Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-05
Monday. August S, 1918.
The Hun Humping Homeward


When The foe is retreating ten
miles a day and our forces have bay
onets in enemy backs and are fore
irz the pace, il is difficult for mill
tary writers 70 keep up a connected
analvsi- ot war events. The reviewer
one day behind IL distanced, and one
week i, the wake CT events is back
nur,5er Even Frank Smonds' sun
tay reviews have musty smell IN
TIE setting smoke Of battle that
RAJ decisiveIy moved.
"Beyo-d the Vesle" was the Hun
Cop. 3. saturday; while on sunday
I, uas beyond the Aisne," with
great many u him indeed beyond
tho roii'
IT. retreat anG stubborn rear
guard resistance Of week ago has
become ar almost undefended ske-
daddle on the part OF the boches-
Tire most RAPID progress Of he al
LED advance Since tae counler-at-
t-cA began On July Is, was made on
sa.urday French. Brush. Ameri-
cans and Italians fairly jog-trotte1
over the ground that the Germans
had Won at such bloody cost IN their
drive southwest
VIII n further hope II use for
ANYTHING in the territory they are
l.av.ny 60 hurriedly the Germans are
burning every village and destroy
ing al their own abandoned equip
inert WREN time leaves II possible.
pu, urc is sweeter than loot. even
n Hun. and he is obliged TO run
ror il. leaving great stores Of NUM-
,ions and supplies 0, all kinds.
About The heaviest resistance Of
tered The allies in the So hours end
ing Sunday. was the roads and by
rays choked with German dead and
pied Up Equipment. some intact but
larrely ruined.
tn. scissors Rheims pocket
ttat cost the German army nundreds
r, thousands Of electives in The max
INK and more in the unmaking.
ia thing II the past. The entire sa-
lent i. wiped out by allied dash.
German Reorganization and weak
ness is hard TO understand. The sud-
den giving way was unexpected. The
.~.~. IL diricult to estimate. Experts
il Paris. London and Washington
arc ha-,ily revising their supposi-
ton. Perhaps even the plans OF
Cen Foch may have been wholly
changed by the events. and the evil
denc. revealed. Of 48 hours.
can the Germans make any sort
., stand north ~ the Aisne' Can
,rov. in the moment Of rout OF the
rrour princes army. attempt tc
strike elsewhere or. will not Gen
Foch release the British to thu
northvard'
ANYBODY can guess. but before
ones guess travels far 1t may have
been answered by surprising devel
opments
Thus IL becomes our best bet Il
watch and wait and hope. The de
,elopments Of every - hours ar
bully good. nowadays. but let US re
member that Of late we have beer
watching only a comparatively small
section of the western front" W.
must not expect too much OF m
great allied victory where German
hoped for triumph supreme. Mucl
depends upon the moral influence o
this reverse on armies and people @
the central allies. They are demon
allied for the moment. as We are
triumphant and confident. but the!
are still mighty force.
Great Britain observes the ami
versary Of her entry TO the confiic
hy day Of prayer. The hopes an
confidence II the British people ar
hish. but they are wasting no ener
cies in rejoicing over the CROWN
victory of the Marine. They. and "
with them. should count only u
victories that arc safely Matched
while furnishing a steady heat IN
r,orc eggs for the incubator OF &c,
Frch