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Show 1 1 1 11 A DEFENSIVE CAMPAIGN f' U ""Why don't the allies go ahead and do l'j -tf something?" asked a lady the other day. i '1 U "I am sick of this waiting around. Why V (I don't they go ahead and march to --fe' Berlin?" ! j 1 1 , This is a kind of talk that one hears I $1 j frequently from people who arc not ", " (L studying the war news with any care. ' jl, The allies for the present are having Si iM to contend with the great army that was MBr 4 liberated from the Eastern front by the liajE' yellow collapse of Russia. IIH A million troops were thus se free Kk to fall on the French and British line. In IK addition 000,000 new troops were se- BfKp cured, mostly from boys just come of HKf draft age. For the time being this has IK ,. given the Germans a big reserve. This HRf reserve they can transport to any sector HiT, and can fall on the French and British Hi' and push them back by superior num- Hyl? bers. wfl Irr But they probably used up 400,000 of Braf that 1,500,000 in the drive beginning Rkk March 22. Half as many more will go MPV in the attack just started on the Aisne. Pil.? ne weey casualty list can't be under Hnk . 25,000 men. It is asy to see what will H' " become of that 1,500,000 men by next Hlp&v winter. HhiS?;, For 'the time being there seems little BPpj.'-f ftr the allies but to conduct a defensive Ho5V campaign.11 Th'6 loss 6 ten miles or so frf V by" such, an attack as that of the 'Aisne RfcfeV , amounts to little. As long as the allies HEjlp-' are swapping two of their men to three HIk ' of the Germans, it is all to the good. jBjjJIfe.- ' Wlien that reserve has gone, when the HffP k Americans finally get 1,000,000 men over If ' fy ' there armed and equipped, there will L j ' ' , "be something doing. 1 HiV-fr " . Thc only loss of territory that can wk , '- amount to anything will be territory IS p , osfc' on the part of the line next the chan- m yi p nel ports. Behind that line great re- I I pf r serves are held ready. Elsewhere the WmU ', allies can keep retreating in perfect con-Ite?"'f con-Ite?"'f idence, so. lonjuu43$iiPtwoj'iNn |
