Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-08-17
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Rating 81 Their Foes.

Amsterdam. Aug. 17.-RevievsS BY
German critics OF the military stu
alton in the west disclose curious di-
vergencies of opinion aSsto who bore
the brunt Of the attack on the Allied
side. The Cologne Gazette's writer
all the fighting, while the Frank
furter Zeitung' states that on the con-
trary, the white. Frenchmen were
spared for fpOlltical reasons" and
that on the Americans fell the full
weight OF the fighting. 9gf
The Berliner Lokal-Anxeiger as
serts that the Italians were the ones
who "bled," while others declare
that the Senegalese and the Moroc-
cans took the main part in the fight
ing.
Few Of the writer's venture to pre-
dict what will happen next. The
consensus of opinion seems to be /.
that it is doubtful whether Marshal
Foch will feel strong enough to risk
main Ine. Strengthened out as 1t has
BEEN
IF he does" says the military ex-
pert OF the Hamburg Nachrichten.
we must reckon with an extension
OF the fighting area to the north Of
the Aisne, in the Champagne region,
because it is there alone that the
possibility of an encircling attack Of
Ifers itself"
The same authority devotes some
space to explaining why the Germans
evacuated Scissors. The evacuation,
he says, was due to the fact that after
the new defensive line was reached
1T lost their tactical value and became
a projecting b~ridgehead which was
exposed to encircling attacks and
concentric artillery fire. It's reten-
ton. the writer says. would have
meant the tying up of strong forces
under unfavorable conditions.
Amid the chorus of praise for the
ward movement" the Cologne Ga
zette cautiously expresses the opin-
ion that it is too early yet to say
which side wins on the balance.
History offers no precedent"
says General Won AEdenne in the
Dusseldorf Nachrichten. "for the
fact that The victor, after three VIC
torious battles, retires from the field
embarrassed by the enemy to take up
positions further in the rear. This
Is difficult to understand he adds,
and he proceeds to explain how by a
marvellous exhibition OF seh-control
the Germans refrained from pushing
would have cost too much precious
German blood" He is bound, how
ever, to admit that the manoeuvre
Of carrying the enemy's first lines
with a rush and following 1t up by
a deep thrust into the ground behind,
which had succeeded four times.
failed IN July 49,"
General Won Ardenne likewise
makes the interesting admission that
he Germans had possibly under
estimated the enemys strength in
numbers" He asserts that in the
lost territory the French have >the
advantage in railway communica-
tons, which is precisely the same
complaint he made when the French
still stood on the south bank Of the
Marine.
Eugene Kalckschmidt. war corre-
spondent Of the Frankfurter Zeitung,
in commenting on the Americans
large share in the fighting, v
The Americans stood their bap-
tism Of fire not badly. They went
through it >pluckily enough. but
quickly learned respect for our ma
chine guns. Charges are made that
they fred on the wounded and at
times tried to mislead our men by
calling to them in German. Ad-.
venturous elements are plentiful in
the American first waves. They are
better in attack than in DEFENSE"