Show Experts Expert's Daily Review of War WarBy By J. J W. W T. T Mason Uni United d Press War Expert NEW YORK May 2 Paris Paris and the Marne are arc the objectives of ot Von if It the strong German attacks between Rheims and Sol Soissons sons reported by Field Marshal Haig are the forerunners of a new offensive against tho alii allies allied ea American troops have havo been reported reported re reported re- re ported as undergoing training inthis inthis in m this sector and just behind the front is a highly important railway line which runs directly into another another another an an- other American sector in the Verdun Verdun Verdun Ver Ver- dun region If the German attacks grow gross into a serious menace it is probable Americans will be called upon to help stem stein t tho e enemy ad ad- vance This sector is the most advantageous advantageous advantageous from the allied standpoint in which the Germans can attack The Marne Mame is from twenty to thirty miles south of and parallel to the Rheims Soissons front and Paris laris itself is sixty miles aw away y Slight gains by Von Hindenburg can best be afforded by the allies here Loss of the railway connecting connecting connecting connect connect- ing Soissons and Rheims would be disagreeable for the allies b but t there are other communication lines to the south If the Ule Germans were to reach the Marne Mamne still further further further fur fur- ther inconvenience to communication I tion lion would be suffered by the allies r but no critically serious damage would be done I Moderate gains gams by the Germans along the southern front would I bring far less ess consequences than a d anew new advance by Von I in the Amiens of H Hazebrouck- Hazebrouck sector The allies can well I afford to relinquish be between be- be tween Soissons and Rheims if in f return there is another great slaughter of German manpower I ISo So inadequate for German purposes purposes purposes pur pur- poses would be a moderate advance between Soissons and Rheims that it may bo be the movement there will turn out to be only an attempt to distract General Fochs Foch's attention I while the rea real offensive is developed developed devel devel- elsewhere Marshal Hangs Hang's mention of ot simultaneous attacks today between and amid in the Ypres area suggests chosen ho hoe for forthe forthe forthe this might t be the sector en the major blow In such an event the the Germans would be able to work on interior lines of communication to continue le their two attacks at such widely separated points they would have large to use up an extraordinarily number of men If a decisive victory vIe vic tory were not won by these attacks the result in loss of manpower would be appalling There every Is Foch Toch has reason to believe belIe General fore foreseen een all the possibilities in the present situation The tact fact act that Von Yon Hindenburg is making two attacks attacks at attacks at- at tacks miles apart in itself shows much uncertainty as to de developments developments developments de- de exists in his own mind |