Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-05
Tue Queant Switch Line

he allies are farther east today In- France than they have been at any time since the German wave of invasion over whelmed the French and English armies in the summer of 1914. Rumancourt, about seven or eight miles east of the old Hindenburg line marks their farthest pro gress eastward. Directly to the north about eight miles lies Douai, the railroad center upon which Haig's men cast longing eyes in the spring of 1917, only to be beaten back at Bullecourt and Lens in series of disastrous battles Hindenburg himself re- garded the Qheant switchline as the most important piece of ground on the entire western battle front at that time and when the allies only threatened this switch he poured reserves in and beat them back. Now they have broken the switch and taken 1t entirely and also about twelve miles of the Fiindenburg line proper, and more than this, they have advanced north and east of the Queant switch for many miles, all without having to withstand single counter attack of any proportions.
 Undoubtedly Monday battle and Tues days aftermath were by far the most seri- ous reverses the Hun has suffered in this war. We can only guess at their conse- quences. We can only conjecture as to the German plight in giving up this vital sec tor without a counter attack. That 1t was defended desperately is attested by the thousands of German dead that dot the field and the ten thousand or more German pris- oners taken in the operations. The Eng fish now seriously threaten Douai and Cam brai But they have threatened these key stones of the German line before and been beaten back far away from them. Can the Hun repeat? It does not seem possible. He no longer has the reserves, while Foch has million American fighting men be- hind his British and French victors, and he has scarcely used an American division since the Germans stopped at the Vesle a month ago.
 Paris, London and Washington are look ing for massed blow of tremendous pro- portions to be directed any day now at the broken German lines, and the materials for this hammerhead are to be composed en- tirely of fresh American troops. Foch has them They are wild to go in. The time seems to be cherry ripe. But Foch alone knows if this blow Is to be struck or if 1t should be struck at this time.
 But certain it is that great events are i'm pending upon the western battle front. The Germans are in desperate plight Only little more and they must suffer disaster at more than two points. They have held their lines too long. They cannot retreat now in safety. They must either strike with force or hold immovable or give up the FIindenburg line. And this latter ca lamity means that their enemies will have this great trench system and dugouts and comfortable quarters for winter while they themselves will have to provide new ones under intense pressure or go back to the Mouse or fight in the open in the cold and snow and mud
 Never have the allied chances glowed so bright and fine as now Another success ful blow northeast of Arras and another northeast of Soissons and the allied lands may well hang out the banners and rejoice and offer up prayers of thanksgiving for the greatest victory of right over might the world has ever known But mark well that even with that, the war will be yet to win by stern, resolute and sustained fighting for at least another year. It Is long hard way from Arras and Soissons to the Rhine. Hail General Bonaparte Buck He's a general of division of the American forces in France, and he won the legion of honor the other day in the fighting north of Sois- sons by leading battalion on foot against a swarm of German machine guns and talk ing vital redoubt that was holding up the advance Every officer of the battalion had been killed or wounded when the old