The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-08-22
LIE ALLIE 40 EoRwApn

THE ALLIES co FORWARD.
With splendid spirit the French and British armies
strike the enemy The Germans yesterday felt the asl
in two saents and yielded three or four miles Of GROUND
and many prisoners to both French and British forces
The enemy confronting the British forces were said Il
be Owspirted yielding almost mechanically strategic
retreat-while those opposing the French showed fight
and had to be beaten into surrender It is all one how
ever to the wonderful French and British machines now
that substantial equality Of numbers has been reached
Whethe the enermy surrenders on demand or whether
ne must be stunned into surrender the work goes for
ward without ceasng
The German line must be withdrawn. II is not in the
capacity OF flesh and blood to endure the punishment
that is now being inflicted upon the Germans They
have lost all they sought this spring They have been
outfOught Outgeneraled, and outgunned Their only
path is backward, and it is picketed with DEATH The
ferocious Fench Onsaughts take heavy toll every day
now here, now there If tits not Gen. Mangin who ays
the bOche' it is Gen. GOuraud and if it Is not GOuraud
is some other keenly Efficient merciessy determined
commander who handles his men as a surgeon handles
Ia scapel Them farther north the British generals use
their forces like resstless rams baerng down the en-
envy works and riding roughshod over his distractions
The British and colonial troops go to the fight as gayy
as to football match and regard it as the finest sport
in the world.
Mingled with the French and British troops are Amer
leans, constantly increasing in numbers Wherever their
flag it stays and the land under srecovered to
he fac u1Vy In &Lo
Rhine and Berlin. is appearing at many points along
the front 1t to give new life to the French coors
and the Union Jack
The boys at the front-French British, American and
al-are joyous, perfectly happy, and eager for the
glorious tomorrows that will answer so many questions
of is horrible crime if it is in bad cause but the
destruction of the hordes that assai mankind is blessed
task Every stroke brought down upon their heads is
stroke for the liberation of mankind from bondage,
stroke for the protection Of women and children and
stroke for truth.
No wonder the gallant lads in the allied armies leap
into the fray and themselves unfortunate if they
do not to close quarters with the enemy! One of
the young American officers lieutenant who suddenly
found himself in command of battalion wrote that he
was too busy to make many notches his gun in per-
sonal fight but that he managed to do little work in
that line before the day was over The remarked that
the enemy seemed to have experience with armies
making individual rife targets of enemy troops "The
enemy out into the open against us, wrote this
young officer land the way the boys laid them out was
good for the eyesight."
1t is not the killing Of individual Germans that arouses
fierce JOY in allied countries although there need be no
hypocrtica denial of the satisfaction that comes from
the squang of accounts for ourages that make the per-
petrators legitimate food for destruction The joy
from the thought that every dead German represents
mnutiOn of the total force arrayed against the world
Until the German military system is so weakened that
It's collapse will be FASTENED from Within the killing Of
Germans is the only process of disabling it. There
FORE the world reoices in the destruction that enables
honor and liberty to maintain themselves
among men.-Washington Post