Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-06-13
PLAYS
Deep GAME
With ENEMY
Washington Observers Believe
Allied Commando. r.in-Chief
Ultimately Mil Turn Ia
bIes on Hun General.

Washington, June l2.-Announce-
ment by tie Prussian war minister to
the Reichstag that "the so-called Foch
reserve army no longer exists" is re-
garded by officials here as designed
to encourage the German population
If Won Stein intended to convey the
impression that the allied reserve
power had been exhausted from the
German assault, the actual situation
at the front stands as fiat contra
diction. His words. however, might
mean a wholly different thing. al
though designed to be construed as
the announcement of great victory.
Before the German attack was made
the supreme war council at Versailles
had worked out program for limited
pooling of mobile force of some
$4,000 men composed of 100000
French, 100000 British. 100000 Amer
leans and 100000 Italians which was
to have been mainly to support Of
fensive operations on fronts selected
by the Versailles council.
All Forces Pooled Under Foch.
The organization of this army was
never completed, however. the emer-
gency created by the German offen-
sive causing a wholly new pooling
agreement under which General Foch
became supreme commander. He
now directs the employment of all
active as we'll as reserve armies. No
army now exists which could be
called "the Foch reserve army" be-
cause as supreme commander that
officer has under him all of the forces
facing the German onslaught.
The Prussian war minister's state
ment, however, admittedly touches the
very heart of the problem facing Gem
The fact that although under un-
ceasing attack since March Il, the al
lied and American forces have not
struck back in anything approaching
a major operation Is regarded as con-
elusive proof that the supreme COM
mander. backed by the supreme war
council, is striving by every means i'll
his power to stem the German rush
and exhaust its offensive without de-
pleting his own forces.
Reserves Vital Factor. rJ
If he is successful, and there is now
every confidence both here and
abroad that the battle is half won,
officers here believe he can turn the
tables on the enemy ultimately and
use his reserves to crush German am
bition finally. -
The reserves on both sides are the
vital factors in the titanic game that
is being played out with the allied
supreme commander matching wits
against the German general staff.
Officers here pay high tribute to the
genius of General Foch, because he
has avoided the employment of his
maximum power and has blocked the
road to the channel ports in such
fashion that his antagonists have been
compelled to seek diversion at other
points. 1t is his reserves, standing
ready along the vital sectors of his
line, they say, that forced the enemy
to attempt the movement on the
Aisne front and the later efforts be-
tween Montdidier and Noyon.
Kaiser Sees War Won.
Amsterdam, June l2.-In letter to
the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger from the
battlefield on the Aisne, dated May ~,
Karl Rosner, Emperor Williams ia
vorite correspondent, describes the
emperor as appearing in radiant
health, bronzed and bright-eyed,
receiving a report from General Won
Boehm regarding the storming of
French positions on the Aisne.
Afterwards, says the correspondent,
the emperor assembled to the old camp
Des Romans, from which he viewed
the parforama of the battlefield while
seated at a rough deal table, upon
which were maps and a telephone.
Here he received news Of the passage
Of German battalion across the
Aisne river, upon which the CORE
spondent quotes him as remarking:
'The victory is won; one of the
great victories upon which our strong
future will rest"