Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-22

expense of human material, have been
disengaged and the foe driven back by
sheer superior fighting And further.
certainly one. and probably two. self
styled invinCihle German armies have
been jockeyed by the despised French
and Americans into positions in which
there may he the beginning of a really
disastrous defeat as the next day or
two may prove it.
BY their sudden and brilliantly sue
cessful thrust into the German right
flank, left scornfully exposed by the
arrogant but utterly mistaken German
high command. the French now not only
dominate Scissors. vital buttress OF
the enemy's right. but hold under their
guns all the vitaly important railways
upon which the Germans have been re-
| lying to supply their troops operating IN
the sectors north and south of the
Marine.
This means that they have been COM
PEELED at a critical period in the great
battle to sacrifice the railroads and
bring up vast proportion of their
enormous food supplies and ammunition
by motor transport over roads which in
many places have been torn to pieces by
shellfire.
The German railroads are now over
| thirty miles behind the greater part OF
the sorely depressed Germans. fighting a
defensive and still losing battle on the
! front of Epernay- y-Chateau-ThierrE. rms
! factor also already is conslderabl!
! hampering the bringing up of the enem!
| re-enforcements. and there is no need
to emphasize how much the Gerniar
chances of escaping from the French al
! vances are decreased by the fact ina
the reserves are coming up on foot ano
are much more exposed to destruction
from the Allied airplanes than II they
could quickly be rushed through by
train.
Half of Foe Reserves Used Up
. Half the available German reserve
divisions. according TO Information re-
ceiyed here, have already been used up
No fewer than eight reserve DIVISIONS o'
betweer so. 900 and 10000 men, had to bt
be thrown in on Friday to try 10 stop .n'
advance of Mangin's and De Goutte'
armies. but without avail, as the rreh'i
continued to progress.
/ One of the most serious factors tht
Germans have had to meet has been th'
suffering under the demoraliZing lnhu
ercas of finding their offensive checked
euddenlv to change their front in the
boirbt ~ battle to meet the totally VA
exnccted and splendidy executed at
tack on their right flank. Napoleon nae
10 accomplish this difficult move at Lelp
sic and again at Waterloo. but the Ger
mans. as the whole history OF TINS wal
has shown have no Napoleon. IN spite o.
their claims to be the superlors OF 'h'
rost of the whole world in actual war
fare. For the Crown lrihce lhlS u'i"o'o. o
ad check Is a second Nerdun, and II mus
not he overlooked in the effect 1t WI
have on the future of the Hohenzolleri
d,.ras.v when the German people com
70 settle accounts with their rulers alte
the war, or perhaps earlier
Data coming to hand from every sid
;,,d;note that the lies with which tn
German commanders have fed their sol
diors since the war began are com
n,o,cinp to recoil on the authors VIII
a;s,strous effect. The awakening to tn
truth is especially bitter in regard to tn
American troops.
Hero is an instance. \ boche office
takan prisoner on the Marine was aske'
whether the Germans were not atrald
an attack on the right flank, which the
were risking by their eHorl 10 eioea III
Marne so far south.
"Whv should we be afraid?' was nj
scornf,Il reply you haven't any troop
to attack with. Everybody knows Foc
tbas used up all the reserves he nae
Americans? Why there aren't $4,000 o
> tbon, I'm the whole country, and they r
nn,v training" He fatty refused to be
8 I,eyA that there are more than l,ooo,oo
snldiarS in France.
5 Paris by Thursday, Foe Program
, Comics of orders and memorand
found on prisoners on various parts
4 The front all confvn the fact that tn
2 Garmans still are fascinated with tn
' r,re of Paris. Here is their program a
l d;sc,ossd by the notebook of one man:
r .Monday. first day of offensive, cal
I ,ure of American hospital at ": Tue
: day La Ferte. Gaucher and Coulon
miers; Wednesday, Meux; Thursda
5 Paris" =,
e In result certainly not more than I.
e 6rst stage of this ambitious plan va
n realized. nor is it now likely to be. !
r the same time it must not be overloont
Il that the battle is by no means over II
: German position at many points is SUI
that the enemy is bound to react Vigo
j. ously for some days to come. for u
Is enemy cannot allow himself to remain
Il the dangerously narrow salient betTt'
II the Aisne and the Marne.