The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-03-30
THE ENEMY'S LOSING FIGHT.

Under the keen trained eye of Gen. Foch, the
master military mind of Europe, the allied army
held in reserve by the supreme war council is
getting into action. Its first contact inflicted a
cash 6 miles long and miles deep on the left
flank of the enemy's deep salient The French
penetration is near Noyon, at point calculated
Ito cut deeply and fatally into the outstretched
enemy An experienced surgeon, employing his
Iscalpel with intent to reach vital spot by the
shortest route, could not excel the skill display
ed by Gen. Foch in making the counter attack
at the time and place he has chosen.
The allies preserve the necessary silence re-
garding the size and composition Of the reserve
army. In this game of life and death of nations,
with savage nation slayers as antagonists, COM
ing events must be screened as carefully as the
secrets of nature itself. The peoples of allied
countries must draw upon their resources of pa
tience and optimism to exc out the scarcity of in
formation regarding the plans for checking the
enemy. Let them bear in mind that the uncon-
querable spirit of France and England is the
soul OF the defense and that its body is composed
of superior artillery, stalwart and quick-witted
men, and abundant supplies maintained by a
short and well-served transport line. 1t should
not be forgotten that when Mr.. Lloyd George
and others refer to superior numbers. of Ger
mans, the reference is to the point of attack, and
the allied counter attack now under way will
find the Germans at that point vastly outnum-
bered. ,y faeqF
The activity of the Germans near Arras is not
unexpected. The purposes of this attack doubt
less include desire to destroy the British army,
which may as we'll be dismissed as Teuton
rainbow vision; desire to drive into the British
new pncer jaw, which might be swung south
ward to connect with the jaw now extending to-
ward Amiens, taking in all of the British forces
in that region, and desire to prevent the Brit
ish from diverting troops to the Amiens section
or from making "a counter attack against the
northern flank of the German forces now stretch
ed out from Arras to Albert.
Field Marshal Haig may be depended upon to
keep out of traps and to spring one or two him
self He is in touch with the French defense
army and the Franco-British reserve army. The
allies are doing magnificent teamwork No
where have they been so mistaken as to sacrifice
men in All unnecessary stand against locally SUI
perior numbers, and everywhere they have kept
in contact with the enemy and collected a death
tax that is as facilitating as cutting his arteries.
The battle-ground between Cambria and Al
bert is scene of appalling desolation, but still
more appalling is the harvest of German dead
and wounded gathered by the allies on that
field. The dead vegetation and gashed earth
can be restored to France, but the dead and dy-
ing Germans can never be restored to Germany.
The imperial maniac and his accomplices are
mutilating and bleeding the German nation in
their frantic and vain assault upon the strong
holds of human liberty. Those strongholds win
never be taken by mortals, for they are the deep
laid foundations upon which man has labored
toward his Maker The protection Of heaven is
upon and around the towers and foundation
stones Of those nations that are now fighting the
victorious fight for freedom. Were the German
empire twice as savage and its war machinery
twice as powerful, it could not batter down the
structures which represent all that mankind has
achieved since the birth of Christ.
In strict truth, Germany's legions are dashing
their lives out against an invisible impregnable
rock, the rock of liberty It is the human soul
that they are attacking. Their defeat was or
dained and prepared for them from the founda-
ton Of the world. It is in the nature of human
| ity that 1t shall destroy its enemy France and
Belgium are merely the advance guards Of con-
Itinents and hemispheres that are moving to ave
human freedom L. Washington Post, Friday.