The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-06-15
Small Prospect That the
Germans Will Approach
Nearer to Paris.
AIAlES HOLD VALIANTLY
Though Still Outnumbered
They Have Made Germans
Pay a Terrific Price.
ny GERALD CAMPBELL.


London Times
Copyrohf. 1873: al rights rsserrtd
FRENCH ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN THE
FIELD. June l3 tdelayed) The battle
to-day is part OF the great German fight
against time. II began on foggy morn
ing in March and is being fought out
now in June under blazing sun and
skies OF cloudless blue. A year ago six
months ago. even three months ago prac-
tically the whole world would have said
that II was impossible. Even it's auth
ors could not have believed that such
pace could have lasted long When
they brought their troops out OF the
trenches into the open II was to end
the war because end it they must with
Out further delay or inevitably lose IL.
For men who wanted TO advance in a
hurry the conditions could not have been
better
As the three months draw to an end
after all their efforts and all their losses.
in spite OF all their rcinforcements-
without which their rushes on the Somme
and the Marne never could have been
made-they come with a bump against
the forest barrier Of Compiegne. Paris
long way off.
LosinG Their E6ectives.
They have come up against the for
ests OF Ccmpiegne and not quite for the
| hrst time against the soldiers of France
Toward the end Of May some OF those
soldiers with Englishmen 20 keep them
company were retiring rather rapidly
"a n q "a
of the numbers thrown agains, the sec
tors which they held so thinly-betore
the German hosts. 1t is sometimes asked
| what the morale of our soldiers. French
and English. Is like after such trials
as those retreats II they could only
| see the men as they come back with
the air Of conaueiors, They have been
killing enemies that is their part OF
| the business, the rest is with Gen
/, Foch
| Now they are fghtine again, in num-
bers this time more nearly equal 10
those OF the invader. The enemy is still
! advancing. bu: much more slowly and
| at much greater cost Of his effectives
by far the most valuable assc, that
he has in the race against time. EN-
cept for the Internal gasses. which the
enemy has added to his barbarities IN
this war. the fighting has become once
NOR" like the lighting in all ages.
Fighting Now In the Open.
Ii Ia man against man now. out in
the open. The attackers. having hardly
any trenches to depend upon. make use
OF natural cover. trees, bushes. fields
o. waving corn. They try to get up &c
the enemy and spring upon him una
wares Some OF the German troops
helmets with grass and leaves. Wher
they can they dig in. hut that is not
often time is too short and the enem!
too near.
4 great deal Of the fighting is hant
TO hand. and in all probability will b,
until the end Of the war. Skrmishins
once more is the fashion trackins hid
ing. all the arts of primitive fshtinI
have come into their own again, Ye
all the time side by side with them ter
rihle offensive weapons and machines
the scientific con,rivances Of moderi
warfare. ply their deadly business,
over the green fields. like destroyer!
in calm sea, tanks plough clumsii,
along up hill and down dale betwcer
hum increasingly overhead and not onl'
break up columns OF marching men bu
silence batteries of heavy artillery ant
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