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their own supplies, and he would
have them cooped up between his
own main force and the Channel,
with no opportunity to retreat.
1t would be a great decision, an
overwhelming victory. 1t is to OBJ
tain such a decision that the Ger
man is risking everything. This is
what explains the continued, quite
unexampled losses to which he is
subjecting his remaining forces.
This is what explains his having
already thrown into single re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

stricted battle area a half of his
divisional force upon the West, and
his evident determination to con-
tinue feeding that murderous mill
with everything he can bring up
from the remainder of his line
short of leaving it hopelessly weak,
although he has already put in all
the best of his fighting material.
1t is quite clear that such
policy has for it's alternative, in
case of failure, complete failure.
The German is acting thus with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
The Reasons for
the Great Rush

If we put ourselves in the
enemy's shoes and ask why, in his
desire to obtain an immediate re-
suit, he is clearly preparing to risk
something like double even the
enormous losses already involved
in his first great rush, and why he
is thus stalking the whole of his
future upon one issue in so brief
space of time and at so enormous
but deliberately calculated-a
cost in life, we can answer that
question by looking as he does at
the map of Northern France.
The British armies hold the line
that runs up from just south of
the Somme at a point upon that
river about fifteen miles up from
Amiens and passes before Lille,
covering the ruins of Ypres and
running along the Passchendaele
Ridge to the North Sea. Their COM
munications with the French army.
and therefore the structure of the
whole Allied line, have depended
since October, 1914, upon the rail
way system whose main artery
runs from Calais to Boulogne
through Amiens to Paris. That
main artery is already seriously
threatened by the German advance
south of Amiens, but for the time
being at>least, and until the Ger
man advance has been pushed con-
siderably further, it can be sup
(plemented by the railway line
which runs from Amiens through
Beauvais and so south. In the
meanwhile there is the important
line of supply through Abbeville
and connecting all the ports along
the Channel with the depots in the
Seine Valley.
Now, If the enemy were at once
to break in between the French
and the British line north Of Mont
didier and occupy Amiens, he
would not only have his opponents
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Amiiens Drive
Is Held Up

The great German attacks
aimed at Amiens, which marked
the second phase of the battle and
which have reached what is ap-
parently temporary lull, have not
appreciably changed the situation
from what it was when | last
wrote. With great losses of men the
Germans have succeeded in push
ing out new bulge or crescent, Of
Which the height is about a quarter
OF the breadth, which is something
like three miles wide at its deepest
point and about twelve miles at the
oase, the advance tapering to a
point on both sides. The link be-
tween the British and the French
forces still stands unbroken.
The comparison is obvious be-
tween the earlier German success
and this very slight advance,
eaected by the German armies at
tremendous cost and in a space
Oh time almost equal to that which
gave the enemy the whole original
great triangle Of ground between
Tue battle line where it stood on
march Il and where it is to-day.
ms obvious comparison creates
mat effect to which General Foch
Alluded in his~address to the jour-
nalists Of Paris when he said that
he German advance had been ar
rested and was capable now Of only
very slight, local and diminish
lng progress.
Measured merely upon the map,
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and Noyon, a flank standing at
right angles to the main front be-
tween Arras and Montdidier.
This perilous flank had been pro-
duced by the action of the French
General Fayolle in coming up to the
Montdidier- Noyon line just in time
to hold the heights to the south of
Noyon and by his shepherding the
enemy westward and preventing
him from getting at once both pro-
lection and elbow room along the
Disc River toward the south.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Time the Vital Factor in the
Germans Great Gamble


the deliberate intention of winning
the great war here and now or of
accepting complete defeat as in
evitable. It is probable, indeed it
is almost certain, that so critical
decision as his determination to
risk his tremendous gamble was
taken largely on account Of the in
creaslng pressure of the blockade,
and, paradoxical as it sounds, on
account of the fact that the end of
his resources in men was coming
in sight.
This is the sort of last throw
which you can parallel with many
other cases up and down the rec
ords of history. You can parallel
it with the campaign of Waterloo.
tor instance, which began by par
tial separation between Yelling
toms force and Bluecher's, by the
great victory of Ligny, and Napo-
Icons rapid advance to his final
positions on Mont st. Jean. where
the final decision was given against
him.
The situation can be paralleled
on a smaller scale at Blenheim,
where Marlborough and Prince
Eugene suffered specially heavy
losses to their own forces so that
they could break through their op-
ponents' line at the point of the
juncture between the French and
the Bavarians. They failed to do
so at first-as the Germans have
so far failed here-but they con-
tlnued their gamble, and before
the battle Of Blenheim was over
they did break through and got
their decision.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
Definite Decision
One Way or the Other

Both these historical parallels
1.-TWO only out of many that might
be chosen) show cases where
everything was risked by the at
tack, and once the German policy
in this great offensive was clear
any onlooker could Judge that it
might result in a definite decision
one way or the other. 1t does not
follow that if the German effort
fails there will be an immediate
breakdown on their side, for this
enormous modern thing is not a
tactical action Of few miles only
and Of few hours, as was the case
IN the old battles; it is strategi-
cal work of millions acting over
weeks. But the principle is the
same. 1t is the principle of the Of
fensive which burns it's boats and
which must win or lose for good.
If the enemy fails to effect the
rupture between the British and
the French for which he is paying
such a terrific price, he has before
him all the increase in numbers
represented by the remaining AL
lied reserves, all the immensely
larger increase in numbers repre-
sented by the coming American
contingents, and a period of the
blockade which will be the worst
he has yet experienced, all coming
on top of more than three years of
suffering and eliminating in this
tremendous strain. That is why
he thinks it sound policy to risk all
now.
To take up the detail of the sit
uation on the field, the DEVELOPMENT
in a great battle during the first
week in April has been this:
The enemy had found by Easter
Monday that increasing resistance
which created what General Foch
called dam" checking his gen.
eral advance. BY that time the
Germans had occupied the great
triangle the base of which was
their original line from La Fere
through st. Quentin to the neigh
borhood of Arras and the two
other sides Of which run from Ar
ras to Montdidier and from Mont
didier through Noyon to La Fere.
In this advance the enemy had, as
was shown in my last article, left
open a perilous flank of more than
twenty miles between Montdidier
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
THIS week has been marked
by the shifting of the enemy's

"HIS week has been marked
by the shifting of the enemy's
Il attack from the Amiens
salient to Flanders, where he has
launched tremendous blow which
obviously has for its object the
CAPTURE of the Messines Ridge.
This new attack in its largest
aspect is intended to press back
the British at q point far from
the main Amiens front, compell-
ing a distant and difficult move
ment of troops, and to shake the
whole system of the British de-
fence by a movement which must
be made over the long exterior
lines, while the Germans work on
interior lines. Their losses here are
from twice to thrice those of the
defenders, precisely as they have
been in the much larger southern
battle, and as in that case, the Ger
man CANDLES on success before
these enormous losses exhaust him.
If he captures Messines Ridge,
the,enemy hopes to force back this
whole front; to compel the evacua-
ton of the Ypres salient, to re-
capture the Passchendaele Ridge
and ultimately to uncover Dunkirk.
The Messines Ridge being very
difficult to take directly, he has
tried to turn it from the south.
In this effort he has forced his
way over the Lys River, taking
Ploegsteert Woods, getting around
the south of Messines Ridge, and
compelling the evacuation Of Ar
mentieres, which lies south ofs it.
At the same time he has fought
hard to seize the top of the ridge,
but has been thrown off in spite
of having occupied it at times. If
he obtains it, the first part Of his
programme will be achieved.
But in the meanwhile his left
flank becomes more and more dan
gerous, for here the little river
Lave, which comes into the Lys
at right angles from the south, is
held by the British, and the Ger
man has been twice thrown back
across it by Lancashire troops,
who still hold the high ground
to the corner at Givenchy. This
at the moment Of writing is his
chief embarrassment. If he fails
to hold the Messines Ridge or the
heights to the south, his advance
cannot continue. If he can secure
his flank firmly both on Messines
Ridge and to the south, then he
can continue to press forward.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14
His Advance Cost
Him 300, 900 Men

1 HIS advance NOSt
Him 100000 Men
The enemy had by the time he
was checked lost some 100000 men.
Many of these would, it is true. re-
turn in the course of several
months discharged from hospital.
but for such rapid and immensely
expensive experiment as this, in
which the German high command
has staked everything upon an i'm
mediate success, his total losses for
the moment must be counted out as
definitive in this situation. Had he
ample time before him, were the
war in its earlier phase, were his
eXhaustion-and, for that matter,
that Of his opponents-less grave,
he might have decided first to es-
tablish and consolidate in the
strongest possible way his threat
ened southern flank, merely hold
ing on for the time being along the
main front. against which his chief
effort would still remain, his object
being, of course, the creation of 4
rupture between the British and
the French armies.
But since none of these things
were true. since he had no time for
the development of a slow and safe
policy, he decided to continue the
great expenditure of men which is
necessary if he is to follow un-
checked the immediate policy pre-
vlously determined on he decided,
II it were possible. to effect an i'm
mediate gap between the two allies
by the perpetual use of new ma
terlal and the deliberate acceptance
OF new and enormous losses.
The eight days which form the
second phase of the great battle
were therefore filled with a re-
newed and most determined thrust
upon that critical sector where the
French and British join hands in
front Of Amiens, south of the
Somme and north of Montdidier.
There has been plenty Of heavy
fighting during this period along
every part Of the line which, like
this. is susceptible to attack, but
the number Of men used here is out
OF all proportion to any German
concentration elsewhere on the bat
tlefront. By this weight and this
expense in losses (his numbers here
are about double those Of the de-
fensive troops in this particular
sector and his losses have been at
least three times theirs) he
achieved a certain result, but that
result still leaves a decision quite
unsettled so far as victory in the
great battle is concerned.
The blows upon this front gave
him, first, the establishment of his
line upon the heights to the left of
the valley of the Avre; second, the
town Of Moreuil and the marshy
angle between the little stream of
the Luce and the Avre. They put
him nearer the very important city
of Amiens by about 5000 yards,
and they also brought him within
three miles of the great main rail-
way line uniting Amiens to Paris.
The German effort closed for the
time being in the night between
Thursday and Friday, the 4th and
9Th of April. 1t was not renewed
on Friday or Saturday, but dis
patches as write indicate that the
Germans are again preparing an ef-
fort at this point which NAV be-
even greater than the previous
ones.
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mpu %
Ch fore hugA a.an he he line dhe gAe British
I. Ma dn Her a
OF ''0"
,1 n&
d lace Of where h n attack
cMdh
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Advance Limited While british
Armies Hold Flanks
By HILAIRE BELLOC

of elements of the Great War; Btains Most Dinbe
Military
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-28
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
SURE OF DELEGATES
Hot Griddlc Cakes aud Pics VIII he
Served in Abundance in
Trenches.
BOYS HAVE PLENTY OF MILK
Real Wheat Flour VIII BE Used,
While Sirup and Sugar Will BE
Amplc-Salmon for Salud-Other
Goodies Furnished

WASHINGTON, October -. Tina.
the american soldiers are we'll fed ST.
iar as me SubStantials are concerned
always has been accepted as a fact
The serving of dclicacies--tasty dishes
in the battle zone, however. has not
seemed practical TO laymen unfamiliar
with the inner workings Of the quar-
opener:
Hot cakes In the trencb.. c,,,o
ana pics in abundance. And il is :,
TACT too. -Four million gallons OF
sirup have just been purchased by the
Subsistence division for the troops
cent production BY the sriddie artists
and the doughboys will not have &c
80 shy on the sweetenings.
The i3nkS are going TO have plentS
OF mix toso in their coffee also. More
IMAM slfoo.oO0 worth OF cvnporat q,
/ miik has been purchased exclusively
Is expected TO last ono mouth. Add
tional supplies Will be obtained in the
meantime
The cakes-sriddle and layer-and
pies :or Pershing's warriors will hav
II on AL Of ue home stuff. They vi!
be made out OF real wheat hour: For
This month and the month OF Novem
Der 100000 pounds .23J,1o6 barrels
II Hour has been bought. Thirty mil
ron bounds OF this ri.l 80 10 the
The subs lstence division has arranged
with the food administration 10 pay
ior the Hour by sight draft. This On
ahies mlllers TO bid more freely Tor
government business and heips IN
army buy nou" At Il low price
Although ample quantities or sugar
Sr.,; reg uiariy shipped overseas. sjruu
VIII be used TO Il large extent in tile
baking o: pies and cakes
Salmon salad also Is destined TO be
a popu!a" dish III the Way lhea;ers th
winter More Than 10000. 900 cans
one years supply for the ariuy-la J
Just been contracted for. Eighty pei
cent "' this viii he uStd by the over.
seas forces. sixteen ounces Of salmou
are equivalent 20 twenty ounces o.
hetf. the army dictltiaMs estimate. and
CONCENTRATION q: the product makes
trench warfare.
The only danger that the Yunkss vii
hot ENJOY bountifu. daily repasts this
winter seems 10 rest Ia the fact that
theE may bc chasing the Germans So
i"sl that the automobile Kitchens can
sol Keep up with the.n
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-28
KISS LASTED FIVE MILES
Wan Who 1, Alleged Ia Have Given
IL being Sued ia
Divorce

NEW YORK. October a1-A uve
mile KISS figures among the alterations
IN :. divorce seton nied yesterday i'm
Inc supreme Court by Mrs. HAITI. r..
io!npkiHs *Eatrst states u. Tonipi, ius.
president Of Miller To:npk ms x 90
manufacturers OF paper bags
Mrs. TUmpkius accuses her nus Band
pi!'s, wife Of "A brooklyn dentist Touru-
kiha admits having given costly pres
ents 10 Mrs. blllS, but says il Was
WIN the knowIedge and consent Of her
husband
The hre-mile kiss was revealed in
the testimony Of AIRS. Eurt u. liar.
rinston' who declared that Tonpkius
kept his lips pressed gainst those OF
AIRS. DIS during AN automobile ride
from GeuneN Farms Hotel to the
lompiiuh summer estate. Mrs. Har-
rinSton SAID she was ashamed and
sorry Tor both Of them.
Toinpkins denied his wife's al!ega-
tons OF impropr;ety.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-28
GOMPERS MEETS REBUFF
Soeis1ists OF Milan Refuse 10 Meet
American Federation OF Labor
President.
iBy Associated Press. !

NEW YORK, October 21.-Frauk T.
Walsh. wno with William Howard Ta:t,
- joint chairman OF the War Labor
Board. viii act chairman OF tho
national nassmectins to be held in
Chicago Auditorium on November
by the American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy, in honor Of the return OF
samuel Gompcrs from abroad. II Wa
announced from ,thc headquarters -
the alliance here Yesterday. Repre-
ScntatireS OF ih!.t%-S;% states have
ahead: accepted invitations 10 the re-
ccptiOu.
Details OF how Mr. GoInpcrs met hts
sole rebuff during his "trip at the hands
of the Socialist labor group at Milan
were received last night in cable
gram TO The American Alliance for
Labo" and Democracy FROM It's repre-
sentative In lta!:.
According TO The telegram, Mr. Com
pers mad met al. groups in italy save
the NiiGrese group and sent i mes
sage to Milan announcing his desire 70
meet them. lie received reply
through the Federation o; Labor. stat
ING tina, the Milanese group felt tina.
further poiitica! discussion Was l,npos
sib!e because OF statements liz. Com
concerning the emigration question"
and was obliged - decline The invi
t4;lon
Mr. Gompers, The cublegran said. de.
c!a!ed that their attitude proved that
Inc general Federation Of Labor in
Italy is nor an expression OF free in
dcpendea, thought. Tor. with The Avauti.
At l. nothing tut an y3aniG3tion ut
SrF.s'
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-28

into mine planters. y mine charging
pant. with capacity OF 1000 mines
4 day. was built. .\brosd mine dcpo;s
were fitted out for the assembly OF
mines and thcii' issuance TO the mino
planters Tho navy took over fleet
OF twenty merchant vessels to trans
port the material ovcrSeas. Shipments
OF mines and material started across
II: February, 1918
In the meantime Captain Q. G. Muir
I'm was abroad in correction with the
task o; fitting mine bases on shore.
Since February there has been con-
slant flow or shipments. and only ono
vesse! carrying mine material has been
sunk by submarine.
Rear-Admral Strauss was placed IN
commend OF the mine force. lie sail
ed in April. lie was followed by the
mine planters. under Captain Bclknap
They reached their base OF operations
on May % last.
"Since that time" Secretary Danielss
announcements adds. many mics OF
mines have been planted. and the
American inirc layers. working in con-
junction aud close cooperation with
the british, have made Il vast area inn
p'ncticabic for enemy submarines"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-28
ONLY DOCTOR IN DISTRICT
STRICKEN WITH INFLUENZA
situation in Lynchburg Improving,
According to Figures From the
Health Department.
DANVlLIE MAN Is NAMED
DANvILLE MAN is NAMED
Placed i'm Command OF Torpedo
Boat Destroyer Hobson-News
Notes Gathered From Various
Other Points in State OF Virginia.

LINCHECRG, Va. October 81
While the deaths o~ntinue TO run about
seven in each twcnty-four hours. the
inhuenza situation here continues 10
snow a steady decline. though there are
sun about 100 persons III in the city
OF pneumonia. The deaths for the
twenty-four hours preceding this re-
port numbered nine. bringing the total
IN The city and it's suburbs up to 245.
~ these. l9i have been inside the city
Arrangements have been made for
INC reopening Of the Nirg inia Episcopa!
school for Boys November ), this hay
ING been the only school TO close be-
cause OF tho epidemic. The other col
icGes sim remain in strict quarantine.
In Madison Heights. an Amherst
county suburb. the epidemic has been
very severe this week, and DR.. George
T. Harris. the only physician living in
that section. is now confined TO his
ped with II mild attack. There have
benn number Of deaths there recently.
The Presbyterian Orphanage now
seems 10 he practically over the
trouble. which for u time was compli-
Gated with several cases Of scarlet
ieNer. There has been but one death
among about 500 children who live in
inc three orDhanageS here
me latest death list includes: Mis-.
i:cha Cleveland Mise, George Wells w
W. Johnson. Miss Lula Berry. Bertha
ATS, Hammer Stinson. Mrs. Florence
~" COLEMAN. Lucinda l.. coles ana
iicnry Marsh.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-28
STUDY VARIOUS DEVICES
AND OVERCOME OBSTACLES

Afte: studying various devices such
as nets. mines and bombs in combina-
Ion with nets and mines alone. il was
concluded that the latter method Of
10 be overcome were the tlifiicuities OF
mining ~ such great depth OF wate!
ana the immense number Of mines re-
CURED
u developed also that no existing
type OIL mine would answer the pur-
pos. Thereupon. Commander FulIjn-
WNiaer, OF ne ntntng section OF the
h hg% ,yp sn m 6hey called ~ Ralph
May. 1917, had submitted an eleetrlcni
firing device. BY June 8, 1917, the
Mavat experts and the inventor had
uoIinistea model apparatus, witch
"P Tina nv gave neg gratifying results,
mine, with -he improved firing device
o. browne. was evolved, the suucass Of
which as shown by subsequent actual
service surpassed all eYpsctuttons.
tentative plans FOR North sea I'm.
derwater barrase We're submitted to
Admiral Benson, chief of naval opera
t!oas, On june - 1917. On July 20 the
Getat!s or the project. after approval
the British Admiralty by Admiral Muyo
Tie plan, with some inodifica lions, was
accepted by the British authorities, and
the ordnsnce burSeu was ordered to go
ahead with the production OF the mines.
ilme was the major cons Iteration.
lhe eSpedien' was adopted or subdi-
Tiding the mine into its many clements
and having the separate parts manu-
featured IN different commercial plants
Most OF this work was done In Amcri,
can automobile plants
~ number OF ships were converted
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-28
MINIATURE: tIN,SA,
AUSTRIANS ACT LIKE HUNS
Escaped Italian Prisoner, Toll -, H.,
human trmcltI~s In Prison
By \ .ociatcd Press.l

WASHiNGTON. October ...-oric;aI
uispatcheS from Rome describiu. the
cruc! trentment accorded Italian soI.
uiers in Austrian prison camps as re
Ntaied by Two escaped officers who havS
Just reached the Italian lines III AL
han!a. were last night made uuhiio hy
The Italian embassy.
~ Camp Siemund Sncrberg. from
EhlEh i!tutcEants Niucen2u ESnInu and
!i!il IIn'e!!o escaped after being
coi!iinGd there since their capture last
year. the prisoners are naked from lack
81 clothes ana lave been reduced 10
skeletons owing to insufficient food
The escaped officers told OF seeing
one Italian prisoner bayoueted he
cause he did not return quickly enough
10 his cell from rations