Show i HE IE SALT LAKE A It DELAY P PUZZLE JO T TAlU AlU ALLIES Many Conditions Seem t to tp Cause Trouble to Hindenburg S By William Willian Philip ms United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE TIlE BRITISH ARMIES ARCHES IN FRANCE July 9 The The next German blow believed to be bo a matter of days Is expected to be the l last st st. Hindenburg will be able to 10 deliver Judging from the increasing slowness of his past efforts But nobody ou oui out here do S that it will be the hardest he is capable of once his men men are set in motion or that it will eclipse eclipse all previous battles es in point of ot violence c and men men and material material material ma ma- engaged The strange lull which has spread for weeks up and down the lines from one end to the other save other save for occa occa- occasional occasional occa- occa tiny battles here and there like the Fourth of July show along the Somme Somme continues continues to over r grimly over the west front The German Infantry might be sound asleep for all It is doing in the fIghting fightIng fighting fight- fight Ing line Even the enemy n my airmen are sticking sUcking closer to their roosts Despite the fine weather air fighting g Js Is s considerably considerably considerably con con- below the average x WHY THE DELAY Much has been printed regarding Hind nb rg's delay Some Some say the cause others Flanders fever is the cause say lack of ot men others that he Is waiting until roads to the forward areas are laid so that big guns may be brought up others believe the mor morale le leot of ot tho the German troops is low The truth is probably a mixture of all aU these things thing plus plug other things Beside Beside Beside Be Be- side a shortage of ot raw materials Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many doubtless has only a limited output output output out out- put of ot munitions now making it necessary necessary essary for her to economize over a a. long period in order to get a ar big enough stock to carry out operations on a ascale ascale scala scale similar to those in March and June Owing to the limited number of men for the armies however large once the majority of German divisions are battered battered battered bat bat- in battle or tired Hindenburg must wait walt until they are rested refitted refitted refitted refit refit- ted and restored to optimism LACK OF FOOD S Prisoners taken since the Hamel fight declare they had no ho food for two days owing to confusion cOntusion in the lines Low flying war planes finally dropped bundles of bully beef dog biscuit and nI hardtack along the advanced posts This method of relieving hunger shows the German army is less able to maintain maintain main main- tam tain Its cohesion than formerly The scarcity of ot airmen officers is growing according to an enemy order which says that fewer officers must do reconnaissance flights noncoms beIng beIng being be be- ing substituted Planes are manufactured with difficulty owing to the lack of ot raw materials Some Some- of those de delivered delivered tie tie- livered are breaking under the str strain in of flying according to captured let let- fc Prisoners also say there is much illness in the army due to Flanders fever grippe Spanish influenza or whatever the strange malady may be called 0 |