Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-28
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II being at least, this, the first allied offensive of the year. I O those who allowed fond hopes to grow in the sunlight of glowing first reports 1t will be somewhat disappoint- ing, and even to those who calmly and . thoughtfully considered 1t from most con servative angle, it failed of their desires, if not of their expectations But the allied effort was not in any way failure, even though it ends leaving the Germans still defiantly in possession of their present salient which our headline writers had de- clared in letters a foot high was death. trap, and all that rot.
 In the first place. Fochs drive stopped the German fifth offensive dead and en- abled the allies to win back all the lost ground. In the next place 1t resulted in the capture of some 30.000 prisoners and well over 500 cannon and countless machine guns and all kinds of valuable war pIunder and supplies. Again, it cheered and heart ened the allied armies all along the front, and this most important ot all. And Tn corresponding degree it jared and shocked and depressed the Huns. It also cost the Germans heavy toll of dead and wounded men. German losses since July l5 have been staggering. Of sixty divisions that Ludendoerf had in reserve he certainly used half of them. This means that he will have twice as much trouble and hard work Tn organizing another offensive on any kind of scale to be dreaded by the allied high command.
 But probably the most important and cheering thing about the entire series ot bat ties of the past ten days has been the show ing made by about quarter of million American troops It was their first baptism of fire in a real battle of colossal propor- tions. They more than made good. Not Washington alone, but Paris and London glowed over their steadiness, their dash, their courage and their success. And as for Berlin, well what it really thought of the American efforts along the Aisne and the Marne will not be known until after the war.
 It may well be that the tide has not really turned yet in favor of the allies Another great German drive may have to be with stood before the summer ends But It IS turning. Of that there Is not doubt. Picked German soldiers have died by the hundreds of thousands since their lines swept forward in such irresistible fashion last March. They cannot be replaced by the German staff. While, in that interval, Foch, losing many good men, too, Is call ing upon the Americans now in France, division after division, to replace his Iom- mics and his poilus in the grim game and carry it on through to the finish. The first effects became apparent in the recent bat ties. They will become more and more apparent as the weeks go by.
 So let us take heart from our successes, not fearing to look our failures in the face. We still have hard, steep, costly road to 20 to the top of the hill but it Is appre ciably closer since Foch's legions stopped . the Hun on one side of salient last week and drove them reeling back on the other side of that same salient closer, maybe than we know.
 And if we feel so very badly about our foes Haunting their flags in our faces along the edges of that pocket we SC fondly hoped would be their grave, let us remember that the British held harder pocket al Ypres for a long and terrible year before they relieved the pressure by taking Messines Ridge. The Huns courage and staying qualities here have not yet stood as severe a test as the Tonlnlics stood at TPres.
 When the battle flames out next month, as if surely will, remember we will have at least another quarter of a million Amer ican soldiers in the front lines, drawn from