The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-05-30
THREE FAST PUNCHES
USED TO DEFEAT HUNS

THREE FAST PUNCHES
USED TO DEFEAT HUNS
If you haven't quite been able te
figure out just how the war was won
YOU should have heard Major Gener:
al Sir Frederick Maurice of the gen.
eral staff and director of operation
of the British armies at Convention
hall, says a Kansas City dispatch.
While the general said it was "the
power of right over wrong that
brought final victory, he aroused the
audience to laughter when he gave
them a graphic and concrete illustra-
ton of just how the war was won.
1t was then he told of how, after
the two German offensives last spring,
Marshal Foch described what he would
do in case of another. There was a
meeting of Fresh statesmen at Yer
sailles," said the general. "Those
statesmen were very anxious about
the situation, as the Germans had put
over two surprises. One of the states
men asked General Foch what his
plan was in case the Germans should
attack again.
Foch Man of Few Words.
"Now, General Foch is not a mar
of very many words. Like many
Frenchmen, he is given to inimitable
expression in gestures. My plan?'
he said.' and General Maurice then
mimicked the marshal as he said
"Uh." and another thrust with the
right arm, followed by a violent kick
with the right leg. Remember those
gestures" repeated the general, "a
blow with the right, a blow with the
left. another blow with the right and
a big kick.
".All of the other attacks had start
ed with a big kick; a breaking through
on our part at the first rush, with a
certain degree of success, only to set
tie down into a slow hammer and tongs
struggle. in which the attackers gain
ed nothing but heavy losses. That hao
been the experience of the offensive
before that time, and always the enc
my's reserves stood in the way OF
victory"
Wore Down Hun Reserves.
General Maurice then proceeded te
show how, through a series of limited
inches, the enemy's reserves were
dissipated from 66 divisions in thu
reserve and 208 divisions on the west
ern front on May 8, 1918, to - dlvl
sions in reserve and 1911 divisions OF
the western front in the middle o
September, shortly before the "bl|
kick was started on September 70
"On July Is General Foch put il
his first punch, between Scissors an
:. Chateau Thierry, when General Mar
gins troops attacked after only a .
minute bombardment," General Maur
ice continued. con August 8 Foe
1 tossed the ball to Haig. Haig's strok
; on the Amiens front was such a con
plete surprise that a German genera
did not know of the attack until h
found himself inside a British TAM
F.. The third punch came on Septembe
1 ~, when Pershing attacked from TT
; flanks of the St. Mihiel salient and
! As hours wiped out the relic OF l9l'
capturing $4,000 prisoners and Il
guns.
y Three Punches Broke Germans.
"Those were the three punche
Through all of this time the proce'
of wearing out the German reserv'
i, was going on-Ludendorff was golr
j., down; Foch was going up.
!, "The big kick started Septemb'
26. The object of the kick was
strike a blow, or rather, two blow
y at the German spinal cord, which WI
~ the railway connecting Metz, Soda
Mezieres, Maubeuge and Brussels"
In sketching the various phases
~ the "big kick" Maurice said the Anne
9, leans fighting in the Argonne fore:
4 had to penetrate by far the most a
, pallingly difficult ground on the Yves
~ ern front.
-, General Maurice said he believ
the intelligent Germans now reallz
At that Germany had been utterly a
M completely whipped" "Now, as to W
m whipped Germany" said the gener
as he put away the stick that he h
used to point out places on the ma
!, and pictures thrown on the scree
"After all, though, the war w
not won by the wisdom of any o
statesman; nor by the skill of a
a one general; nor the valor of any o
ID army nor the prowess of any one file
1t was won by the power of right oy
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