Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-27
USE HUN RESERVES
SALIENT CREATED AWKWARD BUT NOT UNTENABLE WITH DIFFICULTIES NO REAPER THAN THOSE OF BRITISH IN OLD YPREs SALIENT
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 LONDON, July 26.-As a result of the last weeks activities the whole situation on the western front has been transformed
 The Germans. according to dis patches from the front. have used six ty-five divisions on the Champagne front. and the whole of the crown princes reserves have been exhaustec The only fresh reserves remaining tO the Germans are less than thirty di- visions attached to Crown Prince Rup- precht's armies.
 Last week it appeared certain that Prince Ruppreeht would be called upon to launch an attack on the Bri- tish front, but the enemy put off this attack and the psychological moment for it probably has passed. for the Ger mans appear committed to the great battle in progress and cannot afford to stake heavily on a dubious opera tiOn at another part of the front. ac- cOrding to the view of British experts
 The German situation in the salient. although awkward is not untenable The enemy's difficulties are not great CT than those in which the British army was placed for many months in the Ypres salient, before the capture of Messines ridge The Ypres salient was five miles wide and five miles deep and was dominated by the enemy. The present German salient is twenty miles wide and twenty miles deep and similarly, is dominated by the allied artillery
 Captured documents show that the enemy had made up his mind on the day after the allied offensive began to undertake a retirement to a lIns along either the Ardre or Vesle and had actually given orders for this The orders were later cancelled. pre- sumably owing to the difficulty of ef- fecting an orderly retreat in the pinch ed salient. It is possible they have decided to retain the position as lOnG as possible
 Military writers point out the allies are using up the German reserves in a battle where the Germans are cOntin- uously in a disadvantageOus position. so the situation is entirely satisfac- tory If the enemy remains he cannot undertake any important offensive and the allies could hold the salient lightly and devote their energies elsewhere.
 One reason for the German abandon ment of the plan for retirement = found in the reports of allied airmen. which show tremendous congestion along the lines of German communica- tion. The Germans may be merely holding on as long as possible in or der to effect an orderly withdrawal and to remove the vast accumulation of stores and munitions which had been gathered in this district. ready for a great advance southwark.
 Undoubtedly a big effort will be made to straighten out the confusion which now exists along the arteries of the salient. All these arteries are now constantly under the allies shell fire. and work along them must be very diff ficult.
 WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, July 26. (By the Associated Press)-Tanks blazed the trail for ana co-Operated with the French infantry in it's recent ground-gaining assault north of MOntdidier. By hurling the enemy west of the Avre river from the high ground between Morisel and Mondidier into the valley on a front of more than two miles. withdrawal