Show smash POLITICAL MOVE SECRETARY DAKER BAKER SAYS ITALIAN DRIVE ASTUTE STRATEGY OF GERMAN politicians situation in west satisfactory but feare fear expressed ap re s sed that civil war in RU russia a W VIII I 1 11 allow teu to ns to n 2 8 send men aen to western A army my washington the 1 ho effect of gor ger ily 4 political lf again t find italy upon tin fit tusk task ahead lionil it of tit tin nilles la Is recognize in secretary bf kers weekly I 1 of military op diat orations tons issued by tile will depart n t the close inter intel illation of tents on oil nil fronts hannot too r be call says tilt the review hio 10 political situation in itus III inneo it t possible for foi tile the eli villy to dp 01 tach important lit tho ell cuba t ere ro speedily transported to t aliu 10 idallan front it I 1 Is 1 not I t unlikely that before till tinting their powerful powei ful dilvo it lye against the italian forces lie eneany made painstaking and system atle attempts to lo undermine tile morille of tile ital lun fall troops tro opi with etli it 11 view e I 1 to 0 breaking down their resisting power planned political offensive fri islo conducted preparatory to their military offen Alve reveals clearly the lie inelli of tho germans surveying tile broader aspects ot of tile I situ situation atlon today wo 0 o till klinl that hint tile eneany lit in the vast list Is ing ills efforts to political propaganda along tho italian sector lie tills lius recent ly y inneo desperate attempts to secure scenic it decision by means of it 11 politico mill tary drive in the i i v est cst while nt lit tempting to pap tile fighting strength ali of the belligerent peoples the enviny lins now been compelled to net act on oil till alm and in bt being slowly but s arely driven back it should bo be borne lit in mind lio low ever eci that the further disintegration of the Ittis forces will mean that tile tho germans viii in ile able to thin out thein line tills front which alli ll li will thus automatically contribute contil buto to the stiffening of their resistance lit in tile west fl ns well ns its render reader available milled added 4 contingents to take pint part in fit the alio engagements gage goge ments now proceeding ili li italy ionly Iu during rIng the week just closed both tile lie british and french were able to mccoid tactical gains the ell culmination hu anat foil ot it i long series of po dehen offensives lus with securely in hands the first stage of the operations begun during the last week tf kf september have been brought to a successful conclusion tho french counterpart of tile tho 13 british success took place north of 0 tho the ainne aisne hero tho retreat ot or the enemy anticipated lust last week uck wits curried carried out tho the pressure pr of tho the french offensive which tills liua grown slowly mul and methodically in volture huno and intensity reicho lencl iod neiten by tile re cent french advance in tills sector they were enabled to enil enfilade lade tile the german lines along the crest of tho the des baliles for tile pnat past three years the pros clico of the eneany on tills lind hall bon b n q source of anxiety to the french to dislodge klicin ads aa it principal oh of of tho the repented repeated offensives to do by general since last april the sudden forced evacuation of soine forty square miles of tile most niest terrain lit in tills sector of tin th western front tills has been tho the tangible result nelile achieved cd the ilio importance of thir successful preach french ad advance must not bo overlooked it means more inore that ft a more inert gain of so ho aquaro miles of ter tei citory it moana means tho penetration of tato powerfully fortified siegfried line hitherto considered by the enemy lin pregnable and pushes back ills matil positions to tc within live five matles of tile tho fortress of laon and major objectives jec tives in tho the sector where it small detachment of our troops had taken up till their places bacs ill IH tile trenches tren dies ns as 11 pal palt pait t of their training raining tile elle enemy lily us as Is customary lit in trench warfare carfare when fresh troops tire are believed to have bave taken places in line trenches 0 for rt re purposes a wo well ll planned raid and succeeded in III temporarily temporal lly penetrating the short seg beg i of HIP line held by our forces inflicting a few casualties and taking 11 1 sorters along the eastern front no preparations of ot artillery importance occurred TI the I 1 4 el enemy lInly instead of att attacking lickIng lias has r renewed ills big efforts to fraternize with fr t the owing to tile tho involved situation and alto he fresh breh outbreaks of the elements it a l that thes may have it a 1 influence on oil tile the general strat egy or of the war which wo nye must be prepared to meet |