Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-10
LLIESNOW FACE
HEAVY GUNFRE
German Artillery, in Posi-
ton at Last, Rroars in
! Great Volume
TRUST TO FOCH GENIUS
French Certain Leader Will
Continue to Smash Strongest
Enemy Positions
TRUST TO FOCH GENIUS
Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger

Special Cable to Evening Public Ledger
i rCopvrioht, 1918, by Ncn York Times co.
Paris, Sept. 10.
German artillery has begun to react
to a marked extent along the whole
line of the front from east of Arras
to west of Rheims. The enemy guns
are giving voice, it is reported, in
greater volume than they had done
for several weeks past.
This Is regarded here as an indca.
tion that the enemy has succeeded to
some extent in overcoming the ter.
rible disorder into which his seven re.
treating armies had been thrown by
the steady and relentless pressure of
the French and British, and has man.
aged to get into position II substantial
number of heavy guns which he was
able to extricate from the danger
zone in the earlier days of his re.
treat. Another reason for this evidence
of increased resistance on the part of
the enemy is of course The fact that
the Allied armies have now rot well
within range of the heavy artillery
which has been in position for many
months behind the H,ndenburg lire
for the express purpose Of resisting
exactly the kind of attack which now
threatens.
The fun development of Foch's finely
articulated strategic plans is not at
all likely to be checked by this re.
crudescence of the enemy's artillery
Paris is confident that this increase OF
resistance by the enemy has been
fully anticipated by the great soldier
to whom the Allies have intrusted
their joint fortunes, and that when
what Foch foresees becomes an ac.
complished fact, the moment has ar.
rived for him to take advantage of
exactly the opportunity he has been
waiting for.
A grand frontal attack on the Hin.
denburg line would inevitably prove
enormously costly, and experts are
agreed that it would be entirely un.
necessary in view of all the other fac.
tors Of the situation. The Hindenburg
line, it is believed, can be eliminated
by the methods which have been
utilized with such success score of
times during the present operations
Nothing has shown better the high
degree of development which the
Allied fighting brains have now at.
tanned than the skillful manner in
which all the knotty problems that
faced them during the fighting which
has been going on since July is have
been tackled. The bull.at-a-game
methods favored by the Germans
which cost both the British and
French so heavily when used by them
in the earlier part of the war, have
been abandoned for much finer tactics
Not one of the many great German
csnters Of resistance which have beer
reduced during Foch's big defensive
offensive has been overcome by the
direct method Of attack which would
have been used three years ago.
The method Of enveloping the
centers of resistance from each side
proved far more efficient in results
and has resulted in such enormous
Aconomy of man-power that the con
tinued high offensive power Of the
Allied armies is now a battling
mystery to the enemy.
A striking instance of the Superiority
of the present Allied methods is giver
in the case Of the reduction Of Roye
One division of Debeney's army whicl
\ took part in that feat advanced be
tween six and seven miles in a single
day. and captured 1000 prisoners ant
seventy guns at a total cost of eighty
seven killed and $50 wounded, half o
the latter being so slightly injured
that they have already returned to tn
ranks.