Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-14
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 WASHINGTON. April 13. Both French and British endorsements are reaching Sir Douglas Haig's army in Flanders, which now is in a strong position to meet further German at tacks Major General James D. Me Lachlan. British army attache here said tonight in a reviewing the situa- tion on the northern part of the long western battle line.
 Willie the Germans have scored, General McLachlan said, they have not done as well as they hoped and each hour their advance is delayed makes victory for them less likely By failing to break through. the Germans find themselves in an awkward narrow salient and for that reason the battle is bound to continue with great fero- city.
 Delays Are Fatal.
 "As things stand the Germans have scored said General McLachlan. "but not SO heavily as they would have lik- ed to have done They have won no decisive victory and each hour that their advance is delayed images it less likely that they will. They are in a position not very different from that which they occupied at the end of the first. and what may be called mobile, stage of the preceding battle f-r Amiens.
 ''1 heir drive at Amiens, the Germans hoped to separate the British from the French army. Their attack between the Ypres-Comines canal and La Basee is clearly meant to divide the British army, roll it up and penetrate to the coast of the English channel. In the battle for Amiens their attack was stopped on the northern portion of the line between Arras and Albert. In the present battle their northern flank while bending back the British line has similarly failed in it's object.
 Is Shallow Basin.
 "1he country between Wytschaete and La Bassee back to HaZebrouck is in the nature of shallow basin sur rounded by high ground Into this basin the Germans have penetrated to a p:aximum depth of about ten miles and on a front of. about 15 miles be- tween Ploegsteert wood and La Bas- see, but they have failed to force the British from the hills stretching west from Wytschate and at the south end of their attack have been held on the line of Festubert, Givenchy and Hull luch and have thus kept from Bethune, which was their immediate objective in that region. These two failures leave them, in spite of all their gains in the center, in an uncomfortable mar row salient dominated by higher ground in the hands of the British.
 -The British are in fact in a strong position to meet further attacks which are bound to come. Their own and French endorsements are reaching them; they have the line of hills run ming from Wytschate on the line of Kommel. Scherpenberg Mont Koker- cele. Kruystrete, Saint Sylvestre to Cassel.
 Battle to Continue.
 -'To achieve a success that will compensate them for the losses incur red by the great number of divisions used in the initial attack, the eGrmans will, moreover have not only to oc- cupy those heights but to press on through the country behind, which is undulating and broken and the de fensiye qualities of which the British commanderin-chief is not likely to have overlooked.
 By failing to break through Ypres- Com,nes canal and Wytschaete and thus 10 push the British from the ridge running west toward Cassel the Ger mans find themselves in an awkward IT . for no other the battle is bound to continue with great ferocity as Field Marshal Haig warned the British army in his special order of the day, publish ed in today's newspapers"