Show WEST SITUATION WARRANTS HOPE Soon Allies Will Have Huns I Where They Want Them I Says Irwin I By Will Irwin Written for the United prea Press j I W WASHINGTON March 25 Nothing I In the west est front situation warrants I pessimism or depression and America j and ancl her allies alles should g guard ard against i these feelings which sap morale Among some classes in the allied i countries at the time of ot Verdun Ypres and other offensives there was a depression de- de verging on panic yet et In all an I cases the offensives turned out as allied victories In the Verdun offensive the Germans I gained miles In the first few hours I took prisoners French Frenchi i won at Verdun 1 I hear much said of the prIsoners prisoners pris prIs- I already taken in this offensive Yet all must remember that this offensive of of- is much larger than the Verdun and that the German success is not I proportionately so great as at Verdun And the larger the action Ute the larger the loss of prisoners Even if in the next few days we see what appears to be an alarming ad advance ad- ad vance wo we should not lose confidence In this connection I will point out that I before the tho l when I was in Belgium BelI Bel Bel- I gium we kept hearing of ot a twentymile twentymile twenty twenty- mile a day advance toward Paris Pari I which looked like a practice march We Ve VeI I now know that the French were permitting perI per per- I them to come to-come come on toward Paris only to turn them back at the Marne l This movement now would appear to m me to be a a. maneu maneuver vcr to get the German out in the open where they want hint him He is good on machinery but when the machinery breaks down downor or goes wrong he fails faUs The Frenchman French French- man on the other hand has genius Open fighting gives an opportunity for genius and originality |