The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-09
z.z:Iz:z:}dde9Ak.&6 = k&as32r s; AZ, rMoaes
y ENERAL FOCH apparently is
l ready TO keep the German so busy
- durinu the balance ni the fighting

!" ENERAL FOCH apparently Is
ready TO keep the German so busy
during the balance Of the fighting
season OF 1918 that the adversary will
have little opportunity to organize the
attack with which he was expected to
strive for local success at the end OF
the campaign for advertising purposes
preparatory 10 putting his peace goods
on the market
There is a direct connection between
the pause on the Vesle and the new at
tack of the Franco British forces
against a twenty-five mile front astride
the Sommc between Albert and Mont
didier.
The Marine wedge is wiped out and
the allies have been held since Sunday
in their positions near the Veslc, save
for a vitsliive-milc base around FiSmes
on the north side OF the river, which
we will discuss tomorrow.
All the cannon the Germans saved
out OF the sevcnty-fiye mile loop OF
July l8 are now established on the
thirty line as it has been short
encd. These big guns can be emplaced
behind the Chemin dcs DANES which
is considered the logical final line in
this sector, and from those remote po-
Stions batter the allies on the Vesle.
Thus minimum OF troops will be nee
| cSSary TO hold Foch 10 the Chemn deS
| Danes position and now the main force
OF the dlSorRanizcd army OF the crown
prince is in the process OF rcjuvenation.
So General Foch turns loose Sir
~
| French army group on his right from
Montdidier to the Luce. and engages
Hutier'S great mass in the peak and
forefront OF the loop toward Amicns, in
the nose Of the great Pcardy salient
By nightfall Thursday the British
had advanced more than five miles east
OF Nillers Bretonncauy to Harbonners.
At that point the attack is in the deep
est. II has so involved the German po-
sitions at this early time that the elimi-
! nation Of the arc jutting out toward
Amiens now seems assured. A line
drawn straight north through Mont
didicr would hit Haig's advancing
forces at point beyond which the
TONNES have already advanced four
mikes
A turning movement southwark by
"Rawley's' armies, if il met with the
success OF yesterdays surprise attack,
would force the immediate withdrawal
OF Hutier's corps which are holding the
French to much smaller gains than the
British have registered Such a retire
ment would be necessary to avoid the
capture OF considerable forces.
The looping off OF the Montdider
corner will free the Paris Amiens front
still further and will nullify the fourth
phase Of the German offensive. June @
which won the heights of LasSigny and
went TO the Matt above Compiegne, if
the offensive is pressed
Yesterdays attack has completed the
freeing of the Paris-Amiens railroad
from gunfire.
This area is in the sector of the
crown prince of Bavaria, who has held
his advanced positions lightly for sew
eral weeks while he trained and Jug
gled his big reserve from twenty to
thirty miles back OF the front lines.
Given the surprise element. which was
complete in this instance owing TO the
sloppy field and rainy weather, the
early gains were bound to be big.