The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-05-14
GERMANS, REPULSED,
LICKING THEIR WOUNDS
rrI1TONS BADLY MAULED, AND
COSTLY VICTORIES" HAVE
SLOWED DOWN DRIVE.
ARE PREPARING FOR ANOTHER
ASSAULT ON ALLIED LINES

Lives Mean Nothing to Army Chiefs
of Central Powers, and They Are
Paving the Price Exacted. Man
Power to Decide the Great Issue.
The tidal wave of German shock
troops continues to beat against the
allied offensive lines on the western
front. As relentless as the pounding
of the surf on the sands of the sea
shore is the hammering of the Ger
man man tide against the British,
French and American troops in Flan-
ders and Picardy.
But with allied guns battering ev-
ery German concentration and allied
infantry resisting every attempt of
the German troops to leave the
trenches the great struggle in north
ern France has broken up into a
number of more or less important To-
cal engagements, with each side try
ing to improve it's trench lines where
they lie in unfavorable positions.
With the passing of each day since
the sanguinary failure of the Ger
man assault on the hill positions
south of Ypres it is becoming evident
that the French and British troops
registered a greater success than was
at first contemplated. This assault,
it is now believed, was the final effort
Of victorious, though badly mauled,
German Fourth army, and when it
was repulsed with terrible slaughter
it pinned the command of Gen. Won
Amin to the ground it had won until
a complete reorganization could be
effected. And the length of time it
has required for this reorganization
gives some idea of the punishment in
ficted on Won Arnim's army by the
allied troops.
Germans Badly Mauled.
With the slowly-developing concen-
tration of British, French and Amer
lean troops behind the new defensive
line the situation of the allied forces
daily becomes better. The entente
war leaders do not for a minute be-
lleve that the great German effort
IN the West has ended-in fact, the
almost unanimous opinion is that it
has just begun. But the first seven
weeks of fighting has localized Won
Hndenburg's drive to a front of less
than 100 miles, and it is to this rela-
lively restricted front, rather than
the entire line from the North sea to
Sutherland, that Foch, Haig and Pc
tam can now center their attention,
While the lull in the great battle
has been of the Germans own volt
ton the Teuton commanders have
been busy reorganizing, regrouping,
supplying and munitioning their ar
mics for a resumption of their ''vic-
Tory offensive" Just how many lmen
Germany is willing to spend in an
effort to crush the British is a secret
known only to Hindenburg and Luz
dendorff, but the number probably
runs into the hundreds of thousands,
and the spending of them is going to
cause the allied command many on
ANXIOUS moment between now and
the autumn season.
Losses, as yet, mean nothing to the
GERMAN general staff; where one man
TAILS two more are sent into the
ranks to replace him. If hill costs
dd0o'0OO lives, pay the price; there are
1O,OOO men to take the next hill.
Man-Power Will Decide.
Already the 1918 campaign on the
western front has settled down to a
question of man-power. Strategy and
ssactlcs have been laid aside for brute
!ofce. Germany has 100000 men
III. northern France and Flanders, and
sHalnadaenburg is willing to sacrifice /, ;
V,VJV'OOO of this number for victory.
n6dIeady he has lost more than 600,-
w. But he has many more lives to
spend, and as long as the German
PEOPLE do not object to the toll why
SHOULD Ti Von Hindenburg worry?
me British admit loss of 100000
n Killed, wounded and missing since
me- beginning of the offensive in
IHo Germans claim to have taken
aUgoOO prisoners, so that the dead
ana wounded among the British must
reach 10000.
o.t me need of haste makes the pres
f fnY German drive primarily an in
aaHIry drive. Positions are being TAX
en by simply launching against them
d. a. overwhelming mass of infantry,
II.'iegarding all losses and continual
~ enforcing the attacking troops
VII rt'I the defense literally is over
'neiined by force of numbers,
B fo ~ IS the most costly method of
as9 known to modern warfare,
to o,G 'ne British and French field bat
'''eS' machine guns and rifles have