Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-08

gap wider and wider, cutting In be-
hind the Italian center and right.
strung out along the Bainsizza plateau
toward Trieste. There was nothing
but retreat at the double quick to
stave Off being surrounded. Even as
it was, the Italians. before getting to
safety behind the Piave, lost upward
of 100000 prisoners and $500 guns.
Yet that same army. under new
commander, Diaz, stiffened by French,
English and American aid and reim-
bued with morale and enthusiasm.
flung back the Austrians when they
sought to break the Piave lines last
preparation, completely wiped out old
scores by dashing across the Piave.
scattering the Austrians like sheep.
corralling more than half a million
bringing the proud Austro-Hungarian
empire to pitiful surrender.
Which brings us to the greatest re-
versal of fortune of them alone
which. appropriately enough. happen-
enough before. now thrice sacred to
the end OF time. 1t Is the 21st of
March. 1918. Freed from worries on
the eastern front by the collapse of
Russia, the Germans have concen-
trated vast forces on the western front
for last desperate gamble. In fog
and rain they strike the British line
between Cambria and st. Quentin in
overwhelming forces. sending the 9Th
force them. Through the gap they
press forward a full thirty-fve miles.
while dismay settles down over the
allied world.
After a pause Hindenburg and Lu-
dendorff Strike again in the Ypres sec
tor They take Mount KENNEL.
~
Ypres seems to be theirs. But Haig's
men stand like stone wall before
Arnims final tremendous attack and
the day is saved.
Another pause.
Then, behind clouds of poison gas
and a hail of shell, German regiments
break through French and British po-
sitions along the Chemin des Danes
and sweep past Scissors and Fismess
to the Marine itself.
But Ferdinand Foch. appointed cons
mander-in-c chief of the allied armies,
never loses heart. ~
When next the foe attacks. from
J SCISSORS westward, he meets bloody
repulse, after short initial advance.
He strikes again, about Rheims. try.
, ing to pound his way into that mars
= tyred city. In vain.
Then In one final grand rush. on the
= 14th OF July, 1918. Bastile day. the
men VI I1luueuUuES
, make their last great attempt to get
, to Paris and win the war.
They cross the Marine, only to be
D hurled back by Americans around Cha
4 teau Thierry, by Frenchmen farther
east From merely repelling attacks
Foch turns suddenly to smashing
, counter offensive. Forward from Cha.
teau Thierry to scissors surge the
Americans, with the French Cooperate
ling along the lines stretching toward
l Rheims. The Germans fall back in disc
order. They die by thousands trying
!, to get back over the Marine. They
lose Chateau Therry, Fismes, Scissors.
The British strike around Montdi-
+, dler, at the heart OF the great salient
! made by the Germans in March. Its
|. sides crumble Foch strikes east and
. west, on the right, center. left. Haig
= hurls his best regiments against the
"impregnable" Hlndenburg line. It
y breaks Englishman and Scot, Cana
9 dian and Australian and American leap
Q through it's waste of wire and cons
n crete. smashing forward, always for-
4 ward.
The war Is won.
e Three months later Germany has
signed the terms that put an end to
y her dream of world dominion. For
tune has played her last trick. yielded
n to her last whm--once and for all has
: turned her back on Germany and all
: its works.
p. Copyright, 1918, by the Edward Marshall syn.
e dicatc, lnc.)