The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-10
rDlHlcS STAYS
HUN OFFENSIVE,
! PARIS BELIEVES
New Developments Are Bear
| Factors for MiIitariStS,
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copyright, 1918, by the New York Times
the Chicago Tribune and the Oklahoma
City Times)
PARIS, July o.--It Is believed here
That political and not military reasons
are responsible for the delay which OBJ
viously occurred in regard 10 the re-
sumption Of the German offensive on
the western front. According to in
formation gathered in the usual way
by the allied command, LudendorffS Is
preparations were completed some time
ago and this view is confirmed by an
article which appeared last Tuesday in
the Krupp organ, the Rhenische lie
tung In this article the journals mill
tary critic, Colonel Won der Osten
Sacken, who probably drew his informa-
,ion from inspired sources, stated that
not only was an offensive imminent,
but 1T has perhaps begun"
Something Happened.
II Is evident something exceptionally
serious must have intcryencd and the
belief here is this delay is not uncon-
nected with the prolonged council OF
war in which the kaiser, the German
chancellor, Won Hertling, Hindenburg
and Ludendorff have been holding for
some day, past. Additional weight is
given this opinion by the fact that Won
lKuehlmann has now been hastily sum
moned tosSpa to participate in the de
liberations of the enemy's supreme wal
council. II is felt here that anything
may result at this council.
Two Parties in Grips.
Recent events prove there certainly
are two opposing parties in the enemy
camp. the one bewg the militarist, Pan
Germanist section, headed by Won Hin
denburg and Ludendorff who urges tht
view that it is still possible to compen-
safe German victory by the sword alone
and the other being probably at pres
ent the much less powerful partly rep
resented by Won Kuehlmann and evry
likely Won Herting, who deny the pos
sibility OF victory by force alone.
Remarkable changes in the attitude oI
Scheidemann and his socialist follow
ers, disconccrting revelations in the reaI
state of affairs in Russia including the
startling execution" as French press
terms it, of Won Merbach, Wilson's
Fourth of July speech and the bold
publication OF the fact there are more
than 100000 American soldiers in
France are all significant facts of the
past week Each Of those must be re-
garded as a distinctly bear factor in
the German situation and together they
contribute to the development oi the tu-
ure which the enemy must regard with
increasing doubt
Haven't Great Force.
In any case it is believed here thai
the Germans are no longer able &c
strike with the enormous forces which
we're at their disposal for their frs
drive in March last, while the allieC
Strength has certainly largely increased
since then. French opinion holds th'
German reserves available for th'
pending offensive cannot be more thar
about fifty-fiye divisions, say halt mil
lion bayonets, as compared with eighty
divisions which formed the reserves il
the spring. With such a number
Gcrville Beach points out in the I
Homme Libre, Ludendorff, who ha'
hitherto always attacked with a quar-
ter of his reserves, followed immediate.
ly with another quarter will hardly be
able to attack on a front of more thar
twelve or thirteen miles, which would
he only one quarter the extent of his
Amiens battle front and only half Of
the hattie of the Aisne,