Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-04-18

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REEDOM OF MANKIND NOW WITH IT'S BACK TO WALL
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freedom Of mankind at large hinge upon the outcome Of this
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fringe thereof the Atanic France and Britain have
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those sennes stand the Kaiser SHUT out from
political Strike down those guardians and the entire Old
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would speedily become mass Of little natonaities sub
has been resolved into its national elements and become
series Of petty States rope Of sand German occupancy Of
man lake. Norway Sweden and Denmark standing between
that Germanzed body of water and the ndentans Of the
than Belgium under the old conditions The Kaiser could
take them whenever the occasion seemed
tune Italy would be forced to succumb have Rouana
and the other continental powers to the east
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CONQUERED country only until such time the Kaiser might
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the Old World. Human freedom would speedily be extn-
gnshed in the noxous gases OF Prussan frghuness and
As matter of fact Americans as we'll as the British
British and French overcome then the American boys
France to fall into Hun hands for have
of the allies. The American army stands goes down with
the British and French forces.
That the strategy Of position and part in
Italy We sonfessedy side BY side with allies
against the Huns realizing that combined forces there
fall America becomes the next great battle ground
giving of ground be accepted evidence of number of
things In the first place it that the British
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ded with natural sronghods like Vmy ridge the Mesnes
hold than the lower to the east over which the tide Of
invasion has just swept ~
have carried advisable their method of retiring
from position to another after moving down the
without yielding their chief line of ranspora
tons from Calais and Dunkrk In this line of transporta
ton Amiens and Arras are chief centers
the entrance Of the final phase the struggle this region
German wedge by the British French and Americans all
human probability military equilibrium cannot long endure
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strategy of General Foh exemped in the first battle of the
Some when the German legons hurled back by force
at
One advantage held by Foch is that the Germans know
deed attack all along the line when his forces appar
emily utterly routed on the somme renders uncertain when
The Germans have been close students of Fochs military
books They know he great They know
he holds certain theories the distances of the different
sides Of trange which make counter attack the sides
Of military militia wedge ady d They are trying
attack the sides to reach the middle of the line be-
their forces the the drive could that
middle point thus making their forces will be
cut off,
fact which to have been generally overlooked is
the defeat of the attempt of Hndburg reach Amens and
thus cut the chief line Of of the British to the
north It much victory for the British though
the Germans had not made thrust elsewhere
Hindenburg shrewdly covered up his failure to break
through to Amens by making drive further north in
the region of Armeneres The strategy of this wedge
is developing The Canadians have invariably held per-
sstent Vmy ridge and Arras has consequently remained
in British possession despite the desperate efforts of the Ger
mans to reach that important transportation center
Until the Germans widen their wedge to the west by
advancing their line at the north they will their right
the north side of the wedge serious attack Haigs
forces that region This drive Arentieres sector
takes the form of triangle with La Bassee at the south and
Hoebeke the north the former line of battle the two
base points and with Mev the point of extreme advance to
the west as the apex.
The of this movement by the Germans the Ar
menteres sector will in turn guard their wedge the drec
ton of Amens further south from flank attack from the north
In other words the effect of these wedges driven into
British lines north and south of Arras and vmy
latter to choose between retirement and capture
The of this combined movement would the