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Show FOCH'S SKILL Dill GERMANS Continuity' of Entente Assault It Surprise to Teuton Headquarters; Disaster - Is - Nearer f By Aeeeelated Press. PARIS, Ort. 12. Today find Germany a litlles nearer the brink of dinatT. Marshal Foch'a broom applied in the Champagne has swtpt the enemy hack from a wider section of the front, thsn ever before. General Ludendorff Is reaping the results re-sults of the cardinal error he 'made In, thinking that the allied offenalvra were bound to be spaced at wide Interval In-terval like Ms own. Tha continuity of the sltacks has literally dnm-founded dnm-founded tha (lermane, and.lt Is plain that there la vacillation at grand Herman headquarters. OriDER COUNTERMANDED. The evacuation of the Belgian coast appears to have been ordered and than countermanded, which Juetlfle. the Inference In-ference that Oenrrsl Ludendorff Is no longer guided by purely military oonalderatlona, either from the demoralises demor-alises effect retreat on a large ecale would have In the Interior or with the Idea that the more territory remains re-mains In his hsnds the stronger will he Germany's position In its conversations conver-sations with Washington. General Ludendorff Is letting Prussia's Prus-sia's time slip by, for which It Is likely he will repent. FOCH 18 QUOTED. Marshal Foch, In the preface to hla celebrated book, "On the Conduct of War," aaya; "Noel's army at Mukden sought not. so much to crush the Russian right by a flank attack as to get on his resr and thus determine the retreat of all the enemy's forces." The allied commander In chief seems to be applying that principle In V'ranre. The (icrman front forms a vast salient from the Escaut to the Mense. the extreme point of It being st Anlsy. Marshal Foch la attacking It not alone on one flank, but on both alternately, while he la pressing the center In the section between I -a Fere and Herry.au-Bae to prevent the enemy e breaking contact and slipping V swny. RESULT TO BE SAME. At the beginning of the week It was the turn of the left of the allied al-lied forces, which struck In the direction direc-tion of MauheuKOv and Guise. Yesterday, Yes-terday, It wss tli right that delivered deliv-ered the blow, aiming It In the direction direc-tion of Meilerea. Whether both wlnga break through or only one ia immaterial. The result would be the same, and the looser the Germans j-estst. the " worse for them. Kvery day adds to l he WHstage of their effective material, mate-rial, end should they hold on too long their retrest would become s luul |