Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-28

their armies and force them to make , peace The drive was we'll advertised
 and even the place where it was to be launched was known with compara- ! tive certainty.
 [ On the morning of March q, the ] Germans began their attack from the , vicinity of Arras, on the north, to La
 Fere. on the south. and centering their heaviest columns against the British , forces. under General Cough, at St. , Quentin.
 Staggering before the impact of the blow. the British army fell back rapid , lly. For eight days the Germans pour [ ed through the old Allied line in an effort to crush the British and drive l a wedge between them and the French, , who were holding the lines to the south. Then came a period of reac- ton and the Germans came to a stop. They had driven ahead for thirty-live ] miles, along a front extending more
 than fifty miles before they were halt , ed.
 Hardly had their legions been held
 before Amiens than a new offensive l, was begun in Flanders on April 2. It , swept the British back through Ar , mentierres. but did not break their !. Hines. The British, with the FrenSh
 who were rushed up to the front, stop ped the Germans after they had reach ed the hills southwest of Ypres. There, on April g, the Germans suffered a ; terrible defeat that halted their often ! sive in that quarter.
 Foch in Supreme Command
 In the midst of the drive in the sec
 tor toward Amiens the Allied nations
 took a vitally important step. They named General Ferdinand Foch, hero
 of the first battle of the Marne, gen. eralissimo of the Allied forces on the
 western front. which includes all the line in Italy as we'll as in France. Even the Murman coast. in northern Rrs- lsia. has been held to be under his com
 mand.
 After a period of quiet, the Germans attacked once more, this time on the Aisne river, and in seven days they reached the Marne at Chateau Thierry making a penetration of about twenty eight miles. At the Marne they were lchecked and the impetus of the blow
 was broken.
 With hardly days pause for reor-
 ganization of their forces, the Germahs again attacked, choosing the sector
 between Montdidier and Noyon, on the southern side of the salient driven Into the Allied line during the March
 offensive, as the stage of their on slaueht. This offensive ran for five
 days and was stopped north of Com lpiegne after losses which were des-
 cribed as unprecedented had been in ll flicted upon the Germans.
 From June IA until July 15 the Ger mans were engaged in shifting their forces and then they again struck This time the line of attack was from Chateau Thierry eastward, around to the north of Rheims and then down
 the Vesde river to Prunay and from that village eastward to Massiges. This attack at the close of the year developed into one of the most ambi- tious of the German strOkesl
 | . Gel man forces crossed the Marne over a wide front, but were unable to make ground against American troops near Chateau Thierry and could not
 advance rapidly further east They
 dic, however, forge ahead on the north side of the Marne and between that
 stream and the mountain of Rheims. It appeared for a time that they might
 reach Epernay.
 Then General Foeh struck a counter
 blow. which is still in progress. Amer ican and French troops attacked the Germans between Fontenoy, on the Aisne. west of Soissons and Bellieu, cn the Clignon northwest of Chateau Thierry. So sudden and powerful was
 the blow that the Germans fell back
 rapidly until their reserves could be
 hurried up.
 The rapid advance of the allies, how
 ever, so menaced the German forces
 further south that on July 19 the enc
 my began a retreat across the Marne.
 On Sunday, July 21, French and Amer
 jeans entered Chateau Thierry and pressed on after the retiring Germans. T Since that time the allies have gained
 slowly, but steadily, not cnly south or Soissons, but also north Of the Marne
 and between that river and Rheims. There are indications that a German
 retreat from the salient is now under
 way.
 Italians Stand Firm . On June 15, the Austrians began a
  | The Austrians crossed the Piave, but
 on the west bank met with such stub born resistance that progress was i'm possible Slowly the Austrians were l driven back toward the river. and then
 the Piave. swollen by rains in the mountains. completed the overthrow
 of Austria's hopes After suffering terrible losses the Austrians retreated to the eastern bank of the Piave from
 the MontellO plateau to the Adriatic. Minor Operations D Among the years operations Of com paratively lesser importance were the British drives in Palestine and Meso- potamia; the Turkish advance in the Caucasus; the French and Italian or fensive in Albania, and the fighting m the German African colonies. Jerusalem was captured by the Brit
 ish on December 10. and shortly after
 ward the fall of Jericho was announc- ed. Since the taking of Jericho the British forces in Palestine have not been active on the offensive. e General Maude led the British l trcops into Bagdad on March II, and