The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-15
PRUSS|AN ARMY IS BACKING OUT OF France
United Press
War Summary

" In0 COunI0E CIIoNSlV0.
Picardy front-The greater portion
Of tho Picardy battle front apparently
has become stabilized and the fight
ing consists largely Of artillery duels
and local Infantry thruets-typFoai
trench warfare. This condition seems
to prevail from tho Son1me southward
to below LassI9ny.
Humbert's turning movement along
tho Oise valley appears to be pro-
crossing slowly, while on tho extreme
Of tho baltic front, In the Anore re-
oIon-the Germans are evidently pro-
pairing for further retirement.
Hag officially announced that Cor
paign now total 3O,344 apparently ex-
elusive Of the 10000 credited to Hum
bert.
Flanders front-oerman artillery
was active last night east Of Robecq
and In the scherpenberp sector.
Enemy raids repulsed near Mervllle.
Champagne front-A German raid
near Marqulsea, east Of Rhelms was
unsuccessful.
Russla-A German sheriff In Wen-
don, LIvon,a, has been assassInated,
according to Riga dispatch.
Germany-VIce Admiral Behenkl
has been appointed minister OF ma
rine succeeding Won Capeile.
One Month Ago Today.
EBy ]. w. T. Mason, United Press War
Expert
NEW YORK. Aug. 15.-One month
ago today, Germany lost the war on
the field of battle when the Amer1-
cans broke the center OF Won Hinden-
burg's fifth offensive and drove the
kaiser's troops back across the Marne,
at Jaulgonne.
This initial use OF American man
power on an extensive scale, COM
PEELED Won Hindenburgs first retire
ment since he started his bloody cam
paign to win the war with decisive
| victory, along the west front. 1t was
! not until three days after the success
| full American counter blow that Mar.
shall Foch ordered general attack
along the Marie salient. The interval
was used to determine whether Won
Hindenburg could recover from the
stunning effects Of his failure to estab-
| lish his line south Of the Marne along
the American 'front.'
| He tried feeply to do 80, but his
strategy had been too seriously inter
rupted by Pershing's men AS soon as
this fact was demonstrated Marshal
Foch realized the initiative had passed
into his own hands. The Americans
put it there and the Americans will
keep it there. This is why Grmany lost
the war at Jaulgonne. !:
Henceforth Won Hfndenburg must
fight on the defensive His conquering
rush can no longer inspire him with
hopes of victory this year, of any 9TH
er year. The kaiser Is no longer con-
queror. One month ago today, the
kaiser started moving his army back
ward toward Germany, under the un-
yielding pressure Of Americas mill
tary process. There will be no perma-
nent interruption Of that process.
The allies successes north Of the
Marine and in Picardy are the direct
results of Americas victory month
ago at Jaulgonne.
Jaulgonne not only showed Marshal
Foche he had secured the initiative,
but also demonstrated to Won Hinden-
burg and the kaiser that America s
millions Of soldiers were capable OF
conducting offensive operations with
the highest degree of efficiency Realiz-
alton of that fact by Germany's mill
tary leaders fixed again July IA, 1918,
as the date on which Germany lost the
war.