Show I I IE E Exper's D s Daily 31 I Y Review of Wari War WarBy i By J. J W. W T. T Mason Written for the United Press NEW YORK YORE April 13 De Desper per per- nto ato attempts this tills week l II by y Von on to break through lh the tho British h front guarding the the- roads 10 to Boulo Boulogne n Calais 1411 and 1 Dunkirk on tho channel coast have o failed lI The net r result sult o of the weeks week's fighting tight fight ing has hns been a r retirement nt at nt places I of oC two to eight miles b by the BritIsh British Brit lInt ish lab arid and a h heavy avy Increase c In the German cn totals I The principal strategic bases protecting the High ground round In posse possession possession pos pos- se session lon o of the thc British have not fallen to the ho German assaults The Thc British retirement ment from rom Armen- Armen lieres had meager mill military tar The rhe town was abandoned because It Is not part of oC the allies allies' strategy to subject their troops to the death traps Into which Von Yon ruthlessly forces s his own men All of the allies' allies principal princ- princ pal al railways Immediately behind the n northern battle front continue continuo to b be well weli protected b by the Intervening Inter inter- ridges s As long lon lonas as these ridges s 's r remain maln malnIn in possession of or the allies It will willbe willbe willbe be an a advantageous exchange for Cor lar l Marshal hal to permit pet Von Jim Jim- denbur to make slight territorial gains in exchange for fOI the tho Increasingly increasingly heavy slaughter of German troops The immediate objectives s of or the Germans arc are Ypres and Haze linac- brouck Once In iii possession of or Ypres Von Hindenburg would bo be boover boover over the hills into the lowlands where tho the allies' allies defensive positions positions ti ns would require more stubborn protection Hazebrouck's fall would woul put the Germans In control of or the most important railway center be behind behind behind be- be hind tho the northern battle front and would open tho the wa way to valuable coal fields A break in tho the allied aWed front toward either Ypres or would be so serious that General loch Koch at the tho end of ot tho the weeks week's fighting sent heavy French reinforcements to support the thA British This mt means ans that thal the directing strategy of oC tho the defense of or the tho northern battlefront Is now probably probably ably abl- ablin in control of General Foch Fochi himself The allies allies' generalissimo however cr cannot afford to concentrate concentrate concen concen- the major part of or hi his reserve rc- rc serve erve forces In Flanders The po position position position po- po of tho battle front is such I as to give o Von Hindenburg once moro more the anta ad advantage e of or working on interior lines Being inside the tho circle he can transport his men from point to point h by short cuts while General Foch is compelled to move his armies by longer detours tho the circle Th The allies must h be lE prepared therefore for Cor a a. sudden cessation of or tho the Flanders operations and the renewal of oC an attempt by Von Hindenburg to break through h tho the southern flank toward Paris French reserves therefore must bo retained In largo large numbers along the southern part of ot the line despite German pressure further north Von Yon Hindenburg however howe cannot afford to continue th the reckless reck reck- less Jess slaughter of or Germanys Germany's manpower manpower manpower man man- I I power without gains mu much more important than he has yet ct secured in the north Nor Is he in a po position position po- po to end his assaults while the a allies allies' armies remain un unbroken un- un broken I. I If It therefore Ypres and Hazebrouck Hazebrouck Haze- Haze brouck remain safo safe and Von Yon Hindenburg Jim Hin denburg finds the wa way to the tho channel ports Is permanently barred It is Js probable ho will soon attempt a new offensive elsewhere But henceforth er e every additional German assault ought to show in increasing increasing increasing in- in creasing weakness The terrible punishment Inflicted on the tho Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans must mut have Its inevitable ef effect effect ef- ef feet on their offensive morale as the they begin to realize the decreasing tog InS results of oC their assaults Then will come an enforced period of or orrest rest and with it time for a new newS S consideration of or the allies allies' plans for the tho future |