this kind of campaign will be a losing game for the allies They have lost practically all the high ground and vantage points they worked so hard for two years to gain and
 
 Passchendaele ridges, Mt Kemmel, Chemin des Danes, all these are gone. We had thought them impregnable to the Prussians. But they were stormed and taken in a day. And beyond mere local engagements there have been no counter attacks worthy the name. The spring seems to have gone from the allied bow.
 Every one had confidently supposed that the allies could bring up man for man and ern front But this is certainly an error. Either the allies have been out-fought or out-generalled or they are out-numbered and out-gunned There is no other way to account for these large and continued German successes and their immunity from counter blow.
 And yet it Is pretty certain that Foch has more than a million English and certainly two million French and half-million Americans and quarter of million ltali- ans in his armies in France But he can not hold his lines no matter how vital they are or how well defended by nature and by guns and entrenchments. In every big battle this year he has been outnumbered the first three days by four and ten to one.
 Of course, Foch may have a counter blow planned that will dumfound the world He may well be saving reserves of mil lion for the time and the place. But in the meantime the tide of battle sways against us. We had just as well face this fact The situation is grave in France Upon its face at this time it would seem that the allies are only counting time for the arrival of America.
 We must not only put two million men or more in France, but we must give the punch to the allied war machine. A real looking and hoping for now If the Ger mans can mass million men at certain point and smash through, why can not the allies do this same thing? Have they the million? No one knows for certain.
 But there is one thing that every one who Is following the war closely these days does know, and that Is that America must strain every nerve to send every man and gun and shell to France as fast as she can. They are needed there. Every day of battle brings the fact out stronger and presents it to us with more direct and terrible earnestness
 And yet, this column still pins its faith to Foch as the master strategist and daring fighter who will yet turn this tide back to- wards Berlin before the autumn leaves drift down upon the last of our hopes for one smashing victory this year.
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