Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-11
CambrGii

Every year of the great war has had its cycle, its epoch, its frenzied elimination of human effort for a particular goal. Every year has marked an immortal name upon history page; has fixed the worlds eye upon place of places. In the first year it was the valley of the Marne, near Paris. In the second year it was Y pres. In the third year 1t was Verdun. In the fourth year it was Cambrai.
 These mark the four decisive periods of the great war.
 At the Marne the English and French troops turned at bay and by daring general ship and the supreme of courage saved France from being put out of the war in the first whirlwind campaign.
 At pres the English armies and the channel ports were saved by English stay ing powers and grim resolution.
 At Verdun, France was saved a second time by the invincible and exalted courage of the Frenchmen who held that fortress as a sacred trust bequeathed to them by the traditions of nearly two thousand years.
 These epochs, above mentioned, all mark the allies on the defensive These were not allied victories in the strict sense of the word. Each was simply a resistence that deprived the Prusisans of victory. They were struggles separate phases of a mighty conflict whose climax was yet to come. They were not decisive, for they only checked and did not turn the flow of the tide of conquest
 Cambrai is the word and the place about which shall cling the greatest glory of the war It marks the fourth epoch and the final phase It marks the turning point from defense to offense. It marks the shift in the struggle of resistence to the struggle of annihilation. It marks the change from a German thrust for victory to an allied thrust for victory.
 At Cambrai a German war was turned into an allied war Three times have the allies suffered disaster in their efforts to smash the German battle line between Ypres and Verdun of which Cambrai marks the center. Ever since the first battle of the Marne the flower and mass of the Ger man troops have been stationed in the Cam brai sector And when the turn of the tide of the war came 1t was before Cambrai that FOch massed his guns and men and 1t was behind Cambrai that Ludendorff massed his strongest forces of resistance. For seven weeks the battle has ragged with scare ely a days interval with Cambrai as the prize of the victor The Germans retreat ed and gave ground at every point of the long battle line from Verdun to the sea ex- cept before Cambrai Here they died in their trenches. Here they counter attacked times without number. Here their reserves poured in to the last man. Here was the shieldburg of their armies and the temple of their conquest in France
 Foch feinted and tapped and thrust and struck all along the line, but at Cambrai he struck from the shoulder with his body behind the blow English, Scotch, Cana dian, Australian, American and French di- visions of tried courage and exceptional strength and with unlimited gunpower be- hind them were assembled here miles and miles deep and launched eastward, carry ing the hopes and fears of three great na- tions upon their battle flags. And, after seven weeks of slaughter unparalleled in all the history of the world, they turned the flow of Ieutonic conquest into the ebb of Teutonic defeat. The miracle of the Marne and the sacrifice at Ypres and the valor at Verdun have at last been merged into the triumph of Cambrai
 It IS perfectly true that at a hundred towns and along every ten'miles of the bat tie front a necessary and heroic part was played in the great struggle, but the cul- mination of all came at Cambrai. Wilhelm the Hun, turned here, even as Atilla, the