| Show r JJ 1 J J THE I i-fE i SALT LAKE Six Months Ago J Today oday Germany Launched Its Mightiest Effort Meeting Great Hun Offensive Brave Hearts Allies Finally Halted Crushing Drive and Now Have Turned Tide of Battle i. i F Until Victo Victory Is Apparent y 4 By fly Associated ed Press x t m. S SIX IX m months th ago to today ay th the great geat German offensive offensive began For o we weeks s' s victory se seethed seemed m d about bout ut to perch on the German banners Today the allied star is in In inthe the ascendancy Anxiety ty and encouragements encouragement depression and joy have succeeded each other since at down on March 21 the he greatest battle batte of hi history tor began It has been a a period of almost incessant fighting and of bewildering changes in the situations that developed from day to day and from rom week to week The allies knew they faced Germ Germanys Germany's nys ny's mightiest effort last March but they stood unafraid Released by the absolute collapse of Russia vast numbers number of Ge German man vet veterans rans had been rushed rusl ed to the e Y western ste n fro front and been een gi given n. n intensive training for the offensive Germany made no secret of I I ner intention it was known that great bodies of men and tremendoUs tremendous tre tre- tre mendo s st res of munitions had been concentrated at strategic It was even known where the Germans would launch their first attack and for weeks the eyes of the allies had been fixed on n ne the e long curving line fro from La Fere Fere to Arras as the stage where the I act or at the great drama dram would be enacted HUNS ROLL WEST Moving with swiftness the German forces swept over the British lines In and rolled west like a tidal wave during the the closing da days s of March until at last the British reached positions where they could stand at bay and the French had come to form a lI wall before the gray clad host hOt of the German emperor Then the offensive stopped Hardly had Its rush been en checked than the line lino between Lens and Ypres was attacked by the Germans and again the British lines IInes swayed backward back back- ward This advance of ot the enemy went on on until It reached the high ground southwest of oC Ypres and then it t too was stopped by the stubborn fighting of the allied armies ONE MORE DRIVE A pause followed for nearly a month and then on May 21 the Germans suddenly broke through the French lines north of the river and arid smashed their way southward until they had reached the Marne over a wide fro front t east of of Chateau Thierry Nc sooner had the momentum momen- momen turn tum um of this drive been taken up by bythe bythe the he yielding defense of or the French troops than a new assault was made madey by y the Germans who this this' time tried to o break the French lines between Montdidier and and Noyon and link up the he Pi cardy and Marne l sectors KEEPS QUIET I It was vas there here that the world had th the first Intimation that the allied armies which since late In n March h had d been heen under f r the submarine submarino comm command nd of Marshal Foch had been pursuing pursuing-a a definite policy and had conserved their heir strength until it might be used with good effect The German attack east of came to o a pause after six lx days of terrible fighting In which the Germans suffered frightful losses and the French for the first time ime since the German offensive be began began began be- be gan struck back at the invaders American forces h had d taken part In Inthe Inthe inthe the final phases of the battle Iong llong long He Uie tle Marne and had been Instrumental In n stopping the Germans at Chateau Thierry In this battle came the first notable contribution of America to the he military fortunes of the allies Since March however there had been beena a flood tide of khaki clad men crossIng crossing cross- cross Ing ng the Atlantic and arid during durins May June Tune and the first part of July they rapidly moved up to the battle zone OPTIMISTIC SPIRIT The sanguinary check of the German offensive east of gave the allies lilies hope that the German tide would be e safely stemmed and this feeling was heightened during the succeeding three or four tour weeks by a series of local actions along the front from Soissons to Chateau Thierry by which the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans were driven back steadily from points of tactical value What was not known mown known by the lay world was that by by these hese very actions Marshal Foch virtually vir- vir I forced the Germans to attack somewhere in the Marne region where preparations were made for a neV new phase hase of the struggle July 15 the I Germans made a new drive called by I Ithem them hem the offensive of peace from Chateau Thierry eastward far Into the Champagne sector No sooner had the news of the attack reached the world than nan the tidings came that the French Italian and American lines subjected to assault were st standing firmly In svery very vital part of the front and that It t was only by the greatest effort that the he Germans pounded their way ahead In n the region southwest of and astride the Marne Mame west of The allies aUles had solved the German system tern tem em of offense ottense and were able to hold their heir ground THEN FOCH HITS On July 18 Marshal Foch launched an attack which has changed the whole complexion of the situation From Fontenoy on the Aisne west of Sols Sols- sons eons to Chateau Thierry on the Margie the he German lines were torn to pieces I and the Marne salient threatened to to collapse It was only by the most savage savage sav say savI I age fighting that the Germans succeeded succeeded suc sue in saving their army from disaster disaster disaster dis dis- dis- dis disI I aster and retreated across the Vesle river HUNS HIT AGAIN On August 8 the French and British stormed the German lines in from the river to Moreuil north of and sent the enemy reeling back toward the Somme Somma The next day the French crushed in the German front south of Montdidier l and then hen linking their lines with those of the British farther north forced the invaders back Less than two weeks later the German German Ger Ocr man lines southwest of Arras Arms were at attacked attacked attacked at- at tacked and these gave way and the forces holding them joined their comrades com corn rades farther south In a. a retreat which has now virtually reached the German lines as they were on March 21 21 from Arras Arms to the Chemin des Dames The Germans then began a withdrawal withdrawal withdrawal with with- from the Flanders salient and today they Are re re nearly back to the lines lItes from which they sallied late in April Thus far the allied drive might have been considered in the light of defensive operations but the work has not paused with the mere repulse of the enemy His positions along the Hindenburg line east of Arras have been wrested from him while further south near St. St Quentin the allies have in recent days fought their way into the enemy's lIn lines where he had planned to stand on the defensive YANKS GET BUSY The First American field 0 ri army y has bas t tL I obliterated the St. St Mihiel l salient and i Straightened the line east of Verdun and now stands before Metz into which American shells are falling Before the allies there now stands the great lines JInes constructed by the I Germans during four years of war war- fare These are vast field fortifIcations fortifications fortifications which stretch from the North se sea with few interruptions to the Swiss frontier The They are constructed with all the science at the command of the German German German Ger Ger- man general staff and present a formidable barrier to further allied attacks 4 Six months of ot warfare of ot motion however has taught the allies that a a. trench is no stronger than than the troops that man it In this fact lies the hope of tho the entente hat nations ns New methods of attack the employment of lot tanks and a higher ever before in the history of ot the war will willbe willbe be relied upon to force new retreats ats GERMANY LOSES CHANCE Germany erman ermany has lost her her chance ch nce to o force peace upon the allies aUles before American armies enter the fight with all their strength This was washer washer- her hope In March Losses pf of a serious nature nature na na- ture were suffered by fy the allies alUes durIng during during dur dur- ing the long b battle but they have been doubly offset by the inflowing American legions Germanys Germany's losses on the other hand cannot cannot- be made g good od Hope blasted crack divisions broken up and seeming victories turned into defeats have sapped the morale of the German armies which today are on the defensive everywhere every every- where |
