Evening star., 1918-06-09
Success Would About Double
Ground Gained During
Present Year.
BLOWS IN CHAMPAGNE
ALSO EXTREMELY LIKELY
Main Efforts, However, Expected
On Line From Sea to Marne.
FIGHTING OF PAST WEEK
Both Allies and Teutons Strive to
Better Strategic Positions in
4 Sharp Local Actions.
FIGHTING OF PAST WEEK
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.
With the German drive for
Paris halted, the question as to
where the Teutonie blows next
will fall Immediately comes to
the fore. 1t is but logical to state
Won Hindenburg either will at
tempt to enlarge his present
Safients in Flanders before
Amiens or the newly created
one stretching between Scissors
and Rheims to the Marne, all
OF which are extremely danger
Gus to the Teutonic ARMIES, or
he will endeavor to wipe out
those allied salients around
Arras and that between Noyon
and Scissors, in order that the
net German gain of the year
may be double what it is at the
present moment and that elbow
room may be gained in further
operations within Teuton sail
ents.
Though German blows in
the Champagne region to the
: east of Rheims are exceedingly
likely, it is believed the present
German plan of campaign will
call for future efforts on the
western side of the battle line
stretching from the North sea to
the Marne.
German armies now are resting,
evidently preparing for further gi-
gantic often
Germans Prepare. sive moves
for Further Drives. ans.as' a11ses' Ths rhs
fighting which has gone on during
the past week, though severe. has
peen local in character and for
strategic points of advantage. The
main impetus Of the German drive
stopped last week, as I stated last
sunday. The fighting of the past
week has been for adjustment of
positions in preparation for further
4A lulS tue AlIleS, as
well as the Gernans. have been busy,
ana the French and Americans have
done much to fortify the allied line
between SCISSORS and the Marine
against enemy aggression.
AFTER having reached the Marne
the Germans attempted to strike
Westward toward the River Disc.
evidently with the idea of pocketing
Soissons as Rheims has been almost
pocketed. but the Germans were
halted in the region Of the River
Ourcq by valorous French and Ameri-
can resistance. The Germans next
smashed forward in the general re-
gion between Noyon and scissors, in
the hope OF driving southwark to
such an extent that the French would
- forced to give up their salient be-
tween the Disc and the Aisne. thereby
giving the Germans greater freedom
bf movement, but in this they failed,
after having made some initial gains.
Everywhere Gen. Foch has the
enemy halted. His use of American
forces In the region Of Chateau Thier-
~, where American marines have per-
formed wonderfully and have ad-
vanced on to a depth Of two and a
half miles on a front Of six, thereby
placing . barrier across the German
path to Paris, indicates that the al
lied reserve forces are extremely mo-
bile and can be thrown in at any point
where danger is greatest. The allies
have brought up heavS artillery in
this region, which further indicates
that. whenever the Germans strike,
allied forces and equipment soon can
be marshaled in the shortest possible
time.
Az ths-result of the weeks fighting
the Germans have gained nothing and
suffered much. Their losses in recent
days have been appalling. Three divis-
ions were used against the Americans
near Chateau Thierry and withdrawn
allies have exacted heavy tolls and
this 10 q favorable omen.
* 4
In order to save the allies in fu-
ture years. Russia must be saved
today. This is the
Russia Must Be opinion which is
Saved BY Allies. no. only in Rus.
sia. but in all nations arrayed against
the Tsuton. It long has been recos-
nized that the allies must abandon
their policy of "watchful waiting"
which has led to the. Germanization
Of a great portion of the east, step
In and once and for all time Illustrate
for herself and for democracy.
The Japanese and Chinese have
reached an agreement looking toward
cooperation in the far east, but no
active military steps have been taken
in China. There is q marked tendency
on the part Of the allies to lend en-
eoursgement to Russia and further
allied propaganda in the regions
which now are infested by Germans
and which the kaiser and his cohorts
believe have been permanently re-
moved as menace to Germany. The
allies. by q system Of education. must
build the nation up SO that Russia
win be placed on q sound political
governmental and economic basis.
The plight of Russia Is pitiable
The bolshsviki, who have SO often
and 50 consistently obeyed the die
tates OF the kaiser. at least played
directly into his hands. continue to
tated as long as these scheming tools
Of Berlin are permitted to sit in
power. The bolsheviki may seek to
blind the eyes of allied nations by
protesting friendship for them. but
the actions OF the bolsheviki in the
revolution and after have forever
placed the German stamp upon them
It has been suggested that the
United States take the lead in in
tervention, send a force to the far
east, in cooperation with other pow
srs, and Immediately start a push
westward. accumulating gigantic Rus
question but that the bolsheviki viii
Send every energy, at the pleasure
OF the kaiser, to inname the Russian
people against such steps. and tha,
u why It will be absolutely neces.
sAry for the allies to acquaint the
Russian people. as far as possible
that such allied forces as are sem
into the country are there for thu