Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-26
End of tue War

Only yesterday a well known Cochise county citizen, and one who is in more than ordinary close touch with war activi- ties, remarked to the editor of this column, We've got em going now, and it won't be long till the end. How i'll founded this optimism really Is may be seen from study of our last success on the Soissons- Rheims line The last German attack was delivered with only half strength and we stopped it to the right of Rheims, but 1t broke through on the left and crossed the Marne and gained six miles before we checked 1t with a counter stroke south ot Soissons Now in this counter stroke we gained fine success the first day and reached point where we imperiled a large German army down in the Chateau hierry salient But we could not, with all our might and main, get far enough to make our gains really count. The Hun brought up reserves by the hundreds of thousands and held his line Is still holding his dangerous salient He has still half mil lion of reserves not yet touched that he may well launch in another attack some where along the line The fact is, we seem to have weathered the 1918 storm. Rein forcements from America and fine general ship and fighting spirit have reduced our peril to the minimum. We have even gained slight successes. But to conclude that we have the Prussia going Is to in dulge in folly We have not yet started on that colossal task.
 As General March said the other day, we hope to make a real drive before the end of the year.
 A study of the foreign dispatches dis closes the fact that the Germans have never fought better than they are fighting now. In spite of their reverses south of Soissons and their heavy losses they are holding the line with their old stubborness and desper- ation. The Americans, young and strong and fresh and filled with fiery energy and plenty of good food, are fighting like tigers; the French, cheered by the coming of fresh levies, are fighting better than ever before. But these attacking tigers must struggle tor every foot of ground and earn every trench.
 Consider the case of the village ot Epides, a few miles north and east of Chateau Thierry It was reported taken and passed three days ago, and yesterday morning the dispatches said that the Amer jeans had just taken it for the third time, which means that they have lost it twice, If the German morale Is low 1t Is not evi- dent in the allied accounts of the recent battles all the way from Soissons to Rheims.
 Major Douglas declared in his Bisbee speech that no news comes out of Germany except that which the German general staff desires us to know. and that only by over whelming force of arms can we beat the Hun. We may well have to fight bitterly every yard of the way to the Rhine And then again, there is always the possibility of a sudden German collapse. But there have been no signs of even failing morale on the western front up to date.
 Let us look the situation squarely in the face. Foch's recent offensive was sue cess only insofar as it relieved the pressure where the Germans had broken through south of the Marne In fact, 1t enabled our troops to reconquer most of the ground lost. But as a blow against the German armies or the taking of ground that would force a withdrawal, or as a Pincers move ment, it has so far failed of success. A harder blow, and one longer sustained and carrying more power in men and guns be- hind it will be required to even beat the Germans back from their deep salients in the allied lines
 The end of the war is longer than year distant at the very least Blood will flow in rivers before the allies cross the river Pb;,a RI TT or1oiino aoain from Major