The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-30
fTardieu Tells of Results Obtained so Far Since ! Allied Counter Off,
 fensive Began
GERMANY'S CAUSE IS
 LOST, SAY PRISONERS
Coming of Daring Ameri- cans Means Certain Defeat for Kaiser's Armies, Is Opinion of Huns Cap-
 tured by Allies

| Washington, August 29.
 Andre Tardieu, high commis-
 siener of F'ranco-American war
 cooperation, who is now in Paris, has given to the Assoei-
 ated Press by cable a conpara- ltive statement summing up the military events of the last five
 months and showing their pres
 ent bearing on the present war
 situation. He says German Iprisoners declare that if the whole American army shows the same dash as the Ameri- cans who have been in action so far, the German cause is lost.
 M Tardieu relates how the events in Russia, by giving Germany crush ] ing superiority, allowed the enemy 1 from March on to undertake large of- fensive operations directly threatening Paris, putting Amiens the pivot of the FraEc British troops, under fire and cutting off railway communications with the east and north. This was on July IS. On August B. the enemy was brought back on the>sVesle, the road to Nancy was freed and the access to Paris by the Marne was barred through operations in which American troops played prominent part. But the German army was still pow erful and it's losses were counter balanced by the gains of the preceding offensive, M. Tardieu says. Then the British army assumed the offensive, Amiens was liberated, Montdidier fell. the armies of Generals Debeney and Humbert started war of position, and on the 18th the French reached the Disc, south of Noyon with Mangin's army. The events up to the 23d, when the main British attack began, were described and M. Tardieu continues.
 Though it is soon, as yet, to sum up as whole, the military operations extending from August to August s5, since the battle is still in progress, the following results have already been obtained:
 Paris is no longer threatened
 Our direct communications by rail between Paris and Calais have been re-established, as had been those be- tween TdTlS anu NdnCy on July Z5.
 Our third aim, to wrest the ini- tiatfve from the Germans, has likewise been attained
 ''The instructions given by the Ger man high command to the German troops are now of decidedly defen- sfve nature. They confess that the situat ation is serious for Germany. Judg- ing from reliable documents it seems that only "A fresh divisions. that is to say, "A divisions having been with drawn from the firing line for at least a month, are now all the actual Ger man reserves
 "Twenty-three others are being re- formed
 "Forty-seven divisions whose morale was considerably shaken constitute tho Germans last reserves in the present battle.
 ENEMY DISCOURAGED
 "The answers of prisoners, secret documents, and letters addressed to German soldiers, reveal a great dis couragement among them They no . longer believe in victory and with them 1t is only question of holding on to save Germany from disaster Germany knows now that the French and English reserves are not exhaust ed and at last she begins to learn the value of the help that America brings to the allies She realizes that the American divisions, reformed after the operations along the Veslc. and strengthened by a constant flow of new divisions, are in themselves menace every day more imminent. Tho German officers taken prisoner before July 1S, asserted that they did not be- lieve in the possibility of the particl- patton of the Americans in battle
 Those made prisoner in the last operations recognize that the fight ing qualities of the Americans are ex- ceedingly great and their tenacity ex- traordinary
 If the whole American army, they added, shows the same dash, the Ger